Band name of the day: a nice flat heaven
GPS History: The Evolution of Global Positioning https://tedium.co/2018/01/11/gps-history-evolution/
Band name of the day: superfine
Bad idea of the day: a TMBG cover band called In Those Days There Were Giants
Visualizing Data Using t-SNE - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVL80Gg3lA
Band name of the day: the savvy dealer of unpopular time
After Hours — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/after-hours/
Band name of the day: keepers of the bones
Band name of the day: physical relics
John McAfee Appears to Move … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9knnpz/john-mcafee-twitter-coin-of-the-day-cryptocurrency-markets
Band name of the day: black reef
Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-ce… https://boingboing.net/2018/01/15/bad-vibes.html
One model to learn them all | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/12/one-model-to-learn-them-all/
Band name of the day: the spirit of system
We should look closely at what Adam Smith actually bel… https://aeon.co/essays/we-should-look-closely-at-what-adam-smith-actually-believed
Band name of the day: the patriotic speed limit
It’s not that computers are awful on some general axis, but that we spend more effort than necessary getting less out of them than we easily could out of myopia, greed, and laziness.
The Man Who Would… https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/?single_page=true
How the Modern City Disadvantages Women http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/your-city-has-a-gender-and-its-male
Band name of the day: the echo questions
Band name of the day: the sarcastic interrogatives
Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.
Band name of the day: too many facts about blood
Band name of the day: refocus the system
Band name of the day: scriptorium
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
Band name of the day: new lines for a new mind
Foreclosing on the future of the book https://kottke.org/18/01/foreclosing-on-the-future-of-the-book
If I resurrected my newsletter, would anybody subscribe? I’m thinking of modifying the format to have it contain the content I usually post on Medium, and then paywall the Medium essays for a month. (So, subscribers would be getting the free essays early.)
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is unclassifiable acts of kindness toward disadvantaged strangers
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is making and serving coffee
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is burning dollar bills on live television
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is computing a giant-ass rainbow table
Band name of the day: snarf buffer
pos2tracery https://www.npmjs.com/package/pos2tracery
How to Think Like a Medieval Monk | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk
Band name of the day: the noonday demon
Band name of the day: proof of burn
Grid computing - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing
Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.
Band name of the day: command phrase
Band name of the day: innovation theatre
The Importance of Being Mishima Yukio | Nippon.com https://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00471/
Doki Doki Literature Club - A Metamodern Horror Game - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTTDdzxqdo
Sustainable community education through WTFM http://web.archive.org/web/20170416184606/http://www.roaming-initiative.com/blog/posts/wtfm
A look at Barbara Kruger and Jenny … https://catnormoyle.com/2011/02/02/a-look-at-barbara-kruger-and-jenny-holzers-use-of-typographic-art/
Band name of the day: whimsical doodles of fireproof hell-flesh
Band name of the day: whimsical doodles of fireproof hell-flesh
NDN – Why Bother? — NDN Tutorial at ACM SIGCOMM 2017 – Van Jacobson - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvnP-_R-RYA