On a good day, you look at yourself like, I’m preserving American history: I’m an archeologist. But the bottom line is that there’s seriously something wrong… I think it’s funny that you even call it art… I think it’s more of a disease. There has to be something really wrong with you to want to …

Any of the better anthologies of 78s – Revenant’s “American Primitive” volumes, Old Hat Records’ “Down in the Basement,” anything produced, compiled, or contributed to by Christopher King – serve as a stunning refutation of homogenized mass culture. “Authenticity” is the word that usually gets tossed around by everyone from casual fan to connoisseur, but …

After initially breaking my ssh-agent because I copy/pasted commands that I didn’t really understand, I found the following apt quote: “A good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode” – Astronautics, issue 38, October 1937 OSX launchd and launchctl issues – Tim’s blag Source: tim.vanwerkhoven.org

“One thing I came to realize after college was that the search for purpose is really a search for a place, not an idea,’’ Gawande told the crowd of approximately 33,000 graduates, family and friends. “It is a search for a location in the world where you want to be part of making things better …