In Virginia’s Fairfax County, Robbing Banks for the CIA – Businessweek
Bizarre.
Jonathan Sanderson’s weblog, since 2001.
High time I noted here: I’m also blogging (again) in a few other places, notably:
ScienceDemo.org, a revival of an old failed wiki site by a small group (yet to be fully revealed, and maaaaaybe taking applications) who really care about demonstrating science: the demos themselves, and the issues around them.
Meanwhile, I’ve cobbled together a hub of sorts at jjsanderson.com.
Terrifc article reproduced from Revolver circa 2000, interviewing The Police:
Copeland: You are absolutely correct. I remember when we did our first album, I only wrote these punk songs so we’d have something to play, then I realised, ‘Ah… lyrics…’
Summers: Stewart and I were jumping on the bandwagon. Totally insincere! But I wrote all of ‘Omegaman’. Can we talk about ‘Behind My Camel’ some more?
Revolver: Oh shut up. One World is the most ‘old-school’ Police song on the album.
Copeland: And it was my favourite song at the time because it did have that early Police vibe, where we jammed on one chord for hours.
Summers: Unfortunately, I never did find out what that one chord was.
Hilarious, fiery, oddly moving — the interview both traces and mirrors the arc of the band’s career. Also:
Sting: No, no, I’m a simple man. A simple man in my huge Tuscan villa, so piss off.
See also the thread at MeFi trying to work out whether it’s an April Fool or not. Consensus: it’s good enough that everyone’s going to claim it’s real anyway.
Utter genius: Geo for Bootstrap, a Twitter Bootstrap theme that returns an achingly dull modern web app to the glory days of GeoCities.
(Via Waxy.org Links)
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Opening lines matter, and I’d forgotten how good Neuromancer‘s is. More than 20 years since I read it, almost 30 since it was written. Sheesh.