Deep Mix is a nice IDM/minimal internet radio station out of Moscow. I use it for working music every now and then.

Jennifer Dziura:

Today in the store, a woman holding up a copy of “Ulysses” asked, “Is this his latest book?”

“I’ve never met anyone bad in the Batmobile.”

Tina Treason on the Melissa Gira quote a few entries down:

i’ve tried to explain this to people before but no one seems to understand what i mean when i say we are a generation without secrets. anything anyone could do to us, anything we could do to ourselves has already been splayed out in all its bloody glory on some talk show, or lifetime special, or reality tv. nothing in us is sacred, nothing hides itself away for the sake of staying sacred. we’ve been horrifically exposed and so we know nothing other than how to expose ourselves in the most painful ways.

For those who like the very noisy grindy growly stuff: Nef’s Audio Assault, featuring a new independent/unsigned band every week. Nef says:

Basically – I plug bands – no strings attached! It may be nice if you could find it in your heart to link this site to yours after you’ve received some publicity, but no worries if you don’t. I cannot promise you’ll be noticed by any entity that may further your career, etc. Bottom line – I make no promises of fame, period… I’ll promise to support the scene by posting your band and giving you a fair shot of amateur publicity.

Kieron Gillen provides a thought that’ll bug me for days:

I’m sitting next to Mathilde Remy, the legendary insane French-Woman of Joystick Magazine and probably the most important games journalist alive.

She argues that Understanding Comics is – in fact – not a comic. It uses the tools of the form, but is in fact something else entirely. Comics exist to provoke emotion – they are a narrative form. Understanding Comics is, therefore, not one. I take the McCloud line, pulling out the plane’s safety card, and pointing at the the diagram of people donning safety gear that couldn’t possibly save them from any aeroplane mishap. “This is a comic,” I say. She disagrees. It uses the techniques, but is not in itself a comic…

Found in the comments section for the Geomythology entry of a few days back:

Melissa Gira
“rapture-snapshot”

…we are tore up and re-sewn, we little Franken-cyborgs of the 00′s, we fuck up and we tell each other about it, and we hurt and we hurt each other, and still, there’s good photos, hot prose, killer motion, fine theory. This is just one of those rapture-snapshots…

J.D. Ryznar, talking about Internet TV:

“It’s such a great medium for making things that don’t matter.”

Doing it over at THE ENGINE tonight, for those interested.

According to a BBC news alert.

Samorost 2, the sequel to probably the best Flash game ever made, has just been released.

There goes the night.

In a unanimous opinion released Thursday, a three-judge panel of the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the ruling of District Court judge Gary Lancaster and reinstated all charges against Extreme Associates, Rob Black and Lizzy Borden.

In January of this year, obscenity charges against Black and Borden were thrown out in the first federal obscenity prosecution in over a decade. The two were charged in August 2003 with distributing obscene videos to Pittsburgh addresses through the mail and transmitting obscene images over the Internet.

“Because we conclude that the District Court improperly set aside applicable Supreme Court precedent which has repeatedly upheld federal statutes regulating the distribution of obscenity in the face of both First Amendment and substantive due process attacks, we will reverse the judgment of the District Court,” wrote Judge D. Brooks Smith…

Petrova Nataliya’s deviantART gallery of photography:

More than 1,600 people have been taken to hospitals in Tehran as pollution in the Iranian capital reaches critical levels, health officials have said.

Hospitals have reported increased cases of heart attacks and breathing problems, while many residents are complaining of fatigue and headaches. There is no wind or rain and the dirty air is trapped on top of the city by the mountains surrounding it…

Full-size image available here.

…don’t look.

Wish I could remember where I found this. But I present this image to you because I love you all.

Yes. I do in fact love you like that.

And for no extra charge, a funny comments section full of mentally ill people.