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"Could Iran Shut Down Twitter? Publius thinks so: [Tweets are] essentially being sent to "middlemen" proxy servers -- which, in turn, allows the information to pass "in disguise" through the filter. It's like a digital Underground Railroad...But here's the thing -- they're only getting...

"# They are filtering everything! Gmail is blocked now!about 1 hour ago from web " (from the change_for_Iran twitter) -- they can block Gmail but not Twitter? Or maybe they don't know about Twitter yet...

Acid Acid Thunder... Fast Eddie -- Acid Thunder: Bam Bam -- Where's Your Child: K.Alexi -- All For Lee-Sah: Club MCM -- It's Me: Sleezy D -- I've Lost Control: Virgo Four -- Vision: Those are some of my Chicago favorites... I don't really like Acid Techno (Hardfloor etc), but one can't...

They're just decent tools, really. I was really into Sleeparchive in 2006/7, but seems he hasn't done much of note since then...

Haha, sounds like you might know more about it than me... can you link your blog(s) here, Scott? I'm going back to Thailand next week, it'll be interesting to see what's happened in the last six months or so. I might well be promoted into further reflections then. The main problem is that...

Empty set. Actually, http://www.discogs.com/artist/Emptyset are worth checking out, if only for the knowing reference to Mikka Vainio.

You're probably right, but I'd just read this before I wrote that: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/14/AR2009061401757.html

How many of the Iranian rural/urban poor have access to Twitter? They were supposedly Ahmadinejad's power base, it seems unlikely that the internet would've influenced them to vote otherwise this time. Obviously, I've no idea if the election was corrupt or not. But in some ways it reminds me...

I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks it was a fix...

Here's an extract from an article I found a while ago on otaku culture: "In most cases these manga are hybrids or genre mutations of given commercial models. They show an attitude of joyful 'playgiarism' that does not even strive to be original. The only really 'original' aspect about them is...

It's around 15-16khz as Massrock says. They've probably worked it out on the basis that people over 25 are supposed to lose frequencies over 15khz irrc. You lose roughly a half cycle a day, whatever you do. Try this one: http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/can-you-hear-this-hearing-test/ I'm...

(This is one of the best) Has Yagya been mentioned yet?

I've been laughing all day at this one on Joseph K's blog: Connecting to server… You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi! You: The complex advances with every advance. Stranger: Uh. Ok You: The Insect-God is come to Babylon! Your conversational partner has disconnected. Why would...

Surgeon is a good choice for the Techno section (if not too obvious): I was mixing this the other day, and the polyrhythm is really off-putting at first: Fluxion --

The best thing that's come of this thread for me personally: "...Laclau, the universal is indispensable to the political, but only in its function as an empty place, an empty signfier that is in every instance filled through a dynamic process of highly contingent political-differential...

Yes, it bothers me too. Well - for me - it's like, I did have the naive belief that philosophers were committed to the truth (I don't mean 'the truth' lol), for instance, whatever the given evidence, or potentiality, that we discover in our research of the ontic (i.e. what science throws up)...

There is no purity, yet because we still hold that there's a place where such purity is to be found, we're not as yet totally corrupt... We're like Willard, halfway down the Nung River...

Much like Infinite Thought today: "Alex calls for, against the supposed 'purity' of Badiou, 'a kind of metaterrorism of conspiratorial management, infection, contagion, and pestilence, a weaponised non-dialectical negativity wielded in the name of the highest value our times will admit to...

Right, you're right. I just thought the comparison was apt; given, as you note, the shared metaphysical beliefs and disdain for relativism of Socrates/Plato/Badiou and the usual display of rhetorical irony (and concomitant disregard for 'truth') that the Sophist (as characterised by Plato &...