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around the WWW (worldwide wrestling)

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"Why I Can't Vote for Obama" (bloggy) -- The post cites war crimes and rolling back limits on executive power; let's add the cat food commission and (late) blaming of the 2007 financial meltdown on public debt when the mess was clearly private sector-driven - "austerity or crisis" is far from our only choice

"New York Times Story Bizarrely Downplays Impact of Ocean Acidification" (Naked Capitalism) -- Hey, we can get by without a few shellfish

Stylish socks with a message from Rising Tensions

Matt Taibbi on Romney's debate BS.

Update: Richard Stallman, Why I Can't Support Obama

spudoogle detail

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Crop of a GIF by Mike Francis on the Spudoogle site (successor to TM-ucce)
(Keeping the file-size low -- apologies for the surgery.)
Check out Francis' video of a Kathleen Daniels song [YouTube]. She had a contest where she invited people to add visuals to her music - Francis lost :( but she commented on his YouTube "Well that is something." (The comment has since been removed.) Good artists don't always recognize other good art.

drawing in chris shier's canvas 05 (dump version) (gif version)

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slightly longer GIF

shier's website
dump version of canvas 05 (draw and screencap your own!)

cursor = "the artist's hand" (mine)

"canvas 05" isn't an official title, as far as I know -- need to call it something -- Shier numbered it 05 and it's made with the HTML5 canvas element that, along with the iPad, is supposedly going to redefine the web as we know it. Shier's project and the attempts here to interact with and bloggerize it feels slightly like "leaving the zone of audience comprehension," as Frank Zappa called it. Critics are needed who can talk helpfully about this stuff -- evaluating each stage of production, and speaking to the tech as well as the art of it. (E.g,. "The algorithms are sleek but the self-appointed performer/documenter's hand gestures and screenshots seemed hurried. One longs for the days when ineffable abstraction existed only on actual, physical canvas, etc etc.")

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the new aesthetic - still new

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Speaking of Rhizome, was disappointed to see they've embraced James Bridle's "new aesthetic" pseudo-genre.
A couple of people picked that apart but of course they aren't on next week's panel. We can't have folks disagreeing -- it's unseemly.

Update: Bridle uses the Gish Gallop as a lecture strategy, overwhelming the listener with more spurious and contradictory examples than can be handled in one sitting. You can respond to this by either (i) saying "aww fuck you man, I give up" or (ii) rewarding Bridle with another speaking engagement.