November 2011
1 post
Things I want to remember about Burning Man
Things I want to remember about Burning Man before I forget, because I am afraid that I will: I want to remember having to actually prepare for a trip. Buying shorts for the first time in I don’t know how long. Cutting, crimping, and soldering for the first time in years. Buying food, making food, freezing food, packing food. I want to remember chili with butternut squash and chard. Buying...
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
7 posts
Waking up at 630, dreaming about the World Cup
There was a comedian on stage, he was talking about his childhood. He was making some joke about nintendo cartridges, blowing on them, but it was just a curl of wire in his hand. Something happened and I was pretending to be someone on stage, a bunch of people were playing different roles, we were staff in a hotel lobby or people in some old saloon or something. A kid representing the young...
The things I want to remember about my trip to...
The things I want to remember about my trip to Detroit for AAJA: The dark plane, the monitors glowing in every seat. Reading William Gibson. Sharp, careful, cold, like a scalpel. The D. Warm, cool air. The cavernous belly of the Marriot. The pixelated Cobo Center. Motown. The broad swaths of road. Motor City. The People Mover. The swarm of Asians, the skirts and makeup, ties and jackets. The...
Embedded in Academia : C No Evil →
#define FALSE 1#define FALSE exit()#define while if#define goto#define struct union#define assert(x)#define volatile#define continue break#define double int#define long short#define unsigned signed
Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings.... →
“So let me give you the news 2 months early. If the economy and the stock market continue to languish that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
I’ll bet most partners’ meetings this week consisted of…
What Happened to Obama’s Passion? - NYTimes.com →
A story isn’t a policy. But that simple narrative — and the policies that would naturally have flowed from it — would have inoculated against much of what was to come in the intervening two and a…
Obama: Debt Ceiling Deal Required Tough... →
“A day after signing legislation that raised the government debt ceiling and authorized steep budget cuts, President Obama thanked Democrats as well as Democrats for their willingness to make tough,…
Plate Tectonics : Earthview →
“Photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the…
July 2011
18 posts
Answer to Who is history's greatest badass, and... →
“Roosevelt was the first President to fly in an airplane. He was the first President to go down in a submarine. He once killed a cougar with a knife. He was also a sensitive man who loved poetry and…
Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and... →
The Show :: Replay →
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man i like this episode. i’m finding myself envious of whatever energy i had while making these. I know rationally what a fucking nightmare it was to put these together, but it appears so…
Business & Technology | Price of corn dogs going... →
from the comments: “Is it possible for an article to troll itself?”
Marvel Cinematic Universe - Wikipedia, the free... →
to infinity “In November 2010, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada outlined his plan to expand the MCU into comic books.”
Walking around a New New York, basketball in a...
The end of the dream was something around throwing basketballs at a hoop in the middle of a marsh. If we missed the ball would make a huge splash into the water, and then pop back out into the air. Some of us tried shooting from pretty far away, on a hill or something Another part, earlier, I was walking around lower manhattan with Stephanie lin, and we were looking for something to do. Something...
What Apple Has That Google Doesn’t - An Auteur -... →
weird to write now as google is unifying a ton of their products
hapticdata/toxiclibsjs - GitHub →
Toxiclibs.js is a javascript port of Karsten Schmidt’s Toxiclibs for Java and Processing. Toxiclibs.js works great with the Processing.js visualization library for but is not dependent on it. It can…
Fab.com Relaunches With Daily Deals & Design... →
“Fab.com has gone through some major transitions since its launch last June. In fact, it began life as Fabulis, a web trend-infused social network for gay men.”
Turntable Kitchen | Connecting Food + Music →
enid →
my sister’s speech as an officiant to her best friend’s wedding made me cry at work:
“Not to put the pressure on or anything, but we’re all - about 100 of us - gathered here today to watch you say…
SUPERCUT.ORG: RANDOM →
supercut of supercuts / also, random supercuts
Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t... →
“It turns out to be easier and faster to iterate from an existing but wrong solution, than to deduce a correct solution from scratch. Even if you have to occassionally press the “clear” button to…
You Call This A Bubble? | LinkedIn →
“There’s a test looming for the 2011 “bubble” in the pending Groupon IPO. Here we have a company that reeks of Bubble 1.0: huge losses and an IPO prospectus that flaunts a contrived revenue metric…
Twitter / @ball4ny: Opening up the discussion! ... →
Senator Ball “Opening up the discussion! So, if you were me, how would you vote on gay marriage? Yes or No?”
Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds - NYTimes.com →
““Retire?” he said. “Unlike your baseball player and your prizefighter and your matador, how does a writer retire? No one accepts that his legs are shot or the whiplash gone from his reflexes….
DEPTHJS | MIT Media Lab →
“DepthJS allows any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect using Javascript.”
OPENING DAY: INTERACTION →
robert and veronica helped make this: “On Thursday June 23rd, the opening of SEAT: an outdoor chair show was released to the public. The activity, energy, and attention that W.E.T received was…
June 2011
4 posts
I love airports, love flying
I love airports, love flying. Something meditative being in a nonplace, a gateway rather than a destination. I like brushing my teeth in airport bathrooms. Something about the morning routine made public and naked. I like the cheesy art budget sculptures. I like the lives all folded up and packed and wheeled and pushed and carted around. I like the calming mechanical voices. Now boarding gate a4....
oscarblu →
makes me so sad and happy
Quake’s 3-D Engine: The Big Picture →
“As a former manager of mine liked to say, “After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.” It’s that second 90% that’s the key to success.
A lot of programmers…
Hacker News | Such a shame.Anonymous had a lot of... →
“There are no ideals, and it’s not a conspiracy.
That’s the impression I have of a lot of contemporary political and business interests: “There are no ideals, and it’s not a conspiracy. It’s just…
May 2011
16 posts
long exposure photography, video and sculpture →
Remembrance of Links Past (Pinboard Blog) →
“Since Pinboard has collected a lot of bookmarks at this point, I thought it would be interesting to actually run the numbers on link rot - the depressing phenomenon in which perfectly healthy URLs…
JavaScript link() Method →
whoa
App Myopia | Blog | design mind →
“In my previous post, I talked about an “opportunistic cluster” of hundreds of smart devices. The pain of App Myopia makes these types of devices nearly impossible to interact with easily as each new…
Voyaging Into the Cosmic Minimalism of Ryoji Ikeda... →
“Enlightenment guru Immanuel Kant would have called the “mathematical sublime,” the aesthetic experience of being overpowered by the inhuman immensity and complexity of the universe.”
'Planking' death puts spotlight on bizarre Web... →
“Planking takes its name from how players mimic a wooden board by lying rigid — preferably in a public place or on an unusual spot, such as a washing machine, a sign or a railing. The point is to…
Flickr: The Bad Public Art UK Pool →
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: March of the... →
love this old ad for the documentary film festival
Straight lines & primary colors. →
Crunching the numbers: How many people have ever... →
“Astonishingly that means over 12% of all the people ever born are walking the planet at this very moment. Or to put it another way: one in eight people who have ever been born are alive today.”
form follows behavior - Data visualization as... →
“Inside Apple” Reveals Steve Jobs Anecdotes,... →
“Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” Having received a satisfactory answer, he continues, “So why the f*** doesn’t it do that?”
50 Posts About Cyborgs | 2. The Project →
“In May 1960, Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline attended the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine to participate in the Psychophysiological Aspects of Space Flight Symposium. They presented a…
Ye | Define Ye at Dictionary.com →
apparently Ye Olde was pronounced The Old… fck”The word ye 2 , as in Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, is simply an archaic spelling of the definite article the. The use of the letter Y was a printer’s…
kokkugia →
more generative aa drl work
What Did Historical Swords Weigh? →
“Medieval swords in general were well-made, light, agile fighting weapons equally capable of delivering dismembering cuts or cleaving deep cavities into the body. They were far from the clumsy, heavy…
April 2011
19 posts
Joe Queenan on the Frank Gehry Glut | Moving... →
“An Iowa-based philanthropist and architecture aficionado has offered a $300 million reward to any city anywhere in the world that dares to hire someone other than Frank Gehry to design its gleaming…
Elon Musk on Running Tesla Motors and SpaceX -... →
“Professional managers—MBA CEOs—are not very creative or adaptable, and their skills don’t suit a startup. Business is like a multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. The rules aren’t set, and the…
URL Linter - Facebook Developers →
inspecting your pages for facebookiness