A Little Surrealism To End The Night On
February 3rd, 2007 | researchmaterial
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Complete Plan B Archive
Kieron Gillen - 09 Feb 10
The whole run of Plan B magazine has been released as a single 670Mb PDF. That’s 46 issues of some of the finest music writing of the decade. And a lot of posturing pretentiousness too. It’s like two of my favourite things for the price of one. Or none, as it’s a free PDF.
If you’ve any interest in music in the 00s, or music full stop, this is a great thing to just have on file. You’ll discover a new band every time you browse it.
Hell, it’s even worth getting if you’re one of the games journalist sorts. For the first 10-20 issues or so, I was doing games stuff for it. And Quinns and Mathew Kumar too, who I bullied into contributing. Very much written for the non-gamer about games which get pretty much no coverage, we had fun trying to decode the concept of Outsider Games.
Whole thing here. Go gets!
Coilhouse is Hiring! Apply Here.
Coilhouse - 08 Feb 10
Back around the time of Issue 03, we launched the Small Business Advertising Program to create affordable ad space for indie companies in the print version of Coilhouse. By the time Issue 04 rolled around, the number of advertisers had grown significantly – by this time, we had record labels, jewelry and clothing designers, sculptors, other magazines, web hosts, toy makers and graphic designers advertising in our pages. Click here to see them all. With editorial duties taking up more and more of our time as the weeks go by, the moment has come for us to seek help with the advertising side of running the magazine. We’re looking to hire an Ad Manager for our Small Business Advertising Program, starting with Coilhouse Magazine #05… and possibly subsequent issues.
Full details after the jump!
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State of South Carolina Secretary of State Subversive Agent Form
jwz - 08 Feb 10
Check the appropriate box. Do you or your organization directly or indirectly advocate, advise, teach or practice the duty or necessity of controlling, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, the state of South Carolina or any political division thereof?
[ ] YES [ ] NOIf yes, please outline the fundamental beliefs. If applicable, attach a copy of the bylaws or minutes of meetings from the last year.
"Inflection Points" Presentation
Open The Future - 08 Feb 10
For those folks who are interested, here's the Slideshare version of the presentation I gave last week at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. I was asked to talk about foresight thinking, as the event theme was "The Big One of 2056: What Went Right?" a look at a fictional 7.8 quake in the SF region that was handled as well as they could imagine possible.
My goal was to offer a bit of reassurance to the audience that there is some real utility to thinking about the future, and to spell out (in a cursory way) the kinds of big picture issues they should keep in mind while looking ahead forty-six years.
Inflection Points
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By and large, it was a successful talk. The post-talk questions were engaged, with little push-back, and I'm told that the overall response from the audience was quite positive.
The talk was video recorded, and I'm told will eventually be available to the public. I'll link when that happens.
So none of it comes from America?
Considering the U.S. doesn’t really use a whole lot of middle eastern oil, this is *really* weird. Most U.S. oil already comes from the Americas (Canada and Mexico are the top two sources). I’m never quite sure what the agendas are of people who try to connect the middle east with the oil used in the U.S. when arguing for energy independence, etc.
Not from the moon either, I guess.
The TFO emblem is a work of cracked genius, and I guess the station has a ready-made customer base in the denizens of AmericanTruckersAtWar.com – “Pulling for America’s Security.”
Huh..I live in Omaha and have not heard of this. I know of at least 4 Omaha’s in the U.S. I wonder which one it is in.
Sweet. Omaha made Warren’s blog!
I haven’t been to the new station yet. I can’t help thinking that, rather than the money going to “terrorism-related” countries, it will go to whacked out militia mountain men hiding away in Idaho.
And why Omaha? Why have we been blessed with this new initiative first? I don’t remember anyone here clamoring for “terror-free oil.”
Omaha, NE, Christopher. In Millard. Around 129th & Q.
So the gasoline only comes from Canada?
I don’t know, man… you put a rat in front of an Albertan, they’re capable of some freaky, freaky shit…
hah, the kamisama beat me to it.
also: Venezuela is a big oil provider to the US.
Oil from Canada can’t be used because many companies in Canada do business in the countries they have singled out. They use oil from the US.
I wonder if the Subway next door can hold itself up to the same standards. If not, then I think that a boycott is in order. America, FUCK YEAH!
[...] Via warrenellis.com, where there are photos of the station that better show its logo. [...]
Is it just me, or does the lower image looks like it was photoshopped?
Both those images are ‘Photoshopped’ for sure. It looks like they used a tool from the latest version that lets you render images onto a perspective.
However, they could just be generated samples to show what they plan for the stations to look like.
i would still go to the QT for a ram jam and a taquito.
how many locations does this new company have?
Living in an increasingly more xenophobic country is getting old, FAST. Wait no, I changed my mind. It was old before the war. Now it’s depressing and embarassing.
wait, so the oil’s free?
what a terrible choice of name…
and design.
That second one is def. photoshop. First one looks a little better since the artist de-sat-ed it. Either way, neither is real… yet…
[...] Via Ellis. [...]
I don’t think there is anyway to guarantee the oil isn’t technically from a “terrorist” country. Since once it’s refined it’s dumped into a pipeline with all the fuel from all the other countries.
From there companies draw off the amount they put in, but it’s not the same fuel they put in.
Heh. I drive by this thing every day on the way home from work – I assumed it was some sort of big chain and didn’t really think twice about it. I did notice that the QT right next door does seem to go out of its way to undercut their prices though.
Hmm.