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.
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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."
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?
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
To the person who bought the Surrealist manifesto for 3.9 million euros. (I was saving my money, but the exchange rates killed me.)
And to this Mancunian. ("Older, wiser, never applied to me.")
And, finally, to those other Mancunians. When John Terry slipped, I forgot myself, yelling "There is a god!"
And to this Mancunian. ("Older, wiser, never applied to me.")
And, finally, to those other Mancunians. When John Terry slipped, I forgot myself, yelling "There is a god!"
I'm really liking She & Him's album. My favorite track right now is Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? (You can listen to it and other tracks on their MySpace page.)
It's a bit heavy-handed. No more than Kipling, Conrad, or Coetzee, though.
