Whitechapel - Grinding Sat, 18 May 2013 14:30:06 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11156#Comment_11156 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11156#Comment_11156 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:49:05 -0800 warrenellis http://grinding.be/

Read it yet?

-- W ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11157#Comment_11157 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11157#Comment_11157 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:56:16 -0800 Andre Navarro
Added it to my favorites.

This one was particularly creepy:



And of course, what happened afterwards:

]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11183#Comment_11183 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11183#Comment_11183 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:09:55 -0800 Ross
"Are you tired of keeping the drunks away in absolute silence with No Style At All? Get out new 'LeopardSkin Taser', with built in mp3 player! It shocks, it plays music, and it looks great too!"

The next month, Apple announced their entry into the musical taser industry with the Apple iTaze ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11186#Comment_11186 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11186#Comment_11186 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:13:41 -0800 Andre Navarro The next month, Apple announced their entry into the musical taser industry with the Apple iTaze

Hehehehe :D ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11195#Comment_11195 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11195#Comment_11195 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:42:48 -0800 Unsub One of the more interesting taser developments deals with the fact range is limited to how far the wires can go.
A company has made one that fits insde a shotgun shell allowing them to tase people at a much farther distance
If tasers were used by Police who they were meant to be ,as an alternative to deadly force I would be fine with it but instead they are used
when someone is simply noncompliant and rude. Canada has just had a couple high profile taser deaths so we are really looking hard at it.
Only police here are allowed Tasers.

I like the building with all the plants. I would love to see that catch on. If all or most buildings had that it would make for a lot less pollution.
They do have a lot like that in Vancouver though and one problem is they are full of rats. ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11210#Comment_11210 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11210#Comment_11210 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:24:31 -0800 olivertwisted Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11244#Comment_11244 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11244#Comment_11244 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:41:21 -0800 Unsub "war on poor people" sorry I meant the " War on terror". Thanks to better body armour lots of soldiers are being horribly wounded rather than killed.
I have a buddy who lost a leg to a IED and he has a really cool snowboarding leg with a titanium coil spring.
It is OK but he had to buy it himself and I think we should provide stuff like that.

The MP3 Taser is not quite as crazy as it sounds. The point is so the lady he cares abut will have it when she needs it.
I like this pepper spray ring as well. It seems like a comic book type idea. To bad it's so ugly.


What does "Grinder" mean when used in this context? ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11245#Comment_11245 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11245#Comment_11245 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:44:21 -0800 Ariana What does "Grinder" mean when used in this context?
Grinder Culture ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11255#Comment_11255 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11255#Comment_11255 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:14:24 -0800 Unsub Having just rediscovered Charles Stross (I read a few books but never searched him out as an author) I really
dug the Eschaton event sign. I would rather miss some references than have something dumbed down for me
which is something I really like about Warren's work.

The problem with extreme body mods is the tech has not caught up to the theory. I am pinning my hopes on DARPA.
So far the future soldier program(not to be confused with the Super soldier program but it would be understandable)has
so far delivered not much. They have loaded the poor guy down with another couple hundred pounds of glitchy tech and
brought micromanegment to a horrifying new level where the politicians can monitor in real time.

Still I would bet we are 5 years from imbedded throat mics and RFID activated weapons in some units.
Snipers with head up displays showing UAV or sat data and sensors used for athletes used to monitor and control bodily functions to allow
slowing the metabolism to allow steadier shots and longer time in position or to increase it when needing to escape or evade.


Does my "steroids , methamphetamine ,electric muscle stimulation and all the baby food and water you can eat diet" count as grinding?

I would not want all the bones replaced with admantium but a titanium sheath on my forearms and shins would be fun. They could use a sharper edge as well and I would really need the skin covering them unless it would help stop infection. ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11284#Comment_11284 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11284#Comment_11284 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:15:42 -0800 Elana
In the Wiki entry Ariana linked to, it mentions "the power of one person having undue influence". Of course Warren Ellis is the Doktor Sleepless of my small world. He's the one broadcasting the freaky images to my brain. He definitely has undue influence on me; he puts all kinds of new ideas into my head. I now also subscribe to ModBlog and am seriously considering tampering with my currently entirely intact body.

