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About
- Once upon a time before the advent of personal computers and long before the Internet existed, Icarus Holmes had his very own website. He spent countless sleepless nights building the Original out of matchsticks and wood glue; he learned to code by the skin of his skinteeth; and despite the fact that the early site was hosted by angry, drunken bluebirds, Icarus Holmes still managed to stream music, video, and thought-stuff to the masses.
Then came the time of great change. The Internet was invented, and soon everybody was coding websites; everybody was a webmaster, and the skills that Icarus took so long to develop became obsolete. The back-end of the Original fell to pieces (literally, the matchsticks were ravaged by termites and the wood glue melted like so much ice-cream under a space heater). Streaming music, video, and thought-stuff was considered unfashionable unless it was shared on social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube.
Like the technology itself, Icarus evolved. Maintaining ownership of his very own website seemed like an archaic conceit. It was much easier to share his videos on sites that other people built (sites that were dedicated to sharing video). And it made a lot more sense to blog on a platform that was built and hosted by anonymous geeks then it did to build a unique blogging platform from the ground up.
So Icarus donated the Original to Goodwill Industries and began creating profiles on various websites; basically, he decided it was more comfortable to exist in the bosom of large corporations like Yahoo and Google than it was to exist on his own, misplaced in this Kafkaesque continuum of non-spatial reality.
But soon there were too many websites and too much choice. If a person wanted to discover new music, he had at his fingertips thousands of sites on which new music was featured. If he wanted to share photographs, then he could do so on hundreds of popular social networks. So Icarus, trying to keep up with the blast of technology, created hundreds of profiles on hundreds of different sites. The consequence, of course, was fragmentation.
Now Icarus found it impossible to keep track of his pluripresence; and even worse, he spent so much time on the Internet, creating profiles, that he abandoned his “real” life outside of the web. He stopped eating, stopped sleeping, stopped having sex, and ultimately he stopped breathing. But oxygen isn’t needed for life on the web. Icarus’s continued persistence is proof that a “person” can upload his entire personality to the net, and that such a pseudo-personality can persist long after death (although probably not forever, because Icarus "lives" only for as long as sites like Google, Yahoo, and Youtube persevere). His neural-net has been replaced by the internet and his web of friends is little more than a crowd of avatars. His heart and soul are here, in this aggregate, hosted by yet another company that offers free profiles to the technologically enslaved.***********
This so-called “homepage” (hosted by Flavors) is an aggregate of just some of the many hyperlinks to disparate profiles deployed all and over the internets. Still, there are hundreds of profiles that are left unlisted; and many of those lost profiles exist so deep in the darknet that even Icarus himself has forgotten about them.
Regardless, Icarus tries to keep this page up to date with his most active memberships. But the Internet evolves faster than he can type, and many of these sites go untouched for long periods of time.
Almost all of Icarus's disparate profiles (even the lost ones) link back to this page in an attempt to itemize the confusion; so if and when the aggregate implodes, then like digital dust the webpresence will be spread into an asynchronous electronic æther. And that eventual breakdown won’t matter at all -- because when Icarus dies, then everything listed here will seem a foolish archaism...
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Tweets
- It's not the size of the boat that matters; it's the size of the ocean.
- My favorite food is sugar.
- First rule of being a traffic cop: Don't wave to your friends...
- Now that the Borders is closed, where will the Mexicans buy their books?
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- Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for a discounted price at Costco?
- I hope the last thing I see before I die is my lover standing over me and laughing in my face.
- Monkeys would be a lot funnier if they told jokes.
- Fed the multitude today. Too tired to walk on water.
- This car I traded for my bag of magic beans ain't worth a bag of beans.
- My New Year's Resolution is to do shit earlier.
- Whenever I read comments on YouTube, I feel an urge to quit the Internet. That place is disgusting.
- Told some peeps I'd attend their Halloween party dressed as God. Of course, I didn't show up...
- Twitter was way better before the Internet.
- People who double-check their order @McDonalds before pulling out of the drive-through, they just don't understand the nature of McDonald's.Oct 28, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Comfortable footwear encourages moral decadence.
- Quote of the day: end quote.
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Posts
- Oct 30, 11
Just because I liked a few Frank Zappa albums doesn't mean you have to flood my recommendations with hundreds upon hundreds of Zappa albums for months and months on end.
