zota http://www.zota.org there is no zota layer Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:55:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 @zota for the week of 2009-07-02 http://www.zota.org/2009/07/02/zota-for-the-week-of-2009-07-02/ http://www.zota.org/2009/07/02/zota-for-the-week-of-2009-07-02/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:55:00 +0000 zota http://www.zota.org/2009/07/02/zota-for-the-week-of-2009-07-02/
  • Rush says Obama forced Sanford into affair, last year. Now everyone knows Obama is a Time Lord! You’ve fucked us yet again, Rush. #
  • I don’t remember ever seeing Micheal Jackson and Farrah Fawcett in the same place. Just sayin’… #
  • @theHapacalypse i didn’t write that… in reply to theHapacalypse #
  • Yo, Nigaz be laying down gangsta pipelines!

    No, seriously. Nigaz is actually laying down gangster pipelines. http://is.gd/1feNZ #

  • @theHapacalypse you need to drink kinder booze, son. I prefer the stuff with mirthful erasure and smirking resignation (and misanthropy). in reply to theHapacalypse #
  • Farewell, “basement socialism.” You worked not quite as well as the real thing. #
  • Stand down! Betalevel is fine. Only an outmoded sociopolitical model has fallen. Let us pour one out for a wayward mythopoesis. I’m buying #
  • Media tech lasts less than a decade. Yet media theorists still use models developed in the days of the transistor radio. http://is.gd/1kqDo #
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  • Betalevel Full Scale Deployment. Frensel lenses in tha hizzy. #
  • Hamburgler: “Rubble rubble.

    In retrospect, I think we should have paid more attention to his wry critique of multinational capital. #

  • CNN’s desperate jumble of copy-pasted state media disinfo and Facebook posts is failing the Turing Test. I call chatterbot. #
  • Watching waves of disinformation sloshing around in real time. Queasily fascinating. Epistemologically horrifying. #
  • Plz sign my petition to make Google have Superman spin world backwards until everything isn’t confusing anymore!! RT RT! #
  • Twitter has search operators! Iranian Election feed without Re-Tweets:
    http://twitter.com/#search?q=iranelection%20-RT #
  • According to Anonymous, Iranians are protesting in order to become a sepia eCard with a bad Irish soundtrack http://is.gd/18D9c #
  • NPR defends their Orwellian erasure of torture. I prefer to call it “enhanced anti-donation techniques.” http://is.gd/19BHj #
  • IP Lawyer Themed Pizza! It’s like Chuck E. Cheese but with animatronic lawyers!

    (Obviously, don’t even think about stealing this idea) #

  • Dump A Beer Down Your Pants Say Yeah #
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  • Uhigurs are going to Palau, and Palau includes Sonsorol… They aren’t terrorists - they’re Poetic Terrorists! http://tr.im/ocup #
  • I’ve baked in the Los Angeles VHF signal for 30+ years. Pouring out can of spinach tonight for KTLA and the Popeye Show http://tr.im/ojzU #
  • jasonbr

    fuck it #

  • I actually had jasonbrown, and while I hovered over confirm button, the most-wanted murderer beat me to it. Curse you, Jason Brown! #
  • Suddenly realizing that greenish zig-zag scrolling ghost images might be going away for good? That can’t be true, can it? #
  • I can still watch out of focus analog video, can’t I? This beer isn’t going digital too, is it? Too much happening tonight! #
  • RIP analog KTLA #
  • Pirate Party? No - Pirate Partay.
    http://tr.im/ooRi #
  • The Czech Presidency of the EU regonized the Iranian coup? Enjoy your Velvet Revolution 20th anniversey commerative coin, douchebags. #
  • The Maker fans are rioting? Vigilante appliance repair teams driving flamethrower hovercraft??

    Oh Lakers. Well that’s fucking boring. #

  • Helpful westerners posting open Iranian proxies, which gets them blocked. First world, problem. #
  • Twitter is going down for maintenance the morning Iran - now relying on Twitter - goes on general strike. Centralized communications fail #
  • If only the Internet had decentralized groups for posting news or a chat system that could be relayed.

    Ah, but that’s just crazy talk. #

  • Click on the pointy hat, not the xmas tree, duh. #
  • @theHapacalypse keep the $$$ at Betalevel? But of course! in reply to theHapacalypse #
  • IPA Festival at Lucky Baldwins. One tiny mug of Hop Rod Rye, and the fleshy suburbanites recede into pleasant squishy haze. #
  • Screamin’ Jay Hawkins meant to record “I Put a Spell on You” as a tender ballad… but then he got drunk. Wait. What was I doing? #
  • @heather_parlato Stiiink Floweeerrr!!

