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Giving away a very broken-in "Noise" table. Folds up nice, has that signature unstable feel to it. From laptops to synths crappy fx pedals, this table will definitely suit your needs and might break midway into your set transitioning your performance nicely into an "on-your-knees" tantrum style ending. This table has been used by GIANTS of the "Noise" tradition such as Narwhalz, Max Eilbacher, Reverse Baptism, Sister Midnight, Gene Pick, Nate Young, Rat Bastard and others. NO Trip Metal Spammmers!!!

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Why Godsmack Day? A better question might be what took so long?

Cats are coming for your Wi-Fi! Well, at least one cat is coming for one neighborhood’s Wi-Fi. Security researcher Gene Bransfield has built the “Warkitteh” collar that lets his cat patrol the neighborhood and sniff out open or vulnerable Wi-Fi networks.

Bransfield created the Warkitteh by equipping his cat Coco’s collar with GPS, Wi-Fi, and Spark Core chip. It basically turned his furry little friend into a furry little wardriver, patrolling an area looking for accessible networks. It used to be done with laptops in cars, but why bother when you can just strap a bunch of tech to your cat and let them do it for you?

The Warkitteh isn’t meant for serious hacking, says Bransfield, but it’s a pretty interesting experiment. It also showed Bransfield that there are “a lot more open and WEP-encrypted hot spots out there than there should be in 2014.”

So basically the lesson here is that if a cat can hack your Wi-Fi connection, you should probably step up your security game. Or at least get a dog.

(via The Verge, image via Eirik Newth)

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I feel safe calling Fight Club a “dude book.” It can certainly be enjoyed by anyone but it was also clearly targeted at men. And that’s perfectly fine. But when author Chuck Palahniuk took part in a Tumblr Q&A recently to promote his new book, he said a few things about what’s out there “for the menz” which have us tilting our heads.

We recently reported on Deadline writer Mike Fleming Jr. lamenting the loss of “his” guy film, Ghostbusters, to a possible female-led cast. Because, oh woe is me what will be left for the “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.”

But in Palahniuk’s Q&A session (which lasted over a week), there are two replies which have since been deleted (never a good sign). One was a response to a question about his books being taught in college courses. He replied:

That fact that ‘Fight Club’ is being taught seems — to me — to underscore the dearth of novels that explore male issues. The past years have given us so many books, from ‘The Color Purple’ to ‘The Joy Luck Club’ to ‘How to Make an American Quilt,’ which depict women in groups and relationship, but almost no books depicting social models for men. That’s my two cents worth.

Just because you’re seeing more female-led projects in the spotlight does not mean there’s a shortage of books focused on male issues. “Thank you, Chuck, for standing up for male writers, a desperately marginalized group,” was a seemingly sarcastic follow-up to his answer.  Which, to be fair, is not quite what the author was getting at in his answer. He never mentioned the authors, just content. Though he did trip up with that as he replied:

Consider that reading has become a mostly female pastime and that males are being better served by other media: the web, film, gaming. Of course publishers will skew toward the most profitable audience. Otherwise the world is still chasing the golden demographic of the ‘young male.’ If male writers could better serve that readership, it would explode. We’re only marginalized if we accept that status. What troubles me is the seemingly high number of younger male suicides: David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, plus older men such as Spalding Grey [sic] and Hunter S. Thompson, not to mention ‘accidental’ deaths like Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

“We’re only marginalized if we accept that status.” Stop. Stop right there. You’re not marginalized. You’re absolutely not. When another tumblr user called him on that specifically it played out like this:

Anonymous said: I hope you understand how disheartening it is to hear a prominent male writer say male writers are ‘marginalized.’ As someone who should be in touch with marginalization since that’s often a theme of your novels, I would just hope you realize the ignorance in that statement and realize how the groups that are actually marginalized–women writers, lgbt writers, writers of color–feel when reading that.

Hey, no wait. If you look again, it was the original questioner who used the ‘M’ word.

Ok then. Let’s backtrack for a second – what in the world was that tangent into suicide? He took something which would have been interesting to explore – are men reading less these days than women, and why – and derailed the conversation into an unrelated, serious issue. I’m completely boggled.

The extended question and answer session was otherwise filled with sarcastic replies about sex and some really great writing advice, so it’s unfortunate Palahniuk took a huge misstep. And while it wasn’t related specifically to the previous questions, I couldn’t help but notice this one:

alltimepoop said: what do you think of the fault in our stars? how about 50 shades of grey?

What’s to say? Sex and death sell. But I lived through “Love Story” so I don’t need to see ‘Stars.”

Considering the tumblr asks were deleted, it’s quite possible the author realized what he said was boneheaded and would rather forget the whole thing, but this is the internet after all. What do you think of Palahniuk’s main argument – that there are almost no books depicting social models for men?

