Band name of the day: fecal force fountain

In case anybody is wondering what ‘Double Mojo’ (the name I released MfoM under) means, it’s from Save the Cat, & is also called ‘black vet’. Most movies have a hook based on a juxtaposition of two elements. Double Mojo is when you juxtapose with another juxtaposition.

» Life on the Grid The Digital Antiquarian https://www.filfre.net/2019/01/life-on-the-grid/

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

Band name of the day: the nameless adventurer

Fretting the Player Character http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/fretting-the-player-character/

Band name of the day: plagiotropia

Legal standards invoke the ‘reasonable person’. Who is it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/legal-standards-invoke-the-reasonable-person-who-is-it

The Plot Against the Principality of Sealand https://narratively.com/the-plot-against-the-principality-of-sealand/

Autograms: Self-enumerating Sentences http://autograms.net/

GitHub - ktye/iv: APL interpreter and stream processor https://github.com/ktye/iv

Sad by design | Eurozine https://www.eurozine.com/sad-by-design/

Magnet Finge.rs https://magnetfinge.rs/

The Left Hemisphere http://www.shardcore.org/lh/the_left_hemisphere/

Shodan Safari, where hackers heckle the worst devices put on the internet – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/21/shodan-safari/

Concurrent objects and SCOOP – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2018/11/concurrent-objects-and-scoop/

Cleanroom Software Engineering | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/cleanroom-software-engineering/184405405

Super-Patriotic Anime Youth Wars! – Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/23/super-patriotic-anime-youth-wars-china-japan-pop-culture/

Punpedia – The Online Encyclopedia of Puns https://punpedia.org/

pocket spite

YouTube Is Still Struggling To Rein In Its Recommendation Algorithm https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/down-youtubes-recommendation-rabbithole

Band name of the day: trick snake radio

Band name of the day: embryonic teeth

Tracker - heropunch https://heropunch.io/Tracker

The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems

Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/conspiracy-theories-internet-survivors-truth

Spicy take: unless you have personally vetted all the code on it, you should not allow your voice assistant to access the internet.

Nearly half of game developers want to unionize https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/

Band name of the day: teleforce

The New Social Media – nadreck.me https://nadreck.me/2019/01/the-new-social-media/

Trivia: Warren Ellis was asked to play Jeff Minter’s part in Bandersnatch, which would have also been very cool.

Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literature-from-page-to-interface-the-treatments-of-text-in-christophe-brunos-iterature/

Update: scans of early RFCs — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/update-scans-of-early-rfcs

Band name of the day: three fisted space detective

Mathematical and Puzzle Fonts/Typefaces http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/

Band name of the day: immortal milk

Band name of the day: global seismic event

Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/1/16/18184314/spotify-music-streaming-service-royalty-payout-model

Extending Interactivity – Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/extending-interactivity/

Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode

The Web is Made of Edge Cases by Taylor Hunt on CodePen https://codepen.io/tigt/post/the-web-is-made-of-edge-cases

Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html

Band name of the day: the dark lottery

Band name of the day: the murder trust

Band name of the day: tame rave

What is truth? On Ramsey, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-truth-on-ramsey-wittgenstein-and-the-vienna-circle

Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods From Their Massive Stumps - Yale E360 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/arborists-have-cloned-ancient-redwoods-from-their-massive-stumps

Hackers hijack thousands of Chromecasts to warn of latest security bug – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/02/chromecast-bug-hackers-havoc/

USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea

GitHub - rvanasa/funqy: FunQy - A high-level hybrid quantum programming language https://github.com/rvanasa/funqy