Recursive and ironic. I love this unsettling feeling. ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11322#Comment_11322 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11322#Comment_11322 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:17:14 -0800 carney Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11379#Comment_11379 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11379#Comment_11379 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:46:10 -0800 Brad McLoughlin
Grinding is very interesting, look forward to it taking off. ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11396#Comment_11396 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11396#Comment_11396 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:59:13 -0800 hyim
. warrenellis wrote :
http://grinding.be/

Read it yet?


I'm going to be a bit more prudent than my fellow chaplains on grinding.be, as of yet.

Releasing the website's maître mot in dok sleepless was not only kinky cool, but a fine gesture showing us internet muddlers that crossing content through all-different medias (mediums ? fuck latin) is not a financial prerogative of Paramount or Clover-no-stars-no-directors-oneScreenwriterThough-Field .
Even if yeah smallish, doesn't mean it's not there, and doesn't mean internet jesus can't do it.
So, right there, props.

The only thing lacking -and let me say this with all the acumen one can exorcize from what, a mere handful of posts on a very fine wordpress-based blog- is an editorial line, a long zoom lens.
How this article on the building with weeds all over it relates to this supposedly retarded environment policy relates to that crazy insane illuminated new backyard invention relates to, relates to and so on. Patterns in modern chaos.

How all this matters, not just because it's exclamation-science, but because the future is also political, academic and streetwise smart. A future speculative in a way and very much like stocks where perceived effects become real. If someone understands and expects the future to behave one way, with enough yea-okay behind it, the future will thus be. But it has to have patterns, even if it doesn't look like it is making sense.

A long zoom lens is something boingboing is just barely starting to maybe shyly flirt with (thanks to Doctorow) when it hits a nodal argument like, say DRM (you can't explain DRM without touching new tech, old tech, law, politics, finances, economics, arts and crafts. it's nodal.) Here DRM touches on so many levels of the boing boing sphere of intellect you'd be pretty small minded not to care.

But hey, I'm all for a boing boing with teeth, white, sharky ones. And I have little to no doubt that's what Warren wants with grinding.be Digg, slashdot, truemors, they substituted editorial with Attention pondered by numbers. Slacker news.
A massively read group-blog with some pertinence and generous anger is what is, in the bubblegum post-web2.0 world, sorely missing. ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11397#Comment_11397 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11397#Comment_11397 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:39:58 -0800 warrenellis
Not that you're wrong at all, but it's what I wanted in this instance. ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11408#Comment_11408 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11408#Comment_11408 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:06:19 -0800 m1k3y The only thing lacking -and let me say this with all the acumen one can exorcize from what, a mere handful of posts on a very fine wordpress-based blog- is an editorial line, a long zoom lens.
How this article on the building with weeds all over it relates to this supposedly retarded environment policy relates to that crazy insane illuminated new backyard invention relates to, relates to and so on. Patterns in modern chaos.

How all this matters, not just because it's exclamation-science, but because the future is also political, academic and streetwise smart. A future speculative in a way and very much like stocks where perceived effects become real. If someone understands and expects the future to behave one way, with enough yea-okay behind it, the future will thus be. But it has to have patterns, even if it doesn't look like it is making sense.

give us time dude. we're just laying down the first few dots on the scattergraph.
and the pattern's what we're trying to find ourselves. ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11435#Comment_11435 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11435#Comment_11435 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:45:03 -0800 Andre Navarro Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11436#Comment_11436 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11436#Comment_11436 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:48:28 -0800 xutraa Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11496#Comment_11496 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11496#Comment_11496 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:03:30 -0800 Cat Vincent
A massively read group-blog with some pertinence and generous anger is what is, in the bubblegum post-web2.0 world, sorely missing.


Generous anger. Perfect coinage - a phrase for our times. ]]> Grinding http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11521#Comment_11521 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=459&Focus=11521#Comment_11521 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:05:53 -0800 hyim
generous anger is the title of a book on Orwell, an expression quite fitted to all things Ellis. ]]>