- Oct 25, 11
The ol' Ball & Chain wanted to art up some images for Halloween-time. But she wouldn't let me hang this masterpiece on our refrigerator. Too bad... - Oct 20, 11
- Oct 18, 11via amazon.com
Okay RJ, your little 99-cent eBook was worth the download. Funny, irreverent, and a lot more entertaining than I expected. I'll buy your other books...
- Oct 15, 11
For the first time in thirty years, Allison Zuill bought himself a bottle of whiskey and ventured into the graveyard.
- Aug 08, 11
From Amazon.com:
When my wife expressed an interest in cuckolding me, I thought, “Self, we’re going to have to take it slow and let these desires develop naturally.”
Neither of us were ready to order a big, black bull off Craigslist. And neither of us felt comfortable asking the cable guy to pleasure himself on camera. The only alternative was to purchase Inflatable Tyrone Doll Manikin, with his bedroom eyes and virile goatee. Unfortunately, Tyrone’s goatee is the only virile characteristic he possesses. Don’t let his dark skin fool you, this Mandingo is missing his dingo!
I spent hours and hours pushing this sexless stud against my wife’s genitalia, and she did finally reach orgasm for the first time in her life, but not without a little help from her other toy — a bigger, blacker inflatable doll, named Darnell.
- Aug 08, 11
J. D. Watson, from English sacred poetry of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott, London, 1863.
(Source: archive.org)
- Aug 08, 11
J. Wolf, from English sacred poetry of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott, London, 1863.
(Source: archive.org)
- Aug 07, 11
After moving into my new house, I thought to myself that I should buy a new truck to make myself appear even more bad-ass than I actually am (which is an almost impossible feat). My four-door Ford Excursion, the largest SUV in Ford’s lineup and a gas-guzzling monstrosity, did not have the same impression on my new neighbors as it did on my old friends back at the trailer park. Perhaps I needed something more elegant? Maybe something with enough interior space to seat the entire block and their families? So I traded my Ford in for a Lincoln Navigator, the full-size SUV styled and equipped for an upscale audience. Since my new ride shares the bulk of its underpinnings with the Ford Expedition, including its standard 310-horsepower 5.4-liter V8 and six-speed automatic transmission, I thought, “Finally, I’ll get some respect from these ignorant suburbanites…”
Turns out, nobody seemed to care much about my mammoth vehicle (except for, maybe, the parents of the three-year-old kid that I accidentally ran down, because, well, he was just too short and I couldn’t see him from my driver’s seat nearly six feet off the ground). Instead of buying yet another truck—something bigger and badder than before—I happened upon these fabulous Truck Nuts. And to make a long story short, people in my neighborhood finally seemed to take notice. If it’s true that your vehicle is an extension of your penis, then these nuts are the perfect accessory. They inspire awe and jealousy in everyone who see them. Now my neighbors stare intently at me in my truck as I barrel down the street. Some of the women even grab at their children, covering their eyes, afraid that my ostentatious show of virility might tempt their virgin daughters into a life of wickedness and sin. These Truck Nuts have given me what I deserve: respect, reverence, and attention. And best of all, I didn’t have to buy a new truck to teach my neighbors the meaning of the word “authority.” - Aug 07, 11
One winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. “Oh,” cried the Farmer with his last breath, “I shall never live to see the Dawn of Technology.” -
Aesop
- Aug 07, 11
Now that I have a smart-gadget that can browse the internets, play music, make phone calls, and suck my cock, seems like I have no reason to ever leave the house.
- Jul 18, 11
2011: The most powerful website in the world creates a social network.
2019: One third of the world belongs to the network.
2045: World War III begins.
2046: World War III ends.
2047: The internet is outlawed.
2065: Monkeys begin talking.
2082: The flying car is replaced with a flying talking monkey.
1987: Time Machines are invented.
456 BC: Martin Stevensonon, Professor of Time Mechanics at Ball State University, murders Aeschylus, playwright and soldier, by chucking a turtle at his head.
2004. They’re selling ice-cream in the parking lot!
2011: What were we talking about again?
