Meow Meow Meeeeeeoooooow: NaNoGenMo 2017 – Leah Henrickson https://bhilluminated.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/nanogenmo-2017/
After the end of the startup era | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/22/ask-not-for-whom-the-deadpool-tolls/
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fail-so-miserably/#comment-560026
Scents from a Mall: The Sticky, Untold Story of Cinnabon | Seattle Met https://www.seattlemet.com/articles/2017/10/23/scents-from-a-mall-the-sticky-untold-story-of-cinnabon
Perl is the most hated programming language / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/perl-is-the-most-hated-program.html
The Weird Logic Behind Area Codes https://tedium.co/2017/10/31/telephone-area-codes-history/
The Scary Sound Machine That Is ‘Trying To Set People A Little Bit Off-Kilter’ : NPR http://www.npr.org/2017/10/29/560181981/the-scary-sound-machine-that-is-trying-to-set-people-a-little-bit-off-kilter
The 20 Most Terrifying Stories on the Internet http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/10/the-20-most-terrifying-stories-on-the-internet.html
I spent seven months living inside a conspiracy thriller and it’s not over yet - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16554660/lust-experience-alternate-reality-game-darren-lynn-bousman-immersive-theater
How Getting Enough Sleep Can Make You Less Afraid - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/rem-and-trauma/543573/
The experience of time in Dante’s Inferno https://kottke.org/17/10/the-experience-of-time-in-dantes-inferno
Public Domain Film History: A Cottage Industry of Copyright Mishaps https://tedium.co/2017/10/24/public-domain-film-history-copyright/
Public Domain Film History: A Cottage Industry of Copyright Mishaps https://tedium.co/2017/10/24/public-domain-film-history-copyright/
Card catalogs and the secret history of modernity https://kottke.org/17/10/card-catalogs-and-the-secret-history-of-modernity
Planetary and the 1990s pulp comics revival https://kottke.org/17/10/planetary-and-the-1990s-pulp-comics-revival
Chinatown’s Ghost Scam | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/chinatowns-ghost-scam
The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html
Brit Marling on Harvey Weinstein and the Economics of Consent - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-and-the-economics-of-consent/543618/
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/
Bruce Haack‘s "Electric Lucifer," the rock opera / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/10/24/bruce-haacks-electric-luci.html
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fail-so-miserably/#comment-560026
How 1977 Broke All the Rules and Changed Music Forever | Consequence of Sound https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/10/how-1977-broke-all-the-rules-and-changed-music-forever/?curator=MusicREDEF
Flattr now lets you pay content creators without having to actually do anything https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/10/24/flattr-now-lets-pay-content-creators-without-actually-anything/
Storming the Ivory Tower: So Bad It’s Good: The Inhumans http://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2017/10/so-bad-its-good-inhumans.html
When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines - Slashdot https://meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1714246/when-an-ai-tries-writing-slashdot-headlines
How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber
The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist - POLITICO Magazine http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/20/fastest-growing-city-america-florida-cape-coral-215724
In praise of bad game design • Eurogamer.net http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-09-10-in-defence-of-rough-edges
Расследование РБК: как «фабрика троллей» поработала на выборах в США :: Технологии и медиа :: РБК http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/17/10/2017/59e0c17d9a79470e05a9e6c1
Jamming the Signal: Better Living Through Subliminal Messages - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/12/jamming-signal-better-living-subliminal-messages/
Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated! | Internet Archive Blogs http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/
Old and busted: Learned helplessness. New hotness: Nihilism as survival trait. - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/03/nihilism-as-survival-trait/
Exocortices: A Definition of a Technology - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/10/exocortices-definition-technology/
SSC Journal Club: Serotonin Receptors | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/10/ssc-journal-club-serotonin-receptors/
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
On AT&T fibre
Had to chat with an AT&T employee, as a result of an order I placed yesterday. This is the feedback I left (with minor spelling corrections), after concluding the chat:
The chat experience was excellent (chat agent, Marry). AT&T experience thus far, not quite so.
I had an AT&T sales agent visit me yesterday. I signed up for Internet 1Gbps (Internet 1000 on AT&T lingo), and phone service (transferring my current number). I have a signed form, with all one time service charges waived. The appoint … ⌘ Read more
SSC Survey Results On Trust | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/05/ssc-survey-results-on-trust/
A downright moron
Henry Louis Mencken wrote an article on the Baltimore Sun, on 26 July, 1920, that amongst other things read:
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
It seems we have “perfected” democrac … ⌘ Read more
Usenet History: How Binaries Took Over Newsgroups https://tedium.co/2017/10/03/usenet-binaries-history/
Different Worlds | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/
After spending 10 hours on a JS issue, found out I needed to have the library we are using to always update things even if it thinks no changes have done
Text File formats – ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text | Ronald Duncan‘s Blog https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-formats-ascii-delimited-text-not-csv-or-tab-delimited-text/
Back in 1982 I was dealing acid at Jim Morrison’s grave and that’s when I first met Vladimir Putin. https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/10/1697580/-Back-in-1982-I-was-selling-acid-at-Jim-Morrison-s-grave-that-s-when-I-first-met-Vladimir-Putin