@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes. I first thought gopher would be a good protocol for this purpose. But HTTP has the advantage, that you don’t always need to fetch the whole file. You can do a HEAD and check for last-modified header.
Idea for a room: It’s empty save for a number of mobile screens that follow you around and with a little bit of head tracking, act like windows into a completely different building.↵You could fit a cathedral in there, if so inclined, or maybe an Escherian maze.
Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery
Reasons to shave your head #89492685203: you can obtain a cheesy 70s wig and a knife, and reenact scenes from Blue Sunshine in public
don’t stick your head into something in VR, you’ll be picking the polygons out of your skin for hours
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.
Whoever decided to nae a government agency after a thing that sets your head on fire if you forget your password too many times should also be too self-aware to think having one of these is a good idea.
I changed the code of #goxtxt (my #twtxt #xmpp bot) a little bit. If all went good there should be no change in functionality but it is no more depending on #head and #grep.
Band name of the day: reserve heads
one neat application of mind-reading tech is that you can finally sound out how people’s text sounds in your head
coral reef druids who can stay underwater for hours, wear little reefs on their heads and seagrass on their bodies, are surrounded by fishes whenever they dive, talk to them in mute dance
tiny, newly hatched surveillance cams peek from a hole in the wall, but quickly withdraw their heads as they notice you watching
With seven billion people alive, souls are in short supply and many are shared between heads. Sometimes these heads meet each other and it is rumored that this is how soulmates happen
This Must Be David Byrne | GQ https://www.gq.com/story/david-byrne-talking-heads-icon-profile
Band name of the day: seated humans with large heads
VR games specifically designing for sticking your head into the environment: Messages on the insides of banana peels, easter egg worlds hidden in snowglobes, black holes near which you can see what happened five minutes ago, fight games where headbutts are a legit attack
A Matter of Mind - A Chaos;Head, Chaos;Child Comparison - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPiyo7t29BQ
METAHEADCANON: Harmon’s Head - An 8 Circuit Model of Community http://www.metaheadcanon.com/2018/02/harmons-head-8-circuit-model-of.html
The Bamboo Flutes of Japan‘s ’Monks of Emptiness‘ - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/komuso-flute-monk-japan-basket-head-zen-buddhism
Made something because my head was on sideways all day.
Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/how-much-for-your-head-unregulated-us-brokers-make-killing-on-donated-bodies/
LED wallpaper that tracks your head’s position and displays sun and stars as if the walls were transparent
Returning from her trip, she opens her eyes, reaches under her pillow, pulls out a severed elf head oozing technicolor↵↵”I got their king”
Piloting an exosuit, looking down at your own body, wondering which of these heads is itching
frankly I can’t hear you over the sound of memes copulating in my head
A kaleidoscope but for removing symmetry, giving trees multiple trunks and humans multiple heads, shuffling around their eyes and limbs
with your knife of song, cut off a small river arm, braid it, wear it as a wreath and watch fishes poke their heads out of it
One of the most common yet understudied cryptids, nobody’s ever seen anything of the text cursor except its head and footprints.
clean holes appear in his limbs, torso, head, allow you to see through him as they widen↵one arm, disconnected, begins to move on its own
“Sit still”, they say as they measure your head, “Yes, perfect, we have just the place for you, you’ll fit in great”
a system of linguistics/syntax based on bodies instead of grammar trees, with head, heart, limbs
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Thanks for the pointer to heads. Didn’t know that tails uses nonfree software.
dreams waft off her head, slowly circle it, luminous fog tendrils and klein bubbles, prisms and tiny dragons caught within
They’re parading the referee’s severed head across the field, crowd’s going wild, the cheerleaders have become an orgiastic mass of flesh
The kingdoms inside your head send emissaries to offer fresh insights, dazzling mindgems, the cutest tulpas, all to make you think of them
Every once in an aeon, the turtle will turn its head to graze on its back and condemn millions to live within the cave systems of its belly.
Two black holes merging, and a civilization moving to higher radio frequencies as it heads towards singularity, sound fundamentally the same
actually, you can kill a hydra, just sew on enough heads to cancel out the existing ones
Unlucky birds have gotten stuck in the bubble, heads preserved like in amber, tails rotted off. They form a halo of feathers and skeletons.
lying beside him, you hear the furnace in his stomach, his slow breathing, gears whirring inside his head, springs winding up again
The palace walls are made from the heads of his enemies. As you walk past, they mouth insults at you, beg for mercy, gibber without voice,
ground down to sand, it is nearly as yielding as the fluid, but if you dip your head in it, sharp edges will rend your thought like shrapnel
She has her head in the clouds, can’t get out, is floating, her legs treading air. A crunching sound and she grows still.
a wellspring on the giant’s head ends in a waterfall that looks like white hair as it descends
She spreads her arms, begins chanting, carmine flames of cloth snake out of her dress, float upwards, surround an unseen light over her head
dwarf storms reach about 1m in size and are popular pets, especially in summer when they settle on your head and keep it cool
He’s so tired that as he sits down, his head and limbs detach and roll across the room (some mornings, he puts on the arms the wrong way)
You stepped through a hidden door and ended up behind the firmament: The stars are below you but loom in negative distances, your head hurts
Grow leather from lab cultivated samples of your own skin, tailor clothes from it, wear a second face on the back of your head