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Mixes
- 112 plays / Created Mar 13, 10Music to listen to while reading K.W. Jeter's (1979) novel, "Morlock Night." -- Eight tracks including music by Happy Birthday Amy, The Clockwork Quartet, & Dr. Steel.
- 85 plays / Created Jul 07, 098 tracks of Palestinian hip-hop music wrought from poverty and frustration: music by DAM, Rami-MMD, & Ramallah Underground.
- 85 plays / Created Jul 07, 09Some tracks ripped from vinyl record smuggled out of NK; not the best quality. Others available online. All written by Kim Jong-il himself!
- 185 plays / Created Jul 06, 09Mexican, Brazilian, in Spanish & Portuguese: 8 tracks with "Latin" influence, including music by Di Melo, Julieta Venegas and Marcos Valle.
- 330 plays / Created Jul 05, 09Gangsta folk: 8 tracks including music by Foy Vance, Jill Sobule, & Nina Gordon. (Covering NWA, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Nelly, and more )
- 23 plays / Created Jul 05, 09Original gramophone recordings over 100 years old: music by George J. Gaskin, Will F. Denny, & others even great-grandpa hasn't heard of.
- 31 plays / Created Jul 05, 09Original Gramaphone & Cylinder Recordings: music by Blanche Ring & Frank Butts. GRINDING NOISES removed, but original low fidelity remains.
- 397 plays / Created Jul 04, 098th installment of my ambient dreampop collection, including some relaxing music by Autechre, Sigur Rós, and more from Lullatone.
- 337 plays / Created Jul 04, 09The ambient collection continues with eight elemental tracks of relaxing music from Amiina, Glissando, and Piana.
- 91 plays / Created Jul 04, 09Egyptian POP is dominated by break beats, dance, trance, & electronica. This mix includes music by Adel El Musree, Amr Diab, & Ehab.
- 113 plays / Created Jul 03, 098 pop music tracks that you probably won't hear on the radio, including music by Lucy Schwartz, Ben Sollee and Trinah.
- 74 plays / Created Jul 03, 09Sonic artifacts of malfunction: bugs, crashes, system errors, CD skipping, and distortion. Music by Matryoshka, Loom, Oval, and more.
- 9 plays / Created May 18, 12Metanoia: A journey beyond the throes of a shifting arrival.
- 29 plays / Created May 09, 12These are songs I will remember my trip from, and I never put that music on your flash drive so this will have to do - thanks for being da best Portland tour guide and cousin I could ask for Jenni. 18 tracks including music by Grimes, Tunng & CFCF.
- 29 plays / Created May 08, 12Another late night shuffling upon the relative plane.
- 12 plays / Created Apr 27, 12Drum machines making an awful racket.
- 28 plays / Created Apr 24, 12Party music for grown-up's. 10 tracks with Daedelus, The Avalanches and Gary Moscheles (Mike Paradinas)
- 21 plays / Created Apr 17, 1211 blues influenced tracks with Doug Martsch, Junior Kimbrough, and My Bubba and Mi.
- 40 plays / Created Apr 17, 129 tracks with very little moral or social conscience and very thin skin. Downtempo beats with drum and bass. Including Meat Beat Manifesto, DJ Wally, and a lot of Vibert remixes.
- 18 plays / Created Apr 17, 129 tracks with Trost, Kodek, F.l.o. Professionals only.
- 44 plays / Created Apr 13, 1213 pleasant and introspective tracks. Plaid, Joanna Newsom, Colin Stetson.
- 46 plays / Created Apr 09, 12A grab-bag, including Burnt Friedman, Massive Attack, and Fink.
- 30 plays / Created Mar 27, 12
- 20 plays / Created Mar 22, 12
- 78 plays / Created Mar 20, 128 tracks including music by Ill Esha, Theo Parrish and Tiga.
- 111 plays / Created Mar 15, 128 tracks including music by Maya Jane Coles, Arms and Sleepers & Dopplereffekt art: 'retina' by Sachin Teng
- 206 plays / Created Mar 13, 128 tracks including music by Kate Simko, Modeselektor & SBTRKT.
