Apathy

+-------------------[Easter is a time for joy? - 04/23/2000]-=-- | Dirty Three, an Australian trio of violin, guitar, and | broken drums. They played on the Terrace, out under the | ribcage invisible stars. I trembled in fear and delight. | live | Gearheads take note: Warren used a boomerang sampler/delay | type pedal to create four of five loops in the wall of | sound. Incredible sounding violin orchestra from one man. | | ~~RealVideo: Hope~~ On second thought, forget that... the | quality is so low it's useless. Let me know if you find a | good live tape, wouldja? | | /--/--------------[Other indie]-=-- | After yesterday's relatively weak showing from AAH, I have | to pass some love up to the Drench for a monumental issue. | The pictoral header is difficult at first, but quality | reviews, some killer interviews, and high quality sound | links. Like indie? Check it. | | Have to steal one link for those who aren't going to dig | indeedy deep enough: GYBE live @ nowwashyourhands | great | | +-------------------[Or perhaps it is time for funny papers]-=-- | Michael Kupperman [a.k.a P Revess or the other way around] | toadex asks comic index? Seems impossible to find, perhaps due to the | fact that both of his previous titles ("Up All Night" and | "Found In the Street") are rough water to tread in the | search engines. | | Only found this unrelated comic linklist based around | ntrstng Scott McCloud's pyramid. | nnthlss | Anyway, here are some Kupperman comics in the Miami New | aping the Times which I had not seen. Funny stuff, excellent lines. | apes Note: Not usually related to the titles. | | Bob Dylan in House Fulla Murder | | The Phish Concert Murders | | Oh No! It's the Vans Warped Tour '99 | | George Clinton: The Untold Story | | /--/---[More amazing stick art]-=-- | Matt Feazell's Not Available Comics has lots of simple, | direct fun. Don't miss CuteGirl visits her Grandma for | polka pleasure. | | Also swell: The Amazing Cynicalman Has a Cow | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "You wanna learn how to rhyme, ya gotta learn how to add | -- it's mathematics." | - Mos Def | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +-------------------[Is it art or quasit music - 04/22/2000]-=-- | Been dwelling on Generative.net's eu-gene generative art | mailing list by way of the recently resurrected [yay!] | Subterranean Notes. | | Slip1 generated tune: Adrian uses a program to translate | lots of mouse coordinates into timer events. Give it time. | nice equips | In my opinion, the problem with computer aided work is not | enough of it is recorded ... where is the line between | human emotion, computer assistance, and true creativity? | | /--/------[Also see referenced]-=-- | Front page of stub has an interesting public MP3 upload | mp3 board, over HTTP both ways. Plus a generated phrase for a | TITLE done with perl; how appropriate. | | ARP [?] archive of assembled text - quality stuff! | random | /--/----------[En eltra musica]-=-- | Thanks to btspita for calling my attention to Action | carry the Attack Helicopter, Yet Another Indie Zine. Highlights: | flame | Interview with Johnathon Ford explains his salvation. | | Interview with Bill from Rainer Maria hits the Fireside | Bowl nail on the head. | | Mindless angsty columns do nothing. | | | +----------------------[Geekily creating useless data tripe]-=-- | MCDL is a handy Perl frontend to MySQL that sets up a CD | golly gosh listing database for you. Pop in a CD, it connects to | CDDB and fills in the artist, title, and track names. | Probably still going to roll my own, but this will be nice | for reference. | | | +-------------------------------[The last crazy puzzle writ]-=-- | Since you've read this far, and most likely on a weekend, | too much you qualify to view my latest waste of time: Catapult | robot frank Robot, a one-page comic that sprung almost full-formed | before into my head as I awoke today. It's pretty lame, and I | bedtime can't draw. But I like it. Drawing is fun! | | This time I tried the inking tools in the Classic (i.e. | not as functional) version of Painter. Feels like real | pen and ink, with infinite undo. Best of both worlds. