Band name of the day: a literature of exhaustion
Band name of the day: explode the palimpsest
Band name of the day: that oddly heroic act of postponement
Band name of the day: a vision for the macrocosm
Band name of the day: instant literature
Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptati… http://locusmag.com/2018/01/cory-doctorow-persuasion-adaptation-and-the-arms-race-for-your-attention/
Self-Contained Cities: … https://99percentinvisible.org/article/self-contained-cities-hyperdense-arcologies-urban-fiction-utopian-fantasy/
Plaque in Circulation: Dec… https://99percentinvisible.org/article/plaque-circulation-deciphering-philadelphias-sidewalk-easement-markers/
Wax - Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees – ~ajroach42… http://ajroach42.com/wax-or-the-discovery-of-television-among-the-bees/
DIY Media – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, cultur… http://ajroach42.com/diy-media/
A Modern Office with Vintage hardware – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write … http://ajroach42.com/a-modern-office-with-vintage-hardware/
Mental models http://www.defmacro.org/2016/12/22/models.html
The Brilliant Fake News of “LiarTown” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/the-brilliant-fake-news-of-liartown
I wonder how long it’ll take for people to realize that they should be publishing all their paywalled medium posts on the first of the month…
A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of t… https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review
Improving Ourselves to Death | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/improving-ourselves-to-death
Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU
Self: The Movie; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774
Google and Others Are Building… https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609762/google-and-others-are-building-ai-systems-that-doubt-themselves/
“A Sloppy Machine, Like Me”… https://wearethemutants.com/2018/01/09/a-sloppy-machine-like-me-the-history-of-video-synthesizers/
Life in UNIX® V7: an attempt at a simple task | Fun with… https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/10/life-in-unix-v7-an-attempt-at-a-simple-task/
Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down– and the Alternative - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs
Conway‘s Game Of Life in APL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
Permanent Redirect: digital art tha… https://kottke.org/18/01/permanent-redirect-digital-art-that-moves-to-a-new-url-when-someone-views-it
Help Me Somebody ~ Brian Eno - David Byrne - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxeO0LBR6GY
V7/x86 Home | Robert Nordier http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 | Random … https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
Free Will and Waifus - The True Horror of Doki Doki Literature Club - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebsRBIleDY
Ask Dr. Time: Orality and Literacy from Homer to Twitter https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy
Anime Openings openings.moe
Devo - S.I.B (Swelling itching brain) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcaVXeyBR44
Wall Of Voodoo - Back In Flesh - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIiWtGa2TmU
Why Foucault‘s work on power is more important than ev… https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever
Exhilarating if flawed, Colin Wilson helped open my mind |… https://aeon.co/essays/exhilarating-if-flawed-colin-wilson-helped-open-my-mind
How the Sausage Gets Made: The Hidden Work of Content · An A List Apart Article https://alistapart.com/article/the-hidden-work-of-content
These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/
The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms | Ufunk.net http://www.ufunk.net/en/insolite/salles-de-controle-sovietiques-vintage/
If you make something and you aren’t OK with the idea of a degraded, broken zombie form of it existing forever, killing it is your responsibility.
Nothing is temporary unless you put in the effort to destroy it. Nothing gets maintained unless you fix it.
Slavoj Žižek | Maybe We Just Need a New Chicken | Full Film - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHqY3id5p5Y
Understanding "Hurt" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8n78hRFSew
gritty Freakazoid reboot when
The Martians Claim Canada | Margaret Atwood | Granta https://granta.com/martians-claim-canada/
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/for/adjective
Reality has a surprising amount of detail http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
There are two classes of bug. One is where the program doesn’t match your mental model of the program. The other is when the problem doesn’t match your mental model of the problem. Most bugs are both.
Is the Mill Architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture) immune to the new out-of-order-execution attacks, theoretically?
BBC iPlayer - Bletchley Park: Code-breaking’… https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius
Ten new principles for good design https://kottke.org/18/01/ten-new-principles-for-good-design
Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles | A… https://aeon.co/ideas/wars-are-not-won-by-military-genius-or-decisive-battles