12 November 2007

A plurality of one

isn't it odd
how you can have
zero cars or two cars
but never 'one cars'?

this
artifact
of natural language
(or of english?)
must account for the common error
of using singular tags
redundantly with plurals
when the plurals alone
would suffice

(avoid the 'car' tag
instead use 'cars'
maybe with suffix-numbers
if needed:
cars:0 cars:1 cars:2)






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09 November 2007

Nov 2007 links




Slick dancevid from SE:SA (3min-QT)

()

Az's Kindle is actually a great deal (short w/popupvia jGerm)

Cute pic (flickr)

Mysterious cat-visitor (flickr-Zsaj)

Pentagon seeks to embed anthropologists (itTms)

Current NYer toon echoes 1984 FarSide (Gelf via E&P)

Trees in parkinglot (aerial-pic)

AT&T has 20+yr archive of who-called-who (Schneier via wufySlmbr)

Do we sleep so genes can relax? (sciBlog)

'Marvel Zombies' as culture critique (RigInt-shortish)

Attack of the living metaphors (Sinfest)

GgProducts muscling out Paypal? (Blgscpd)

Robot has 4 legs sharing 2 feet (Flash-60sec)

Majority of voters disgusted w/media bias (E&P-stats via Sam)

JuliaRoberts chews out reckless paparazzi driver (TMZ-60sec via wSmirch)

1st nucleic acids formed spontaneous liquid-crystal bubbles? (short via pGen)

'mass amateurisation' = making pros redundant (eg via blogs) (2002-shortish)
(54)
cShirky pokes holes in SemanticWeb idealism (2003-long)
(472)
Marx's Kapital as a gothic novel (shortish)

Random rave for Doctorow's Ragtime (shortish)

Poet's rave for IrisM's 'Black Prince' (shortish via2 eAard)

'neoJamesian folkmeos' = dream neologism (blog via jGerm)


Every RunningUpThatHill version evar (15mp3s)

Kate's new song for pPullman flick (yTube-3min)

Iraq surge reality-check (Harpers-intvu via mjb)

10 Semantic Apps to Watch (rwWeb via mjb)
(200)
Fibonnaci-fied poetic metre (pFound)

Flock of sheep (aerial-pic)

US economy now running on speculative bubbles (Harpers-intvu)

Hack-it-yrself parabolic mic (1pg via Make)

"Speak to your kids about Cooties... before Cooties speak to them first" (Vh1-60sec)

Slo-mo reverse fancy-sandcastle demolitions (2min via Yeeah)

Short clip of Depp/hbCarter singing Sondheim (Flash-2min via iWatch)

NyT on tDunc&Mr (NyT w/pix)

PockIt = Post-It w/glue on three sides (pix via lorbus)

MeLovesCookies selling knitcrafts (Etsy via flickr)

1st galaxies condensed around dark matter? (pWorld via pGen)

China spends $20M on CFLs to save $500M on electricity (short via pGen)

Contrarian view that Britney's too smart for roleplaying (Jez)

Vrighteous new DollyParton video (yTube-4min via Jez)

Haskell monads for dummies (arcane via gpost)

Pullman flick tagged as Xmas blockbuster (UkG w/3min-vid via Cinem)

jWood on 'War&Peace' (NYer-long)

CateB the only good thing in Dylan ?biopic (NYer)

'Gossip Girl' saved by iTunes (NYer)


Animated hBosch vid for noise/metal band (yTube-3min via cMonk)

Top ten boardgames for gifting (dYeti)

Smart geometrics in crop circles (SciNews-2003 via gpost)

Earth's biomes from human-centric pov (GgMaps via pGen)

Tabloid-summary incl new Britney preg rumor (Jez)

Arty conspiracy doc, Zeitgeist (GgV-2hr via lf)
(360)
CYA 'commentary' edition of horrid SigurRos intvu (15min-video via lf)

Metasynthesis-related tags on del.icio.us (RWx-5arcane)

Pretty, abstract button-patterns (inept-frame via ehein)

Status icons from 8bit-goddess SusanKare (Emblems-short)


"You're never upgrading anything again" (xkcd-toon)

Short Walt-Mearsheimer intvu (BBC-transcript)

$160 GPS (Cnet)

1000s of tarot images compared (inept html frames via Wiki)

Look / what / I / made. (Sinfest)

Homeless youth love free yoga class (yTube-5min via vBoat)

Linux kernel-hackers group photo (arcane via iSteve)
(99)
Hot-or-Not supplies stats for psych analysis (stats via Fim)
(120)
'X-for-president' pagecounts (graph)

Shark-amputee girl surfs again (pix)

