The first time I heard this song, the chorus elicited an involuntary “Oh my god wow.” Love it!
Single October 27th! New album November 10th!
Fig. 1B
International data havens? Maybe it’s just me with Neal Stephenson on the brain, but wasn’t there something like this in Cryptonomicon?
White Elephants
To outsiders, then, Beijing’s urban master planning might seem questionable, and rightly so. How is it that big name architects like Herzog and de Meuron (designers of that rara avis, the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium) and Rem Koolhaas (whose CCTV tower has all the subtly of the Death Star) are given such extreme creative liberties in a country where the individual expression of its citizens is routinely suppressed? What is the role of avant-garde design and its practitioners in rigidly structured political systems? And, while we’re at it, where are future host cities supposed to go from here?
Group Dynamics: Pretty bands (Plastiscines, Au Revoir Simone, Amiina, Yo Majesty, Electrelane) look pretty. (via)
The Venture Bros. Shirt-Of-The-Week Club: Oh god. I can’t afford the subscription deal right now, but I imagine I’m going to want all of these.
Action Figure: Great slo-mo (1000 fps) videos of folks getting punched in the face. More info here. (via)
YouTube: Gradius - The Text Adventure. “C:\>Shoot the core.” (via)
The montages of barringer82: Beautifully arranged filmmaker tributes — The Coen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, etc. (via)
Characters from The Wire drawn in the style of The Simpsons. (via)
“Is it pretty? No. Does it work? It appears to. So what’s the big deal?” George Saunders on the ethics of washboarding.
“And not being recognised is brilliant.” Whaaaa? Nadine lives in Orange County?