We don't need another Nero

[substitute]

1. Many thanks to explosivo for showing me Pandora. It's a make-your-own radio station that learns your preferences. It reminds me of the late lamented Firefly in its uncanny ability to find music you like given a set of known favorites. Very cool.
   
   
2. I hope against hope that Joshua Clark's "reporting" from NOLA (as reported by fengi is some kind of satire. But it's probably not.
   
   
3. KILL THE CLAW!
   
   
4. Via cruel.com the amazing news that abortion is often the result of failed sodomy. No idea what the mechanism is here, even after reading the article. I should have paid more attention in my Freedom Science classes.
   
   
5. Photoshop contest: If goths ruled the world. (via The Null Device.
   
   
6. Prostitutes decide to become marketers; punch line not necessary.
   
   
7. Just what we needed, burning bullets (via New Scientist and defensetechblog).
   
   
8. We will have now have shorter, stupider "reader-friendly" editions of the great books that idiots don't read anyway!

Comments

Reader's Digest Condensed what?

[citizenx.livejournal.com]

I really liked Tale of a City, 200 Feet Under the Sea, and Three Nights.

Other faves

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Ten Minutes of Solitude
198
Catch-2
The Grapes of W

Re: Other faves

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

Ice-3?

Also

[citizenx.livejournal.com]

Fahrenheit 45
And there was that movie, A Few Angry Men

Re: Other faves

[bruisedhips.livejournal.com]

Almost Caught in the Rye
Unbeabrable Lightness of Bees
The Winter of Our Dis

Re: Other faves

[substitute.livejournal.com]

The Love of No Oranges

Re: Other faves

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

The Magnificent Three-and-a-Half

Re: Other faves

[feisty-robot.livejournal.com]

A Small Amount of Jest
Lord of A Ring

Re: Other faves

[do-not-lick.livejournal.com]

The A

Re: Other faves

[besskeloid.livejournal.com]

Oranges Are The Only Fruit.

Re: Other faves

[mendel.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now you've made me think of the old "winter of our discount tent" SA thing. I'm going to be giggling quietly to myself all night now.

Re: Other faves

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

Ten Minutes of Solitude

I smell a porn spoof.

no good but i wanna play too

[threepunchstuff.livejournal.com]

A Light on August 1st

1200 Main Street #5, USA

The Satisfactory Gatsby

Six-Day War and Peace

Naked Snack

The Foyer of Solitude

To Hear a Mockingbird

Less Than Less Than Zero

Root

[bruisedhips.livejournal.com]

Alice on Wonderstreet
Crime and Pun
A See You Later to Arms

This is too fun, I promise I'm done.

See also:

[nikolasco.livejournal.com]

last.fm
Gnoosic

[gcrumb.livejournal.com]

I'm not near my ssh keys right now, but remind me to send you a brilliant Russian video synopsis of Anna Karenina. Running time: 38 seconds. 8^)

[golux.livejournal.com]

What about those 30-page large-print "revised" copies of Huck Finn and Treasure Island that they have in the dentist's office?

I mean, it's been done.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

The fact that it's not for children or a specialty audience is sort of disturbing; it's as though Readers Digest is going to be the new standard.

[fimmtiu.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of baffled at the idea of making a condensed version of Proust. On the one hand, it's already in a nearly irreducible state; like a complicated but elegant equation, removing any single part would change the meaning. On the other hand, you will have just accidentally created a real-life version of a famous Monty Python sketch. Good show, lads! On the other, uh... leg, I'm all in favour of any guy who can summarize Tolstoy like this:

"Noble people, with names that all sound vaguely like Kalashnikov, dance and gossip and do evil things, sometimes all at the same time."