Did art evolve as social glue? (NyT-shortish via gpost)

Tech pan for Imax 3D (Cinem)

Joyce audiobooks (blog)


Line-by-line TaoTeChing 24translations-comparison (1of81pg via eAard)

Taliban reclaiming Afghanistan? (Oz via dy)


Flickr still growing exponentially (graph via mbox)

Worst vc investments evar (list via iGreed)

Esquire's online edition is improving (site w/rss)

12yr BBC unabridged-Shakespeare project (UkTel via cMonk)

NYer cartoons issue (cBank-toc)


Algorithmic ranking of 100 best newsblogs (list via Eureka)

Most shocking rock-concert moments (19pg w/yTubes via Jez)

Roundworm vulvas evolve directionally (sciBlg-arcane)

Spherical topology, set to Schumann (yTube-3min via sciNews)

she growls from her blankets, / a gravely monosyllable (vDaily)

remember? Buckminster Fuller lathering up under the waterfall (vDaily-sestina)

Tinkertoy ontology visualisations (pix via edV)

Martin Amis, Islamophobe (UkG)

FridaKahloSkinCare.com (Flash-arcane via Jez)

Disney milks 'princess' meme (Nwswk w/popup via Jez)

Dramatic model-portraits (flickr-1pg-toc)

AustralianIdol KateBush cover (yTube-3min)

Fastfood nutritional info compiled (tables via lf)
(44)
FoxBusinessNews has zero realworld impact (iGreed-vshort)

Giant 1932 logarithmic timeline (8Mb jpeg via angus)

20% drop in US$ = 8% rise in prices? (pKrug-arcane)

Autobiography recapitulates etymogeny (RWx)


Michael Hurley on NPR (17min via Magpie)

Innovative 2007 book-cover designs (1pg via edV)
(160)
Cute Danish chyx (flickr)

Locate-yr-US-accent quiz (17q via eAard)
(320)
2010 census-takers getting 500k PDAs (pMech w/vid via Engdgt)

How the West was won (Sinfest)

Music tempos correlated to emotions (table via iSteve)

Meditations on bMarley and other music (iSteve-don't-miss)

9 most racist Disney characters (1pg w/yTubes via eAard)
(130)
Online stopwatch (ajax via eAard)
(200)

Lots more DonHopkins on SimCity&c (blog)

New NYRB (toc)

wBlitzer vs dKucinich (cPunch)

Useful NewSci video about yurt/surfer string-theory (yTube-2min via /.)


Orchard w/snow (aerial)

Baseball-pitches visualised (1pg via Norton)
(250)
Rave for cheap 3D GPS (blog via nRec)

NYC exhibit of Mr tDunc, Jeremy Blake (nySun-2pg w/pix)

Binge drinking doesn't hurt fetus? (sciBlg-short)

Stats on US power-plant CO2 (sciBlg-tables)

New map of Europe's best soils (sciBlg)

1-week sample of unreported Israel news (blog)

20 syntactic sentence-patterns (GgBks-toc)

BillCosby rejects ebonics (itTms-bkrev)

Nielsen ratings for US news websites (E&P-list)

mDrabble on new jCowperPowys bio (UkTms-bkrev)

Picasa finally obfuscates Gmail IDs (GgOS)

Fight the Power (jpeg via eAard)

Tetris/Bejeweled family tree (jJuul w/pix via Ktku)

20 new particles predicted by surfer in yurt (UkTel via gpost)
(86)
Funny-dumb 'Get Smart' trailer (Flash-60sec via Cinem)

Rave for 3D Imax 'Beowulf' (Cinem)

sBlumenthal on wBu's Pakistan-karma (UkG via NYer)


Pretty 'chamber folk' from LochLomond (7mp3s)

Don't-miss stunning TomWaits cover by Cibelle (yTube-4min via ant)

WMAP skymap may suffer noise-pollution (NewSci)

KateB doing song for Pullman flick (yHoo via del)

201 Chekhov stories (toc via jSeib)
(250)
More lovelies from Zsaj (flickr)

Porcelain soda-cans (pic via litwack)
(50)
1985 Lobby-book author reviews 2007 Lobby book (shortish)

1919 writers' strike shaped Hollywood? (iSteve w/link)

Downloadable text-IF versions of classic arcade games (toc via Ktku)

Supermodel eats <1000 calories daily (Jez)

"...we are so moving to Westchester" (oDinny)

Crayolacube combinatorics (RWx-5phat)


MarianneFaithfull-sounding tune from Okay (mp3-7min)

Rave reviews for $200 Linux box (wMart via /.)


