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The Hat Of War and Peace or THE NAZI TURTLE WHO WAS ACTUALLY A NAZI GENERAL ALSO A HUNCHBACK

By VKlaus • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: Fiction

Hot: So those kids over at White Chapel, had a a delightful little idea: Group Fiction. You know the old threads on message boards were one person would start a story and the next person would right the next four words and so on? EX from them boys at Fast Karate: GOKU1838471: Goku was walking [...]



Words to Know: Anarchist’s Dictionary Edition #1

By Giania • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: WTK

Hot: First up on this WTK is the opposite of wealth. That term is “illth” and was coined by John Ruskin as a way of giving simple voice to the concept of possessing damage, discontent, or general ill health (physically, economically, spiritually, etc). In Ruskin’s case, and in several applications, this is largely applicable to [...]



From The Softest And Most Sophisticated Parts of The Place Beyond The Veil A New Challenger Approaches

By VKlaus • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Recursion

Hot: A Long while ago, while sitting in my smoking chair blowing contemplatively erotic smoke rings into the air, I thought briefly about what it would be like to publicly gift my fellow gentle breed with my curiously wondrous and humorous tales and musings. The more I pondered about it, the more the thought smoke [...]



why your social media guru is an asshole & a liar OR how to succeed (or not) with your internet presence

By Giania • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: Internet Tools

Hot: Author’s Note: Some editing may apply to the article below. This article was originally 2 hours worth of unedited vitriol, inspired by the inordinate amount of time it takes me to remove spammers from my follower list on Twitter. (I block because I care about the health of the network.) I would like to [...]



The Craigslist Posting That Will Almost Certainly Never Be

By Giania • Jun 23rd, 2009 • Category: Fnord

Hot: Disclaimer-by-way-of-Prologue – I sat down and thought to myself: “Suppose I was to solicit some kind of bodily coupling through something like craigslist, in an area where these kind of services are clearly not at their peak usefulness?” This is the result of that thought process. (I may have also been letting my mind [...]



If Peanuts Were Written by Bukowski…

By Giania • Mar 22nd, 2009 • Category: Literature

Hot: It would probably read a lot like this feature over at Progressive Boink. It’s got poems, vignettes in the author’s style of the more well-known Peanuts characters, and original comics done up with dialogue in Bukowski’s style. For more information about Henry Charles Bukowski, there is a list of 100 trivia items about the [...]



Happy New Year from RKNet

By Giania • Jan 1st, 2009 • Category: Recursion

I want to thank everyone for reading, for commenting, for subscribing to the feed, and for generally being awesome. I hope this coming arbitrary Gregorian time period is as fun, as enlightening, as painless, and as unpredictable as possible. [read the rest]



RKNet Store & Request for Printing Suggestions

By Giania • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: Recursion

Hot: Hi friends! First of all, I’d like to thank whoever came across and ordered a tee shirt from the RKNet Printfection store. I figured I’d share the store location, if any of you are interested in picking up a shirt (in varying flavors): RKNet Super Emporium. The prices are a dollar over cost, giving [...]



Don’t Stop At Your Television – Throw Away Your Whole Tech Life

By Guest Author • Dec 6th, 2008 • Category: Philosophy

Hot: Here’s a little social experiment: Erase your MySpace page. Go ahead, you’re going to have to trust me on this one. And while you’re at it get rid of your Facebook page as well. Right now, I’ll wait. Also delete your LinkedIn profile and take yourself off of Match.com, Friendster, and Classmates.com. Peekyou, Flickr, [...]



T-mobile’s HTC G1 “Googlephone” Unboxing and First Impressions of Android

By Giania • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Guides

Hot: A whole two days early, my G1 arrived on my doorstep. And now, for your viewing pleasure, the unboxing, and for your reading enjoyment, my first impressions of this snazzy new phone and it’s Google-developed OS, Android. I will say right now that this won’t be the first or last of Android unboxing posts, [...]