- 49 plays / Created Mar 09, 12There's no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going. There's no knowing where we're rowing, or which way the river's flowing. Is it raining, is it snowing, is a hurricane a-blowing? Not a speck of light is showing, so the danger must be growing. Are the fires of Hell a-growing, is the grizzly reaper mowing? Yes the danger must be growing, for the rowers keep on rowing. And they're certainly not showing any sign that they are slowing.
- 100 plays / Created Mar 06, 1214 sad and beautiful tracks. Mix 100 is for my Rachel. Venture forth my love.
- 134 plays / Created Mar 04, 128 tracks including music by Glasser, Pantha du Prince & Chrome Sparks. Illustration by João MT
- 223 plays / Created Feb 22, 128 tracks including music by Poliça, Kan Sano & The Neptunes. Art by Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor
- 164 plays / Created Feb 09, 128 tracks including music by Miranda Rae, Joker & Evil Needle. Painting by Martin Mueller
- 166 plays / Created Jan 23, 128 tracks including music by A Tribe Called Quest, Pistol McFly & Clear Soul Forces.
- 150 plays / Created Jan 08, 12
- 152 plays / Created Jan 07, 128 tracks including music by Aphex Twin, Neulander & Vector Lovers.
- 13 plays / Created Jan 05, 12
- 61 plays / Created Dec 30, 11This will be an ever-expanding list of experimental/dark/ambient dub. I will be adding tracks to it indefinitely. Turn up the bass.
- 28 plays / Created Dec 26, 11Bob Brookmeyer died on December 15th, a few days short of his 82'nd birthday. He played an unusual instrument, the valve trombone, but left a tremendous legacy as a musician, a teacher, and a man. Thanks for the music, Bob, and rest in peace..
- 73 plays / Created Dec 22, 11One track each, from a limit of 20 albums, that have not shown up on any other mixes of mine (ok maybe two). Genres are shuffled and I really didn't think too much about it, so I'm sure I'm missing some biggies. Whatever. It was a good year for music <3
- 26 plays / Created Dec 20, 11I'm too drained to write a description. 10 tracks including Hrvatski, Beef Terminal, Colin Stetson.
- 129 plays / Created Dec 16, 11
- 101 plays / Created Dec 16, 11Nine tracks of Christmas music from centuries past including music by Cantus, Chanticleer, and Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks.
- 34 plays / Created Dec 15, 1112 tracks dwelling upon the threshold
- 28 plays / Created Dec 12, 11Ten tracks including music by David Lynch, Other Lives, and Ray LaMontagne.
- 29 plays / Created Dec 09, 11Eleven tracks including music by Billy Cobham, Jaco Pastorius, and Herbie Hancock.
- 39 plays / Created Nov 26, 11Very late, very drunk, and very lost in suburban hell. How I got home will forever remain a mystery.
- 364 plays / Created Nov 16, 11Ten collected works written by Takashi Yoshimatsu. Haunting music played by Nobuya Sugawa, Sachio Fujioka, and Kyoko Tabe.
- 156 plays / Created Nov 06, 11"This light, were it the light of my life, laughing, I do not hesitate to extinguish it."
- 26 plays / Created Nov 05, 11Folk music about murder, infanticide, arson, animal cruelty, and other dysfunctional traditions. Fourteen tracks including music by Johnny Cash, Sham 69 and Tyler, The Creator.
- 129 plays / Created Nov 05, 118 tracks including music by J.Phlip, Evenings & Purity Ring.
- 131 plays / Created Nov 05, 118 tracks of beats and rhymes including music by Dela, Roc Marciano & Combined Operation,.
- 87 plays / Created Nov 05, 118 tracks including music by James Blake, Hieroglyphic Being & Nightlife.
- 77 plays / Created Nov 05, 118 tracks including music by , FaltyDL, Mimi Page & ADULT. art: autumn Yunshan Figure (1) River G. Huijun 2005
- 36 plays / Created Oct 30, 11You will not defeat us! Nine tracks including music by Anais Mitchell, Chris Bathgate, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. For my Rachel @littlegarfi
- 17 plays / Created Oct 30, 11Just a bunch of stuff from different genres I need to hear tonight..
- 25 plays / Created Oct 30, 11Eleven tracks including music by Arthur Blythe, Barry Harris Trio, and Benny Goodman.
- 62 plays / Created Oct 29, 11We may be lost, but we are not alone. 10 tracks including Built To Spill, Dan Auerbach, and Earth.
