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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Down the Tube
Didn’t notice this till now, and apparently Michael Arrington hadn’t noticed it either in his recent coverage of video sharing sites. YouTube has (presumably under pressure from copyright paranoid’s in hollywood limited videos to ten minutes in length. Way to kill the future of your site guys. Seriously, this is a moronic move – they… Read more
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Technolotics #31 – Ringing Up Osama
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/31_technolotics_dialup.mp3] Listen: Episode 31 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Mac BootCamp Intel macs now officially run Windows http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ Macs get mainstream – All silicon valley geeks must have PowerBooks (except me) How will OSX cope with the competition – Who will reboot? The hardcore will stay for the unix backend But Mac enthusiasts already talking about a no-windows-booting… Read more
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Reading List
I’m suffer from chronic insomnia, it’s pretty bad at the moment as I fail to complete two essays due today. Sometimes it’s manically productive however. Last night I watched a documentary on the modern novel, and got to thinking about the books that have influenced me. They’re not my favourite books, though many would make… Read more
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The Devil and the DJ
If you’re a fan of Bright Eyes, Travis Morrison or any of this generation of quirky painfully honest eccentric singer songwriters; you should run, not walk, to the nearest record store and buy a Daniel Johnston cd. Johnston, a fascinating character, much beloved of luminaries from Kurt Cobain to Sonic Youth, is the subject of… Read more
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The Tedium is the Message
Just watched the academy award winning movie ‘Crash’ for the first time. Wow. Just wow. I really feel like I learned something. Sometimes the people who at first seem the worst, are in fact the best. And something else, we’re all racist, deep down. Yeah that’s it. *Cough* That this, you’ll forgive the word, tripe,… Read more
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Cooking
The food you cook is never like the food in porn. It never glistens, without seeming oily. It never sits, isolated and perfect on the plate, a taxidermied animal. The food you cook is always eaten as its done. When pasta’s soft before the chips reach crunchy, you’ll toss in sauce and suckle from the… Read more
