On The Batteryification Of Things That Didn’t Used To Need Batteries As It Relates To Antidecableificationism If it is the phones that will inherit the earth, then it is their dependence on batteries that may give the human resistance [...] Kyle Silfer \ Nov 26, 2015 Read More Get thee behind me, battery.
Deus Est Machina He Turned To Face The Machine. "Is There A God?" Back in the 1950s—before Colossus, before SkyNet, before The Matrix—Fredric Brown, master of the short-short sci-fi tale, posited a project to “connect, all [...] Kyle Silfer \ Nov 26, 2015 Read More (xkcd)
Please Do Not Turn Off Or Unplug Your Machine We Can Coexist, But Only On My Terms In the totally great 1970 film Colossus: The Forbin Project, the omniscient networked computing entity which now runs the planet says: “We can [...] Kyle Silfer \ Nov 12, 2015 Read More “We will work together … unwillingly at first, on your part, but that will pass.”
Statewide Natural Gas Outages: Berry Says Lower Your Thermostat Just in case you haven’t heard this news blip that might affect your warmth situation tonight, here it is in two parts:1. Natural [...] Kyle Silfer \ Feb 03, 2011 Read More Example sweater.
Drones, Dub, Kraut, Harp—Best Releases Of 2010 For Weirdos And Malcontents Best Releases Of 2010 For Weirdos And Malcontents Mad genius Whitman arms his modular synths with razor-sharp spurs and lets them fight each other to the death. Result: a tapestry of [...] Kyle Silfer \ Dec 30, 2010 Read More
Best Of 2010 Mix For Ears To Hear The Better To See You With, My Dear Of course you know the old dancing-about-architecture thing. Well, synesthesia aside, it is bloody hard to hear without ears or see without eyes. [...] Kyle Silfer \ Dec 30, 2010 Read More
Expo ’70 Sets The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun Tonight! Justin Wright, a.k.a. Expo ’70, channels the deep-space kosmische kourier aesthetic of early psychedelic improv practitioners Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel and (perhaps [...] Kyle Silfer \ Nov 18, 2010 Read More
Paolo Soleri Amphitheater To Be Nuked Pointless Destruction Of Cool Structures: A Nm Tradition? Early last week the Santa Fe Indian School exhibited some bloody typical short-sightedness by announcing that the 45-year-old Paolo Soleri Amphitheater was to [...] Kyle Silfer \ Jun 17, 2010 Read More A hippy haven on Indian land? (arcosanti.org)
Meet The Next Mayor: Candidate’s Forum Thursday Pretty soon you’ll have to pick one of them to be the big man on campus, so here’s your second chance thus far [...] Kyle Silfer \ Aug 13, 2009 Read More Who will rule “the glory town of Nature’s spectacular southwest?” Only you can decide!
Mrgcd Election 2009 And, Yes, You Should Care For once there’s been a decent amount of press about the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District election, in large part due to the [...] Kyle Silfer \ Jun 04, 2009 Read More If you own property in this green wedge, you can vote.