The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972 https://blog.plover.com/2006/09/11/
If-statements in Smalltalk - Beware of the Train https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/94558.html
Bad idea of the day: A gritty reboot of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In starring Rowan Atkinson and Dmitri Martin
Larry “Wild Man” Fischer: An Outsider Icon https://tedium.co/2018/11/06/larry-wild-man-fischer-history/
Scheme Macros V: Conditionals | Veit’s Blog https://blog.veitheller.de/Scheme_Macros_V:_Conditionals.html
Band name of the day: fossil ape
Band name of the day: a motley assortment of screaming machines
David Bowie on Death, Violence and Chaos in “Outside” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9W2fUddiE
Band name of the day: art crimes unit
Mindstorms https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu/
Programming Quotes http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
On the path to improvement, follow the jester, not the sage | Aeon Classics https://aeon.co/classics/on-the-path-to-improvement-follow-the-jester-not-the-sage
Cory Doctorow: What the Internet Is For – Locus Online https://locusmag.com/2018/11/cory-doctorow-what-the-internet-is-for/
Dystopias Now • Commune https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
What Is The Morning Writing Effect? - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Morning-writing
Band name of the day: my odious handiwork
Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist/
Nick Land’s Philosophy of Capital is Anti-Capitalist (2) – DI Research Zone 22 https://disubunit22.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/nick-lands-philosophy-of-capital-is-anti-capitalist-2/
Why every election gets its own crisis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln61AksUCjY
GitHub - paul90/wiki-client-dat-variant: A dat based variant of the Federated Wiki client https://github.com/paul90/wiki-client-dat-variant
GitHub - schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced: Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, with enhanced features (not supported by the original design by N. Wirth) https://github.com/schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced
Apparently there are a LOT of bands named ‘blackmail’. I’m sure all of them think they’re very clever and original.
Are.na / Blog “ Women in Hypertext: On Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall’s Forward Anywhere https://www.are.na/blog/case%20study/2018/06/12/women-in-hypertext.html
Vietnam’s Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/02/vietnams-low-tech-fermentation-food-system-takes-advantage-of-decay.html
Bad idea of the day: run deOldify on manga pages, consider the new color schemes canon, move to a surreal universe of floating pastels
PRINCIPLES OF ANARCHITECTURE – ALIENIST MANIFESTO https://alienistmanifesto.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/principles-of-architecture/
Soft Machine-Why Are We Sleeping? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwc_gosvQ_A
The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live http://thequietus.com/articles/25613-john-carpenter-they-live-review-anniversary
Band name of the day: active denial system
Today is Guy Fawkes Day. Celebrate by setting something on fire.
Metadata: Judoing the Dunning-Kruger effect: the “surprisingly-popular option” strategy for crowdsourcing https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/11/judoing-dunning-kruger-effect.html
Cesar Sayoc and others on Twitter are behaving like bots. https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/cesar-sayoc-twitter-humans-behaving-bots.html
The ‘Loss of Confidence Project’ Offers Scientists a Place to Confess https://undark.org/article/loss-of-confidence-project-replication-crisis/
The presumption that current popularity is a predictor of value – or even of future popularity – prevents us from doing interesting things.
Band name of the day: the active measures
Band name of the day: condensation nucleus
Band name of the day: theicide
Gopherfest 2017: Upspin (Rob Pike) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLWEfi0Tkg
Breaking the x86 Instruction Set - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fpDlAEQio4
How to Do Cyberpunk Right - The Yuri You Need - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfSuUicLdcg
Proposed data privacy law could send company execs to prison for 20 years | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/proposed-data-privacy-law-could-send-company-execs-to-prison-for-20-years/
The Acme Readme http://acme.cat-v.org/readme
Mouse Shortcuts in Acme http://acme.cat-v.org/mouse
Science Fiction Is Not Social Reality - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pxjd/science-fiction-is-not-social-reality
Bad idea of the day: a social network where post literally fade because the contrast is computed with the inverse of time. A spinoff where bugs slowly eat away at posts.
Probably Overthinking It: The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-inspection-paradox-is-everywhere.html
Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/