Rockin early eGerman punk from FeelingB (FMU w/mp3s, yTube-links)

Another side of Porter Wagoner (FMU w/mp3s)

BeetleBailey returns to Catch22 roots? (cCrmdgn)

Goofy videogame nostalgia (esp double entendres) (yTube-3min via nTndo)

Northernlights in Iceland (flickr)

CFL bulbs whistle in dogs' ears (sciBlg)

Classifying moodswings? (short-varcane)

Color thesaurus (cLovers)

Deconstructing 'Greek love' (UkG-long)

Streetmusician's 'Creep' w/banjo (yTube-3min via l4Nxt)

SimCity gets GPLed (dHopkins-arcane)

Recent profile of nMailer (Esq-long)

Whistlebower SibelEdmonds update (dKos w/yTubes via gRm)

If gChaucer wrote for teevee... (arcane)

Applying AI to online-counterterror (edu via AP)

Euro satellite mistaken for asteroid threat (Oz-short)

Update on Levon Helm of The Band (cPunch-longish)

Update schedules for GgReader and GgBlogSearch (GgOs)

When the writers-strike will stall various teevee series (table via Fim)

1968 mMcCluhan-vs-nMailer showdown (GgV-30min via Fim)

'left/right of boom' = pre/postventive solutions to IEDs (dTongue-left)
(right)
Vvvbogus govt attempt to model political instability (Wired via Sam)

Boomer-nostalgia vignette (oDinny)

Lo-power-FM activism update (FMU via lf)

Over-the-top Jp Wii golf game (Flash-2min)

Anthropology of sex, by country (toc via gpost)

a vast unknown / but precise number of pages (NYer-short)

Tags should be plural by default (RWx-vshort)


Linguistic coincidences that (could) beget folk etymologies (arcane via dTongue)

How the Irish DIDN'T invent slang (dTongue-long)

Occupants also hate Gehry's MIT bldg (PhilG-short)

W3C's straitjacket for your imagination (1700*1300 jpeg via angus)
(800)
GoreVidal praises dKucinich (Nation-short)

ElvisC's 1st teevee shot (Allison solo) (yTube-3min)

Short review of new JohnBerger (Znet-5arcane)

DeanStockwell's song in BlueVelvet (yTube-2min)

Rave for TheOnion's subtle intelligence (Reason via anrchia)

Creative uses for aluminum foil (list via lf)

About: metatagsoup (RWx-short-arcane)


New NYRB incl Tolstoy, Krugman (toc)

The Icelandic Horse (24pix)

Handmade chocolate cupcakes filled with blueberry cream (flickr)

HacketyHack as a first language? (PhilG-thread)

US foreclosures map (mYg)

jSib/Issa averages $1.18 per 'free' mp3 (adAge-passim)

SandyDenny retrospectives (IndIE)

dhLawrence poems (pGut-etext)

Moby donates tracks to indie filmmakers (Variety via Cinem)

Free Sam'n'Max Windows adventure (download via l4Next)

Blix sees Iraq invasion as Saudi-substitute (AFP via Sam)

$60 motherboard runs Firefox, Open Office (specs via /.)
(57)
stayed home sick. made raspberry jam. ate it all. (melovescookies)

Is it spam if it also reports yr spelling error? (Blgscpd-short)

Brainstorming neologisms for meeting-of-sycophants (iGreed-thread)

Stiglitz eulogy for US economy (vFair-long via iGreed)


Contrarian DavidThomson on the writers' strike (UkG)

RobtFisk reviews 'Rendition' (UkInd-Znet)

KahlilGibran gibberish-generator (longish via Ralph)

Vfriv 'Rocky' I-VI synopsis (yTube-20sec)

Intvu w/fave RichardLester (OnionAV)

Pharmco R&D costs are astronomical (short via pGen)

$1 12v battery contains 8 1.5v cells (Flash-40sec via pGen)

9 Awesome Directors Who Temporarily Lost Their Mind[s] (Cracked via Cinem)

Radiohead mp3-experiment postmortem (stats via /.)
(65)
14min movie of pre-1906-earthquake SF CA (multiformat via iJunk)

NyT on molecular gastronomy (longish via lf)

Robot standup comedy (McSwnys-shortish)

Future Facebook nightmare scenario (iGreed-vshort w/link)

NYers appreciating art (oDinny-1liners)

Shhh, don't tell: Mukasey's an Orthodox Jew (GgNews-15hits)

Fulltext of Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations (GgBooks)

'Crowdsourcing' Fossett-searchers frustrated (Wired)


Slick choreography in FingerEleven vid (yTube-4min)

Tiny peek at Sims3 AI (vshort via gTxA)

