Archive for December 28, 2013

All I Want For Christmas Is Links

Confused Pig
The Harvest, a book concerning UFOs, Hidden Government, Illuminati, The Annunaki
Mormon-Centric Utah Epicenter For Food Storage
The Best of Code Switch in 2013
Strictly Beats – instrumental hip-hop mixtapes
Northern Soul Girl Dances to HAPPY – Pharrell vs Northern Soul
Parisian graffiti block “Graffiti Generale” preserved in digital 3d ahead of demolition

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Annoying Trend of 2013

A trend that took hold in 2013 is putting overlays over the screen that will block your access to the page unless you give as a ransom your email address or access to your Facebook account. I treat my email address and access to my Facebook like a daughter in high school and to those sites I say.

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

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Born Losers, Die Legends

Tom Laughlin 1931-2013

billyjack

Tom Laughlin, best known for his role as Billy Jack, passed away last week. He was an actor, writer, director, producer, and activist and like a couple of us Common Folker’s he was raised in the brew city, aka Milwaukee. He was also influential in independent film, a “prototype for independent filmmaking and distribution.”

I only know about the Billy Jack phenomenon because of a film class on counterculture in college. At the time it was pretty easy to dismiss the because the films are pretty campy and dated and all about taking down “The Man”. Though, while it shares a lot of ideals of hippies in the 60s, it was also all about taking action and actually doing something instead of sitting on your ass and philosophizing about it (generally in the films this took place in the form of pretty rudimentary kung-fu, karate but you get the idea). I have to attribute part of this action taking to his midwest upbringing where if you’re going to be about it, you gotta be about it.

I digress, Tom Laughlin, and Billy Jack (loosely based on him), were men of action and an example of how one person, and each one of us, can really make positive change in things. So, cheers to a good life passed on.

And I’ll leave you all with a great “I’ll go berserk” monologue right before Billy Jack kicks some racist ass, as quoted in the Nytimes obituary-

“…when I see this girl of such a beautiful spirit so degraded, and this boy, that I love, sprawled out by this ape here, and this little girl, who is so special to us that we call her God’s little gift to sunshine — and when I think of the number of years she’s going to have to carry in her memory the savagery of this idiotic moment of yours, I — just — go — berserk!”

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Another Hott Lunch Meal Download

Another sampler platter from the Common Folk Collective homie in residence…

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Year-End-Type-Things And The Usual Nonsense

60 Great Albums You Probably Haven’t Heard
SubNav DJ mixes
Awesome Tapes from Africa
The Pizza Underground with Mac Culkin
Maximalism – Songs About Pizza
arch8 – my true north (modern dance)
She Hates My Futon, a novella
Rejection Line
Dial-A-Song
Field Guide to Imaginary Beings
A Peek Into the Home Life of Cosplay Enthusiasts
Sam Sandler, America’s premier Deaf magician
Global Village Construction Set
Philly’s Top 10 Street Art Moments of 2013
Graffiti Hunters

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Webcam Hack

The webcam hack that allows for 2008 era MacBooks cameras to be turned on without the indicator light showing has gotten a lot of press. There are suggestions that people cover their webcams when not in use, which isn’t a bad idea. Though I have yet to see anyone mention a few equally as scary items. First your laptop also likely has a microphone which never seems to have an indictor light associated with it. The second is that your phone also has a camera (sometimes two!) and microphone and they rarely have indicator light and you usually carry them with you everywhere.

My webcam has a shutter so I know when it is recording.

My webcam has a shutter so I know when it is recording.

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