- 60 plays / Created Oct 27, 11Eight tracks including music by Braids, Deru, and Heather Duby.
- 48 plays / Created Oct 24, 11Nine tracks I'll have in my iPod when I take off on Virgin Galactic including music by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, and Itzhak Perlman.
- 39 plays / Created Oct 23, 11Leaving the comfort of Almanon to start anew at Riedel, one can't help but view the stratigraphic horizon and wonder what will be. 11 tracks.
- 111 plays / Created Oct 17, 118 tracks including music by Sun Glitters, Dkon & Alain Goraguer.
- 92 plays / Created Oct 16, 1111 dancefloor annihilators including Milanese, Vital Elements, and Jonny L. Like fast zombies, I AM NOT FUCKING AROUND!
- 169 plays / Created Oct 12, 118 tracks by Charlotte Dada, Emiliana Torrini, Sleep ∞ Over & others.
- 94 plays / Created Oct 12, 118 tracks including music by Rustie, Modeselektor, & Polygon Window. mix art: “shapely” by anatol [2000, textcollage on paperboard]
- 53 plays / Created Oct 10, 11Take a ten-strip and howl at the moon. 13 tracks with Cujo, Tino Corp, and Neil Landstrum.
- 133 plays / Created Oct 09, 119 tracks including music by Tycho, AFX & Weslee Connerzs.
- 74 plays / Created Oct 03, 11He could really get used to this "sexual revolution" jazz.
- 67 plays / Created Oct 02, 11Professionals only please. Following mix:"Errors And Malfunctions" by @cat_dentures
- 80 plays / Created Oct 02, 118 tracks including music by ESG, Trey Hemingway & Minnie Ripperton.
- 89 plays / Created Sep 29, 118 tracks including music by Utabi, Moskitoo & Groundislava.
- 23 plays / Created Sep 27, 11Eight tracks including music by Hank Mobley, Henry Threadgill, and Herbie Hancock. Nd an "O" and some"T" 's
- 33 plays / Created Sep 25, 11Serious bidniz for the strong of constitution only. Tracks by Shy FX, J Majik & Wickaman, Original Sin & Taxman.
- 78 plays / Created Sep 18, 11Just to be different. 11 tracks.
- 21 plays / Created Sep 17, 11The bleeding won't stop! (dedicated to @Btrxz's dead gran Nan)
- 189 plays / Created Sep 15, 11Nine tracks including music by Daisuke Tanabe, 8bitch & DJ Krush.
- 30 plays / Created Sep 13, 11Twelve tracks including music by Brian Eno, Camel, and Genesis.
- 10 plays / Created Sep 13, 11blunt force trauma and possible internal bleeding (just to make you feel alive)
- 12 plays / Created Sep 13, 11Twenty-five tracks including music by A.N.P., Solmania, and C.C.C.C..
- 71 plays / Created Aug 22, 11In Loving Memory of 阿公 (1927-2012). Grandpa was a brilliant chinese chess and checkers player, artist, storyteller and food connoisseur. I will always remember his good sense of humour, his dentures, the few strands of hair on his head, axe oil, pyjamas and most importantly, a person who was always there. Songs I listened to when I was a child, sitting by the old broken gramophone. And a few tracks that trigger fond memories with him. Seventeen tracks including music by 葛蘭, 周璇, and 白光 .
- 389 plays / Created Jan 15, 12You think you don't like chiptune... you do!
- 508 plays / Created Oct 03, 11Fifteen tracks including music by Chrono Trigger, Daisuke Ishiwatari, and Donkey Kong Country.
- 18667 plays / Created Dec 01, 11More info: http://silencenogood.net/video-game-dub-step-remixes/ with Zedd, Hooky, Skrillex and more
- 240 plays / Created Nov 26, 11Thirty tracks including music by Aaron Neville, Alexander O'Neal, and Luther Vandross.
- 427 plays / Created Mar 08, 11A journey into ambient symphony-scapes. Meandering and epic neo-classical compositions. With tracks by Explosions In The Sky, Johann Johannsson, and The Cinematic Orchestra. Also, try this mix's dark companion: http://8tracks.com/errormalfunction/this-symphonic-doom
- 385 plays / Created Nov 22, 11Songs to keep you warm in the cold...cozy up and mellow out by the fire.
