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