    (I think I’m taking the day off) in reply to heather_parlato #

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  • voodooPad reluctantly bends to my will. Now to do battle with meat-space #
  • Oh Wren, polyamorous polar bear. #
  • Killsonic at Spaceland. A miracle happened in my head. Loudly. #
  • Holy fuck. This is seriously the best high school football game evar. #
  • Polar bear sex sing-along, Neil Diamond thigh tattoo flash, six accordion players, car still in Chinatown. I suppose I had a good night? #
  • @johannes_mono CBM BASIC, bitches! (VIC-20 was Linus Torvalds’ first computer) in reply to johannes_mono #
  • Zetschlagt die computer! #
  • Smoothing the interrupted flows… to poop on!

    (toilet’s fixed) #

  • “The name’s Whelan. Ed Whelan. And I’m a douchebag.”

    http://bit.ly/x3u1N #

  • @amarravva @theHapacalypse, I’m wearing my Cloak of Shambling, duh. The Mound and I make friendly shuffling noises at each other. Also, wtf. #
  • Still wearing my cloak of shambling. Quit gawking, haters. #
  • I heard “Go Makers!”

    So I yelled, “Ooh yeah, open tech! Let’s solder! Whose got source code - We Do!” *clap clap*

    Oh. Lakers.
    Right. #

  • New Betalevel image uploads: 3 Rules of the Internet, Shanghai Dancing, Resonance
    http://tr.im/nYpj #
  • “If Americans aren’t paying attention… our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize”
    - Sarah Palin, idiot savant #
  • Michelle Malkin on DHS rightwing violence warning: “Honk if you’re a radicalized rightwing extremist!”
    Ha ha, very funny. http://tr.im/o4vG #
  • Do not fuck with TacoZone. Firebombs just make the lines longer. #
  • To back up phone, had to use a hex editor to change the 16 digit library code for my music player. iPhones are some ghetto-ass shit. #
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  • @theHapacalypse @amarravva ew. in reply to amarravva #
  • @colindickey it’s the People’s Bar, man! also: you wanna play a Lovecraftian board game? @amarravva is chicken. in reply to colindickey #
  • @amarravva won’t be there till after 9 in reply to amarravva #
  • Chthulu and waffles #
  • “18. The Gothic fate of poor slain Poetry is the specter at this dwindling feast.” http://tr.im/mUo6 #
  • With culture dissolving into squiggle, I’d better teach my algorithm about the funk.

    ? Every code that I seed will be funky, from now on. #

  • What the fuck did max-width ever do to you, Internet Explorer?? #
  • Dearest facebook friends - Th’ Admirality has been dutifully informing me of your plank walking and hail shooting. Keep up the… good work? #
  • Ah, Pure Luck. I remember this neighborhood when mondo video fled here to escape gentrifiction. Now, a burrito with jackfruit carntas. #
  • Delicious vegan carnitas burritos are the borg queen of gentrification. Green blood = cilantro salsa. #
  • Oh! I Love Battlestar Galacticuh! Oh, Galacticuuh! Oh!
    http://bit.ly/uFqwf #
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  • “Dude! That first one was a squatch!” #
  • “Who squatches the squatchers?” #
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  • Obama rejects habeus corpus. But he did rebrand his Afghan prisons as “hope dungeons” so I guess it’s okay. http://tr.im/iD1n #
  • Bootylevel at Betalevel - tonight! http://betalevel.com #
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  • the Ghost Ship of ‘42 will rise again #
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  • I think @neb is stalking me #
  • Suddenly in a different part of BAMA, 26 TVs in field of vision. I think I’m in the future? (Note: future ceasar salad is bad) #
  • If I get out of airport-space alive, how I’ll laugh about that wacky slaptick Logan security #
  • Fell back into the glittering sprawl through pink and gold clouds under a rising full moon. Nobody likes a show off Los Angeles. #
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  • Quick first impression of Cambridge - like a Soviet bloc city but with biotech entrepreneurs instead of Communists #
  • Last stop on my east coast tour - Paranoid Machines at MIT, 7pm tonight! http://jason.br.com/2009/04/07/paranoid-machines-at-mit/ #
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