The ineffectiveness of lonely… | Matt Wilcox, Web Developer & Tinkerer https://mattwilcox.net/musing/the-ineffectiveness-of-icons
The most important operation in QNX is MsgSend, which works like an interprocess… | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872640
What Language Do People Speak in the Balkans, Anyway? - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-language-is-spoken-in-the-balkans
Band name of the day: the obligation choclettes
roses are red / violets are red / i’m all out of blood / i need more blood
roses are blue / violets are blue / dabba-dee dabba-die
Artificial intelligence, algorithmic pricing, and collusion | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal https://voxeu.org/article/artificial-intelligence-algorithmic-pricing-and-collusion
The Caviar Con https://longreads.com/2019/02/12/the-caviar-con/
Japan’s Most Interesting Newspaper Is for Recluses, by Recluses - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-men-who-dont-leave-home
JIRA would be a lot more useful if it was small enough to actually load & render on my company-provided workstation.
Gigaom | Quantum Computing, Capabilities and Limits: An Interview with Scott Aaronson https://gigaom.com/2019/01/17/quantum-computing-capabilities-and-limits-an-interview-with-scott-aaronson/
Band name of the day: worm from heaven
Giallo title of the day: The Spider With Ten Legs
The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting ‘Vinegar Valentines’ of the Victorian Era - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vinegar-valentines-victorian
Band name of the day: air disaster
patience diffing algorithm https://https.www.google.com.tedunangst.com/flak/post/patience-diffing-algorithm
Band name of the day: ubiquitous movement practices
Band name of the day: occasional intrusions from a strange reality
Happy day-before-deep-discounts-on-chocolate day
Today is St. Valentine’s day. Celebrate by ressurecting vats of minced and pickled children, like St Valentine is most famous for doing
GitHub - postlight/mercury-parser: “ Extracting content from the chaos of the web. https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser
Band name of the day: new evidence for the strange geometry of thought
Band name of the day: different forms of play
Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/danish-haunted-house-studies-seek-to-reveal-the-seductive-appeal-of-horror/
Band name of the day: dysphoric rituals
Why the heck don’t phone keyboards have arrow keys?
Band name of the day: the hedonic reversal
What’s the most unexpected way to use garlic in a dish? https://thetakeout.com/recipe-most-unexpected-way-to-use-garlic-in-a-dish-1832528068
”[A] post-work future nobody outside of silicon valley asked for” dude, I think everybody who has ever worked is asking for a post-work future…
I think maybe the reason I’m not impressed by DeepFakes is that I can’t identify people by their faces reliably anyway, while I’m very good at identifying when something is horribly dithered, so it seems pointless.
The Putrid, Repulsive, Unparalleled Romance of Peter Jackson’s ‘Braindead’ https://filmschoolrejects.com/braindead-romance/
Best Anime Dance 2019!!! (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egy6_y7Vb9U
Kaguya-sama Love is War OP / Opening HD + Lyrics - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChTHeHp3wQ
The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Blood And Rockets: Movement I, Saga Of Jack Parsons - Mo… - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiGonWwU
How sex censorship killed the internet we love https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/31/sex-censorship-killed-internet-fosta-sesta/
Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues
Forget privacy: you’re terrible at targeting anyway - apenwarr https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201
Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war-for-mormon-hearts-and-minds
Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html
Band name of the day: mind, stamina, muscle, & feet
Philosopher and digital artist Mat Dryhurst on redesigning the system “ The Creative Independent https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/philosopher-and-digital-artist-mat-dryhurst-on-redesigning-the-system/
Band name of the day: faulty language selection
Suburban Mystique: Bic Drawings by Kevin Lucbert “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/02/11/suburban-mystique-bic-drawings-by-kevin-lucbert/
Fragments of a Dream-like City: Collages by Tali Bayer “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2015/11/28/fragments-of-a-dream-like-city-collages-by-tali-bayer/
Wei Shao’s Blank City (2014) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2016/05/25/wei-shaos-blank-city-2014/
The Mechanical-Architectural World of Stijn Jonckheere “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2017/01/16/the-mechanical-architectural-world-of-stijn-jonckheere/
Space Colony Art from the 1970s – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/
“The Architecture of Madness”: León Ferrari’s Héliographias “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2014/01/31/the-architecture-of-madness-leon-ferraris-heliographias/
Cedric Price ‘Housing Research’ (1971) and the ‘Steel House’ (1967) “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2016/04/14/cedric-price-housing-research-1971-and-the-steel-house-1967/
The Narkomfin Building in Moscow (1928-29): a Built Experiment on Everyday Life “ SOCKS http://socks-studio.com/2016/12/04/the-narkomfin-building-in-moscow-1928-29-a-built-experiment-on-everyday-life/