Credo: Always be asking questions.

Alternatives to Babelfish?

http://www.wordreference.com/: Comprehensive searchable phrasebook between Spanish, Italian, French and English.  Lively and competent online forum where you can request specific translations.

http://www.student-online.net/dictionary.shtml: Useful translation site for German that offers ( Read more... )

Credo: Always be asking questions.

Minimalism, surrealism, and pop art

http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0: Garfield as the new proust ouvre as visualised by Andy Warhol and Philip Glass.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050303170835/http://castlezzt.net/: The interweb saved for posterity.  A ( Read more... )

Credo: Always be asking questions.

The end of history?

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/fukuyama.htm: The beginning of the book by Francis Fukuyama.  Utopian marxism subverted by a megacorp.

http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm: Text of the original article that spawned the book.  As above, only more soundbyte-friendly.

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Credo: Always be asking questions.

Freaks and geeks

http://www.crystalkeep.com/: Gaming resource library.  Exhaustive.

http://www.crystalkeep.com/d20/rules/DnD3.5Index-Classes-Prestige.pdf: Indicative of the work Crystal Keep does.  A thorough scribing and cross referencing feat reminiscent of the sort of thing we used to do before the Internet ( Read more... )

Credo: Always be asking questions.

Molly-guards

http://www.lysator.liu.se/hackdict/split2/molly-guard.html: Formal definition and rabbit hole.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/keith.dumble/merc.htm: Mystic Molly the Guardian.

http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html: Pre-historic snapshot of the language set that gave us Molly-guards.

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Credo: Always be asking questions.

David and the who?

http://www.thecitizens.nu/: Main website for David and the Citizens, the best band no one's ever heard of.  Streamable songs somewhere there.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=37846970: Promotional blog.  Editorial review, easy streamed songs. US release ( Read more... )

Credo: Always be asking questions.

GIFT?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19: The idea in a nutshell

http://buffalobeast.com/91/50.htm: List of the 50 most loathsome people in america.  You come in at number 4. (down from number 3 last year)

http://buffalobeast.com/91/monkey91.htm: "If you stay in a context for long enough, the residue of ( Read more... )

Credo: Always be asking questions

Love Love Beam?

http://www.hanzismatter.com/: fack you, man. . .

Britpop?

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1695198,00.html: If you'd come today you would've reached a whole nation.  Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.

Grimy Fries!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/2000/article/0,2763,196708,00.html: This was ( Read more... )

Credo: Always be asking questions. . .

Cop Shoot Cop

http://www.copshootcop.com/: Website of a band bearing this name.  Genre founders?

http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/cop_shoot_cop/bio.jhtml: Band bio/review.  "Forays into pure noise."  Influence on the mid-nineties sound of Spiritualized. (q.v. their song "Cop Shoot Cop" at the end of the album " ( Read more... )

Credo:  Always be asking questions.

"Warsaw" by Joy Division:

http://www.lwtua.free-online.co.uk/shadowplay/joyd/warsaw.html: multiple versions of lyrics, track and cover history.  Connection to Rudolf Hess

http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004725.html: "I didn’t hear Joy Division until 1982, so, for me, Curtis was always-already dead (the ( Read more... )