“This page provides a bibliography of articles concerning social network sites. For an overview of this space, including a definition of “social network sites,” a history of SNSs, and a literature review, see boyd & Ellison’s 2007 introduction to the JCMC Special Issue on Social Network Sites, Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Example social network sites addressed include: Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Cyworld, Mixi, Black Planet, Dodgeball, and LiveJournal.”

So, I was thinking about this and trying to not to get too glum. I realized that instead of complaining, I could help by pointing to some papers which are easily available online and which (to me at least) point to some of the most interesting ideas about software. To me, these are classic papers which contain deep “things you oughta know” about code – the material you work with.

Trippy buzz bands such as the Wooden Ships, Dead Meadow and A Place to Bury Strangers join the aforementioned locals and dozens more, including Sky Sunlight Saxon of legendary Los Angeles garage rock titans the Seeds. Not too shabby for a festival that’s only on its second year.

Ah, if only every post-millennial goth band could sound like NYC’s A Place To Bury Strangers. These guys bring the darkness but back it up with a claustrophobi-noise-noir that hasn’t really been explored since we lost Ian Curtis and Bauhaus drifted away. Sure, everyone dogs the trappings of goth but APTBS really digs into the darkness in a fresh and less cliched way. They headline a festival of sorts at Radio Room in Austin Sunday night.

The fest is not, however, an exercise in flower-power nostalgia: indeed, this year’s lineup is a cross-reference of pretty much every modern sound that could possibly fall under the “psychedelic” banner, throwing together the blown-out futurism of Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers, the drug-mellowed West Coast fuzz of The Warlocks and Dead Meadow, the classic Vietnam-flashback drone of Wooden Shjips and The Black Angels, the synth freakness of Houston’s Indian Jewelry, and the jangly reverberations of Austin’s own The Strange Boys into one altogether intimidating package.

Sun(But that’s the Lord’s Day?):Psych Fest 2 with A Place to Bury Strangers (11:30pm), The Warlocks (10pm), The Strange Boys (9pm), Asteroid #4 (Philadelphia, 8pm), Forever Changes (Austin, 7pm), The Vandelles (NYC, 6pm),

A collection of advice about how to do research and how to communicate effectively (primarily for computer scientists).

Discovered a short time ago, “I Know I will see You” group “A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS”, shown below is the song that touched me most this year because of its references to New Order, The Cure or Jesus & Mary Chain. You can play it:

I’d like to tour with a new band, that would be exciting, I mean today we just dropped by the MGMT show (Shepherds Bush Empire) and watched the opening band (me – a place to bury strangers), yeah! We went to go see A Place to Bury Strangers and they were really cool, we’re actually – they’re staying at our place, this week, so I’ll get the chance to talk to them and hang out with them I guess, but yeah they’re really cool and I really like their music so I guess realistically I’d like to tour with them.

Oliver Ackermann’s sideline building hand-wired guitar pedals. Oliver himself is quite humble about the rise and rise of the band. “We’re incredibly grateful that all of this is going on. We went from putting out a compilation of our demos to playing arenas with Nine Inch Nails in less than a year. It’s been like a chainsaw caught in a whirlwind getting hit by a bus.”

Well, they’re the real deal. Call them what you will, genrenize them how you will, but there’s no denying they’re one of the more intriguing noise acts emerging from the New York scene.

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