Yep. BTW Floating Points playing at Output Thursday night...but anyway. Popular is lowest common denominator. never the music of the tastemakers.

Detroit techno. Fuck the kids, we were always cooler than them.

No, they’re bashing them for pandering to morons on a subject that from a scientific standpoint is basically settled. They should instead be making public service announcements explaining why GMO is a good thing (no, I am not kidding.)

I was thrilled they used Oliver Cheatham’s Get Down Saturday Night for this - which, in case it isn’t obvious, is the track that was sampled and rearranged to make Daft Punk’s Voyager track.

Warehouse techno party, North Williamsburg, early 2004 - my now-wife came up to me and remarked on how she saw me at not only techno parties, but also drum and bass and goa trance parties (these scenes don't really mix, at all.) The next week we went to see one of my friends DJ at a small bar in East Village (Sin Sin,…

There is absolutely a need to boycott intentionally half-baked games. It sends a pretty clear message when you sell 200,000 copies of the initial game with most modes and features being DLC, and then a million more copies when you sell a complete package later.

To clarify: none of the people I know personally violated their NDAs, and I felt the need to post a disclaimer because Nintendo is quite aggressive about ensuring both current and former employees adhere to their terms to the letter. There is a reason why there is very little leakage of information and very little in…

I know about half a dozen current and former Nintendo employees, mostly in marketing. (They had a New York satellite office that closed down last year, and had offered most of the staff either transfers to Redmond or generous severances.) First, to the Nintendo overlords - no one ever violated any NDA’s, so don’t go…

I used to love this show, but unfortunately its creator, Jhonen Vasquez, severely mistreated my wife at New York Comic Con a few years ago, and we haven't been able to enjoy it since. She went up and spoke to him at his booth to tell him how much she loved Zim, and he completely went off on her, snidely complaining…

Given the number of nuclear engineers on Iran today working on weapons programs with Western educations, I think some sort of restrictions are sound. A counterproposal: require that the Iranian national live in the US without returning to Iran for 5-10 years post-matriculation, while simultaneously offering their…

Got it. I'm a dum-dum.

Ummm...I don't see how

You completely misread that:

"One or two twenties? LOL. Don't bring your 60 douchey friends with $40 each expecting to have the greatest night ever. After two drinks with tip, you'll have maybe $10 left."

She's saying, bring a hell of a lot more.

really? move on with your life!

the social pressure to conform there is incredibly pervasive, and even those with some superficial free-spirited personas, if you get to know them well, they tend to be quite conservative and want to someday fit the mold a bit better. Those that truly reject it often end up overseas. All of my techno friends there…

...bottled water is the absolute WORST from a conservation perspective. Please rethink that.

The only children I can imagine playing with these is the children of emotionless Nordic parents, who live in a concrete and glass house that looks almost empty. And even then, I don't see the kids playing with them so much as being permitted to hold them for their five minutes a day of playtime, before being sent…

Where are you getting your information?

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/a-v…

completely disagree. If anything, she was given too much accommodation. I've read her account from many sources (it's fascinating) and not once have I ever felt she was treated terribly. If anything, I've felt she should have been imprisoned, in a real jail, not given a house on an island.

clearly, you've never heard of Comcast.