Band name of the day: invaders on holiday

How Ken Layne Created a Publishing Oasis in a Desert Town of 8,000 People - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/news/ken-layne-desert-oracle

For Me, David Bowie Lives On - GARAGE https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/zmwap9/for-paul-gorman-david-bowie-lives-on

GitHub - kapok-lang/kapok: A Lisp on the Erlang VM https://github.com/kapok-lang/kapok

The legal battle to colonize Mars | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3739/mars-colony-settlement-spacex-elon-musk-trump

Portable Computer Pre-History: Portable Before Laptops https://tedium.co/2018/03/15/early-portable-computer-history/

If we disagree about morality, how can we teach it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/if-we-disagree-about-morality-how-can-we-teach-it

Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.

Band name of the day: provisional hope

Stop Blaming Russian Bots For Everything https://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/stop-blaming-russian-bots-for-everything

The Intellectual We Deserve | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve

Today is the ides of march. Celebrate by not letting prophetic dreams get in the way of your public speaking engagements.

Today is the ides of march. Celebrate by shanking your friends.

Today is the ides of march. Celebrate by being ware.

BBC - Culture - Twenty-six words we don’t want to lose http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171122-twenty-six-words-we-dont-want-to-lose

Band name of the day: mercury in vermigrade

How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006-04/msg01644.html

#nanogenmo idea: Create a pantheon with thematic names, modeled on sumerian, & sumerian-style myths around them. Ex., a god of water could be called Ena or Nina (since ‘a’ means water, & ‘en’ & ‘nin’ are prefixes for god names) & have hundreds of generated epithets based on domain

Bad idea of the day: A bot that generates not surrealistic and impossible recipes but merely strange Futurist Cookbook style recipes you could actually cook.

Book Towns Are Made for Book Lovers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-a-book-town

The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo’s odyssey from absurdist theatre troupe to new wave octet – Night Flight http://nightflight.com/the-mystic-knights-of-the-oingo-boingos-odyssey-from-absurdist-theatre-troupe-to-new-wave-octet/

In the 1950s everybody cool was a little alienated. What changed? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/in-the-1950s-everybody-cool-was-a-little-alienated-what-changed

Bad idea of the day: An RPG whose stats are traits like alienation, shadow integration, neurosis

Oingo Boingo History: New Wave’s Oddball West-Coast Icons https://tedium.co/2018/03/13/oingo-boingo-danny-elfman-history/

How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cold-war-led-the-cia-to-promote-human-capital-theory

ed(1) is Turing-Complete – *nix Windows https://nixwindows.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/ed1-is-turing-complete/

List: What Your Bookshelf Organization Says About You - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-bookshelf-organization-says-about-you

How Psychopaths See the World - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/a-hidden-problem-at-the-heart-of-psychopathy/555335/

Log Ratio – an informal introduction | ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1133

Hallucinated Gods | Melting Asphalt https://www.meltingasphalt.com/hallucinated-gods/

Jason Grinblat - Procedural History in Caves of Qud - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGAApZYIvI

Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU

RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duf… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k

GitHub - Widdershin/programmers-oath: An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocrat… https://github.com/Widdershin/programmers-oath

Community/Creative Commons - J Wiki http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Community/Creative_Commons

Benjamin Kovach https://www.kovach.me/posts/2018-03-07-generating-art.html

A Recipe for Sparkles https://tinyletter.com/learntocomputer/letters/a-recipe-for-sparkles

History generation in Epitaph | Affording Play https://mkremins.github.io/blog/history-generation-epitaph

All Of The Things That You Can Do With Arrays https://tinyletter.com/learntocomputer/letters/all-of-the-things-that-you-can-do-with-arrays

Writing a Simple IPFS Crawler · Gokberk Yaltirakli https://gkbrk.com/2018/03/writing-a-simple-ipfs-crawler/

Ancient Thresholds: Classical W… https://99percentinvisible.org/article/ancient-thresholds-classical-welcome-mats-dazzling-medusa-mosaics/

What an ‘infinite’ AI-generat… https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/11/17099578/ai-generated-podcast-procedural-storytelling-art-sheldon-county

Buy A Share Of Mike https://www.montag.wtf/buy-a-share-of-mike/

Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/

Band name of the day: multiple music

In The Eternal… http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/

Letting neural networks be weird • The Bands… http://aiweirdness.com/post/171776876562/the-bands-of-south-by-southwest-interpreted-by

Blame the Computer | Corey Pein https://thebaffler.com/salvos/blame-the-computer-pein

Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure https://telex.cc/

Reddit and the Quest to Detoxify the Internet… https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/19/reddit-and-the-quest-to-detoxify-the-internet