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version seven. http://demongin.org |
Archive View for 2008:
| March | ||
| 19 | This is the New Shit | Mysterious encoding gums up the works. |
| 21 | Demon Gin Six: FTW | Generated manually; db query. |
| 25 | ASCII and the Editor | Mysterious encoding gums up the works. |
| 26 | First GUI test | Crash/Burn |
| 26 | Game Over | Return of Ganon |
| 27 | Buzzword Compliance Conference | Sponsored by Microsoft |
| 28 | Zona Roja | The Future is War |
| 29 | Passing Muster | A hands on critique of body metaphors |
| 30 | Return of Titivillus | The recording demon! |
| 31 | Epidemiology | Death, disease and demographics. |
| April | ||
| 1 | Voice of the Fire | ***** (Novel, 1996) |
| 1 | Points of Sale | Save & Continue? Save & Quit? |
| 2 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | *** (Novel, 2003) |
| 2 | Waiting by the River | The Best Revenge |
| 3 | Coma Daydream | The morning commute always goes by the numbers. |
| 11 | On Writing. Well... | More like |
| 12 | Life on the High Seas | A series of water metaphors. |
| 13 | Met the Press | And it wasn't so bad. |
| 14 | Dream Theatre | Now with celebrity cameos! |
| 15 | Reconstruction | All the king's horses, ducks in a row, etc., etc. |
| 16 | Roots Cyberpunk | Towards the thesis |
| 28 | FAQ | Fucking Asking stupid Questions |
| May | ||
| 1 | http://no-www.org | www. is deprecated. |
| 2 | Resisting High Level Thinking | It's Not Liability, It's An Asset. |
| 5 | Fear is on Our Side | ** (Album, 2006) |
| 7 | House of Leaves | *** (Novel, 2000) |
| 9 | Aenima | *** (Album, 1996) |
| 12 | The Ninth Gate | * (Film, 1999) |
| 12 | DemonGin.org Version Six | Rats' Nest Edition |
| 14 | Rapid Eye Mathematics | The shadowy science of the inverted Camera Obscura |
| 19 | No Wow | **** (Album, 2005) |
| 25 | Midnight Boom | *** (Album, 2008) |
| 27 | Eastern Promises | *** (Film, 2007) |
| 27 | Reproductive Rites | The mythology of human reproduction. |
| 28 | 30 Days of Night | ** (Film, 2007) |
| 28 | Triangulation and Inner Joins | Consumption indices based on anonymous data collection are finally coming into their own. |
| 29 | Into the Wild | * (Novel, 1996) |
| June | ||
| 1 | The Night | *** (Album, 2000) |
| 2 | 30 Days (Season One) | ** (Television Serial, 2005) |
| 6 | Progress Report | A litany of excuses and a few bullets on actual progress. |
| 10 | Collected Prose | Selected excerpts from various forum rage-outs by Yours Truly. |
| 11 | The Crimson Petal and the White | ** (Novel, 2002) |
| 11 | Progress Report | Actual progress this time! |
| 19 | How it Ends | *** (Album, 2004) |
| 19 | Progress Report | Stat-shot! |
| 23 | With Love and Squalor | ** (Album, 2005) |
| 23 | Panic Etymologies | I'll see you in the tall grass. |
| 24 | Ferris Bueller's Half-day Off | It was a day like any other, (except I skipped out on the first half of work and kicked ass like a ninja all over the city). |
| 25 | Artists of the Floating World | Reflections on the conjuration of urbanity in contemporary literature. |
| 25 | Photoblog UI = GO | empty |
| 27 | The List Grows Shorter | Three month status-update. |
| 30 | Trade Marks | You are treated to an estimated 3000 discreet advertisements in a day and most of your nouns are the inventions of salaried ad-men. |
| July | ||
| 1 | The Hard Sell | The difference between 'rape' and 'seduction' is merely one of salesmanship. |
| 2 | Project Manager | An epigrammatic reflection on finishing things. |
