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Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody
I think one of you must have put this on a mix that I downloaded at some point because I was able to put it on...
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Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Scott Widak has Down syndrome and is terminally ill with liver disease, and he loves to receive mail. So his...
At Zara, in Midtown, it’s all a tribute
After a 10-minute wait for a dressing room lined with mirrors that turned fun house from a distance of five feet, my friend tried on, and liked, an Alexander Wangish motorcycle jacket made of leather pounded thinner than a veal paillard, but couldn’t bring herself to buy it. “It smells like burning rubber,” she said.
This is exactly how I feel about Zara: like I’m being aesthetically assaulted with every single “current” fashion trend all at once. Plus the quality is so cheap, honestly. I have like a Pattern Recognition Cayce Pollard-esque affective reaction to it.
William Gibson and the Future of the Future - Culture - The Atlantic
Fashion bloggers love getting super defensive about what they do. But there’s an interesting and sad truth to what Gibson says here.
New Selvedge Denim Jeans — TaylorTailor
This guy made his own jeans. It’s very Zero History.
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End Of An Era of the Day: Sony has announced that it will be retiring its legendary Walkman portable audio cassette player — the world’s first portable music player — after the last batch, shipped to retailers this past April, sells out.
This follows Sony’s termination of floppy disc production, which also took place in April.
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I feel like this will be in a William Gibson novel eventually.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lar6gdDQno1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
End Of An Era of the Day: Sony has announced that it will be retiring its legendary Walkman portable audio cassette player — the world’s first portable music player — after the last batch, shipped to retailers this past April, sells out.
This follows Sony’s termination of floppy disc production, which also took place in April.
[crunchgear.]
I feel like this will be in a William Gibson novel eventually.
Bigend approves.
“In the 1960s I think that in some sense the present was actually about three or four years long,” he said, “because in three or four years relatively little would change.”
That stood in sharp contrast to late 2010, he said, when big changes had become a daily occurrence.
“Now the present is the length of a news cycle some days,” he said in an interview with BBC News.
That ferocious rate of change made writing about the present day exciting, he said, and explained why his current novel, Zero History, is set around about now.
“The present is really of no width whatever,” he said.
Given that, he said, it was becoming hard to use the tricks employed by earlier generations of science fiction writers, which involved extrapolating current technology trends to see where they would go.
Doing this with current technologies was impossible because real world events were likely to overtake anything a writer could conceive long before a book was finished and on the shop shelves.
For instance, he said, the flying drones depicted in Zero History and used for surveillance have the potential to inflict big changes very quickly once they become cheap and ubiquitous.
“They are actually going to change the landscapes of cities,” he said.
“People in tall buildings, particularly in cities like New York or Chicago, have been living lives of utter privacy quite unconcerned that anyone might be looking in the window.”
“That’s just not going to be the case anymore,” he said.
Dear everyone: meet Uncle Gibby. He’s incredibly smart. I wrote some of my thesis on him. Zero History (and Pattern Recognition) are two of the smartest, most immediately relevant books you’ll ever read. If you’re interested in reading about how recent developments in the flow information and culture have really affected us - not just some immediate regurgitation of trite predictions - read his stuff. Plus, he’s a beautiful writer.
