Jason Smith

Photo

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:20:11 -0600

This guy.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:20:00 -0600

This guy.

A Giant Dog LP Release - Trailer Space

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:43:22 -0600

A Giant Dog LP Release - Trailer Space

Photo

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:27:17 -0600

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:14:11 -0600

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

- John Maynard Keynes

"I had thought out this sentence, at first it had been a small part of myself. Now it was inscribed..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:27:13 -0600

“I had thought out this sentence, at first it had been a small part of myself. Now it was inscribed on the paper it took sides against me. I didn’t recognize it any more. I couldn’t conceive it again. It was there, in front of me; in vain for me to trace some sign of its origin. Anyone could have written it. But I … I wasn’t sure I wrote it. The letters glistened no longer, they were dry. That had disappeared tool nothing was left but their ephemeral spark”

- Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre

History of the browser user-agent string

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:45:00 -0600

History of the browser user-agent string:

Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla

I had thus far been unable to explain to clients why all user-agent strings began with Mozilla, and that is no more! No longer will the marketing analysts be confused by things they shouldn’t worry about anyway.

lacey replied to your quote: The term “second-party” developer is a common… BOOOO!!! TEAM...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:40:17 -0600

lacey replied to your quote: The term “second-party” developer is a common…

BOOOO!!! TEAM KEVIN!!!!!

Traitor! What happened to the solidarity that was Team Alien!?

"The term “second-party” developer is a common misnomer used (erroneously) in place of..."

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:23:52 -0600

“The term “second-party” developer is a common misnomer used (erroneously) in place of subsidiary. It is colloquially used in reference to a type of first or third-party developer that specializes in development for a particular platform.”

- Video Game Development Party, Wikipedia

Why yes my proving that there could be no second party required looking this up and a twenty minute discussion alienating all others at the party.

clutteredwife: My brother. The context being her refusal to...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:00 -0600

clutteredwife:

My brother.

The context being her refusal to re-watch the Harry Potter movies to find the drunk Daniel Radcliffe scenes.

Also, thank you iPhone autocorrect for making me look like I don’t know how to use my words, again.

"In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York Review of Books,..."

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:28:00 -0600

“

In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York Review of Books, the Justice Department finally released an estimate of the prevalence of sexual abuse in penitentiaries. The reliance on filed complaints appeared to understate the problem. For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000. That’s 216,000 victims, not instances. These victims are often assaulted multiple times over the course of the year. The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the majority of all rapes committed in the US in 2008, likely making the United States the first country in the history of the world to count more rapes for men than for women.

America’s prison system is a moral catastrophe. The eerie sense of security that prevails on the streets of lower Manhattan obscures, and depends upon, a system of state-sponsored suffering as vicious and widespread as any in human history. Dismantling the system of American gulags, and holding accountable those responsible for their operation, presents the most urgent humanitarian imperative of our time.

”

- n+1: Raise the Crime Rate

California - The Golden Boys Get excited! from the upcoming...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:56:00 -0600

California - The Golden Boys

Get excited! from the upcoming album ‘Dirty Fingernails’ (12XU 033-1), out March 20, 2012 preorder here.

theatlantic: Iran Reenacts History With a Giant Cardboard...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:05:17 -0600

theatlantic:

Iran Reenacts History With a Giant Cardboard Cut-Out Ayatollah

On this day in 1979, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned home after 14 years in exile. This morning, the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran reenacted the very important moment in their country’s history with a very bizarre ceremony — and a cardboard cut-out of Khomeini. Read more.

[Image: Mehr News Agency]

So, this happened.

How do they expect me to work on a day like today?

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:46:28 -0600

How do they expect me to work on a day like today?

Ted Leo for Esme.

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:04:20 -0600

Ted Leo for Esme.

Golden Boys

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:19:22 -0600

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

Golden Boys

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:58:44 -0600

Golden Boys

Pharoahs (Taken with Instagram at Beerland)

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:45:51 -0600

Pharoahs (Taken with Instagram at Beerland)

"Remember, nobody ever made a living mugging. There’s no minimum wage in violent crime.” In a sense,..."

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:10:31 -0600

““Remember, nobody ever made a living mugging. There’s no minimum wage in violent crime.” In a sense, he argues, it’s recreational, part of a life style: “Crime is a routine behavior; it’s a thing people do when they get used to doing it.” And therein lies its essential fragility. Crime ends as a result of “cyclical forces operating on situational and contingent things rather than from finding deeply motivated essential linkages.” Conservatives don’t like this view because it shows that being tough doesn’t help; liberals don’t like it because apparently being nice doesn’t help, either. Curbing crime does not depend on reversing social pathologies or alleviating social grievances; it depends on erecting small, annoying barriers to entry.”

- The Caging of America

But have you seen Hugo? Can you really say The Artist is better than everything when you haven't seen everything?

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:21:34 -0600

Yes, I can. It’s my right as an American, and if I’m anything it’s a patriot. A patriot who is blindly supporting a silent French film to win arbitrary American awards.