Band name of the day: tracks from the coast of hell

Band name of the day: fifteen foot sinus

Bad idea of the day: a robot that spills or dribbles paint onto canvas until the image is recognized as an object, then names the painting after that object.

Starting January 28, 2005 http://danbricklin.com/log/2005_01_28.htm#guiltlessness

Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you’re a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year – preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings

Band name of the day: terrestrial radio ducks

The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders”I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/

My journey into fractals “ Gregory Ivanov ” Medium https://medium.com/@bananaft/my-journey-into-fractals-d25ebc6c4dc2

Debunking “OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation” and a few words about Tor’s directory authorities https://dustri.org/b/debunking-osint-analysis-of-the-tor-foundation-and-a-few-words-about-tors-directory-authorities.html

Cody Wilson was Defense Distributed”so who is the organization’s new leader? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/how-and-why-a-london-poet-who-never-shot-a-gun-came-to-lead-defense-distributed/

Band name of the day: stage meat

How Eric Hobsbawm helped shape the global Marxist imagination | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-eric-hobsbawm-helped-shape-the-global-marxist-imagination

Waging peace is much more than ending war | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/waging-peace-is-much-more-than-ending-war

The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/

Halloween III Silver Shamrock Commercial - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-uC0LDllM

Orion Magazine | Four Questions for the Author: Timothy Morton, Being Ecological https://orionmagazine.org/2018/09/four-questions-for-the-author-timothy-morton-being-ecological/

Band name of the day: deeper dimensions of the profane

Bram Stoker’s Dracula Is More Than Gothic Horror. It’s a Love Letter to Moviemaking. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a23570109/bram-stokers-dracula-review-francis-ford-coppolla/

Band name of the day: a festival of rats

So, mixing corpse ash into concrete probably isn’t practical but is it any more practical than eating it?

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is David Lynch’s Battlecry https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a23614696/fire-walk-with-me-david-lynch-review/

How Does an Intel Processor Boot? | Binary Debt https://binarydebt.wordpress.com/2018/10/06/how-does-an-x86-processor-boot/

Engine Problems vs Crime Scene Problems: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/10/engine-problems-versus-crime-scene-problems/

Elites like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos think they’re being philanthropic. But they could do so much more. - Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/10/3/17930990/anand-giridharadas-winners-take-all-book-changing-world-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-jeff-bezos

How the Wachowskis Construct Revolution - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nRImrK5h0

Discovery Writing and the so-called Forster Quote | rjheeks https://rjheeks.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/discovery-writing-and-the-so-called-forster-quote/

Sam Raimi - How Does Horror Comedy Work? (video essay) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwcjToDEsUY

If Vento Aureo doesn’t make at least a handful of references to Don’t Look Now, I’ll be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you

Things I won’t miss about twitter #72956298: keyword bots that reply to any international-relations-related links with advertisements for Alex Jones

Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5172/juggalo-juggalette-facepaint-makeup-hack-beat-facial-recognition-technology

So, the GCHQ has released a statement backing up Amazon & Apple’s denials. What do you bet the implant is 5eyes tech and not chinese at all? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-britain/uk-cyber-security-agency-backs-apple-amazon-china-hack-denials-idUSKCN1MF1DN

Periodic reminder that Apple is a predatory rent-seeking company that hasn’t done anything innovative since 1980: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair

The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing https://longreads.com/2018/10/02/webzines-90s-online-media/

The Importance of Simple Ideas - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/03/the-importance-of-simple-ideas/

QOTD: ‘For Lovecraft, if all horror can be explained by natural law, then the obvious inference is that natural law is horrific.’

Band name of the day: except at occasional intervals

Imagine if Mondo 2000 got the Fangoria treatment: instead of occasional issues, four times a year you get a fuckin’ BOOK and it’s super fancy so people are willing to pay 5/issue & more at newsstand.

The Automation Charade https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/

James Stanley - Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html

Kinda okay generated text https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/

Band name of the day: everlasting faint

Sans Forgetica http://sansforgetica.rmit/

Bad idea of the day: A book called Acknowledgements that’s just a book-length acknowledgements section thanking people for contributing to the book, House-That-Jack-Built-style

Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.

Band name of the day: the bloom of outer darkness

Band name of the day: the perfection of the hideous

The Movie Assassin – Popula https://popula.com/2018/09/30/sarahs-magnum-opus/

Band name of the day: unmasked attacks

On free will: Daniel Dennett and Gregg Caruso go head to head | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/on-free-will-daniel-dennett-and-gregg-caruso-go-head-to-head

Bad idea of the day: a wikipedia project for creating and improving articles that are uniquely relevant to countries that qualified for internet.org