(via The Daily Dot)

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For Season 8, BBC’s Doctor Who welcomes a female director. No pressure, right?

The Globe and Mail posted an interview with Rachel Talalay, a University of British Columbia film professor, and the first female director BBC’s Doctor Who has had since 2010. You may also remember her as the director of Tank Girl as well as episodes of Reign and Continuum. I’m sure the biggest question on everyones’ mind is – how did she get the job? She explains:

I campaigned very specifically to get on Doctor Who. The minute I saw the reboot – which I was very skeptical about before I saw it – I saw how good it was. I have an agent in the U.K. I said to her, ‘Get an interview if possible.’ I had done The Wind in the Willows, which Mark Gatiss was in. I said to Mark as well, ‘Could you please put in a good word for me?’ I sent a reel full of effects and action to show I was not just any old filmmaker, but had experience in that world. As a woman, you have to remind people you do the things that you do. From the time my agent contacted me and said, ‘There are two episodes. Are you interested?’ to my leaving B.C. was nine days.

Yes. That’s right. She’s been wanting to work on the show since at least 2005. Though we don’t know exactly when her agent started trying to get her the gig. Why was she hired now?

I said to Steven Moffat, ‘If I was to read the Internet I would believe you only hired me because you were pressured to hire a woman.’ He said, ‘I think they need to know I hired you because of your reel and your material and what we believed you would bring to it.’ I know that I brought effects experience, but I don’t know what makes anybody hire any director, really.

For the record, Moffat has spoken similarly on the reality of the Doctor being played by a woman. To that end, Talalay said, “They should consider whoever seems right for the role at that moment and things changed…I would embrace that absolutely, but I don’t think it needs to happen. I think it has to be true to who’s right to be the Doctor at that point.”

Talalay also spoke a bit about the internet reaction to her getting the job: “There’s a lot on the Internet, questions about the fact that there have been so few women – even fewer women writers than directors. There’s been attention to that. To my surprise, the Internet has been incredibly kind – so far. I should not jinx anything. It has been kind about it being offered to me.”

“There are many, many women filmmakers who are pigeonholed into women’s stories. I’ve never had that problem,” Talalay also told The Globe and Mail. “I love visual effects. I love action. I love that kind of material. A lot of women filmmakers say, ‘How come you get those projects?’ You have to prove yourself. Women, more than men, have to prove themselves.”

And in case you were wondering, Talalay was a Doctor Who fan growing up and mentioned Tom Baker is her Doctor, but what can she say about her episodes?

I am doing the two-part finale. Both parts were written by Steven Moffat, which is fantastic. There’s so much action and effects and emotional material. It’s a Cyberman episode…Part of what we were tasked to do was replicate some classic shots – from the sixties show – of the Cybermen outside St. Paul’s. It’s a whole new story.

Read a whole lot more in the full interview posted at the Globe and Mail.

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“All ages" = as if telling someone’s age in zombie inspired make up and near dark conditions weren’t difficult enough already

“All night long" = or until 2 a.m. when the city’s bar closing ordinance kicks in, which ever comes first

“Blisspop" = we made up this genre just to see if you were paying attention to our flyer

“Costume Contest" = be prepared to hear at least three different DJs spin "Everyday is Halloween" and claim they didn’t hear it when the other DJs played it

“Dark Alternative" = we have no idea what to call half the songs we’re going to play tonight

“Dark/Fetish attire encouraged" = if you pretend to be a goth, we’ll pretend to play goth music

“Darkwave" = we think this is somehow related to goth

“Deathrock" (when placed last on the list of music genres) = we’ll play that song by the Virgin Prunes, but you have to listen to 3 hrs. of VNV Nation Combichrist before we get to it

“Deathrock" (when placed first on the list of music genres) = we’ll play two Rozz-era messianist Death songs in a row at some point during the evening

“Deathrock/Psychobilly/Horror Punk" = we hope you like songs about zombies, dead girlfriends and spooky things in the woods enough to listen to 4 hours of them

“Deathrock/Punk/Old School Goth" = we firmly believe the only music worth listening to was recorded between 1977 and 1983

“Deathrock/EBM" = never draw up a flyer when you’re high on crack

“Deathrock/Metal” - never draw up a flyer when you’ve doing crystal meth for 5 days straight either

“Dress code is black" = the people who come here don’t know enough about Goth to know what to wear so we have to remind them

“Dress to impress" = the court order regarding cameras in the Club was lifted after the lawsuit was settled out of court

“EBM" = like techno, but with less musical ability and more glow sticks.

