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      <description>a resource for research on bees, musical organs, and digital fluff.</description>
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         <title>nerdcore</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>the applescript that I use to allow subethaedit to reload and compile processing scripts:*</p>

<p>tell application "Processing"<br />
	activate<br />
	<br />
	tell application "System Events" to keystroke "t" using {command down}<br />
	<br />
	tell application "System Events"<br />
		keystroke return<br />
	end tell<br />
	<br />
	delay 0.1<br />
	<br />
	tell application "System Events" to keystroke "r" using {command down}<br />
	<br />
	<br />
	<br />
end tell</p>

<p>*unsanity's menu master is necessary for keyboard mapping the menu items<br />
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         <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:33:40 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Iphone software update results in massive dns attack on itunes store</title>
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         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2009/06/17/iphone_software_update_results/</link>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:00:40 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Also,  who the hell is getting paid?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a title="Saving for College - Saving for College - NYTimes.com" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/education/edlife/lieber-saving-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss">Saving for College - Saving for College - NYTimes.com</a></p>

<p><em>Still, if you can break the process of saving for college into smaller pieces, it starts to seem more manageable. <u>Start by reminding yourself that almost nobody can save enough to pay for four years of private education</u>, let alone for more than one child. That’s not the goal here.</em></p>

<p>- RON LIEBER // nytimes</p>

<p>Since when has that been the accepted status quo dude?</p>

<p><a href="http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/10/tuition_rising_.html">Tuition rising faster than inflation</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:53:04 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>FUCK LUXURY</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a title="The Brooklyn Paper: Downtown going Williamsburg" href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/32/30_32goingwilliamsburg.html">The Brooklyn Paper: Downtown going Williamsburg</a></p>

<p>The developer paid $6 million for the low-rise-zoned building in 2006, according to city property records. A spokeswoman said this week that the new design would “keep feel and taste of the neighborhood” while adding something that hadn’t yet been seen there: luxury.</p>

<p>BLECCCCCCCCCCCH</p>

<p><em>To meet this demand, estate agents have evolved a fabulous language of deception, both literary and visual. They work in a world where only hyperbole and positive associations are allowed. It must be like trying to write in one of those ancient Aramaic languages which have no device to express a negative concept. Every expression or description has to be affirmative, driving the copywriters into a lunatic helical Babel of exaggeration and deceit.</em></p>

<p>Stephen Bayley // General Knowledge</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2009/04/03/fuck_luxury/</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:32:17 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>A Message to Garcia (1899)</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>By Elbert Hubbard</p>

<p>In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain & the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba- no one knew where. No mail nor telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly.</p>

<p>What to do!</p>

<p>Some one said to the President, "There’s a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you, if anybody can."</p>

<p>Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter, sealed it up in an oil-skin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, & in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia, are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail.</p>

<p>The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing- "Carry a message to Garcia!"</p>

<p>General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias.</p>

<p>No man, who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man- the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slip-shod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, & half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook, or threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, & sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant. You, reader, put this matter to a test: You are sitting now in your office- six clerks are within call.</p>

<p>Summon any one and make this request: "Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio".</p>

<p>Will the clerk quietly say, "Yes, sir," and go do the task?</p>

<p>On your life, he will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions:</p>

<p>Who was he?</p>

<p>Which encyclopedia?</p>

<p>Where is the encyclopedia?</p>

<p>Was I hired for that?</p>

<p>Don’t you mean Bismarck?</p>

<p>What’s the matter with Charlie doing it?</p>

<p>Is he dead?</p>

<p>Is there any hurry?</p>

<p>Shan’t I bring you the book and let you look it up yourself?</p>

<p>What do you want to know for?</p>

<p>And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia- and then come back and tell you there is no such man. Of course I may lose my bet, but according to the Law of Average, I will not.</p>

<p>Now if you are wise you will not bother to explain to your "assistant" that Correggio is indexed under the C’s, not in the K’s, but you will smile sweetly and say, "Never mind," and go look it up yourself.</p>

<p>And this incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this infirmity of the will, this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold and lift, are the things that put pure Socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? A first-mate with knotted club seems necessary; and the dread of getting "the bounce" Saturday night, holds many a worker to his place.</p>

<p>Advertise for a stenographer, and nine out of ten who apply, can neither spell nor punctuate- and do not think it necessary to.</p>