| 3 | Rats | ** (Novel, 2004) |
| 3 | Stop Drop and Roll!!! | * (Album, 2008) |
| 3 | Miracle Mile | Checking in again with a "to do" list. |
| 4 | Other People's Haircuts | Small, random, seemingly meaningless acts of goodwill or courtesy are, to the mentally ill, of paramount importance in assessing the moral posture of strangers. |
| 5 | Hachi-no-ki: the Cultivation of Opinions | Common sense revolts! |
| 6 | Panic Dermatology | It's actually really difficult to photograph your own armpit. Surprisingly difficult. |
| 7 | Read Only Memory | Gabba Gabba Hey |
| 8 | The Mouldering Dead | Transplanted from newathens.org |
| 9 | Spam Names | ...because a whole db table would be overkill. |
| 10 | Dissatisfaction | Ruminations on Motivation. |
| 11 | Like a Spider | Saving a few, choice morsels for later. |
| 15 | City of Thieves | *** (Novel, 2008) |
| 15 | The Great Man | Reflections on William Gibson's visit to Evanston, IL in 2007. |
| 16 | Vitriolic Pablum | Another transposition from New Athens. |
| 17 | The Service Industry | Advice for playing customer role in the customer service play. |
| 23 | Citizen Kane | **** (Film, 1941) |
| 28 | Children of Men | ** (Film, 2006) |
| August | ||
| 14 | The Plague | ** (Novel, 1949) |
| 14 | Enough! | In defense of satire |
| 15 | Brave New World | * (Novel, 1932) |
| 15 | The Ghost Map | *** (Novel, 2006) |
| 16 | Like a Spider | Further meditations on my hypothetical novel. |
| 22 | Last Will | Instructions for the disposal of my flesh. |
| September | ||
| 15 | Under the Black Flag | * (Novel, 1997) |
| 15 | Mutiny on the Bounty | ** (Film, 1935) |
| 15 | A Wrinkle in Time | * (Novel, 1973) |
| 15 | RSS Test | This is a test of my RSS feed. |
| 16 | House of Leaves | Difficulties encountered when discussing Danielewski's debut novel. |
| 16 | RSS Wrap-up | Further notes and final thoughts on my new, handmade RSS syndicator. |
| 18 | Privacy | An essay on the curious tangle of conflicting emotions surrounding email privacy. |
| 20 | Long Distance Runner | Observations pertaining to athleticism in general and distance running in particular. |
| 23 | The Mirror's Truth | On the dangers of turning cliches into poems. |
| 24 | Rusty Pipes Album Release Party | This is a verbatim transcription of an email I sent to close friends. |
| 26 | The Stranger | *** (Novel, 1942) |
| 26 | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | * (Film, 1991) |
| 26 | Prayer of the Rollerboys | ** (Film, 1991) |
| 26 | New RSS Test | I'm still working on this thing, apparently. |
| 26 | Speculative Fiction | I speculate on how syntax and semantics figure into Stephenson's new novel. |
| 29 | Composition | Against the existential verb. |
| October | ||
| 1 | Phrasology | Two phrases that, if fully understood, could seldom be uttered. |
| 3 | Throwing Koans into the Mix | Thoughts on adding a new category to demongin.org |
| 3 | The Sword Saint | What is the body of a rock? |
| 3 | Further RSS Adventures | How I learned to stop worrying and track subscribers. |
| 6 | In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences | *** (Novel, 1966) |
| 8 | The Death of Professionalism | The real loser in the 2008 presidential election campaign. |
| 10 | The Brinksman's Valediction | One theory on the proliferation of cowardice and pride. |
| 11 | Social Justice | An anecdote concerning institutionalized arrogance. |
| 15 | Free Markets and the Interlocking Gyre | On William Butler Yeats' model for understanding historical progress. |
| 16 | Fahrenheit 451 | * (Novel, 1953) |
