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June 15, 2009

Steampunk: Love the machine, hate the factory - Boing Boing

Steampunk: Love the machine, hate the factory

Posted by Cory Doctorow, February 25, 2009 2:00 PM | permalink
My latest Make column is up, "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory," written for the steampunk theme issue:
For me, the biggest appeal to steampunk is that it exalts the machine and disparages the factory (this is the motto of the excellent and free *Steampunk* magazine: "Love the Machine, Hate the Factory"). It celebrates the elaborate inventions of the scientifically managed enterprise, but imagines those machines coming from individuals who are their own masters. Steampunk doesn't rail against efficiency -- but it never puts efficiency ahead of self-determination. If you're going to raise your workbench to spare your back, that's *your* decision, not something imposed on you from the top down.
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June 15, 2009

one of my fav artists (yes, the robots have a lot to do with it): Brian Despain Art | The Icarus Fish | 2004

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June 12, 2009

going back to the river to visit the forge of my soul.

I'm leaving today for reunion weekend at St. Mary's College of MD. Yes, I know it's only been two years and what kind of loser goes to a two year reunion? But you don't understand. You didn't go to St. Mary's (or you do, if you did).

We might have thought it strange for alums to randomly come back to campus for no particular reason, and may have even thought disparagingly about some who seemed to never leave, but by our senior year, we knew we would suffer the same fate. We knew we would ache for this place, and that we would likely never demand of ourselves an excuse to make a pilgrimage to the soul of the river who takes away everything heavy from the heart, to walk under the Milky Way that unveiled itself naked on most nights, or to contemplate the perfect sunsets that blazed at the close of each day.

I fucking lived with all that gratuitous beauty for four years! Even if everyone I ever knew there left, I'm pretty sure it would still feel like home. I sure miss it like home - far more than even the houses I lived in with my family. It was my first experience of feeling like my spirit was shaped and rooted to the energy of a place. The river air of Southern Maryland still lives somewhere inside me.

Back on Sunday. A blessed weekend to all of you.

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June 11, 2009

what? my prom dress does not look like a vajayjay. | via @boingboing

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June 11, 2009

flash dance mob + hammer pants = amazing

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June 11, 2009

all your bases are belong to the jellyfish overlord.

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June 11, 2009

International Philosophy Soccer - Greece vs Germany

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On a weird soccer kick. Ha, kick.

"Socrates scores! The Greeks go wild!"

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June 11, 2009

Japanese Binocular Soccer #onlyinjapan

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Yep, it's exactly as dumb and bizarre as it sounds.

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June 11, 2009

This kid has moves I will never possess.

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June 11, 2009

What's the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don't Want to Hear It | NYT


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Daggone teenagers with their up to no good loitering. Deploy the annoying sound gun! Anti-adolescent technology will save us all (over 30-year old).

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