Bad idea of the day: a minikanren in prolog
Bad idea of the day: The Same Oblique Strategy Card Every Day. (‘repetition is a form of change’, obv.)
Bad idea of the day: twitch plays strip poker
Bad idea of the day: twitch plays cards against humanity
Bad idea of the day: twitch plays exquisite corpse
CEOs should have been the fall guys; why are they still heroes? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/ceos-should-have-been-the-fall-guys-why-are-they-still-heroes
Bad idea of the day: an extension that replaces ‘OK’ on every button with ‘Dolt’, like God & the original Macintosh UI team intended
Bad idea of the day: serious & well-researched answers to stupid questions, as a podcast
Bad idea of the day: Use mechanical turk to do a novel-length exquisite corpse, one sentence at a time.
Bad idea of the day: Multi-cursor and annotation support for vim
Bad idea of the day: An algorithm that creates textual descriptions of images watches TV, creating a description from each frame, which is then used to generate a new image & the video is resynthesized
Bad idea of the day: watching FEWER horror movies in october because you need a break from the rest of the year
Hot take: ambient computing is actually a cool & good idea, as long as no for-profit entities are involved in it. It only becomes horrible when you add business.
Bad idea of the day: turn music into text by substituting note frequency with word frequency
Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.
Bad idea of the day: a d20 where every face is labeled 1
Bad idea of the day: a bot that posts random joke punchlines but not the actual joke
Bad idea of the day: a robot that spills or dribbles paint onto canvas until the image is recognized as an object, then names the painting after that object.
The Importance of Simple Ideas - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/03/the-importance-of-simple-ideas/
Bad idea of the day: A book called Acknowledgements that’s just a book-length acknowledgements section thanking people for contributing to the book, House-That-Jack-Built-style
Bad idea of the day: a wikipedia project for creating and improving articles that are uniquely relevant to countries that qualified for internet.org
The interesting ideas in Datasette https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/
Bad idea of the day: a machine that uses oscillators to manufacture high-quality sand
Bad idea of the day: inform7 repl as command shell
Bad idea of the day: surreal and disturbing powerpoint presentations as public performance art
How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation
Computers can solve your problem. You may not like the answer. - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/09/equity-machine/
Why the high-tech ideas of ‘Bucky’ Fuller are back in vogue | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-high-tech-ideas-of-bucky-fuller-are-back-in-vogue
The Joe Rogan Experience Is a Safe Space to Launder Bad Ideas - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experience-is-a-safe-space-to-launder-bad-ideas
Bad idea of the day: univocalipogram.social
Bad idea of the day: Current prisoners have mandatory voting while non-prisoners (including ex-prisoners) have the option to vote
Let’s bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against ‘total work’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/lets-bring-back-the-sabbath-as-a-radical-act-against-total-work
Do you have ideas for a new spec? Maybe we can collect them on irc? join freenode/twtxt
Book idea (high effort, dunno if I’ll do it): a survey of alternative computing systems in the style of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. What should I include other than smalltalk, colorforth, oberon, templeos, and menuet?
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: It’s just an idea. Not a clean one thoug, as clients would not know upfront who serves such a fiele and who not. Another idea would ne to mix a number of random followers into the twtxt file, which are updated when a person tweets.
Bad idea of the day: a movie musical called Greece, for extra confusion
Bad idea of the day: a sanrio-branded sentient shoelace character who is nervous about fraying named Aglets-ko
Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery
Bad idea of the day: Phibes recut as a silent film
Bad idea of the day: a retelling of Dracula where Van Hellsing and Renfield are merged into the same character
Bad idea of the day: Batman (1968) vs Doctor Phibes: two rich geniuses who love gadgets and labelling things fight each other in an art-deco city with a comically incompetent police force
Bad idea of the day: replace every word in a book with a sentence in another book that is an anagram of the NATO word-spelling of it
Bad idea of the day: replace every sentence in some book with a sentence from a different gutenberg book that is an anagram of it
Simplicity or style: what makes a sentence a masterpiece? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/simplicity-or-style-what-makes-a-sentence-a-masterpiece
Bad idea of the day: an anki deck of oblique strategies
Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions
Bad idea of the day: Expand citizenship: you are automatically a citizen of a state if you were born there, if either parent is from there, if you have lived there for more than 6 months, or if you own or rent any land there.
Bad idea of the day: a metal detector that plays a guitar solo instead of beeping
Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.
Bad idea of the day: automatically replace words with synonyms that have more phoneme sequences in common with the previous word (post-processing)