decreased_sales: July 2008 Archives

Gaming

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on July 31, 2008 2:22 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

"Solving Tic-Tac-Toe: Game Tree Basics"

Free Gary

Daily life in Belarus:

(Photo description: The woman at right is a Lithuanian citizen, standing in the Lithuanian village of Norviliskes. She is speaking with her Belarusian relatives, behind a fence that is built on the border between Belarus and Lithuania, while a Belarusian border guard watches over the scene on Friday, May 2, 2008. The border between the two countries runs right through the middle of this village. The diverging paths taken by the two countries since the 1991 Soviet collapse have left former neighbors in this border village separated not only by an imposing fence but by increasingly different ways of life. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits))

As someone who lives in the inversion, I found this article interesting.

Also, as someone who works on Drupal in Emacs, I've found Sacha Chua's site to be most informative. Today's post on syntax checking with flymake is as good a place as any to start. (It's worth clicking around.)

The Stages of Grief as illustrated by the Dan Kaminsky DNS vulnerability discovery. (Did I already mention that sensepost was dead on in calling this a great infosec soap opera. (It's like l0pht and @stake or something.))

Apple is the new Microsoft. Can't we all just get along?

Color

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on July 30, 2008 8:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Morrissey arrives in Israel. I'm surprised they didn't quote "National Front Disco."

Alan Moore and Rick Veitch on Will Eisner.

Using color to create subtext in animation:

"X-Men and Suicide Girls: How the fairer sex fares at comic book conventions. (Hint: not well.)"

Transcendent Interactions: Collaborative Contexts and Relatiohship-based Computing

1434 - The Chinese sail to Italy, sparking the Renaissance (on News for Medievalists)

A short interview with Eddie Campbell (who is currently here, on American soil).

The last hope

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on July 28, 2008 10:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Great Kevin Mitnick phreaking story:

The latest issue of the New Yorker has a Roberto Bolano story, which they've posted online. I've been warned by friends to set aside a good bit of time for 2666.

Quote: "Love is the sign that one is changing discourses. (Lacan)"

Christine Peterson at OSCON: "No secret software":

The Eisner Award winners (Not to be too mean, but I agree with Journalista: "If Brad Meltzer can win an Eisner, anyone can..." (I guess that's pretty mean.).)

It's John Ashbery's birthday. (As well as Gerard Manley Hopkins.)

It's probably a sad commentary on "me" that I enjoyed The A.V. Club's 22 unflattering moments from autobiographical comics.

Kerouac got an A. Adam Van Doren on his father's time teaching at Columbia University.

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on July 23, 2008 1:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Estelle Getty, R.I.P. Entertainment Weekly has collected their favorite Estelle Getty moments, via YouTube, in rememberance.

"Edupunk"

Stevie Wonder:

Your Free Will Astrology for the week

Science Labs at Night

Kahimi Karie & Momus - Lolitapop Dollhouse [live]

Versus CluClu Land is my new favorite blog.

Mysterious Chinese Tunnels, via. BLDGBLOG

Back to linking, for now...

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on July 22, 2008 8:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Still thinking.

Dan Kaminsky's DNS 'sploit is out. Broken internets.

Good stuff:

If you like poker, you should watch NBC's Poker After Dark. Last week's cash game was great fun, and this week promises to be good as well.

On Max Apple

I'm really enjoying Fantastic Contraption (although I could waste years of my life).

Have I already pointed to The Vice Guide to North Korea? Why not?

This pretty much nails my thoughts on Batman, although I'm not sure the lack of emotion is a bad thing. (And there's that scene in American Psycho on the stairs with the chainsaw where I'm pretty sure Christian Bale can't be accused of "under-emoting" (at least he really scares the crap out of me in that scene).)

A Challenge

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on July 9, 2008 8:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I'm taking up a challenge from Mr. Warren Ellis: "The world does not need another link blog." Fair enough. Posting will be less than daily as I work on "original content" (whatever that means). (The words of Bob Dylan come to mind - "If there's an original thought out there, I sure could use one right now.") More at some point later.