Kid A was late 2000, but yeah, add in some Weezer, Aphex, REM & Blur and that's a pretty strong list you've got there.

I think the hypothesis they were testing was something along the lines of "will people conform the the expectations of arbitrarily assigned roles?" I'm not saying it was well executed.

I'm not sure that counts as being 'staged'. It was unscientific as all fuck (mainly due to - as you say - the over-involvement of Zimbardo) but the point is how readily people adopted and ran with the roles they were given. Of course it was all artifice but is there really a difference in this context between (for…

It's been (rightly) discredited as a piece of shit, non-scientific study, but I wasn't aware of it being 'staged'. You mean as in 'faked'?

I think because sometimes you need a dramatic staging of something to really appreciate the truth of it. I know a fair bit about this study but I've never really been able to *believe* it.

I don't think the balls it takes to name your first movie this has been sufficiently appreciated…

Totally just reminded me of the time as a kid when my dad warned me not to eat any of the Green Kryptonite I'd made by putting food colouring in water and freezing it. On the basis that, if I did, I'd be having "a green crap tonight."

Eh he was raised one so I try to give him a pass (mainly because I might sometimes want to listen to Odelay and not feel sad.)

I would swap the entire phenomenon of social media for not knowing that artists whose work I enjoy are secretly morons. Please take my awareness of Elisabeth Moss' Scientologism while you're at it.

It is ridiculous and makes no sense at all that a band this far into its career could make a song as absolutely wonderful and perfect as All I Need.

Aw man, I was betting on Jacobean being the next hipster cultural touchpoint era. Got to return this fucking ruff now.

Stop giving them ideas! >:-(

> Mocking criminals is sort of punching down

Right? After Rubber Johnny, it was like "my god, what is he going to do next!?" Oh, nothing at all for 10 years? Oh, OK.

Snoop Dogg sells his own range of candles on Twitter.

If only they offered a one-click process to opt you out of personal tracking completely…

"How 'bout a crazy weddiiiiiiiiing…?"

Sure.

>people who have spoken out—like Corey Feldman—aren't listened to, and are dismissed as Hollywood burnouts.

But if it's so endemic, and so much a part of the system, you'd think there would have been at least some significant organised response by now. If someone like Cosby can be (effectively) brought down by mobile phone footage of something a relatively obscure standup said, surely an industry-wide 'open secret' couldn't…