Smells Like Teen Spirit but every note or chord is B flat - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUD-TrPW-V4

Spidermath - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCu9DVizTM

Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSvUqhZcbVg

Kunihiko Ikuhara: A Revolutionary Director of Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNNJ80N1Aoc

Bad idea of the day: Get Annals of the Perrigues style themed corpora type output in your templates by adjusting probabilities by the semantic distance between a choice & some word that is the locus of a theme, with word2vec or something

If listicles are good enough for Euclid and Ludwig von Wittgenstein, they’re good enough for me

Thread by @colmmacc: “Have you ever needed to generate a random number in code? whether it’s for rolling a dice, or shuffling a set, this tweet thread is here for […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1012719876706840578.html

Botnik ASMR - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBu1zatDbKI

Hot take: the ‘rule of law’ is only possible because social norms have made deviations from desired behavior rare. The policeman in your head does the heavy lifting. When norms diverge from law, norms win.

The hidden benefits of NaNoGenMo “ Rococo Modem Basilisk ” Medium https://medium.com/@/the-hidden-benefits-of-nanogenmo-dd91193bda6

Apparatus: A hybrid graphics editor and programming environment for creating interactive diagrams http://aprt.us/

Extreme Graphical Representation - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation

Viewer-Friendly Interface - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewerFriendlyInterface

Screenshots | vvvv https://vvvv.org/screenshots

How to Live in a Dystopian Fiction https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/28/how-to-live-in-a-dystopian-fiction/

Hot take: a hole isn’t the absence of a thing (outer space isn’t a hole, while the hole of a doughnut, full of air, is), but a violation of our expectation of continuity. We expect a full form & get a discontinuity in the middle.

Is a hole a real thing, or just a place where something isn’t? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/is-a-hole-a-real-thing-or-just-a-place-where-something-isnt

Abalonia: The Island Nation That Never Was - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cortes-bank

Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable https://www.fastcodesign.com/90177573/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be

The Government Campaign to Get Rid of Singapore’s Unofficial Language - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/singlish-singapore-government-campaign

Tempest 4000 comes to consoles next month - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/28/17513074/tempest-4000-launch-date-ps4-xbox-one

How much bad UI design comes from a focus on making the UI consistent with underlying code that was designed based on ease of implementation in the programmer’s language of choice?

The Case Against UI Consistency https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-case-against-user-interface-consistency.pdf

How Clang Compiles a Function – Embedded in Academia https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1605

Oneohtrix Point Never Interview: On ‘Age Of,’ MYRIAD, Byrne, & more - Stereogum https://www.stereogum.com/featured/oneohtrix-point-never-age-of-myriad-byrne-anohni-twigs-usher/

Inside Vaporwave’s Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases - Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/vaporwave-floppy-disk-trend-w521790

Chelsea Manning traces her political roots back to rave | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4991/chelsea-manning-traces-her-political-roots-back-to-rave

An oral history of Babylon 5: The beloved TV novel that showed a different way to tell sci-fi http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/an-oral-history-of-babylon-5-the-beloved-tv-novel-that-showed-a-different-way-to-tell-sci

Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm

Non-Performing Band Members: From Coldplay to The Grateful Dead https://tedium.co/2018/06/28/non-performing-band-members-coldplay-grateful-dead/

Hello World is a Dream – Thought Flow https://davidlebech.com/thoughtflow/hello-world-is-a-dream/

UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right? https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right

How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

Software only becomes ‘enterprise grade’ if, when its behavior is described to an outsider flatly and precisely, the outsider assumes the description is some kind of elaborate joke.

Band name of the day: wet ghosts

Javascript is a just-OK language saddled with the world’s worst graphics toolkit: three distinct languages, each with specs so large that nobody has written a new implementation in 20 years, for live-editing a rich tech document to make it resemble a canvas, in ways that are not portable between the 3 implementations or minor revisions of the same implementation.

Another formulation: the best of today’s GUIs make easy things easy and hard things impossible. The best of today’s programming languages make easy things hard and hard things harder. We don’t have a system that makes easy things easy and hard things merely hard for backwards-compatibility reasons.

Band name of the day: empire of death

Revolutionary ideas always are masked as a return to older ideas or appeal to common sense ONLY because they can’t be expressed without the intellectual groundwork that makes them seem inevitable once fully comprehended.

xkcd: Attention Span https://xkcd.com/2005/

BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/

Alex Schroeder: 2018-06-24 Capitalism https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-06-24_Capitalism

Letting neural networks be weird • Blue Boulders Problem 1: More rock climbing routes… http://aiweirdness.com/post/175339699997/blue-boulders-problem-1-more-rock-climbing-routes

Bad idea of the day: 72-hour osdev jam

Neighbouring Communities - ICCC 2018 Talk - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cP4X3OZcf8

Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

Mike Driven Development: What I Learned Making My Own JIT Language http://www.mikedrivendevelopment.com/2018/06/what-i-learned-making-my-own-jit.html

Getting a Grip on Slavoj Zizek (with Slavoj Zizek) | JSTOR Daily https://daily.jstor.org/getting-a-grip-on-slavoj-zizek-with-slavoj-zizek/

DigiBarn Systems: Swyft information appliance http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/swyft/index.html

Encouraging individual sovereignty and a healthy commons https://0xadada.pub/2017/02/18/encourging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/