- 58 plays / Created Jan 24, 11"And then is heard no more... It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
- 32 plays / Created May 15, 10Ten tracks including music by Dawn Upshaw, Eder Quartet and Gustav Holst - Boston Symphony Orchstra - Steinberg.
- 107 plays / Created Mar 30, 09Miles Davis and his disciples - Chick Corea, Weather Report.
- 14 plays / Created Nov 28, 10an antidote for all the christmas songs on the radio
- 225 plays / Created Oct 24, 10Eight tracks including music by Norah Jones, Portugal. The Man and Frank Sinatra.
- 65 plays / Created Nov 04, 10Eight tracks including music by David Hughes/John Murphy, Ennio Morricone and Jimmy Smith.
- 110 plays / Created Oct 12, 10Eight tracks including music by Bebo Best & The Super Lounge Orchestra, Chris Karen and Jazzamor.
- 1221 plays / Created Oct 30, 10Eight remixed versions of classic songs including music by Django Reinhardt, Apple Juice Kid and Artie Shaw.
- 36 plays / Created Nov 03, 10Music I like even though I can't understand a word of it.
- 128 plays / Created Nov 02, 10Great selection of classic tunes from the legends of Jazz.
- 222 plays / Created Jan 17, 10Ten tracks of the best recorded classical violin performances including music performed by: Itzak Perlman, Fritz Kreisler, and Yehudi Menuhin
- 40 plays / Created Apr 09, 10Eight tracks including music by Belleruche, Bernie Hanighen and Briskey.
- 3107 plays / Created Jan 30, 10Focus on the task at hand... it's funny but I spent an hour making this instead of reading a chapter I need to finish. Stuff by Numbers, Matmos, Dick Hyman and others that might help. If this worked for you this is what worked for me: http://8tracks.com/tijoalca/need-to-study-mix [if you do it right,] http://8tracks.com/artificialsweetner/commotion-killer [suicide is painless] http://8tracks.com/artificialsweetner/all-nighter
- 71 plays / Created Jan 08, 10Soundtrack to the Belle Isle conservatory - a truly otherworldly place. Tracks by The Raincoats, Tobacco and Hiromi Uehara.
- 188 plays / Created Mar 07, 10Hey! We can bring it on the West Coast... including music by Bill Holman, Marty Paich and Shorty Rogers.
- 42 plays / Created Dec 11, 09If you are living in a spy film, here is your mixtape. This one goes out for all you CIA jackals, economic hitmen, slick cats, and insiders. Now you have a soundtrack for when you take on the matrix, track down Saudi businessmen in a swanky hotel complex, and sleep with an attractive double agent. You're welcome. Nine tracks including music by Beck, Mouse on Mars, and Donovan.
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Even More
- One Page to Rule Them AllIcarus Holmes has a lot of different profiles hosted on a lot of different websites hosted on a lot of different servers. Some profiles are actively updated; some haven’t been touched in a long time; most are here listed in an itemized list for your convenience...Icarus Prime
In which Holmes does his social thing.- ClaimID is another aggregate of just some of the many hyperlinks to disparate profiles deployed all and over the internets. It's Icarus's backup homepage.
- Facebook is a super-cool site for super-cool people who want to share their super-cool updates with super-cool friends. It was founded by a guy named Mark.
- Twitter is a mega-cool site for mega-cool twits who want to share their mega-cool tweats with mega-cool twats. You may have heard about it from Ashton Kutcher?
Original ContentIn which Holmes posts content that he created.- Blogger is Google's public soapbox on which anyone can stand and show off their junk. Icarus created a text-only blog that features one post and only one post.
- Posterous is a commonplace book of links, ideas, and other webstuff created by Icarus Holmes
- Tumblr is a partial mirror to the (above) Posterous site. What's on Posterous is also on Tumblr, but not the other way around.
- Flickr is a site that allows people to share images of images.
- If Icarus ever decides to create online video, he'll probably upload it to Vimeo. For now, the page is pretty empty except for a few social features.
- CafePress sells t-shirts and other products that hurt the wallet.