ChloeSevigny profiled in... PsychToday? (longish via Jez)

AniDiFranco profile/update (Znet-shortish)

Iraq IEDs caught on video (9yTubes-20min)

no allegory here, only crows / on a rampage (vDaily-short)

Loonie going thru roof ($1.08+) (5day-graph)

Posthumous MollyIvins book (E&P)

$300M Gehry showpiece suffers $1.5M leaks (Boston via Sam)

Israeli spies outfoxing US system (aWar-long via Sam)

JnoDemme's JmCarter on Israeli apartheid (rTom-71% w/links)

Minot nuke-mishap anomalies (cPunch-5arcane)

ForeignPolicy on global triumph of hiphop (long via aAard)

US media hide Maliki's bodyguards (aAard w/pix)

The Syrian Jews of Brooklyn (iSteve w/link)

Some still-unanswered hoaxtop skepticism (blog)

Best-ever free Flash games (Cnet-10pg via /.)

Porn reduces rape? (Chgo-Sam)

JimRogers says China's renminbi is safest investment (wmv-10min)

Brilliant pocket screwdriver $8.50/doz (sell via Make)
(135)
Grainy new video of PeteDoherty shooting heroin (Flash-75sec)

'Layers' of 3D-game-rendering illustrated (Flash-90sec)

Named strategies for bluffing (iGreed w/NYer-link)

'navy shower' = lathering w/water off (dTongue)

My tools aren't pink (nDee-profane)

DesignExperiment: metatagsoup (del.icio.us)

RozChast toon about MySpace (NYer)

Fine new GetYrWarOns (mnftiu)


Silly pseudo-doc on the brain (yTube-10min via eAard)

Rave for newage dance meditation (gimbo)

US UFO-hotspots map (sMaps via cMonk)

Unconvincing worldmap of topselling bands (Flash via iSthtcs)
(500)
Clever moon-robot prototype (Flash-5min via rDreams)

Sales stats for top Nintendo games (Wii, DS) (gSutra-short via Ktku)

BluRay-vs-HD-dvd update (Ktku)

PacMan as text-adventure in Flash (Ktku w/link)

New live AmyWinehouse musical trainwreck (Flash-4min)

Documentary on calc-wiz 'savant' (GgV-50min via gpost)
(300)
Candi Strecker's 1998 hipster's canon (RWx w/Wayback link)


HD-DVD players $99 at Walmart (Cnet)

jDepp's SweeneyTodd early Oscar fave? (LaT via nyMag)

New series from Buffy's jWhedon (intvu via wSmirch)

Documentary dares to interview Iraqi resistance (cPunch)

Ten weirdest science experiments (NewSci-UkG via Jez)

Many dressed as AmyWinehouse for Halloween (1pg-phat via Vh1)

mStreep is nEphron's JuliaChild (Cinem-no-pic)

jRosenbaum rave for finalcut 'BladeRunner' (Chgo-shortish)

Terror-alarmism is stupid and expensive (Schneier via jm)

Video/audio of nanotube radio (yTube-30sec via pGen)

Gmail too slow for Google VP (Blgscpd)


2007: Oct Sep1 Aug2 Aug1 July June May April2 April March Feb

About: metatagsoup

this del.icio.us design experiment
is first of all intended as
an efficient ontology for
IMDb movie keywords

(a taxicab is a car is a vehicle is a prop)

substituting the theatrical
role-set-prop
for person-place-thing

and secondarily
a unification of all comparable ontologies
(roget polti adler barger lenat yahoo/dmoz)
and tagged web2.0 content

on the hypothesis that
movies (can) encompass all

the ontology defined
pragmatically (bottom up)
not philosophically (top down)
eg maybe:

props: vehicle weapon gizmo treasure clothing message container

sets: interior exterior road land sea weather

roles: girl kid buddy rival creature criminal cop stranger group maker mentor healer

prop:gizmo: phone camera clock weapon musicalinstrument

prop:message: letter sign file contract book magazine newspaper artwork

set:interior: store office bank theater club restaurant jail

(these 'literary' categories
being more artfi not scifi
seem to make nerds uncomfortable
but the semantic web movement
will just be spinning its wheels
until they're addressed)







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07 November 2007

Popular artists I can't abide

Renoir
Cezanne
Seurat
Rolling Stones
Johnny Cash

05 November 2007

Candi Strecker's 1998 hipster canon

Full article: [Wayback]

