Band name of the day: the hidden persuaders

Taco Bell Programming http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html

Band name of the day: the conditions for democracy

Band name of the day: the depth boys

Band name of the day: the secret self

Why reliable, unchanging, boring, mechanical interfaces are important in big-computing contexts: https://medium.com/@caseorganic/why-do-we-keep-building-cars-with-touchscreens-alt-the-hidden-lives-of-touchscreens-55faf92799bf

Band name of the day: omnicidal death machine

The Forgotten ‘80s Home Robots Trend https://tedium.co/2018/05/24/80s-home-robot-history/

Heteroglossic Space in the Please! Series - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djBgQ-37V6E

Cosmic rays are a completely reasonable explanation https://lwn.net/Articles/219983/

Scalability! But at what COST? | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/06/05/scalability-but-at-what-cost/

Band name of the day: normal shopping experience

Happy Day of Discord, everyone. (5/23) See you again on 5/32!

OO & message passing in postscript in NeWS: https://lobste.rs/s/9ezxcf/hyperlook_nee_hypernews_nee_goodnews#c_6spsyi

Row Polymorphism Isn’t Subtyping - BAM Weblog https://brianmckenna.org/blog/row_polymorphism_isnt_subtyping

Parallel Status Hierarchies https://www.jefftk.com/p/parallel-status-hierarchies

Who the fuck decided to call it ‘walk and talk’ instead of ‘circumlocution circumnavigation’

Who the fuck decided to call it ‘walk and talk’ instead of ‘circumlocution circumlocation’

Bad idea of the day: use those ear-mounted accelerometers that normally wake people who are dozing off at the wheel to instead redden the display, replace desktop background with surreal and dreamlike images, fade in quiet calming ambient music, raise the thermostat

Bad idea of the day: use eye tracking to save power by blanking the parts of the display not within the light cone of the fovea

Bad idea of the day: a full-sized hand crank on the side of your keyboard that acts as a scrollwheel with large (page per click) delta

Bad idea of the day: a dual-layer LCD (like the 3d TVs from a few years ago) that uses the top layer exclusively for hover behavior

Bad idea of the day: a gesture based interface that uses DSP on the audio produced by a theramin to identify gestures, while playing that audio for learning feedback

Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/pdfs/kay.htm

Crossing-based interface - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing-based_interface

ZZ Cell Programming http://xanadu.com/zigzag/fw99/ZZcellProg.html

This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It’s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot

This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It‘s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot

Band name of the day: icons of beige

Hackintosh Before Hackintosh: When Mac Fans Skinned Windows https://tedium.co/2018/05/22/windows-fake-osx-macos-interface-skins-history/

Thread by @GalaxyKate: “Was thinking about this again, and it’s important to recognize: WE CONFLATE THING BEING DIFFICULT FOR HUMANS WITH THINGS BEING DIFFICULT FOR […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/982999780929388544.html

Thread by @GalaxyKate: “Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I’ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes

Thread by @GalaxyKate: "Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I‘ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes

programmer interfaces - Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MD-CgzODFWzdpnYXr8bEgysfDmb8PDV6iCAjH5JIvaI/edit#slide=id.g1da0625f1b_0_56

Binary file (standard input) matches

Climax, de Gaspar Noé - trailer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDDeCOarFtU

A really interesting composable UI project designed for generative art: https://lobste.rs/s/9ezxcf/hyperlook_nee_hypernews_nee_goodnews#c_rva21l

The Lost Magic of Traditional Anime Production - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Lm5P-mJCk

PDP-10 · GitHub https://github.com/PDP-10

higher-order-unification/explanation.md at 21382f44205aa3d8b115fe2b2eba47489da4b492 · jozefg/higher-order-unification · GitHub https://github.com/jozefg/higher-order-unification/blob/21382f44205aa3d8b115fe2b2eba47489da4b492/explanation.md

Happy 21st Century! - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/05/happy-21st-century.html

I’ve been shitposting about writing composable GUI systems with proper hypertext & network transparency in postscript but actually that existed at Sun & seems to have been pretty cool: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4

QOTD: “Like any extension of the human psyche, machines are scary things[…] When you take the scary human psyche and magnify it hundreds or thousands of times with technology, it’s really nightmarish”

Psychotronic horror and sci-fi films with the people edited out / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/05/21/psychotronic-horror-and-sci-fi.html

Ask An Ice Cream Professional: AI-generated ice cream flavors https://kottke.org/18/05/ask-an-ice-cream-professional-ai-generated-ice-cream-flavors

The Spectacular Personal Mythology of Rammellzee | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-spectacular-personal-mythology-of-rammellzee

‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years

‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years

Band name of the day: grinding utility

The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17374054/cia-collect-it-all-declassified-training-tabletop-card-game