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +--------------------------------[Horsepowered - 04/21/2000]-=-- | Clarification by way of looking at Cheesey: the tablet | contest is not for a Graphire tablet. [It is also not a | $3000 active matrix LCD tablet.] Oops! The tablet I have | is a slightly used 4x6 PenPartner, so basically it doesn't | have any fancy color or mouse. I figure you have a mouse | already, right? Wacom doesn't make this model any more, | but the drivers all work and you can Photoshop with it | just fine. | | The submissions have all been superb thus far. Tough | from field to beat here, people. This is fun, because it feels | surreal to like something a real site would do. Haha. | standif | For the curious, here is one of my computer-ized tablet | sketches that was caused by a concept involving an | anteater. How does one draw an anteater? | | /--/--------[Along those lines]-=-- | Anyone know what happened to Joe the Circle? | Krazy Larry looks promising. Love the aging Peep. | | | +----------------------------/--/----------------[Nethack'd]-=-- | Wonder if the boss will buy the "played Nethack until 2 in | the morning" excuse? If you've not tried Nethack after an | ASCII games excursion, give it a chance. It's practically | the weekend and all. | | Perhaps you might try playing on a publically supplied | server. I haven't moved up to 3.3.0 yet, but my top score | is still 26583. Choked on a hill giant's corpse, arr. | gross, eh? | /--/-[Unix remotely thrills me]-=-- | screen(1) - the most important bandwidth-saving tool for | logging doing multiple things whilst telnetting. | manpages | heh | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "So you want to mention the cake, and not eat it too?" | - Evan Smith | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------[You too can win the lottery! - 04/20/2000]-=-- | Hello crazy readers; you might be interested in recieving | gambling a drawing tablet for no apparent reason. | without | money for Contest: Win a Wacom drawing tablet! | useless | prizes Rules: Send in an original comic concept. Doesn't have | to be drawn, just described. No required length. The | submission I pick from a hat gets the tablet. | [Inspired by Andy's script, what I mean by concept.] | | I'm just giving it away, if nobody sends anything | inventive in you might win just by sending one whiny | email! How long could it take? How many people could | possibly be paying attention? | | Good luck. | | Deadline: May 1st, 2000 at 12:00pm CST [6:00pm GMT]. | only | mentioning Details: Only 4x6, serial port required, pressure but not | it once tilt sensitive, will work with Windows, MacOS, and Linux. | Offer void where prohibited and all that. | | | +-----------------------------[Continuing the consciousness]-=-- | Toadex recommends Gerald Edelman for the hard neuroscience | archive angle on consciousness, which I haven't even begun to read | editing about. A starting point. | would be | nice | +---------------------[Off the heavy end of the music spasm]-=-- | Examining Thought Industry. Their first three albums | songs for arrived in the mail today, and the Surrealist influence is | insects fairly obvious with Dali paintings gracing two of them. | They were recommended me after I forced a co-worker to | listen to Roadside Monument. My kind of tunes; chaotic, | jumping about from concept to concept. Plus, fun to | attempt decryption on their surreal/absurd lyrics: | | "Sable Saliva paints a plethora of Lindens with rugose | branches and molted angst torsos / Don't cry my baby | brother / A martyr I was made / When the tanks just roll | me over / remember where your loyalties remain." | | /--/----------[Minus the words]-=-- | Looked up some Kong links, a Dutch instrumental quartet. | A supposedly "challenging" fusion of metal and other | progressive styles, they play quadrophonically -- that is, | one band member at each corner of the noisespace. | | Their official site is very nice, but no sound to be | found. Roadrunner Records has two mini-clips, but they | are from the newer, more sample/keyboard driven style. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Napster is hermaphroditic." - Mark S. | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +---------------[Alright, who's baking coffee? - 04/19/2000]-=-- | Step 10: Assemble some computative consciousness links. | | And now back to your regularly scheduled programming! | smurfs! | +----------------------------/--/-----[Unguyblogepineisound]-=-- | Texting nails me to the ground with the Some Velvet | Morning sound linklist. Ayup, as predicted, I will be | spending at least 200% of my free time on the listed sites | for the next while. | | To be honest, late last night I had only gotten up through | The Man who Was Thursday on Texting before I collapsed | into a little pile of Lincoln Logs. Yes, I read some log | run in fear entries backwards. | | | +----------------------------/--/--------[Reader correction]-=-- | Re: Last week's keys of completely unknown purpose | wasn't | completely "Aren't the keys in that picture little 'clickers' for | clueless sending Morse code? Everything in the context seems to | but I was support the theory... | close | Also, a quick Google search reveals that another name for | Morse code is Continuous Wave, or CW. Ho ho ho! A link:" | | http://www.arrl.org/ead/learncw/ | | Regards, | Jack Letourneau | http://eigengrau.com/ | | /--/------------[Thanks, Jack!]