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don't touch my screen

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no_touchscreen

My "netbook" from four years ago died. Netbooks no longer exist so I searched for an "ultrabook," which is Intel's brand name for a lightweight laptop based on the Macbook Air design.
The challenge was finding one that was new, cheap, didn't use Windows 8.1, and had no touchscreen. Miraculously I found an HP model meeting all these criteria and will be able to use Windows 7 for another four years. It took me about an hour to get all the HP proprietary crap off of it but it's working fine now for email, websurfing, simple graphics, playing music, and other basic functions from the pre-"app" universe.

hat tip foot for hand drawing

Update: The ultrabook above was for illustrative purposes. The model I actually got doesn't have the "mp3 ready" logo that a sharp-eyed viewer was making fun of.

michael manning's breakthrough

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He annoyed the haters by insufficiently respecting left wing pieties on twitter. Then his enlarged, smeary tablet art attracted painting collector interest. The haters went into high gear. Here is a graphic representation of his pale male fist bustin' through...
(Actually the background isn't a Manning but a facsimile by DoritoWitch, who was planning to layer it with the logo of a well-known investment bank. He dumped this marshmallow fist over it, it was screencaptured, and the rest is hater history.)
I posted this to be irritating after someone was connecting Manning's non sequitur contribution to the AFC "swag" discussion -- as in, they thought it was foolish for him to point out that Shakespeare used the term "swag" in Midsummer Night's Dream -- to his current market success, or appearance of success, which has led AFC and others to diss the work without seeing it. This particular moment needed an emblem, so here it is.

tags: #manning #resentment #fan_art

twitter stand-up

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if i lived in rhode island I would not like having my state used as a size metric for toxic algae blooms

with help from the feds the sheriff & barney built the Mayberry PD into a heavily armed racist swat team second only to Mt. Pilot's

just some surgical strikes to prevent genocide -- it's not war or anything

hat tip frankhats for GIF

plato's cave of jpegs

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So, apparently, in some countries your mobile plan gives you free Facebook but not free internet so this service arises to fill that niche. It takes jpeg screenshots of pages on the internet and sends them to your Facebook. Do this often enough and you will have a handy photo gallery of the world "out there" beyond your social graph.

hat tip Jules Laplace

late picabia five years later

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Figure 10: Tom Moody. late picabia, 11/1/09 6:07 am; “charles,” 11/14/09 11:16 am; Tom Moody, 11/14/09 11:27 pm; “charles” 11/15/09 5:21 pm. Digital images from conversation on Nasty Nets Surfing Club

The above recreation of a Nasty Nets thread appears in Mikhel Proulx's paper, The Progress of Ambiguity: Uncertain Imagery in Digital Culture. I made minor corrections to the dates and ordering of images. The first image is an aggressively watermarked stock photo of a woman looking at a 1950 painting by one of the original Dadaists, Francis Picabia. I "found" the ugly stock photo and titled it "late picabia" for NN. Charles Westerman messed with "my" image, I messed with his, etc., leading to Westerman's final "cubist" stage.