<p>Can such a one write a letter to Garcia?</p>

<p>"You see that bookkeeper," said the foreman to me in a large factory.</p>

<p>"Yes, what about him?"</p>

<p>"Well he’s a fine accountant, but if I’d send him up town on an errand, he might accomplish the errand all right, and on the other hand, might stop at four saloons on the way, and when he got to Main Street, would forget what he had been sent for."</p>

<p>Can such a man be entrusted to carry a message to Garcia?</p>

<p>We have recently been hearing much maudlin sympathy expressed for the "downtrodden denizen of the sweat-shop" and the "homeless wanderer searching for honest employment," & with it all often go many hard words for the men in power.</p>

<p>Nothing is said about the employer who grows old before his time in a vain attempt to get frowsy ne’er-do-wells to do intelligent work; and his long patient striving with "help" that does nothing but loaf when his back is turned. In every store and factory there is a constant weeding-out process going on. The employer is constantly sending away "help" that have shown their incapacity to further the interests of the business, and others are being taken on. No matter how good times are, this sorting continues, only if times are hard and work is scarce, the sorting is done finer- but out and forever out, the incompetent and unworthy go.</p>

<p>It is the survival of the fittest. Self-interest prompts every employer to keep the best- those who can carry a message to Garcia.</p>

<p>I know one man of really brilliant parts who has not the ability to manage a business of his own, and yet who is absolutely worthless to any one else, because he carries with him constantly the insane suspicion that his employer is oppressing, or intending to oppress him. He cannot give orders; and he will not receive them. Should a message be given him to take to Garcia, his answer would probably be, "Take it yourself."</p>

<p>Tonight this man walks the streets looking for work, the wind whistling through his threadbare coat. No one who knows him dare employ him, for he is a regular fire-brand of discontent. He is impervious to reason, and the only thing that can impress him is the toe of a thick-soled No. 9 boot.</p>

<p>Of course I know that one so morally deformed is no less to be pitied than a physical cripple; but in our pitying, let us drop a tear, too, for the men who are striving to carry on a great enterprise, whose working hours are not limited by the whistle, and whose hair is fast turning white through the struggle to hold in line dowdy indifference, slip-shod imbecility, and the heartless ingratitude, which, but for their enterprise, would be both hungry & homeless.</p>

<p>Have I put the matter too strongly? Possibly I have; but when all the world has gone a-slumming I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds- the man who, against great odds has directed the efforts of others, and having succeeded, finds there’s nothing in it: nothing but bare board and clothes.</p>

<p>I have carried a dinner pail & worked for day’s wages, and I have also been an employer of labor, and I know there is something to be said on both sides. There is no excellence, per se, in poverty; rags are no recommendation; & all employers are not rapacious and high-handed, any more than all poor men are virtuous.</p>

<p>My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the "boss" is away, as well as when he is at home. And the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly take the missive, without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, or of doing aught else but deliver it, never gets "laid off," nor has to go on a strike for higher wages. Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted; his kind is so rare that no employer can afford to let him go. He is wanted in every city, town and village- in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed, & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia.</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2008/03/25/a_message_to_garcia_1899/</link>
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         <category>life</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:39:51 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>jan freuchen</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.vvork.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/04.jpg"></p>

<p>augmented nature.  icons of nature.  </p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2008/03/22/jan_freuchen/</link>
         <guid>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2008/03/22/jan_freuchen/</guid>
         <category>art</category>
         <pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:44:42 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>Michael Heizer</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Overton,+Clark,+Nevada,+United+States&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=0,36.539790,-114.443280&ll=36.613702,-114.344088&spn=0.003961,0.007247&t=h&z=18&om=1">Double Negative</a><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&q=38%C2%B001'48%22+N,+115%C2%B026'10%22+W&ll=38.03447,-115.44116&spn=0.016766,0.03283&t=h&z=15&om=0">City</a><br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Buffalo+Rock+State+Park&sll=36.613702,-114.344088&sspn=0.002136,0.004104&ie=UTF8&ll=41.325215,-88.915508&spn=0.003996,0.008208&t=h&z=17&om=1">Effigy Tumuli</a></p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2008/02/07/httpmapsgooglecommapsfqhlentim/</link>
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         <category>art</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:22:49 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>i&apos;m not kidding</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://flatflat.org/img/alvin_chipmunkz.jpg" alt="panic" /></p>

<p>character design of the new chipmunks movie almost gave me a panic attack in the subway the first time i saw it.  and also, all other times.  </p>

