If you have any interest in things hackerish whatsoever,CLICK ME, skip a couple minutes in, and keep listening despite the terrible audio quality.
For the opening talk, Jacob Applebaum recounted how he went to the military dictatorship known as Burma (or Myanmar depending on who you ask), and how he hacked everything in sight once he got there.
At 48 minutes in, Annie Newitz (editor: iO9.com) talks about designing cities to survive assorted apocalypses.
At 1 hour, 4 minutes, Naomi Most has some suggestions on nutrition for hackers.
At 1 hour, 19 minutes, we have a catalogue of terrible invention ideas.
At 1 hour, 29 minutes, we have a talk about causality. Unlike the previous talks, this one isn't hilarious. Then we have a musical performance on a hacked Casio. You can skip that one, too. (It was cool live, tho.)
Around 1:46, some guys demonstrated an XRay device they had rebuilt while the other talks were happening out of a trash can, a taser, a vacuum tube, and assorted other odds and ends.
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The pattern these last few months is that I get hypnotically in love with pop songs whose words describe people who I couldn't actually stand in real life.
To Wit:
"Somebody That I Used to Know", covered by Walk Off the Earth
A beautiful duet about two people who have a nasty breakup and blame each other for everything.
Blue Jeans, by Lana del Ray
They're so in love... so very in love... because he's a wannabe gangster who abandons her so he can reboot his fucked up his life. And he never even spent the night. And she loves him more for this, and wants him to stay screwed over so long as he stays with her. You know what? You two DO stay together. You deserve each other.
And as an honorable mention: River Flows in You, by Yiruma
Wow, that's really beautiful. And there's no lyrics about horrible people to ruin it.
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DEC 23, 2012 11:29 AM
A poetry smash is exactly the sort of thing I don't feel any need to attend, ever. There are things that I find so interesting in and of themselves that I am willing to wade through dozens of what I'm not looking for to find that perfect one - Southeastern native plant species, for example, or Japanese woodblook prints. But poems... it would be good to have a Pandora of poems because there are so many out there I would probably love, and I will likely never find them.
Perhaps analogous to your poetry experience: I adore the sound of Russian, which I have generally only heard spoken by stunningly beautiful women.
I find it interesting that you seem always to listen to the lyrics of songs. That would put me off of a lot of music. I tried to listen to some Björk lyrics the other day.
(WTF is she talking about? Still unsure.) I concluded that I would rather enjoy her music by constructing my own meanings around it. Also, by not watching her videos. 
DEC 23, 2012 11:45 AM
DEC 25, 2012 12:38 PM
OMG - you've got cooties! Any moment now you should get warts and start watching 'Dirty Dancing' - repeatedly. 
DEC 25, 2012 01:38 PM
I don't make the rules, that's just what cooties do to you. 
DEC 27, 2012 05:37 AM
Wow, I really enjoyed "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Walk Off the Earth. How unique. Thank you for sharing. Happy New Year
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DEC 29, 2012 06:38 AM
thanks dear
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DEC 30, 2012 04:57 PM
Love your new post