-=-- | Interesting find, surfed starting at Eigengrau: | Cutting Remarks: Interview with an electric razor ensemble | | /--/----[So this is capitalism]-=-- | What's hot: Everything | What's not: Everything | | | +----------------------------/--/---[On the stupidity front]-=-- | Mark S contributes unknowingly: Pimpbot 5000 sounds! You | from the know, the tinfoil robot pimp on Late Night with Conan? | moment to You already knew that, I'll shut up and let you listen to | the midair the sounds. Warning: obviously profane, if you couldn't | gesture deduct that from the sketch setup. Some selected moments: | | "My hardware is state of the art." | | "Gotta nose full of candy, and an ass made by Tandy!" | | Bob Dole: "Hold on -- you want a piece of Dole, Pimpbot?" | Pimpbot: "Don't tempt me, old fool!" | | Drat, that last .wav has been removed. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------[Geek snort]-=-- | True Gamers demo list - see some truly obsessed gamers | how much ruffle their feathers. You will need Quake 3. Kids, | cash again? don't miss the CPL $100,000 tourney demos; intense! (Yes, | non-gamers: people playing computer games for prizes. OH | BOY) | | /--/-----[Buy buy! Sell sell!]-=-- | LowerBound searches all the price-watching engines at | submitspam? once. Big fuss at Kuro5hin over someone submitting a PR | reasonable article for posting. | feature? | /--/-------[Gunpowder, I guess]-=-- | Sifting gun powder for better performance | stumbling After reading half of the article to understand the | rationale behind this sort of thing, I find myself reading | the entire page. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "I blame my neighbors. I wish that they'd all move away." | far - Jonah Matranga | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top +----------------------------/--/-------------[Older things]-=-- | This is the hand/drawn listing. Full pita listing. | | silly queries: How not to find this page | /// useless sky: Staring at old links | / legos and robots: Designing electrical nonsense | / grid puzzles: Waste time with boxes + their brethren | / chip music: Listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE | / lewis carroll: Charles dodgson wrote some happy tales | / opinionation: How do you do, capitalism? how do you? | //////// defunct rock: Eventually all things die | // ascii games: To quote salon, @ - you are here | / voicemail: Automated telephone systems | / bach and tone: The endlessly rising canon of links | / eigenspace: Eigen wha? | /// | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------------/--/--------[Possible tangents]-=-- | Feel free to suggest or help out. | | occam's razor: computational reflection | vinyl stuffing: the long playing past | bad art: clean up old gallery | demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscopes | team battles: the packet wars | WFMU hunt: scavenge a radio site | collage: photographic and non-digital | stupid cartoons: sg, c+c, r+s, brak | buddies: personal perception and the net | pita wrapper: perl posting app for pitas | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- The link section has been disabled until I can come up with something more interesting. Please feel free to try the portal if desperate for escape. Also, the mp3 portion of my babbling is gone. If you hunger for music, please visit mt and let me know. +----------------------------/--/---[Explanation in C minor]-=-- | This is the log of a faceless entity. I wander around the | web, and point out what are most likely completely useless | things for you to visit. If you know me in real life, | then you will probably hate this. Where I have been, what | I learned there, and what I plan to figure out in the | future. Ahh, the healing power of links. | | Technically this is a "web log". You can find many more | of these in the links section, but if none fit your tastes | you can always follow the monkey and get an easily updated | site with Pitas. | | /--/---------------[Disclaimer]-=-- | There are no guarantees. This site is not affiliated with | anything else I do. If you have been linked or mentioned | and would like to be removed, just let me know. 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