Hume is the amiable, modest, generous philosopher we need today | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today
The Problem with Muzak | Liz Pelly https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly
Streambait Pop | Liz Pelly https://thebaffler.com/downstream/streambait-pop-pelly
Band name of the day: spidergoat
The Tangled History of Weaving with Spider Silk | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/the-tangled-history-of-weaving-with-spider-silk/
Band name of the day: bootleg video van
Frankincense and myrrh were not only holy but heretical too | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/frankincense-and-myrrh-were-not-only-holy-but-heretical-too
Band name of the day: sneaker bots
Pessimism about parallelism | Armed and Dangerous http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8223
Learn Prolog Now! http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=online
Shinto shows the debt to animism of organised religions today | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/shinto-shows-the-debt-to-animism-of-organised-religions-today
WaveFunctionCollapse/README.md at master · mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse · GitHub https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse/blob/master/README.md
Band name of the day: nucleation site
Chris’s Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TarFindingTruncateBug
What’s the point of year-end roundups of the most popular articles, or sales for bestsellers? They’ve already won. Better is a year-end round-up of hidden gems – stuff that didn’t do as well as expected.
Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions - Slashdot https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/13/12/23/157257/interview-bruce-sterling-answers-your-questions
A Survey of $RANDOM « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/12/25/
Today is bochsing day. Celebrate by migrating away from vmware and qemu.
Today is boxing day. Celebrate by watching unboxing videos in reverse.
Today is boxing day. Celebrate by casting to Object.
Today is boxing day. Celebrate by picking a fight with a kangaroo.
A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/a3m885/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice
The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that’s its name - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz_mMLhUinw
Orality & Literacy: https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy
A Map of the World Where the Sizes of Countries Are Determined by Population https://kottke.org/18/09/a-map-of-the-world-where-the-sizes-of-countries-are-determined-by-population
Strange Days is a better christmas movie than Die Hard.
Litan (1982) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASTaTZAdO4
A Christmas Story: A Tale of Technological Nostalgia - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4PM1MFT5mk
The Corner of Lovecraft and Ballard https://placesjournal.org/article/the-corner-of-lovecraft-and-ballard/
Screw the notional Zizek vs Peterson debate. I wanna see a Zizek vs Land debate. Or Zizek and Land debating Mark Fisher through an Ouija board. (The board doesn’t need to work. Better if it doesn’t.)
Divus | Nick Land “ An Experiment in Inhumanism http://divus.cc/london/en/article/nick-land-ein-experiment-im-inhumanismus
Take Script, Add Snow https://longreads.com/2018/12/24/take-script-add-snow/
Sci-Fi Movie Brainstorm | Natalie Wood Death https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a25654064/sci-fi-movie-brainstorm-natalie-wood-final-film/
Band name of the day: unconsolidated sediment
BIG PICTURE: ABSOLUTE UNIT - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaV5DHwyJAc
The Internet of Unprofitable Things – The ongoing struggle http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2018/12/24/the-internet-of-unprofitable-things/
We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/
Towards the Future Book https://kottke.org/18/12/towards-the-future-book
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained very clearly | Robert Heaton https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/17/wavefunction-collapse-algorithm/
Re: code – keep throwing it away and rewriting from memory until implementing it doesn’t seem like a big deal anymore. At that point, it might be marginally OK. (Or maybe you’ve just acclimated to your failures.)
[Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner | Harper’s Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/
Against Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” https://kottke.org/18/12/against-peter-jacksons-they-shall-not-grow-old
GitHub - orbitdb/orbit-db: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db
The year social networks were no longer social – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/
Celebrate X-Mas by watching: X/1999, Project X, xXx, xXx II: The Return of Xander Cage, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X: Night of Vengance, and American History X.
How BioWare’s ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games
What to write with? Styli for clay tablets in the ancient Aegean and eastern Mediterranean https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/what-to-write-with-styli-for-clay-tablets/
Band name of the day: high concept art terrorist
FUTURE SHOCK: Has legendary Scottish pop star lost the plot for building a pyramid made of 34,592 dead people? | HeraldScot… https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17316680.future-shock-has-legendary-scottish-pop-star-lost-the-plot-for-building-a-pyramid-made-of-34592-dead-people/