A poem by Jack Gilbert
Keats and fame and death
"Money for the operation can then be reprogrammed from
previous appropriations" - I was struck by Hersh's use of
"reprogrammed" (programming as a metaphor for action against a data
set?). (According to the OED online, "programme" has been used since
the late 1800s to mean "arrange.")
Corporate
Information: Google User Experience
Open
Access Philosophy
Germaine Greer doesn't like Bob Dylan
June 2008 Archives
The Kids' Page of the Central Intelligence Agency
"Designing
Accessible Games," Henry Jenkins
There are some overwhelming pictures of the troubles in South Africa
on The Big Picture:
Foreign
Policy's Failed States Index 2008
Aphex Twin, "Windowlicker"
Free Haven's Selected Papers
in Anonymity
Bruce
Schneier: "I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch." Words
of wisdom.
I've
been looking for a reason to link to something about Omaha, which is
the game of champions. Poker News's coverage of the 2008 WSOP has
been first rate, and I'm always glad to see Erik Seidel in there.
"John
Ashbery's Optional Apocalypse," by Chris Nealon
Russian hackers
planning attacks agains Baltic countries and Ukraine. Where's
Gadi?
"Watching nonprogrammers trying to run a software company
is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf."
Joel Spolsky taken out of context.
Hacker conference videos for your viewing pleasure.
Immigration Detention Facilities. I'll go ahead and start writing the apology.
When I'm old(er), I want to be this guy:
Kevin Poulsen on the Citibank ATM heists.
Your Free Will Astrology for the week.
"The Endgame Genius of Jose Raul Capablanca."
A 728 ton pendulum (a tuned mass damper).
Geek out with this AICN interview with Shane Mahan and Lindsay Macgowan of Stan Winston Studios.
An interview with Adrian Holovaty, creator of Django.
Neave. I'd like to have a monitor that ran this all day.
Why Mexicans Hate Elvis - A Recounting of San Diego concert experiences.
For the unemployed mad scientist unemcumbered by moral constraints.
I have seen evil, and its name is Deep Crow.
As everyone's pointed out:
Information on Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards.
Life as a programmer. (From the comments "I personally thought it was going to be alot like the movie Swordfish, drinking wine with hot chicks while making virtual cubes on my octo-monitor setup.")
Conversational Reading v. Nicholas Carr
The Fluidity of Russian Football
Lessons from the cyberattacks in Estonia. Gadi Evron's work on this topic is also worth checking out. (There's a PDF write-up by Evron as well as his presentations at Black Hat and Defcon (which google has failed to find).)
Mother Jones has the torture playlist. Songs include Prince's "Raspberry Beret," Deicide's "Fuck Your God," and the Barney theme song.
Unplug your coffeemaker from the internets.
Happy Juneteenth!
"got fuel to burn / got roads to drive"
Spend the day with KLF.
OTO Fight Night!. I love the litigious politics of esoteric religious groups! Almost as much as I love exclamation points! Hooray!
Your Free Will Astrology for the week. (A new service.)
"Sergey Karjakin at eighteen." (He was grandmaster at 12.)
Gay Arabs Partying.
Steve Yegge makes some good points on Rhino, Javascript, and the future of the web.
Old computer music.
Princess Leia and Salman Rushdie:
Congratulations, George Takei.
THE PRESS RELEASE FOR MY ATTEMPT TO BREAK THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORD FOR HOLDING BREATH UNDERWATER. BY RICK STOECKEL
Stan Winston died this weekend.
Ryan Trecartin's "A Family Finds Entertainment" and "(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me)" (on ubuweb).
Nonconceptualist Manifesto Part 1
Interior design for the Computer Science set.
Mozilla Rhino: Javascript for Java.
Daniel Lanois discusses Bob Dylan's "Most of the Time."
It's Bloomsday. My only Bloomsday in Dublin was World Cup 2002. I watched Mick McCarthy's Irish (sans Roy Keane) lose to Spain.
"We're all ops people now"
Premiere League fixtures are announced.
Tim Berners-Lee's "Principles of Design"
Dancho Danchev visualizes malicious doorways.
"Utopia on the sidewalk": Fritz Haber, atomic bombs, science fiction, Bloomsbury, and poison gas.
"A 30-picowatt processor for sensors" - I link to the ZDNet article because there's all kinds of good links.
Modern Art and Rubbish
The ever amusing Zed Shaw emerges from the rubble of Bear Sterns to preach the truth about programming, IDEs, the financial market, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and on and on. I look forward to his posts with unhealthy amounts of glee.
It's a SCADA party! More here and here and, of course, here.
An interview with Alan Moore.
The Stuckist Manifesto (I love a good manifesto. Maybe that's what I like about Zed Shaw's writing. It all feels like a manifesto.)
Ultra Large Systems
Why the web is not an OS (I'm not sure why we're having this debate (and by "we're" I mean "they're"), so I'm not sure why I'm linking to this. I feel compelled. )
Happy Loving Day. The words of Iggy Pop seem relevant here.
"now a language that sounds new
comes a-driftin' next to you
and the music that you hear ls changin' too
cuz they 're mixin' the colors
baby the colors"
A Momus video:
My Life in a Cube. Depressing comics about work.
15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages. While I'm not always a fan of lists (see The Ten Commandments), this one has a number of useful tools and a few I wasn't familiar with.
The Nine Laws of God, from Kevin Kelly's Out of Control.
A.I. on the web (links galore).
The Re-Segregation of Rock & Roll, by David Kirby
Towards a Poetics of Rivers Cuomo
Strange Maps: A blog of maps, including 221B Baker Street and Heaven.
Football is like chess, only without dice. True, true.
How rich are you?
Set list, Bob Dylan (on keyboards), Ostrava, Czech Republic, June 9, 2008
Can Games Get Real? A Closer Look at "Documentary" Digital Games, by Ian Bogost and Cindy Poremba
Books on "How the Mind Works," The New York Review of Books
A Melodic Weather Machine
Alain Robbe-Grillet is a dead system.
Marconi's Legacy: National Sovereignty Claims in Radio Systems (PDF) (From the abstract: "as wireless communication moves to higher and higher frequencies - into the range of infrared (heat) and "free space optics" (light) - it is becoming obvious that claiming sovereignty over radio frequencies makes no more sense than claiming sovereignty over colors of the rainbow. Is radio legally different from light? If not, might we someday need government permission to use certain colors of light for certain purposes, as with the invisible colors of radio?"
The Bilderberg Group met this weekend in Virginia, and Cryptome has pictures.
The Onion A.V. Club interviews Harlan Ellison, who once bought my wife a drink for recognizing him on the street.
Part 1
Part 2
On Lawrence Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind
A sonnet by Billy Collins
IT Failure Haiku
A note on the format: I've noticed that I post short points, based on links, which suggests a tumbleog as opposed to an online diary or news site, so, inspired by Anarchaia, Christian Neukirchen's tumbleog, I'm shifting modes.
Bob Dylan in Denmark: "But what interests me more is the idea of a collection based on historically romantic figures. Napoleon and Josephine, Dante and Beatrice, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, Brad and Angelina..."
CSS Typography Examples
A day late: A sketch of The Analytical Engine, with the notes of Ada Lovelace.
Coding the Mars Lander robot
Issue 12 of The Quarterly Conversation. Includes essays on Borges and Barthelme.
Computer Programming for Everybody
