Hypertext
A guy I vaguely know combines something I used to do (philosophy of language) and something I do now (knowledge management, web ‘ontology’, and other shite – I read something at work today which described an ontology as “a thesaurus gone mad�: bloody computer programmers, eh) in an interesting paper on making the internet refer to the world.
Shannon has been in my links for about as long as this site has existed, but who I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned in a post, keeps on getting better. Recently, she has been complaining about “whitey mcwhinybitches� and pondering whether traitors can be punished.
Here’s a rather Žižekian take on the Countryside Alliance wankers penetrating parliament, which says pretty much everything that needs to be said about them.’
MP3 blogs are rocking the Swedish tip. There’s some hip-pop featuring the singer out of the awesome Lambretta. And, very much in the style of Lambretta (or Annie, or other Swedish Avril Lavigne-lite pop, although not Swedish), there’s comedy name specialists Portobella with ‘Covered in Punk’.
Astute words on Wiley (and the song in question, which probably is as good as is claimed): is Wiley’s flow a kind of lyrical equivalent of 8-bar? That is, the repeated words create a structure around which Wiley can vary the tone and tempo in ways which would otherwise make the rap completely incoherent.
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