Fiction

Alfred Jarry "Ubu Roi"
Leonora Carrington "The Hearing Trumpet"
Jack Kerouac "On the Road" &c
William S. Burroughs "Junky" "Naked Lunch" "Nova Express" "Soft Machine"
Charles Bukowski "Factotum" "Post Office" "Ham on Rye"
John Kennedy Toole "A Confederacy of Dunces"
Mary Lasswell "Suds in your Eye"
Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"
Nick Hornby "High Fidelity"
Jim Thompson "Killer Inside Me" &c
Cornell Woolrich "I Married a Dead Man" "The Bride Wore Black"
Charles Willeford "Wild Wives" "High Priest of California"
Philip K. Dick "Martian Time-Slip" "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" "Ubik" "Valis" "The Man in the High Castle"
H.P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror"
Harlan Ellison (ed) "Dangerous Visions"
J.G. Ballard "Crash" "The Crystal World"
Frederic Brown "Martians Go Home"
William Gibson "Neuromancer"
David R. Bunch "Moderan"
R.A. Lafferty "Nine Hundred Grandmothers"
Samuel R. Delany "Dhalgren"
Robert Heinlein "The Star Beast" "Have Spacesuit Will Travel"
Dr. Seuss "Green Eggs and Ham" "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"
Richard Scarry "Best Word Book Ever"
Madeleine L'Engle "A Wrinkle in Time"
De Saint-Exupery "Little Prince"
Daniel Pinkwater "The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death" "Young Adult Novel"
Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series
Iceberg Slim "Pimp: The Story of My Life" "Trick Baby" &c
Dirck Van Sickle "Montana Gothic"

Nonfiction

Jane and Michael Stern "Encyclopedia of Bad Taste"
Berkeley Pop Culture Project "Whole Pop Catalog"
Gene Sculatti (ed) "The Catalog of Cool" "Too Cool"
Jan Harold Brunvand "The Choking Doberman" "The Vanishing Hitchhiker"
William Poundstone "Big Secrets" "Bigger Secrets" "Biggest Secrets"
Cecil Adams's Straight Dope books
Re/Search and V/Search Books " Modern Primitives" "Pranks!" "The Industrial Culture Handbook"
Barbara O'Brien "Operators and Things"
John G.H. Oakes (ed) "In the Realms of the Unreal: 'Insane' Writings"
Charles Fort's compendia
Criswell's predicitions
SCHWA World Operations Manual
Douglas Curran "In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space"
Margaret Cheney "Tesla: Man out of Time"
Joel Whitburn "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits"
Lester Bangs "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung"
Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk"
Deborah Spungen "And I Don't Want to Live This Life"
Nick Tosches "Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams"
Harvey Pekar "American Splendor Anthology"
Alan Moore "Watchman"
Art Spiegelman "Maus"
Peter Bagge
Dan Clowes
Hergé's adventures of Tintin
R. Crumb's works
Walt Kelly's Pogo
Crockett Johnson's Barnaby
VIP (Virgil Partch) "Bottle Fatigue" "Virgil Partch's Funny Bar Book"
Scott McCloud "Understanding Comics" "Manga!"
Frederik Schodt "Manga! The World of Japanese Comics"
Jack Chick minicomics
Robert Williams "Zombie Mystery Paintings"
Laguna Art Museum "Kustom Kulture"
Jim Shaw "Thrift Store Paintings"
"Man's Ruin: The Posters and Art of Frank Kozik"
Weegee "Naked City"
Photos of Bettie Page
Michael Weldon "Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film"
Kenneth Anger "Hollywood Babylon"
Drew Friedman "Warts and All"
Rudolph Grey "Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr."
Edward D. Wood Jr. "Killer in Drag"
John Waters "Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters" "Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste"
Stefan Hammond and Mike Wilkins "Sex and Zen and a Bullet in the Head"
Ray Richmond (ed) "The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family"
Bob Black "The Abolition of Work and Other Essays"
"The Anarchist Cookbook"
Loompanics catalog.
Thomas Frank "The Conquest of Cool"
Jim and Debbie Goad (eds) "Answer Me! The First Three Issues"
"The Book of the SubGenius"
Adam Parfrey "Cult Rapture and Apocalypse Culture"
Robert Anton Wilson's works
Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain "Acid Dreams, The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond"
Truman Capote "In Cold Blood"
Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry "Helter Skelter"
Harold Schechter "Deviant"
Any book on Jeffrey Dahmer
Michael Lesy "Wisconsin Death Trip"
Hunter S. Thompson "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
David Foster Wallace "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"
Frederick Drimmer "Very Special People"
Dan Mannix's works
Katherine Dunn "Geek Love"
Ricky Jay "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women"
Thomas Hine "Populuxe"
John Baeder "Gas, Food, and Lodging"
Alan Hess "Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture"