I suppose its natural that during the first month of a new year one should take stock of one’s situation and attempt to formulate a plan of action for the foreseeable future. With that in mind, here’s a few of the rules for how I see my life in the next few years:

1. If you can’t move it; either by yourself or with the help of a misanthropic teenager, you don’t need it!
2. Access is better than ownership. Just shift the fucking paradigm and get over it already. More eloquently here.
3. Debt is not a commodity. We’ve already been down that road. It is Bondage. Not the fun kind.
4. Information wants to be free. ‘Free’ in this sense does not correlate directly to ‘unprofitable’.
5. Contribute. Irregardless of your level of ability and/or interest, you have the power to express influence, and to be influenced by others in return. Use it.

I’m curious to see what everyone else has come up with (personal predictions being the epitome of a guilty pleasure). So, by all means, dish. What will the technopocalyptic future bring for you?

Tags: Aesthetiophilia, Uncategorized by Etruscan
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For those of you that stop by here on a regular basis, you’ve probably noticed that over the weekend we’ve added a couple ad boxes to the site (hello, little ad boxes!). This was something we talked about a bit in our last Board meeting and in the end we set up Project Wonderful for the ad serving. This to me actually makes this more of a sociological experiment than an attempt at monetization. See, cool thing about this is that we’ll only serve ads that people intentionally bid to place here, which means that these sellers have something they believe a niche group like our readership will be interested in (actually, Neko’s been eyeing the wares of Etsy seller Sedruola all this morning). Net result? We all get to find interesting new things we may not have otherwise, the folks that advertise here get some exposure, and everybody goes home happy. And that was always our intent with this site; to celebrate the things we love and find interesting, and to find a way to bring that to an audience that we might not be able to reach otherwise. So by all means, check out the ads (I’ve already seen a couple cool ones crop up!), comment, send us ideas of note, and generally help us make this a space where we can enjoy one another’s art and oddities as it was always intended. We’re happy to have you, and we’ll all sleep better at night for it.

Tags: Aesthetiophilia, Economics by Etruscan
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Ok, so in light of my last couple posts I simply couldn’t pass this one up. Honest, I swear I’ll stop with the whole “Mac vs. Windows” thing; I think I just needed to hemorrhage all the comment troll mojo. But this, my friends, was simply awesome and potentially far far better geek-centric marketing than I’ve seen from either camp. I’m really, really hoping someone runs with this production from Nick Greenlee and Dan Chianelli.

Behold, the awful truth no one wanted to confront, and the most contrived eternal struggle the world has ever known…

Found via Laughing Squid

Tags: I should probably go to bed, Videophilia by Etruscan
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Tags: Aesthetiophilia, Pictoriphilia by Gestalt
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Mash-up master Dj Earworm has made another end of the year mash-up of the top 25 hits. I was pretty impressed with the one he did last year, but this year’s mash-up is more a kin to fusion. Listening to this brings me back to my summer job working in the kitchen day in day out while top pop music streams into itself until the difference is no longer discernible.

Tags: Audiophilia, Videophilia by Gestalt
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