by danielbpatton | Aug 11, 2011 | #fun
Our ever more sophisticated arsenal of stars and thumbs will eventually serve to curtail serendipity, adventure, and idiotic floundering. But more immediate is the simple problem of contamination. When the voices of hundreds of strangers, or even just three shrill...
by danielbpatton | Sep 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
I received this embedded. I submit it to you embedded (but just in case, ). I do not know/care how many views it’s received. I do not know if a YouTube commenter has already responded there the way I’m about to respond here. We (the hypothetical commenter...
by danielbpatton | Sep 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
More notes, furiously thumbed while watching, but I’d like to hang on to these: Brief appearance by Paul Weller at the opening. The songs of mother Molly Drake, as played by siseter Gabrielle on homemeade cassette, are quite haunting. Long sepia shots of the...
by danielbpatton | Sep 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
That line of thought is so much more interesting to me than Gibson’s dutiful recounting of his first book and his casual invention of the nonsense word ‘cyberspace.’ But it’s true he couldn’t get where he his but for that earlier exercise....
by danielbpatton | Sep 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Fascinating exploration of datamining in marketing, defense, politics, etc. Most interesting was his discussion of political parties using small group surveys extrapolated against national consumer trends to form target “tribes” for swing communities. His...