| 16 | All Hope is Gone | * (Album, 2008) |
| 16 | Loyal Opposition: the End of the GOP | A rarely applied phrase for an increasingly rarely occurring phenomenon. |
| 18 | Closer | * (Film, 2004) |
| 20 | The Common Origin of Fundamentalist Faiths | A contemporary example of Milton Friedman's favorite turn of phrase. |
| 21 | Security Trade-offs | Recent adventures in email provide an opportunity for thinking about security trade-offs. |
| 22 | Going Orthogonal | It's kind of like 'going lateral' except not at all. |
| 22 | Going Orthogonal | It's kind of like approaching from 'an oblique angle' but not at all. |
| 22 | RSS = Still Fucked Up | This is why the site hasn't gone 'live' yet. |
| 28 | Share My Photos! | The end of private ownership mirrors the end of public space. (Stub) |
| November | ||
| 6 | Empire of the East | *** (Novel, 1979) |
| 10 | To Do List | A short run-down of what has been on my plate lately; a sort of mea culpa for last week's nearly total radio silence. |
| 11 | New RSS Test | I can't believe I still haven't got this the way I want it. |
| 11 | Further RSS Adventures | I feel like we've been down this road before... |
| 14 | Anathem | **** (Novel, 2008) |
| 14 | 5th of July | *** (Album, 2008) |
| 14 | A Sense of Purpose | *** (Album, 2008) |
| 14 | Appeal to Reason | ** (Album, 2008) |
| 14 | Permanent Marker | Reflections on Walker Percy; his hero and learning to self-identify. |
| 15 | The Thanatos Syndrome | An excerpt from Walker Percy's novel. |
| 17 | Redaction | A list of improvements and adjustments to the site. |
| 17 | PoM | The first test of the pom footer for the RSS feed. |
| 19 | I Am Very Literally Making this up as I Go | Why I will never be employed by the Obama-stration. |
| 21 | Blood of Heroes | ** (Film, 1989) |
| 21 | Special Unspoken Radiations | Reflections on a dinner date. |
| 25 | Light Grenades | * (Album, 2006) |
| 25 | Minotaur | * (Film, 2006) |
| 25 | Watchmen | **** (Novel, 1987) |
| 25 | Gayland Road | Social gestures and Brechtian gest, taking human gestation as a jumping-off point. |
| December | ||
| 2 | Fire-water Glissando | A list of recent observations having to do with professionalism and social grace. |
| 3 | End of Days | * (Film, 1999) |
| 3 | The Paramour Sessions | * (Album, 2006) |
| 3 | Silent Hill 3 | ** (Videogame, 2003) |
| 3 | Ravenous | ** (Film, 1999) |
| 4 | Quantum of Solace | ** (Film, 2008) |
| 4 | The Thanatos Syndrome | *** (Novel, 1987) |
| 4 | Behind the Screeds | A summary of what's been happening in the meantime. |
| 10 | A Good Ear | On intuition and the cultivation of a refined intuition. |
| 15 | Corporate Retail and the Winter Tithe | A quick cut-and-paste of a question put to my friends on NewAthens.org. |
| 16 | The Dark Fields | ** (Novel, 2003) |
| 16 | Manhattan Mores and Wall Street Argot | On the olfactory slap and tickle of the half-bath and the gymnasium; its origins and contemporary applications. |
| 17 | Il Nome della Rosa | **** (Novel, 1983) |
| 17 | The Name of the Rose | ** (Film, 1986) |
| 23 | Resolution and Resignation Revisited | A short meditation on the failing proposition of out-pacing one's own demons. |
| 28 | One of the Boys | *** (Album, 2008) |
| 28 | The Dark Knight | * (Film, 2008) |
| 29 | I Kissed a Girl | An open letter to the world's sociologists and taste-makers: ruminations on the lack of generic rules and constraints for writing about the manner in which every generation mistakenly believes that it invented sex. |
