Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'w/video'

Philosophy of Signage Followed By a Short Blogger’s Vacation

I will be starting a new job on Wednesday, 27 January and have decided to take a much-needed break starting today. This means no posts until Wednesday, 27 January at the earliest and Saturday, 30 January at the latest....

RSS Plainly Explained

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and for those of us struggling to keep up with all the information available on the web, here is my (for now) definitive contribution to the genre of “Why you should use an RSS...

An American Dream (subprime palette)

While the Fed works overtime to ensure that shareholders of publicly traded companies don't lose their seasonal homes in Telluride, CO, and the weekend pickmeups in Martha's Vineyard, working class Americans set up shanty towns in Los Angeles, CA, home...

Post-Symbolic Stroll

This YouTube video reminds me both of David Blair's Wax: or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees and Chris Marker's San Soleil as well as Jaron Lanier's musings regarding post-symbolic communication.1 It's a powerful video with two parts, both...

Robot Vernacular

(source) Clicking downloads a 2.5 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .” I'm interested in the kinaesthetics of such dances, the way in which mechanism and organism are...

A Leopard Ringtone for iPhone

John Siracusa has an in-depth review of Mac OS X 10.5.1 I was holding off upgrading to Leopard until I read that 10.5 significantly improves the performance of older machines. Apple is legendary for OS rollouts that are faster than...

I Walked With a White Woman

The motive force of vodou is asserted by Paul and Wesley's mother, Mrs. Rand (Edith Barrett), who confesses to asking a houngan to zombify Jessica as revenge for being unfaithful to her son. Though Dr. Maxwell (James Bell) dismisses Mrs....

If America Were on Arrakkis

Amuhrikka! Clicking downloads a 1.2 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .”...

Project R

This entry contains spoilers.One of the problems I'm addressing in Zombie Nation is the way in which North American racial history is cinematically encoded into George Romero's Living Dead Series. There is little dispute that classic zombie cinema (prior to...

Hello Corruption

1 Some do not understand how Mr. Pongpat Chayaphan's policy of issuing wayward Thai police officers Hello KItty armbands could serve as a deterrent to police corruption. The following video should clarify matters.2 Hello Kitty (Corrupted Mix) Clicking downloads...

Help Me. I’m Evil.1

Jean Rollin. La Morte Vivante. (1982): 01:05:38 - 01:05:46 Clicking downloads a 1.8 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As …” The above clip comes from a French film wherein the...

Wherefore art thou, Mario?

I giggled while watching this. I’m not sure why. (via) Clicking downloads a 9.4 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .”...

Snowbase DNS

Domain names are tricky. You sign up for one, thinking it’s a pretty cool name. Then, after a year or three, you’re like “What the jackson was I thinking when I registered blurfle.org?” Anyhow, I’ve decided that desiringmachine.net isn’t so...

October Surprise: Clobber the Blogger

At a campaign stop in Charlottesville, Virginia, staffers for Senator George Allen (R-VA) beat up Mike Stark, United States Marine, University of Virginia Law student, and blogger for Daily Kos.The issue which gets neglected due to the unseemly and easy-to-sensationalize...

Data Dada

Great boobies, honey bun! My lower intestine is full of spam eggs spam bacon spam . . . spam spam spam . . . —”Spam” Monty Python The Brothers McLeod Spamland #1iPod-compatibleCtrl/Right-click on the link above to “Save File...

They keep slipping through!

Clicking downloads a 7.5 MB file. Please be patient while the file loads Ctrl/Right-click here to “Save File As . . .”...

Brekky with Gir

There are few things worth breaking writing silence for, and this is one of them: If that’s Gir in the video, he’s a young guy with impeccable taste and smart moves. Using an eggbeater’s whine as percussion is only...

Late to the Party

or, what’s the use of an RSS reader? On the face of it, it seems freakish that as recently as September 2005 NetNewsWire was “the most popular desktop newsreader on any platform” considering that it was (and still is) Mac-only...

Fresh as harvest day.”0

While notable for its pioneering visual effects, Michael Anderson's 1976 Logan’s Run has been relatively neglected as a result of its defiantly clumsy scriptwriting and remarkably bad plotting. After the film’s release, several attempts were made to build a...

A Series of Tubes

Some might say I'm slacking by posting only the following video from YouTube. The gory truth is that my Internets is clogged. Bonus MP3*: “It’s a Series of Tubes!”CTRL-click to “Save File As . . .” Notes *The file...

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