Wugazi, Sleep Rules Everything Around Me
Wu-Tang Clan meet Fugazi.
Thank you, internet.
Poses
Sadly, the music in the video is a bit too loud and overtakes the vocals, but the meaning is still just as clear and as it is glorious.
Regardless, fantastic work by Yolanda Dominguez (via Today and Tomorrow).
Photo Out of Context
headline of the day
Niagara Falls plunge: searchers find man’s body while looking for woman
Jenny, I got your number
Michael Lugo pointed out that the telephone number 867-5309 is prime and may be the largest prime number to appear in the title of a popular song.
How to email a student
I’ve recently started working at a university and I’ve never dealt with ruder people. This is sage advice for anybody, professor or not:
Address the writer by name.
Reply as if you’re speaking, not as if you’re writing a telegram.
Sign off. See you in class or See you next week can help make a prof sound less like the Delphic oracle and more like an everyday human.
He also has an exceedingly great piece on How to email a professor. (via @mattthomas)
Telex — ‘A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server’
Telex is a proof of concept that would harness multiple servers outside restrictive countries that would make it harder, or impossible, for governments to block access to specific websites.
“This has the potential to shift the arms race regarding censorship to be in favor of free and open communication,” said J. Alex Halderman, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at U-M and one of Telex’s developers.
“The Internet has the ability to catalyze change by empowering people through information and communication services. Repressive governments have responded by aggressively filtering it. If we can find ways to keep those channels open, we can give more people the ability to take part in free speech and access to information.”
I took a walk Saturday afternoon
Tabling and Cutting Broom-Corn
Fig. 3 from Broom-Corn and Brooms. A Treatise on Raising Broom-Corn and Making Brooms, on a Small or Large Scale. Circa 1879.
I expect I will be working on rather a small scale.
from the comments
He sounds like the clodbuster who followed us around at the Conger House Museum in Washington, Iowa, during the funeral home exhibit (tricks of the death trade, 1800s style, or something like that). The rare sound of the southern Appalachian foothills apparently caught his ear. I couldn’t get over the exhibit and was lost in a verbal boomerang. “OMG, look at how tiny that coffin is, lordy! You don’t think that’s a mummy in there do you? This paper says it’s a WOMAN! There’s a net over her face to keep off INSECTS!” The clodbuster probably had seen a Virginia car tag in the lot. Finally, he made his way to the Iowan, farm cap in hand, and announced, “You’re not from around here.” Matter of fact, not aggressive. Just making a statement about a certain person’s museum viewing theatrics.
a history of Canadian English
The OED put together an overview of the history and differences of Canadian English. I think either Lex or Tim linked to it on Twitter. I kept waiting for huge morphological differences, but our friends to the North are subtle.
We can find the linguistic expression of the Canadian east-west connection at all linguistic levels. Vowels, for instance, love to change but when they change in Canada they have been shown to rarely – for some changes never—to cross the Canada-US border. For example, the ‘Canadian shift’, first detected in the mid 1990s, affects the ‘short front vowels’, i.e. the three vowels exemplified in black, pen or tin. In Canada these vowels move in the opposite direction to the well-established ‘Northern Cities Shift’ in parts of the United States. So in Canada, the vowel in black, for instance, is pronounced farther back in the mouth. Canadian dialects are actually diverging from the American dialects that have experienced the shift, and this despite the high levels of interaction between the two countries.
from the spam
I really enjoy the paranormal!!!
from the comments
My daddy was a character and a good man. But there were lots of times I secretly wished for his little brother as my father. Missy Kathy had that honor. He went on ahead not all that long ago. There’s a big space where that one used to be, I promise you.
things found while walking my dog, part one
the place where Neil Young was busking 35 years ago
I was taking some reference shots (a few weeks ago) just by the place where Neil Young was busking 35 years ago, just behind the guy with the bicycle.
tweet of the day
Neil Young Busking on the Streets of Glasgow, 1976
This makes me really happy.
(thanks, Wil)
dear clusterflock
The part of the country you understand the least.
coming out of sleep
Dogs don’t fart as much as you’d think.
Meet the Flockers: Tim Carmody
Deron said he was going to offer me a Clusterflock login before he heard I got a job, so I said, crap, don’t let that stop you, I blog all over. Color me Flocked.
1. I’m a media and technology writer;
2. I have a little boy (Noah) who is three years old;
3. I have a BA in Math and a PhD in Comparative Literature;
4. I was born in Detroit in 1979 and (mostly) live in Philadelphia (since 2002);
5. I sometimes write at kottke.org;
6. I almost always write at snarkmarket.com;
7. I like poetry, indie rock, comic books, old hip-hop, and NBA basketball;
8. I think chicken is delicious.
I’m this guy (in the middle):
I’m happy to be included in my favorite social network that isn’t one.
Ask me anything.
Emmitt Smith Plays With a Dislocated Shoulder
Since we’re talking momentous occasions from 90s-era sports history.
The Dennis Rodman NBA Hall of Fame Induction Speech
I love Dennis Rodman. The 1995-1996, 72-10 season, and the subsequent NBA championship, depended as much on Rodman as anyone. I was privileged to see it.
Update: The following year, still one of the most amazing games I’ve ever seen:
spam name
Gretchen Laquita.
Holy Crap!
Using facial recognition in realtime via a webcam, this system lets you control the face of another person…like, say, John Malkovich.
Make sure you click through. The future is here, dude.
