October 2011
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The Adventures of Tintin - unofficial title...
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January 2011
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"Coyote Falls" - a new CGI Coyote/Road Runner...
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Wisdom Teeth - Don Hertzfeldt
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December 2010
2 posts
MODERN TIMES on Vimeo
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Music video for Jonathan Coulton's "Shop Vac"
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November 2010
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Jefferson on books and bacon.
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.” Thomas Jefferson
An anti-creativity checklist.
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October 2010
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Contact Light - Preview of newly digitized footage...
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August 2010
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WatchTerence Kealey, Science is a Private Good – Or: Why Government Science is Wasteful (by Sean Gabb)
July 2010
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Password Card →
A simple and very minimal way to use and remember complex passwords.
June 2010
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WatchThe Singularity: An Appraisal. A Boskone 47 panel with Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross, and Karl Schroeder. (by Michael Johnson)
May 2010
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WatchSonar (by Renaud Hallée)
April 2010
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March 2010
2 posts
How To Run A Company That Engineers Actually Want... →
February 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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“As soon as we start mapping physical location back into shared information...”
– Douglas Adams, November 1999.
November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
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Mon Dieu, the French are behaving like the... →
“People who tattoo themselves claim to be expressing themselves; but what, exactly, are they expressing? What does an indelible blue-stylized lizard on the side of the neck signify? It is surely an implicit admission that the bearer has nothing to express, and has difficulty in distinguishing himself from the others by whom he is surrounded. This is a particularly wounding admission in an...
Harlan Ellison’s Dramatic Reading of the...
July 2009
2 posts
June 2009
6 posts
NedaNet Resource Page →
“This is the resource page for NedaNet, a network of hackers formed to support the democratic revolution in Iran. Our mission is to help the Iranian people by setting up networks of proxy severs, anonymizers, and any other appropriate technologies that can enable them to communicate and organize — a network beyond the censorship or control of the Iranian regime.
NedaNet doesn’t have...
camen design · Video for Everybody! →
“Video For Everybody is very simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 element which offers native playback in Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3 & 4”
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Extreme punctuation pedantry →
“Punctuation marks originated from notations used to mark pauses for breath in oral recitations, but 17-to-19th-century grammarians tied it ever more tightly to grammar. There remains a minority position that language pedants call ‘elocutionary’ - that punctuation is properly viewed as markers of speech cadence and intonation.”
May 2009
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“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as...”
– Nassim Taleb
Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction →
“As I write this, Inform 7 is approaching its third birthday. I7 is a tool for creating interactive fiction (text adventure games). Like all the most powerful IF development tools, I7 is a programming language — a powerful and peculiar one.
Inform 7 gets a lot of attention for its English-like syntax. I’m not going to talk about the natural-language aspects of I7. I’m...
April 2009
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“Everybody believes in innovation until they see it.”
– Nolan Bushnell (via doanepaperfeed)
March 2009
6 posts
New York Saloons Without TVs - A Proud, Rare Breed... →
New York was once dominated by a tavern culture, “and television was one of the things that cut into the social function of the saloon,” said the writer Pete Hamill, a chronicler of drinkery who wrote a 1994 memoir, “A Drinking Life.”
He argued that television was, even worse, a destroyer of an entire ambience that extended into the neighborhoods of New York.
“When I went away to the Navy in...
Bruce Haley's Tao of War Photography →
1. To begin with, practice this sentence: “If I get out of here alive, I’ll never do this again.” You’ll say this to yourself every single time an already dangerous situation really turns to shit…
7. True anarchy sucks… forget those tie-dyed, dreadlocked white kids in the university towns who advocate hemp and “anarchy” - if the real thing ever happens here, those assholes...
February 2009
4 posts
3M Nuclear Grade Duct Tape →
Be sure to read the customer reviews.
Amish Hackers →
“The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology. It’s well know the strictest of them don’t use electricity, or automobiles, but rather farm with manual tools and ride in a horse and buggy. In any debate about the merits of embracing new technology, the Amish stand out as offering an honorable alternative of refusal. Yet...
January 2009
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Nassim Taleb's life tips. →
1 Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
2 Go to parties. You can’t even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
3 It’s not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If...
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