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dinosaur jr - “I don’t want to go there”
7” - 2009
Played 20 time(s).
April 30, 2009, 4:06pm Comments
the original map of the great MIT implementors’ “zork,” from around 1979, as re-copied/completed 1982.
“zork” was divided into 3 separate installments, fleshed out, and released as a text-based interactive adventure game.
what it created was a genre that has since come to be known as “interactive fiction,” although, as this map and others who’ve written on the subject have noted, it’s fundamentally an exercise in mapmaking and (bizarre) logic with some good writing as window-dressing.
April 27, 2009, 9:21pm Comments
» link: oh, no, a computer designed to compete on "jeopardy!"
my final tryout date is in may. I am so boned.
April 27, 2009, 1:18am Comments
an incredible, stunningly deep depiction of evolution as a blind watchmaker, written by a computer programmer.
April 27, 2009, 1:08am Comments
in which I use the gross new powers of the internet to own patrick ruffini, noted republican strategist
- via twitter.
- pr: Somehow, I don't think "civil rights for terrorists" is a winning strategy for the left
- cec: @PatrickRuffini how about "enforcing rule of law?" or "abiding as per the treaty power to our obligations?" we are america, not zimbabwe.
- pr: @imitation_sun I must have missed the ratification of the U.S. - al Qaeda treaty
- cec: @PatrickRuffini but you couldn't have missed hamdan v. rumsfeld. terrorists must be brought to justice,but not w/an end-run around our laws.
- -fin-
- surprise, in under 140 characters you can concretely and legally refute arguments by those attempting to yoke the "social conservatives" and the dimmer libertarians together and call them a party.
April 24, 2009, 2:14am Comments
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the neighborhoods - “prettiest girl”
7” - ace of hearts, 1978
for a brief period, springsteenian posturing met post-punk in a haze of drugs and high taxes, and everything right (yet insular) about boston’s music scene rested in the palms of rick harte’s hands.
Played 12 time(s).
April 21, 2009, 5:15pm Comments
on charmingly effective methods for refuting my distaste for the overattribution of meaning
- ps: what does it say about me that I almost always like supporting characters on tv shows as people more than their respective protagonists?
- cec: nothing.
- ps: a lovably nihilistic way to end the day.
April 19, 2009, 11:54pm Comments
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me, giving my first line from “ruddigore,” which closes this evening after a very successful four-night run.
I don’t really sound like this, by the by, but coming up with and fine-tuning this character with the cast and crew has been a great deal of fun. I’m so retiring this voice, though.
Played 60 time(s).
April 18, 2009, 1:43pm Comments
