2008 December | + all of the above

Bon Iver – Skinny Love (live on Letterman)

December 31, 2008

Happy New Year.

Martina Lindqvist – “Rågskär Island”

via Lost at E Minor

Daniel Danger – “lets be kings with crowns of leaves and swords from trees”

Kurney Ramsey – “Office, Raleigh, NC”

Ludo – “Mondovino”

Bill Durgin – “Figure Studies”

December 30, 2008

Let the mashups begin

Compare Beyonce’s new music video and this mashup of a 60s dance video with a modern tune. If nothing else, Beyonce’s video is ripe for a few mashups itself….

Ghostco

December 29, 2008

Beirut – ‘Nantes’

Ville Lenkkeri – “Dancer in the Dark”

December 28, 2008

Greg White

December 26, 2008

via Twenty2wo

Scott Adams – “When We Evolve Into Robots”

December 25, 2008

I’ve often thought that Scott Adams was America’s answer to Douglas Adams (same last name, coincidence?) and I think that this proves it. Click to read the full blog post.

Suppose we transfer a dying guy’s brain into a computer, and that computer passes the Turing Test, thus demonstrating genuine intelligence. For all practical purposes it might have the same personality as the human brain that went into it. If you had a conversation with it, I can imagine it expressing a desire to live and even procreate.