Caroline's flotsam 'n' jetsam

"After all, kitsch is the working class kingdom."

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:16:00 +0100

“After all, kitsch is the working class kingdom.”

- Billy MacKenzie (Record Collector interview)

": “It’s called Glitch because in the far-distant and totally-perfect future, the world..."

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:10:39 +0100

“: “It’s called Glitch because in the far-distant and totally-perfect future, the world starts becoming less and less probable, things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and there occurs what comes to be called the ‘glitch’—a grave danger of disemprobablization.””

- Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder’s gaming start-up

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:36:27 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

I absolutely loved “The Imaginarium of Doctor...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:05:00 +0100

I absolutely loved “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” by Terry Gilliam and completely agree with this review, including what it says about Heath Ledger and excluding the bit about Colin Farrell.

Farrell’s improving with age. Have heard good things about his role in Neil Jordan’s Ondine, which isn’t out yet.

If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:48:48 +0100

If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl

Towa Tei & Kylie Minogue - German Bold Italic (‘98)

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:32:22 +0100

Towa Tei & Kylie Minogue - German Bold Italic (‘98)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31)

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:09:07 +0100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

"Having done time in hospital with depression, I can’t help feeling that anyone with the energy..."

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:31:26 +0100

“Having done time in hospital with depression, I can’t help feeling that anyone with the energy to switch on a computer and even care what’s happening on Facebook is showing a level of engagement with the world well beyond the catatonic. So it may not be quite as healthy as actually chatting to someone, but it’s a vast improvement on staring at the wall. My shrink would certainly have taken it as a positive sign.”

- A Healthy Addiction - John Crace

Dickie Beau goes Waltzing Matilda

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:10:59 +0100

Dickie Beau goes Waltzing Matilda

"In the hope that you might consider bringing your much-rumoured memoir to The House of Eliot, I am..."

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:47:03 +0100

“In the hope that you might consider bringing your much-rumoured memoir to The House of Eliot, I am posting this letter on the Faber website. Forlorn as this hope may be, I can only fantasise that at least you might read my letter through and consider the pleasures and prestige of being an author at Faber, the last great family-owned independent publishing house in the western hemisphere.”

- An Open Letter to Morrissey : Lee Blackstone (Faber & Faber)

Photos: bear chasing Polish rangers

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:35:57 +0100

Photos: bear chasing Polish rangers

"I just hope buying a MacBook won’t turn me into an iPrick. I want a machine that essentially..."

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:50:59 +0100

“I just hope buying a MacBook won’t turn me into an iPrick. I want a machine that essentially makes itself invisible, not a rectangular bragging stone. If, 10 minutes after buying it, I start burbling on about how it’s left me more fulfilled as a human being, or find myself perched at a tiny Starbucks table stroking its glowing Apple with one hand while demonstratively tapping away with the other in the hope that passersby will assume I’m working on a screenplay, it’s going straight in the bin.”

- Charlie Brooker

Secret chamber on South African (parody? art fuck?) ZEF NINJA...

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:24:00 +0100

Secret chamber on South African (parody? art fuck?) ZEF NINJA RAP RAVE CREW ‘Die Antwoord”s website.

More in this MeFi thread.

Actor Rip Torn tries to rob a bank

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:48:44 +0100

Actor Rip Torn tries to rob a bank:

Two days ago I watched JCVD, the movie in which Jean Claude van Damme plays himself - washed out actor who walks in on a bank robbery. Everybody thinks he’s the bankrobber and it doesn’t end that well for him. It’s a great little film in which Van Damme proves himself to be much more than just an action movie star.

And today I read Rip Torn got caught trying to do the real thing.

"Can you imagine taking Bill Gates and Woz by the hand and going, “These are furries over here,..."

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:16:34 +0100

“Can you imagine taking Bill Gates and Woz by the hand and going, “These are furries over here, and this is incest slash fic about real life human beings, and then over here you have videos of people masturbating onto masks of anime characters, and this is a message board where German guys sign up to have other German guys cook their penises for dinner, then sodomize and murder them. And while that last one seems so very German that we’ll give you a bye on it, all in all thanks for inventing computers, bro.””

- TWOP’s Jacob reviewing the Caprica pilot

Two episodes in, I’m hooked.

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:52:42 +0100

Two episodes in, I’m hooked.

Shatner reads Poe’s The Raven.(1983)

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:05:14 +0100

Shatner reads Poe’s The Raven.(1983)

First Sighting of Auroral Light Bouncing Off Satellite? : Big Pic : Discovery News

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:51:34 +0100

First Sighting of Auroral Light Bouncing Off Satellite? : Big Pic : Discovery News:

nerdkeeping:

Mysterious shape observed in an Aurora picture. The best theory is auroral light bouncing off a satellite. What’s your theory? Looks like a space jellyfish to me!

And it’s coming to get you!

Wild Beasts and their lovely Billy MacKenzie-vibe.

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:50:11 +0100

Wild Beasts and their lovely Billy MacKenzie-vibe.

Women, the best freaking firewall in the world!

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:17:41 +0100

Women, the best freaking firewall in the world!:

kennaaa:

stevewoolf:

wreckandsalvage:

jayparkinsonmd:

franklieu:

One human cell contains 75MB genetic information.
One sperm contains a half of that; that is 37.5MB.
One ml of semen contains 100 million sperms.
In average, ejaculation lasts for 5 sec and contains 2.25 ml semen.
This means that the throughput of a man’s member is equal to (37.5MB x 100,000,000 x 2.25)/5 = 1 687 500 000 000 000 byte/second = 1,6875 Тerabyte/sec
This means that the female eggcell withstands this DDoS attack at 1,5 terabyte per second, and only lets through one(!) data package, thereby being the best freaking hardware firewall in the world!

The downside of it is that this only small data package that it lets through, hangs the system for the whole of 9 months!

HAHA!