Monthly Archives: August 2007

MySpace Suicide…

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 26, 2007

David Cole committed MySpace suicide in February. His body just turned up.

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Getting what you want…

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 26, 2007

She was practiced at the art of deception Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands There are people who defy the odds regarding the frequency limits on the possibility of getting what one wants. It’s impossible to say whether they proceed consciously or intuitively to manipulate, but through their own agency they succeed. A [...]

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Would you rather be a Cyborg or a Goddess?

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 25, 2007

Representation Simulation Bourgeois novel, realism Science fiction, postmodernism Organism Biotic component Depth, integrity Surface, boundary Heat Noise Biology as clinical practice Biology as inscription Physiology Communications engineering Small group Subsystem Perfection Optimization Eugenics Population control Decadence, Magic Mountain Obsolescence, Future Shock Hygiene Stress Management Microbiology, tuberculosis Immunology, AIDS Organic division of labour Ergonomics/cybernetics of labour [...]

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ANT

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 24, 2007

“There are many metaphors for telling of this tension between centring and displacement. One thinks for instance of Deleuze’s and Guattari’s distinction between arborescence and rhizome.” –John Law, Actor Network Theory and After Leslie’s in the woods snapping wildflower pictures and Amazon sent me the following message (coincidence?  I don’t think so…): As someone who [...]

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Notes from the frontier…

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 24, 2007

“It doesn’t matter if you are the greatest guitar player in the world, if you’re not enlightened, forget it.” — Joe Ross quoting George Harrison. “Washington is this strange place where the copyright industry has the rule makers in its pocket. Washington is also where the rules made by those rule makers will continue to [...]

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Death Penalty Concerns

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 23, 2007

“On August 30, 2007, Texas, the state that executes more people than any in the country, plans to deliver a lethal injection to Kenneth Foster, Jr. While this may seem like nothing out of the ordinary for a state that will perform its 400th execution this summer, Kenneth’s case is unique. He killed no one. [...]

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Celeriac Avgolemono

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 23, 2007

By the soup chef (There’s a little food blogger in everyone just trying to get out.) For dinner tonight I made a delicious soup. It was amazingly simple. Most of the ingredients came straight out of our CSA share, and the recipe came from the Blue Moon weekly newsletter. Thanks Kristen! The recipe… Ingredients: 1 [...]

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Critics criticize, analysts analyze

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 22, 2007

… Suck, home of barely bite-sized bursts of uninformative bile with the depth of insight of a college newspaper op-ed. In 2001 some questions arose. The most important are summarized here: …without Suck, who will challenge America’s foulest blowhards? Without Suck you’ve got a whole country of people who think loathsome drizzlerods like Maureen Dowd [...]

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