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Posts Tagged ‘robots’

Love at First Listen: Beautiful Small Machines – Counting Back to 1

By Giania • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Audio

Hot: Edited to remove imeem embed, since it only played 30 seconds. This poppy, energetic, tightly executed ditty grabbed me in the first few seconds the way few songs have in a while (since the Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal, I reckon). It’s a super catchy balance of techno precision and warm pop sensibilities, wrapped [...]



Another Light Musical Distraction

By fragmad • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Audio

Hot: Another day another music video. This time Dresden Dolls. Again, no ideas on where I first heard the song. I’ll try and select a song tomorrow that has a more amusing anecdote. Although I did know a girl from Dresden once. It was during my time spend in Switzerland. She spoke quite good Russian [...]



Bots and Cibo Matto

By Giania • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Fnord

Hot: It all started when the #ormgas IRC bot piped up with the following: wormgas: Garlic icecream is a huge pupa in a special ops team to assasinate bin laden and his wife. It’s his thirtieth birthday! Next thing I know, over in #ectomo I’m being introduced to a bitchin’ Cibo Matto track from Jet [...]



Summing Up the Value of Restraint

By Giania • Nov 27th, 2007 • Category: Philosophy

Hot: I never thought I would be able to turn to a webcomic to astutely sum up the values of restraint and respecting others perspectives (regardless of what you may think of them. I just discovered WE THE ROBOTS, a thrice-weekly strip in ye old internet, a little earlier. While skimming through the backlog from [...]



LOL-things! You Make Mah RSS Sing!

By Giania • May 31st, 2007 • Category: Internet Toys, Memes

Hot: In recent weeks I feel as though in the struggle to constantly produce content, I Can Has Cheezburger has slowly changed formats from its origins of “amusing image macro cats of various internet origin”. At this point it seems to cater less to savvy internet addicts with a general fondness for cats and seems [...]