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Canned Dragons

Canned Dragons is a weblog about faith, noise and technology, written by Robert.

"For the memory can both provoke the dragon and the memory can also subdue him."

~ St. John Chrysostom

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The Mouse House Redux

Changes to Disney World have me rethinking making any future plans to visit the park.

A still of Mickey Mouse piloting a steamboat from the animated movie Steamboat Willie.

A Different Perspective

Another account of Len Riggio, the longtime head of Barnes & Noble.

A Different Perspective

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A Custom Collection

A few years ago, my wife’s company had a get together at CAMRaleigh, the modern art museum. After some mingling, the boys and I camped out in the staff offices. The desk where I sat had numerous pictures of Karl Lagerfeld. I might have felt a little uncomfortable at

Studio - West Coast

A much-hyped reissued album was ahead of its time while still feeling rooted in its own era.

Malicious Compliance

Jason Koebler writes for 404 Media about the rising popularity of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Koebler takes a cheekily sarcastic tone in his final paragraph. It is impossible to say why this book is currently going viral at this moment in time and why it may feel particularly relevant

Headlights Pointed At The Dawn

For this Friday Night Video, we’re going back a way, to the mid-nineties. Smashing Pumpkins had released Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness a fittingly grandiose title for an ambitious and widely varied double-album. At the time, I heard the first single, the “rat in cage” song, and I

Unpublishable.txt

Chris Butler writes about the words he chooses not to publish online and that end up in his unpublishable.txt file. The Unpublishable file is filled with half-formed critiques of the systems I work within, questions about the ethical implications of design decisions I’ve helped implement, and doubts about