This was sent to me by a friend today, I found it quite amusing because I have felt this way many times at certain points in my life where things just seem totally fucked, and you think of the worlds most useless error message: Abort, Retry, Fail.  Plus I have always loved the saying: 'You fail at life'.

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Day 3 of the Arse-Elektronika conference is today in San Francisco.  I went to the Arse-Elektronika conference for the first time yesterday and I have to say it was quite stimulating.  From the confrence organizer:

"Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction

Taking up where the successful conference in autumn 2007 left off, this year's Arse Elektronika stands under the motto "future" -- and the ways in which the present sees itself reflected in it. Maintaining a broadened perspective on technical development and technology while also putting special emphasis on its social implementation, this year's conference focuses on Science and Social Fiction.

The genre of the "fantastic" is especially well suited to the investigation of the touchy area of sexuality and pornography: actual and assumed developments are frequently depicted positively and approvingly, but just as often with dystopian admonishment. Here the classic, and continuingly valid, themes of modernism represent a clear link between the two aspects: questions of science, research and technologization are of interest, as is the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality and control (or the loss of control). Depictions of the future, irregardless of the form they take, always address the present as well. Imaginations of the fantastic and the nightmarish give rise to a thematic overlapping of the exotic, the alienating and, of course, the pornographic/sexual as well."

After it is all over I will give a report back.  But if you are in San Francisco today you should go.  It starts at 1 PM.

Learn more at http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika