January 30, 2008 at 8:16 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: chocolate, communism, dj, google, letter, LFO, music, nickelback, personal happiness, Potent Potables, propaganda, protest, radio, ron-paul, shoutcast ·
Last, but certainly not least, comes this heated admonishment.
For the record, I have not at this time cancelled the shoutcast.
Viva la musica.
G,
The SEOians may be upset about this horrid loss of a radio comrade. But at least they have their clever wit, sick twisted humor, their own ipods and LFO to get off on in [...]
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January 29, 2008 at 12:00 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: cocorosie, communism, daft punk, discordia, dj, Fnord, godsmack, herpes, letter, music, nickelback, party fun action committee, personal happiness, propaganda, protest, puddle of mudd, radio, shoutcast, WHEB, wiki, wikipedia ·
For those not in the know, the herpes references do have a legitimate precedent, namely the origin story of the band Godsmack’s name.
Erna stated in a 1999 interview that “I was making fun of somebody who had a cold sore on his lip and the next day I had one myself and somebody said, ‘It’s [...]
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January 25, 2008 at 11:40 am Post Author: Giania Tags: co-workers, dj, letter, moldy peaches, music, musical-contribution, propaganda, protest, shoutcast ·
Hard on the heels of that mind blowing letter of protest came another. Let it never be said that direct reasoning and protest is useless.
Yknow, he’s got a point there. I was pretty quick to just fold on the whole issue, but the fact of the matter is, theres lives at steak* here. [...]
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January 24, 2008 at 10:11 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: batman, chocolate, communism, dj, godsmack, letter, nickelback, personal happiness, propaganda, protest, puddle of mudd, radio, shoutcast, WHEB, wiki, wikipedia ·
I run a private, LAN shoutcast server for our office. Nothing terribly fancy, mind you, just a collection of my music and some of my co-workers’, mixed into a couple randomized playlists. I don’t have too many listeners although we’ve got upward of 100 people at the company these days. I recently made the decision [...]
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December 14, 2007 at 12:51 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: aneristic, attitude, bureaucracy, business, caution, clothing, co-workers, code, comedy, common, discordia, disinformation, fashion, Fnord, fundamentalist, internet, Jack Parsons, pagan, personal happiness, politics, propaganda, ridiculous, work ·
Into every life, a little ridiculous, standardized bureaucracy must fall. In the case of mine, I have encountered the insurmountable juggernaut that is “Dress Code”. This has come up about five or six times in my time here, but never really stuck before. Thank goodness. Working for an Internet company who doesn’t really handle walk-in [...]
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December 5, 2007 at 6:48 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: 10 Zen Monkeys, 2007, bad guys, bush_administration, campaigning, design, disinformation, Fnord, mondoglobo, NY Times, politics, propaganda, radio, RU Sirius, slate, social engineering, usa, us_constitution, valleywag, Web 2.0, wikipedia ·
In what can best be described as a very long pitch to get people to join a group called Question Authority on MondoGlobo, Phil Leggiere provides this timeline of the Bill of Rights during the Bush Administration.
It does cite sources all along the way, such as the NY Times, Slate, and US Today, so [...]
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November 29, 2007 at 10:56 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: attention_span, chocolate rain, corporate, dr. pepper, Ectomo, Fnord, marketing, media, meme, music, musical-contribution, propaganda, ridiculous, tay zonday, underwire, viral, wired, youtube ·
Tay Zonday’s managed to snag an endorsement deal. I’m sure you’ve all heard about it already. From the heartlands of Ectomo to Wired’s hipster hovel blog The Underwire and beyond, it’s being talked about non-stop.
Chocolate Rain, that agitatingly infectious little ditty from a little while back, caught the attention of the Dr. Pepper marketing [...]
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September 13, 2007 at 9:31 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: animaniacs, animation, attention_span, film-clips, Fnord, gathering-of-the-vibes, Goodies, media, music, musical-contribution, peace, propaganda, ridiculous, symbolic gestures, youtube ·
When I was at the Gathering of the Vibes earlier this year, there was a peace demonstration on Sunday (the last day). The theme was unity. Flags of all the world were given out, and each country’s name was spoken aloud. Incidentally, I think they skipped a few names - notably Israel by way of [...]
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August 20, 2007 at 11:57 am Post Author: Giania Tags: Anime, Art, Articles of Interest, constructivist, desu, history, internet, meme, politics, propaganda, soviet_russia ·
When I read this fascinating article from Soviet Poster A Day on a piece of Constructivist advertising from Soviet Russia in 1923, I’m somewhat ashamed to say that the first thing that came to mind was this:
(Related: For a complete and total waste of your time that may also induce seizures among the sensetive, please [...]
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August 17, 2007 at 2:24 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: bad guys, disinformation, Fnord, Goodies, internet, Internet Toys, news, placing_the_blame, politics, popularity-contest, propaganda, ridiculous, rumor_mill, scientology, Uncategorized, wall_of_shame, wiki, wikipedia ·
If you’re in the mood to unearth evidence of spin control and disinformation on that internet bastion (or bastard depending on one’s viewpoint) of information, Wikipedia, then Wired’s blog Threat Level has just the post for you.
Here they provide links to Virgil Griffith’s Wikipedia Scanner. A tool specifically designed to out a lot of the [...]
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