“Finally, in Part VI, I will argue that the greatest problems we face are cruelty, misery, hierarchy, and loneliness. Those issues should be at the center of any consideration of what we should do and how we should live.”
- Joseph William Singer, Yale Law Journal. (94 Yale L.J. 1)

Never thought I’d be at risk of confusing the Yale Law Journal for an anarcho-socialist zine.

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“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. ”

In defense of my “Politically Correct” moments. Thanks for putting up with me, guys.

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Takes the mantle from The National’s 2010 High Violet. Def worth digging back up from the spring thaw.

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“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.”

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Little Rock bro-of-note Michael Inscoe has been doing some interesting thinking on, and exercising of, the… umm.. well, the  union  of everything and conveyance in our state of media ubiquity.

The above is my nod to a recent little wisdom of his. Go ahead, jump on through to the surface. The landing’s pretty smooth.

Michael is always juggling a whole results-page of projects.

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“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

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Big news out of WWDC on Monday.

I bet that, in the light of time, the iCloud announcement will be looked back on as comparably historic – and transformative from – the iMac and iPod announcements of a decade ago. I’ll write more on this later, but for now: a few thoughts.

• ●Lion at $30 : Snow Leo, as more of a refinement upon Leo than a new generation, made sense at $30. Lion there is a surprise: I’m guessing Apple recognizes that iCloud and related functionality is paradigm-transformative, and so is willing to lose profits to see it propagated across Apple’s user base.

• ●AirPlay: With the addition of AirPlay mirroring, will AppleTV, at only $100, finally be accepted into user’s living rooms? If not mirroring, than I bet a pending AppleTV App Store will end this box’s status as a “hobby”.

• ●Mail.app : Do any devs out there know if the Lion Mail.app’s threading supports POP/IMAP – e.g. gmail – or is it limited to Apple’s services?

• ● Notifications! : Yesterday, I got caught exclaiming “NOTIFICATIONS! NOTIFICATIONS!” nearly all afternoon like a frantic, joyous hound.

• ●Softwarelust: Lastly, I’ll be darned if Apple’s video overview of Monday’s iOS announcement isn’t a trademark clinic in ‘lickablity.’

CHECK OUT: Gruber nails why iCloud is poised to transform the popular digital ecosystem, and how it challenges Google’s efforts to do the same.

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A little late in processing these, but I’m happy to confirm that the second annual Little Rock SXSW trip bested the year prior’s.

Great food, better music, the best people and some early sunshine.

Highlights: Zilker Park swimming, a surprise Toro y Moi set, and the Eastside Showroom’s vintage, fancy cocktails from mason jars.

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In the past few years, a lot of my favorite Arkansans have set up shop in Brooklyn. And they’ve been doing some cool stuff. Steve and Heath started a production company. Jack kept working with his band Life Size Pizza. The three joined forces, and behold: “El Diablo”

Both of these outfits keep getting better and better, and will have new work to show soon. Life Size is almost set to release their sophomore album, the song above being the first release from it.

Phoon Bonair‘s first feature, ‘Space,’ – with a tiny appearance from me – hits the film festival circuit this summer. Check the trailer to the mumblecore-y meta-movie below:

NEXT UP: Keep track of Phoon Bonair on Twitter while streaming Life Size Pizza’s first raucous album.

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