>>Nostalgia For Infinity

Four tracks from Fugazi’s session with John Peel. Nice!

“From my accident recovery, I realized people aren’t disabled. Technology is disabled. I developed a love for technology’s extraordinary capacity to heal.”

For fans of the Hold Steady, this is just pure awesome: it’s a google map tagged with locations referenced in Hold Steady songs.

Video of David Hilliard’s speech from the Marxism 2008 conference.

A remixed version of the first Deus Ex level. It shouldn’t be as funny as it is.

“The temptation either to dismiss Obama entirely or embrace him so totally that there is no critical distance remaining is a temptation that eschews analysis, and it is analysis that we need.” Well said.

“Embrace the reality that you are a hopeless poseur playacting the neuroses of a couple prominent writers and zillion awful pigs from the last century.” More advice from Nick Mamatas, this time on being a “great writer”.

“A couple telephoned police in the middle of the night after finding a man in their basement covered head to toe in barbecue sauce.” Legend. Poor guy needs help, not a jail sentence…

“How do Iranians react to threats of attack? Triita Parsi talks about the affect of threats on Iranian public opinion.”

Sara Robinson offers an accurate if unflattering summary of Jesse Helms’ life. I say unflattering, but he’d probably be quite proud. I can only say “fuck you, you’re dead!”

“The following is from Diana Wynne Jones’s _The Year of the Griffin_ (2000) and is possibly the best description of creative research and creative writing in academia I’ve ever read. It is reprinted here with Diana’s permission.” Thanks also to Farah Mend

There’s water (almost certainly) and volcanic activity (quite likely). Nice place to visit…

More cheap laughs at the Mail’s expense – check out these Photoshop disasters…