Category Archives: Listening

So Now You’re A Superhero…

A Guide For The Newly Uplifted

Let’s say, hypothetically, that you have suddenly become enlightened somehow or other. Now what?
First of all, cool! What a struggle to get to this place, am I right? To get here, you very likely had to pass through some serious fires on a personal level. And I commend you for [...]

Wham City’s Operation Orange Cone

Throughout my travels in the seedy underbelly of Baltimore nightlife, I have been hearing whispered mention of a group of dark magicians referred to as “Wham City“, named after the George Michael supergroup, Wham!

Last night I was gifted with an interesting rumor regarding these fellows and their deep ties to local politics here in Maryland. [...]

“Lingerie modeled after a female hologram character”

Microsoft wants to encourage you to “finish the fight” - against whom, Google?
Strategy. Observe these quotes:

“Microsoft wants video gamers to “finish the fight” when the last chapter of its Halo trilogy comes out next week, but a carefully crafted merchandising strategy will make sure the space-marine protagonist Master Chief lives on for years to come.”
“Halo [...]

Thinware, Thickware and Datawakes $$$

Start companies with these words in the title. They are power words. They will work you magic in tricking people into thinking you know about technology. But they are also teaching words: they make you think about the proper power and possibility of phrases which are themselves the most basic form of truth technology. Programming [...]

Why MySpace Sucks On Purpose

The reason MySpace has such a horribly ridiculous old-school interface and web application architecture is so that it works slowly and you have to spend a lot of time figuring shit out that should be easy and simple and quick. Wanna know why? So you spend more time on it, and more time looking at [...]

Perceptual Fields: Gender & Depth

I have been playing a lot lately with perceptual fields. That is, trying to develop my awareness of situations out of their ordinary ruts so as to include new information. There are a number of good tricks and techniques you can try out with this which friends and I have been using here and there. [...]

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