This is Water - David Foster Wallace

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.”

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The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle

“The other day I made a comment on someone’s blog and I noticed I was the only one that put my online pseudonym into the name field”

My handles:

90s BBS: Remus McGrath
90s IRC & USENET: Way-K or way_k
00s Web: Wally Glutton aka stungeye

How To Work Better (1991) Peter Fischli und David Weiss

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10,000 Year Clock

There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells of this buried Clock play a melody.

Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the Clock has never played before.

More @ The Long Now.

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Where Am I?

This game is one part roguelike, one part simon, one part amazing.

Click the grey playing area once, then used the arrow keys for movement.

At what point does the copyright of the original photo not apply?

Andy Baio was sued for his use of the first pixelized iteration for an album cover.

The Funklet a KickStarter project by Jack Stratton.

Also: Beastly, 4 bros on 4 dif beats, Street Beats - Vol 1

Bulgarian Soviet Statue Makeovers

Don’t Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design

“Can life be a game? Should it? And if so, who is playing whom?”

Launch in fullscreen. As you navigate, read the fine print below the slides.

Explosion on Surface of the Sun. June 7th, 2011

Other Views of Event

Wonder Wheel

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Scale and Perspective

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Thirty minutes from Portage and Main using public transit.

My haul for the day, including all but one of Asimov’s Robot Series.

(high shutter-speed camera) + (stand-up bass) = Wobbly Strings

Relax - Glutton and Steak Beat Generation Edit

Chopped from a sprawling afternoon jam session with my pal Jake. Two synths. Turntable. Sequencer. Includes spoken word from Jack Kerouac. Recorded in 2002.