<p>also, i was going to make DESTROYCHRISTMASTOSAVETIMALLEN.COM.  But christmas is already dead.  </p>

<p><br />
this is why.<br />
<img src="http://flatflat.org/img/santaclause1.jpg" /><br />
<img src="http://flatflat.org/img/santaclause2.jpg" /><br />
<img src="http://flatflat.org/img/santaclause3.jpg" /><br />
</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/12/26/im_not_kidding/</link>
         <guid>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/12/26/im_not_kidding/</guid>
         <category>life</category>
         <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:20:40 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>ring tonez</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>dave = tupac<br />
olivia = teenage wildlife<br />
breanne = red magic<br />
sarah = every breath you take<br />
sarah = out of africa sound track.  duh.<br />
peter = fennezs again.<br />
 </p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/12/23/ring_tonez/</link>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:01:09 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>DUH, we knew that, i&apos;m gonna go eat a sanwich</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a title="Net dumbs us down: Nobel prize winner - web - Technology - smh.com.au" href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/net-dumbs-us-down-nobel-prize-winner/2007/12/10/1197135340009.html?sssdmh=dm16.293140">Net dumbs us down: Nobel prize winner - web - Technology - smh.com.au</a></p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/12/10/duh_we_knew_that_im_gonna_go_e/</link>
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         <category>life</category>
         <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:17:37 -0500</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>my name is Philip Owl Tortillachips</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/10/20/my_name_is_philip_owl/</link>
         <guid>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/10/20/my_name_is_philip_owl/</guid>
         <category>life</category>
         <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:04:42 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>new york new york new york</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>business mind.  it's crazy here.  I live in wrapped in innersectionxz  in a high tower.   at least we have coffee up here.  and too many cigarettes.  but nice views.  i have two lamps that help me make techno music.  someone told me today it sounds like it's techno before techno music.  i think that's a good idea.  can i get a job making prehistoric trance music?   ok, good.</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/10/18/new_york_new_york_new_york/</link>
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         <category>life</category>
         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:56:29 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>fadez</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><br />
fluoresent ocean face<br />
washing the beats<br />
clean plane<br />
cloth beat<br />
envelope<br />
equilibrium rouge<br />
fade<br />
sand crush<br />
landfill island talkers<br />
fence dam edge</p>

<p><br />
the tragedy of everything.<br />
trashedy<br />
fame noose</p>

<p><br />
water<br />
gradient<br />
fade <br />
darkness<br />
romance<br />
regret<br />
environmental disaster<br />
.go</p>

<p></p>

<p><br />
+++++++++++++++++</p>

<p>taking the 32 points within a measure of techno.<br />
filling them out and pulling them down.  </p>

<p>fucking global div slider for redisco.  duh.  <br />
more resolution on maximum to minimum.  </p>

<p><br />
it's about a texture.  it's like blue orange texture plane.  but also about everything.  how can we show that and do that.  </p>

<p></p>

<p>what can you do to get a job?  </p>

<p>do magic<br />
apply for jobs<br />
tell people you need a job<br />
make a job and show it to someone.  tell them that they need you.  <br />
</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:28:17 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>carbon footprint of the artist as a young man</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Someone suggested that people look at <a title="Edward Burtynsky [ Photographic Works ]" href="http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/">Edward Burtynsky</a> after posting about <a href="http://www.markluthringer.com/RidgemontTypologies/taillights.html">Mark Luthringer</a> via <a href="http://www.pantherhouse.com/newshelton/">the New Shelton</a>. Both are interesting.  I have issues with taking photos of trash and sprawl.  how can an image talk about waste when it itself such a product and a promulgation of the visual noise that facilitates our disconnection to the implications of these objects?  Photographing patterns within the noise of consumer production is more interesting.  It calls attention to what we do not see because of it's profusion in a more specific manner.  It all still seems kind of jaded though.  </p>

<p></p>

<p></p>

<p><br />
</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/06/05/carbon_footprint_of_the_artist/</link>
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         <category>art</category>
         <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:06:08 -0500</pubDate>
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         <title>public art class 04.09.07</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a title="Public Art Fund - Home Page" href="http://www.publicartfund.org/">Public Art Fund - Home Page</a></p>

<p>either find or write an RFQ.  Then create a proposal for it.  </p>]]></description>
         <link>http://flatflat.org/ambiguousobjects/2007/04/09/public_art_class_040907/</link>
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         <category>notes</category>
         <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:21:32 -0500</pubDate>
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