1. This Site

This site is The Failure of a Vast Network. It was born on July 1, 2004 and is updated regularly every few weeks or so. It probably has no specific guiding philosophy or anything; I don't really know why I made it in the first place. Most of its writing is done quickly and haphazardly in small flurries of activity.

2. Me

My name is Dan. I made this site, the description of which precedes this section. Like most people, I enjoy recieving interesting (e-)mail and stuff. If you'd like to get into contact with me, this could facilitate that:

You're cool and all. I like you. If I had a myspace account, (which of course i do not, ahahahaa haa..) this is the information I would divulge in my profile:

General Interests: antarctica, cities as organisms, the anthropic principle, public broadcasting systems, laika drifting in space, copyleft, found magazine, mcsweeney's, the new yorker, a guitar, sapir-whorf, the systematic knocking over of dominos, humor, art as an indomitable ubiquitous force, the smallest possible indivisible amount of time Television: The Office, PBS, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Adult Swim, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Family Guy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Home Movies, Duck Tales, Conan O'Brian, not-quite-primetime-specials-on-things-like-area-51, Blackadder Books: Wordliness: J.D. Salinger, Roald Dahl, James Joyce, Dave Eggers, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Chabon, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Sarah Vowell, Voltaire, Douglas Adams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Aldous Huxley, E.E. Cummings, Samuel Beckett, David Ives, Eugene Ionesco, Michael Doughty, Jonathan Swift, Found Magazine, The New Yorker, Hunter S. Thompson, McSweeney's

Music: The Beatles, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, The Arcade Fire, Interpol, David Bowie, Les Savy Fav, The Shins, Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground, Nick Drake, The Rolling Stones, Echo and the Bunnymen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, The Clash, Television, Pixies, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Clinic, Weezer, The Knife, Simon and Garfunkel, Ben Folds, TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, Franz Ferdinand, George Gershwin, John Lennon, George Harrison, Kraftwerk, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, My Bloody Valentine, Modest Mouse, Joy Division, The Beta Band, Travis, Coldplay, Blur, Air, Dave Brubeck, Belle &; Sebastian, Daft Punk, Phoenix, The Flaming Lips, Sun Ra, Grandaddy, The Smiths, Beulah, Sonic Youth, The White Stripes, The Wrens, Wilco, The Cure, Charles Mingus, Brad Mehldau, Aimee Mann, Graham Coxon, The Notwist, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, The Walkmen, French Kicks, Cole Porter, Hot Hot Heat, Marc Bolan and T-Rex, Spoon, Sondre Lerche, Blonde Redhead, The Cardigans, The Dandy Warhols, Beck, Elbow, Fiona Apple, Bright Eyes, Gorillaz, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Philip Glass, The Hives, John Coltraine, Oasis, The Strokes, The Verve, Misson of Burma, Bob Dylan, The Faces, Prince, Garbage, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Soul Coughing, Do Make Say Think, Depeche Mode, The Fiery Furnaces, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Iron and Wine, Jon Brion, Janis Joplin, Electric Six, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mclusky, Smashing Pumpkins, The Streets, The Decemberists, Dizzee Rascal, Pavement, Kevin Shields, The Unicorns, The Libertines, Jose Gonzales, Devo

Movies: 8 1/2, The Royal Tennenbaums, Amelie, Being John Malkovich, Annie Hall, A Hard Day's Night, Billy Liar, Yellow Submarine, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, Band of Outsiders, The Graduate, Taxi Driver, American Beauty, American Splendor, Rushmore, Punchdrunk Love, Good Will Hunting, Waiting for Guffman, This Is Spinal Tap, Pixar, Brazil, The Iron Giant, Hiyao Miyazaki, The Princess Bride, Help!, North by Northwest, Pi, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Charade, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars, That Man From Rio, Wallace and Gromit, Dancer in the Dark, Koyaanisqatsi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Orson Welles, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Roman Holiday, Moulin Rouge, Ed Wood, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Memento, Indiana Jones, The Bourne Identity, Secretary, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Fight Club, Seven, I Heart Huckabees, Blade Runner, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Sting, Microcosmos, Singin' in the Rain, Amadeus, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Hero, The Producers, Requiem for a Dream, The Life Aquatic, Spiderman, Batman, Doctor Strangelove, Adaptation, Pleasantville, Ghost World, Sleeper, The Big Lebowski, James Bond, Donnie Darko, Apocalypse Now, Wallace and Gromit, Bottle Rocket, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Rear Window, Diabolique, Cinema Paradisio, Psycho, Run Lola Run, Back to the Future, Mullholland Dr., Almost Famous, Midnight Cowboy, Being There

3. Commenting

Feel free to comment! I encourage it; at some point, I would love to get actual conversation threads operating on this site, and that's pretty much totally contingent on your (points at you) participation, right? Additionally, the comment feature may be useful for starting collaborative projects here, which I'd love to do as well. So feel free to say stuff.

4. Stanislav Petrov

This man saved the world from 1980s WarGames/Terminator/Auf-ihrem-Weg-zum-Horizont/Vera-Lynn nuclear destruction on September 26, 1983. Here is the entry on Wikipedia. I feel that people should know about this.