“80’s" = we hope you like "Karma Chameleon" a lot because we have 13 different versions of it

“Electro" = *beep* music

“Enjoy our drink specials" = our landlord turned off the air conditioning so it gets really hot in here

“Ethereal" = we own the entire Cocteau Twins back catalog

“Experimental" = Synth-punk performed by people don’t know how to play an instrument, but it sounds classier if we call it "Experimental"

“Fetish wear encouraged" = lots of *oontz oontz* music, latex club wear, and a some guy running around with a whip

“$5 cover before 10 p.m." = the cops never show up to raid the place before 11 p.m.

“Free give aways" = we still have lots of "Saw II" and "The Hills Have Eyes" posters left from last year’s give away

“Full Bar" = our bar is twice as big as the dance floor

“Futurepop" = music not good enough to be classified as "EBM"

“Glam" = in case you thought deathhawks, ripped t-shirts and torn fishnets were too modest of a fashion statement

“Go Go Girls" = our music will sound better if you’re staring at a half naked chick

“Goth" = our DJ knows who Peter Murphy is

“Gothic Industrial" = lots of *oontz oontz* music, latex club wear, and some girl with big, poofy pigtails running around with a couple of glow sticks

“Harsh EBM" = when regular EBM isn’t awful enough

“Impressive selection of beer" = just in case anyone ever comes to a goth club to be impressed by the beer, we’ve got you covered

“Industrial Decadence" = overweight EBM chicks in midriff baring fetishwear

“Just off the freeway" = we’re located next to the abandoned medical waste disposal plant in a section of town not patrolled by police

“Legendary" = selling my soul for a steady club night 23 yrs. ago seemed like such a good idea at the time…

“Live Bands" = real musicians aren’t embarrassed to be seen in our club with our patrons

“Mash Ups" = someone got a Mac with Garage Band for their birthday, but can’t figure out how to use it

“New Romantic" = Adam Ant, Duran Duran and, ahhh, ummm, errr…. more Adam Ant and Duran Duran

“Neofolk" = Der Furher’s music, unplugged

“No Cover Charge" = our venue is a classic dive bar with a decent sound system

“Nu Wave" = I’m 2 lazy to spel check my flyerz be4 I hand them oot

“Old School Punk" = we specialize in mohawks and mosh pits

“Old School" (genre unspecified) = we bought a crate of vinyl at a garage sale

“Our DJ brings you the best in…" = our DJ will spin whatever his girlfriend left him after they split up

“Old School Goth" = our DJ’s roommate went to school with Peter Murphy

“Plenty of available parking" = the neighborhood is so bad that no one is else is willing to park on the streets here

“Powernoise" = we play music so obnoxious that even the rivetheads will complain

“REAL Alternative" = our DJ interned at KROQ

“Remixes" = someone got a Mac with Garage Band for their birthday and figured out how to use it

“Remodeled" = they painted the walls after they were closed down for health code violations

“Request Night" = we got off work late and didn’t have time to come up with a proper setlist

“Retro" = Our DJ found a bunch of 80’s comps at a second hand store and most of them aren’t too badly scratched

“Smoking Patio" = forget about sneaking in through the back exit

“Two dance rooms" = our Gothic Industrial club plays both kinds of music, gothic and industrial

“Underground" = our DJ really likes She Wants Revenge

“Indie" = Our DJ eventually got burned out on She Wants Revenge and is now on an Interpol kick

“cowboy" or "Vampiric" = douchebag or douchebagic

“Vendors" = we have a girl selling bat-themed jewelry and spiderweb necklaces at a table next to the dance floor

“VIP Lounge" = in case the people on the dance floor weren’t pretentious enough for you

“We spin vinyl" = our DJs are damn good!

“With a little booty hip hop to mix it up" = no matter how drunk you get, you’re going to regret coming here for years to come

“WiFi" = because the only thing geekier than dancing at a Goth club is surfing the web at a Goth club

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As the two hurricanes churned toward the islands, a magnitude-4.5 earthquake hit Hawaii's Big Island at about 6:30 a.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

And it’s not (just) that the bombers took off from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, named after the first American president to go to war in Iraq. No, we’re talking about the targets:

US airstrike on ISIS today targeted artillery that had been abandoned by #Iraq army when it fled—
Rajiv Chandrasekaran (@rajivwashpost) August 08, 2014

To put it bluntly: It appears that the US is destroying artillery the US paid for, after it was abandoned to its enemies by troops the US paid to train. Under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi army had significant heavy weaponry, but much of it was destroyed or decommissioned in the 2003 US invasion. Efforts to provide American-made mobile artillery was seen as a key step toward making the new Iraqi military an independent force. In the past few weeks, millions of dollars of US weapons have fallen into ISIL’s hands.

Backing up a step, the US is bombing ISIL, an Islamist militia that has taken over significant territory in Syria and Iraq, and now threatens the Kurdish capital of Erbil and numerous ethnic minorities.

While the US has technically withdrawn from Iraq, the government the has failed to maintain political unity, and the US-trained army is falling apart, leaving numerous Iraqis—and indeed, the fragile balance of Middle Eastern geopolitics—incredibly vulnerable. Despite reluctance to return to Iraq, President Barack Obama last night authorized air strikes to aid the Iraqi government and Kurdish militias known as peshmerga in their fight against the extremists.

That the first blows by American arms were struck against American arms is just one indication of complex and difficult the task is going to be.

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Not sure I agree with the “not paying” part, but otherwise, there’s something here.

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As most people know, there are activists in Texas who are making a point of going to public places with visible firearms. They have gotten a lot of attention because some chain restaurants and stores have prohibited them from openly carrying their weapons, mostly because it frightens other patrons.

This fear is legitimate. As many have pointed out, there is no way for bystanders to know whether the people with guns are “good guys” or “bad guys.” It is rational to be afraid of someone with a weapon, especially if you know nothing about them.

Furthermore, as Jon Stewart has pointed out better than anyone else, since people are often legally permitted to use guns to protect themselves when they are legitimately afraid for their lives, there is no predicting when someone is going to see the activists and shoot before they ask questions. This will happen. It is just a matter of time. And, in many cases, it will be a legal and rational act. None of us want to be victims of the crossfire.

The questions that concerns me now is how we bystanders should react when people come into a store with guns. There really is no legitimate way of determining intent. Even if the people with guns are carrying a sign claiming to be activists (which they do not do), they could be lying, just setting us all up for slaughter. And since there is no way to know what is on their minds, all we have are our instincts, but as we all should know, our instincts are often racist, classist, and frequently mistaken. So, what should we do?

My proposal is as follows: we should all leave. Immediately. Leave the food on the table in the restaurant. Leave the groceries in the cart, in the aisle. Stop talking or engaging in the exchange. Just leave, unceremoniously, and fast.

But here is the key part: don’t pay. Stopping to pay in the presence of a person with a gun means risking your and your loved ones’ lives; money shouldn’t trump this. It doesn’t matter if you ate the meal. It doesn’t matter if you’ve just received food from the deli counter that can’t be resold. It doesn’t matter if you just got a haircut. Leave. If the business loses money, so be it. They can make the activists pay.

Following this procedure has several advantages. First, it protects people. Second, it forces the businesses to really choose where their loyalties are. If the second amendment is as important as people claim, then people should be willing to pay for it. God knows, free speech is tremendously expensive. If it weren’t, I’d be reading this on ESPN during prime time, not posting this on Blogger.

Third, this proposal has the added advantage of taking the activists seriously. Most gun-rights activists describe a world of tremendous dangers. Guns, they repeatedly tell us, are the only thing between home invasion, rape, murder, and government intrusion. Okay, well if that’s true, then we bystanders should be equally afraid, and react instantaneously to keep away the chaos and the violence. We learned to be afraid from the gun-rights supporters. They have gotten everything they wanted.

Just one final thing. The difficulty of knowing other people’s intent is a classic philosophical problem. It is epistemological in that it involves the limits of our knowledge. We can’t really know what anyone else hopes to do, and sometimes, because of the subconscious and of self-deception, we don’t ever know what our own true intent is. It is also an example of the problem of other minds. We can never really enter into the perspective of any other person, nor can we ever really know what they think (or even if they think). We are discrete individuals and communication is unreliable.

My point: the political and economic realities of running from gun activists is, yet again, founded on classic philosophical issues, and when we take positions on issues of the day, we are really taking positions philosophically. The gun-rights activists think that their intent is obvious and that everyone knows what they hope to do. They believe their minds are transparent. But this is because they are all extreme narcissists. It baffles them that we don’t all know exactly what they are thinking. It shocks them that we don’t know that Jim is a good guy, and that Sally would never murder anyone. But they are wrong. We don’t know them and we don’t know how they think. The only thing that makes us notice them at all is that they have guns and truthfully, that’s why they carry them in the first place. They want to be celebrities, heroes, and the centers of attention.

So, let’s give them what they want. Let’s take them as seriously as possible and run like hell. They’ll feel important and if they really care about gun rights, they won’t mind paying for the hundreds of meals that they inspired the innocent bystanders to leave behind.

(Update: I respond to many of the comments here.)

(Update, 7/25/14: I was going to fix the typo in the fourth paragraph, but that would make Wonkette look bad, and why should I return such kindness by making their post inaccurate? Thanks Wonkette! I am honored by your praise.)

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