{"id":3108,"date":"2009-06-26T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2009-06-26T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T21:05:01","slug":"friday-notes-bits-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/06\/26\/friday-notes-bits-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Bits Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In William Gibson&#8217;s <em>Pattern Recognition<\/em>, there&#8217;s an online community formed around mysteriously found video (the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pattern_Recognition_%28novel%29\">Footage<\/a>), which was being released in bits and pieces online.\u00c2\u00a0 I always wondered if there were real world examples of that &#8211; and it turns out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/06\/25\/mysterious-youtube-v.html\">yes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there is no known footage of [early 20th century dancer Vaslav Nijinsky], where was this archival footage coming from? From the New Yorker article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because it turns out, these aren&#8217;t films. They are computer-generated artifacts, made by Christian Comte, a French artist who has a studio in Cannes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/7\/24\/184250\/101\">this<\/a>, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Fox sure does &#8220;accidentally&#8221; turn a lot of Republicans into Democrats at the most opportune times.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5301898\/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie\">Best movie review<\/a> I&#8217;ve read in a long time.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Astana&#8217;s Chris Horner won&#8217;t be at the Tour de France this year, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/horner\/2009\/06\/astanas_chris_horner_explains.html\">he plainly explains why<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Few quicker ways to piss off a cop (and find yourself in manufactured trouble) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/video\/2009\/jun\/21\/fit-watch-kingsnorth-arrests\">than to ask for his badge number<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Funny, that.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>I understand why they <a href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2009\/06\/hey_fktaco_turn_here.php\">blurred ou<\/a>t &#8220;fucktaco&#8221;, but &#8220;ballsack&#8221;?\u00c2\u00a0 Really?\u00c2\u00a0 In any event, I must be 12, because I found the whole thing quite amusing.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Health insurers <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204621904574248061750721736.html\">defrauding their clients<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Well I never . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In William Gibson&#8217;s Pattern Recognition, there&#8217;s an online community formed around mysteriously found video (the Footage), which was being released in bits and pieces online.\u00c2\u00a0 I always wondered if there were real world examples of that &#8211; and it turns out, yes: If there is no known footage of [early 20th century dancer Vaslav Nijinsky], [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-content-distribution","category-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}