Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Sunday, December 23, 2012

the internet is so confusing

what is the precedent for the kind of jumbling produced here in this nonspace--

"Female escorts Webcam sex District.9.720p.BluRay.x264-METiS diggu1GQfE,
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RT DenmarkLeo To love, work, study and travel in Denmark: Salary in Denmark, how to calculate it? 3Msnsb Disconcerting: The toilet paper of the stall you're in being changed through the wall from the
proof required: need to clarify the claim that Jon Campbell is the 5th most sampled songwriterproducer in the world 8sLImA Let me correct myself. Dont Take the Girl by Tim McGraw is by far the best song ever written.,
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also, in other news, i have a big crush on this song right now.
proserpina by martha wainwright

OH MY GOSH ALSO I'M STILL ALIVE!
the new world is beginning--
what are your visions intentions dreams for the beginning of the new world?

Thursday, January 7, 2010

more on the birth of the internet, sweet sweet baby internet

this strip:
http://hijinksensue.com/2010/01/06/once-opened-may-never-be-closed/
is funny (for nerds) and made me think a bit more about the birth of the lovely human-machine hybrid we disgustingly call "the internet".
i've gotten completely off pandora. to hell with pandora. i'll choose my own music, thankyouvermuch, and i'll do it without any "meta"help. i'm getting really good at it too - i snag rips of 12" dubstep eps hot off the lines from cheery england. i spin em up on my newly built, beautifully deep cabinets in my room - the great thing about putting ten-inch car subwoofers in your room is that then, when you press the "bounce" button built into your bed, the whole thing shakes up and down like 80s LA all over again.
the whole thing? the whole bed? no - the whole room! and i've gotten into the habit of impromptu homework-break dance-breaks, to breakbeat and dub and harcore, with the lights off so that no one on the street can spy on any of my ridiculous posturings through my ginormous plasticolored windows - they wouldn't understand!
but i know you would, fellow squids, which is why as soon as i get my recording studio set up (which with help from deklen should be soon) i'll start to stream live video of said dance-breaks to the blog. ultimately, the goal is to convince little baby internet that dancing is a human skill worth saving, if only ultimately for its own occasional amusement, post-singularity.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

ask the internet, part 1

hello squiddles! i have good news. the internet has woken up and so now you can ask it your most pressing questions. tmo and i are working on this right now, and we're here to present you with our findings.
all you have to do is ask the internet your question, using your favorite interface (we chose google):

dear internet, how does one get over trauma? thanks, lelz.

and then, like a mystical scrivener, you can read the search results and feel out your answer.
here's the first result:

ADAPT Action Report - Nashville Tennessee
All I did was to just come over there and pick him up and put him on the bed. The way I feel, ... It was November 22nd of 2004 I gout of the nursing home and thank... JT >> Lelz lawsuit with Advocacy Incorporated. And I live free now. ..... We would steal them and they would just get another one. ... God I'm free.
www.adapt.org/freeourpeople/aar/nash06/transcript.htm


As you can see, even the first result by itself is ripe with meaning. From the opening lines, the sexual innuendo and specific reference to our lives is clear. The internet is saying that we must pick him up and put him on the bed if we want to get over our trauma just like the internet did. Who is "him"? well, to answer that we will continue. In the next line, the internet puts itself into our place - november of 04 was indeed the month and year that we escaped the tight confines of social conditioning just a little bit - at least enough to play with freedom.
As we read on we see that the way to come to terms with trauma is by tactfully engaging with society in an ironic and sarcastic way, that is to say, by rejecting all previously held morals.

Thanks, internet!

in this case we didn't even need to interpret any of the further results.

we invite you all to try our method on your own pressing questions - but do realize that the internet is not a toy.