A Compendium of Tides by Warren Ellis: http://spiritsofplace.com/files/Compendium-of-Tides.pdf
The Allure of Gothic Horror | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/07/09/the-allure-of-gothic-horror/
JavaCard: The execution environment you didn’t know you were using – Bentham’s Gaze https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2018/07/13/javacard-the-execution-environment-you-didnt-know-you-were-using/
Independence Day: Why the Fourth of July? Why Not July 2nd? https://tedium.co/2018/07/03/independence-day-why-july-4/
Band name of the day: seven days without light
Band name of the day: burnt maps emanating from a dead moon
Band name of the day: burnt maps
Band name of the day: emanating from a dead moon
Hot Chili Peppers, War, and Sichuan Cuisine http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food-rp
mapping the cartography of the nickland-scape
Band name of the day: fridge poetry for Roman Emperors
Peterson’s Complaint https://longreads.com/2018/07/12/petersons-complaint/
William Gibson’s Alien 3 Is Becoming a Comic Book https://io9.gizmodo.com/dark-horse-is-turning-william-gibsons-alien-3-script-in-1827548457
So, I’m going on a 6 hour road trip on Friday the 13th, starting after work on a day when I woke up at 5am. Wish me luck.
It is Friday the 13th. Celebrate by being struck by lightning, twice.
- Running Through My Back Brain (Messages) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Robv-yAvWMY
Products aren’t for people yet - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2017/02/by_devs
We shouldn’t let people get used to the idea that software fails - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/07/software-shouldnt-fail
You have the right to a wheel. If you do not have a wheel, one will be provided for you. Please use METAL – not ORGANIC – limbs. We disclaim all liability if you use your own limbs during a sonic attack!
Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood | Hollywood Reporter https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/hunting-con-queen-hollywood-1125932
squeakland : resources : books : reading list http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics http://cognitivemedium.com/emm/emm.html
» minimal web mnmlist http://mnmlist.com/w/
Bad idea of the day: replace your planner with a planchette and let DEAD GHOSTS set your daily schedule, remind you of appointments, etc.
The biology of disinformation: http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/images/DigIntel/SR-2002_IFTF_Biology_of_disinformation_tk_042618.pdf
sub-Q Magazine - About https://sub-q.com/about/
Hot take: it’s not ‘technical debt’ but ‘technical hoarding’
Hot take: the big problem in generative art is not that computers aren’t creative but that computers don’t have taste. We’ve solved that problem by building taste into the mechanisms of generation instead of building filters.
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
302 Moved Temporarily http://memex.link/-ctFQPkhz/distill.pub/2017/aia
Bad idea of the day: 9p/scuttlebutt bridge
Bad idea of the day: 9p/activitypub bridge
Critics of toxic open source culture be like https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-noisy-males-control-gnus-cycle-180969596/
Conspiracy theory: the Sonic The Hedgehog franchise is elaborate fanfiction for the Hawkwind track Sonic Attack, from the perspective of the antagonist. The VO in that track is Dr Robotnik.
Dune - just the whispered voiceover lines - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBNsDi6jI5M
The only good online fandom left is Dune | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5333/dune-revival-2018-david-lynch
Band name of the day: other landscapes are possible
Band name of the day: whirly girl
Band name of the day: the delaware of reasoning
Come to think of it, gluing some unrelated poem to some unrelated tune was all over the place before the 20th century, wasn’t it? Ode to Joy, Jerusalem… Maybe we just stopped because of tin pan alley copyright expansion?
National anthems are weird. They’re usually an already-old poem glued to an unrelated foreign folk-tune, and then the poem is about, like, whatever. (Exceptions: Deuchland Uber Alles is actually about Germany)
Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence https://distill.pub/2017/aia/
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/
Reinventing Explanation http://michaelnielsen.org/reinventing_explanation/index.html
Striking user interfaces http://cognitivemedium.com/striking_ui/striking_ui.html
Band name of the day: consolation in numbers
Band name of the day: massed practice
Band name of the day: the forgetting curve