AgglomerateIn which Holmes saves and shares other people's content.- Vodpod is a place for collecting videos found on the interwebs. Icarus tries to post interesting, intelligent things here. But it's hard to find interesting, intelligent things.
- Vi.sualize.us is a place for collecting images. Icarus uses this service to find, collect, and share visual media and fine art (paintings, illustration, design) found on their servers and across the web.
- Imgfave is also about collecting images. Icarus uses this service like a junk drawer for junk simulacra.
- The Lexicollection is a collection o' hyperlinks to obscure dictionaries, lexicons, etymologicons, wordbooks, and word-lists. It used to have hundreds of links, when it was hosted on ma.gnolia, before ma.gnolia died.
- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your w.w.wikipedia.
Musicology and Online RadioIn which Holmes fills the silence.- Rhapsody is a premium subscription music service with a library of over 3 quabillion songs.
- Last.fm "scrobbles" music data from multiple devices, then creates automatically generated music recommendations based on listening habits. Much of the music here is collected from online radio, blogs, this or that music site; and some tunes were forced down the throat by...
- Pandora Internet Radio: Go Go, Internet Streaming!
- 8tracks allows users to upload their music collection and create online mixtapes that can be shared with friends and strangers. It's an awesome way to discover new music, and in many ways the service is a throwback to a time before the internet.
- The Hype Machine keeps track of what music bloggers write about. Editors handpick a set of kickass music blogs and then present what they discuss for easy analysis, consumption and discovery.
- On thesixtyone, new artists make music and listeners decide what's good. The service turns music discovery into a sort-of social online video game.
Video DaemonIn which Holmes fills his brain with moving images.- Youtube is Youtube.
- Icarus Holmes uses Hulu to watch internet television as a means of escape from the boredom of his real life, in which he spends his time mostly on a comfortable couch watching traditional television.
- Rotten Tomatoes is a movie review site which offers reviews from top critics and users alike. It's a bit buggy and the design is flawed; still, it's incredibly popular and useful.
Konsumer KultureIn which Holmes spends his money.- Profile on Amazon.com -- It's more than just books. It's also a place to vent your snarky hole.
- Icarus uses Kaboodle to create wishlists, to shop, and to waste away in the bosom of consumerism.
- Yelp is for user reviews and recommendations of restaurants, shopping, nightlife, entertainment, services and more.
AutodidacticismIn which Holmes tries to improve himself.- Busuu Language Learning Community is social network similar to MySpace or Facebook, but users here help each other learn new languages.
- Icarus Holmes uses LibraryThing to catalog lots of the books that he's read and all of the books that he owns, also some of the books that he wants. Of course this library is incomplete. Icarus Holmes learned how to read nearly thirty years before opening his account.
- Daily Lit: Read books online, get short installments by daily email or RSS feed.
Wide World WebIn which Holmes points to other places.- Diigo collects bookmarks, and allows users to highlight and annotate the internet. It's an excellent website for saving articles, notes, and research. It may not be as popular as delicious, but it should be.
- Delicious is a bookmarking site that lets users build their own intranet.
- Reddit is a social news website to which registered users submit content, either via links or "self" posts. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down," which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's front page(s).
- The purpose of Digg was to give editorial powers back to the masses. Its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, like on Reddit, but never as cool as Reddit.
- StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users.
StochasticaIn which Holmes does the random.- The SOUP.io is an experimental LIFESTREAM, meaning that its ingredients are pulled from different sources all and over the internets, and then presented in a sloppy list that represents recent online activity.
- It used to be Hotmail, and then it was Live.com, and now it's Bing. Microsoft's webpresence is about as scattered as Icarus himself..
Dead WebIn which Holmes loses his mind.There are literally hundreds of more profiles spread around the web, most of which are left unused (like MySpace or Stereofame), just sitting on servers and waiting to die. The information on those sites is probably dated; and the links may lead to a 404 error or something worse.Icarus is currently trying to compile all of these dead profiles into a single list, so that he can display them here, for those that might be curious to see the depth of his insanity. But this process of compiling old profiles that were never bookmarked is a long and ridiculous affair. Many of the profiles are lost forever, and many cannot be edited without a password that Icarus has long forgot. Still, when the list of dead profiles is completed, it will be featured here. Check back for updates...
