July 2010
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Exposed: The Last Roll Of Kodachrome →
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WatchThe Tape Glove
“This interactive sound installation explores the idea of re-appropriating analogue tape for use as an instrument. A tangible user interface, taking the form of a glove is worn by the participant as they are invited to interact with an analogue tape surface. This piece intends to explore the somewhat obsolete medium of tape through a playful and sonically interesting ...
Winner!
Yesterday’s “What was the use” contest has a winner! @RogerHoward. Mr. Howard, email me your mailing address and I’ll send you a copy of Obsolete.
He guessed correctly: It is a bathroom scale. And it’s for sale! Check out Etsy’s Fishbone Deco shop.
Other noteworthy guesses posited that it was an early model T Roomba which could, in a pinch, scrape dead skin...
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Windows Mobile offers a "Dialup Modem" Ringtone! →
Finally!
Thanks to David Raileanu for passing this along.
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The "YMCA" has dropped the "MCA" and is just "Y."... →
Yay! It’ll be so much easier to reference now in text messages!
Florida’s Broward Palm Beach New Times has come up with some retirement suggestions for the acronym.
Yucky Mess, Clean Already!
Yuengling: Moonshine’s Chief Adversary
YMCA, a MGMT-M.I.A. side project
Your Minimum Calorie Allowance
Young Miami Championship Alliance
These are okay. Not great. Can...
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Last Of Chrysler's PT Cruisers Rolls Out Of The... →
This means there will no longer be any new PT Cruisers. In other words, cars that were built to look old are now actually old. These are confusing times.
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Wax Cylinder Recording About Yuppies & Hipsters
Jed Davis records his song on old fashioned wax cylinders.
Liking this ditty called Yuppie Exodus From Dumbo. Listen to it on his site.
Some of the lyrics:
Behold the bitter exodus From down beneath the bridge As the yuppies and the hipsters Quit their lofts and move away Snap an auto-focused black-and-white Of this heartbreaking scene A heartbreaking scene of staggering genius - If...
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Nothing to do with obsolete: Scarlett's Wedding...
By Emma Rathbone at The Highlights:
Fiddle-dee-dee!
Why, I remember the first time Mr. Wilkes came ridin’ up the path to Tara, I was sitting on the porch flirting with the Tarleton boys wearin’ my best new Moroccan slippers. Even though I, Scarlett O’Hara, could have any beau in the county, I knew right then and there that Mr. Wilkes was the one I wanted. “Oh Mr. Wilkes!” I said, “How you do...
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The Thirteen Suckiest Beatles Albums (From Least...
I don’t listen to albums anymore. My music collection is just a hodgepodge of playlists and alphabetized artists. There’s no real sense to it and I don’t know where half of the music came from. MP3s are kind of like that: they float around and, after dinner and a drink, sometimes jump into your iPod.
But once, every song was part of an album. According to Jack Hamilton, some...
PC World: 10 Almost Extinct Technologies →
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Question: What was it like to be in a cult before...
In a pre-Internet world, if I had met a nice guy who said he was an antiestablishmentarian polytheist and he wanted me to join him in Mexico where he was planning to dig a hole with a coffee can, I’d have been all “count me in!”
What was I going to do, Google him?
In other words, I may never have known he was a cult leader.
This kind of scenario comes up in my friend Liz...
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