March 2009
66 posts
Zork Returning As a Browser MMO!!! →
XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD XD
More at Legends of Zork. Man, I hope this doesn’t suck.
Read this if you don’t know what I’m talking about. And for goodness sake, turn on the lights.
Lingwall, Mary. Band breaks rock 'n' roll... →
Or, “HEY RUBE, LOOK, MY PICTURE’S IN THE PAPER!”
Too bad I’m not in that band anymore (._.) but YOU GO, KIDS!
Doctorow, Cory. Wil Wheaton teaches his son to... →
Dungeons & Dragons, that is. Incredible. The boingboing writeup is good, or if you know the lingo you could just begin the campaign yourself.
The Linux Foundation. The "We're Linux" Video... →
gamerchick02:
This is a set of ads put up by the Linux Foundation to counter the “I’m a Mac” and “I’m a PC” ads put out by Apple and Microsoft. All are user-made and reflect what Linux is to them. Enjoy.
Heh, this one’s silly.
Brooks, Michael. Space storm alert: 90 seconds... →
“Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction. Our modern way of life, with its reliance on technology, has unwittingly exposed us to an extraordinary danger: plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.”
Alford, Henry. Henry Alford. →
“Humorist. Journalist. Guy of Letters.”
Tran, Son. Five ways people are trying to save the... →
I decided against posting this when I first read it a few weeks ago. Since then it has popped back into my head so many times that I had to go looking for it. So, here you go…
Mellencamp, John. On my mind: The state of the... →
“Reagan’s much-vaunted trickle-down theory said that wealth tricked down to the masses from the elite at the top. Now we’ve found out that this is patently untrue — the current economic collapse reflects this self-serving folly. The same holds for music. It doesn’t trickle down; it percolates up from the artists, from word of mouth, from the streets and rises up to...
Sandoval, Greg. Is Reznor a digital-music... →
Whoa, full-circle weird.
“Ulrich’s nod to Reznor is, at the very least, an acknowledgment that digital distribution is here to stay and that the best way to survive as a music act is to understand it” (emphasis mine).
badpaintingsofbarackobama.com →
The title says it all.
(via visualmadness via jenniferho)
Slashdot. If we have free will, then so do... →
snahgle writes
“Mathematicians John Conway (inventor of the Game of Life) and Simon Kochen of Princeton University have proven that if human experimenters demonstrate ‘free will’ in choosing what measurements to take on a particle, then the axioms of quantum mechanics require that the free will property be available to the particles measured, or to the universe as a...
Kingdom of Loathing
For the last couple weeks, while my girlfriend and I wait to move into our new place, I’ve been staying with my brother and adolescent nephews, who are pretty hardcore World of Warcraft players. I’ve been playing a little bit, too, on one of their accounts. I’ll admit, It’s a lot of fun and just as addictive as you’ve probably heard—although in some ways it’s...
Travel Journalism, Meet The Class War
lowlife:
I’m a travel writer and a sucker for a good publicity stunt. Combined with the fact that AIG is on my damn nerves right now, I wish I could make it to Connecticut for the Working Family Party’s tour of AIG execs’ homes. Even if the WFP is far too hippie left-wing for my tastes, this idea is awesome.
I resemble that statement.
Bouton, Jim. Men in blue. →
“‘No father ever lit up a cigar, pointed to his new baby and said, “That kid is going to be a major-league umpire.”’
“This is how Jim Evans, a former major-league umpire, greets students at his Academy of Professional Umpiring. It’s one of two schools approved by Major League Baseball, a necessary step on the road to America’s most thankless occupation.”
Krozser, Kassia. New think? Not so much. →
“Nutshell analysis of the ‘New Think for Old Publishers’ panel at South by Southwest 2009: there was a not a single new think in the room.”
Captain Beefheart's ten commandments for... →
Last chance! "Ubuntu" for Node 3 of the ISS! →
BBC. Battery hens get woolly jumpers. →
That’s “wool sweaters” to us Yankees.
MetaFilter. What language is music? →
Heads up for π Day
The Dth of C (or something), which is much luckier than today.
Tucker, William. How nuclear will revive. →
“One of the abiding illusions of the energy debate is that there is an all powerful ‘nuclear lobby’ that is engineering the revival of nuclear power.
“What organizations could it possibly involve?”
Role Models
Danny: Can I get a large black coffee?
Barista: A what?
Danny: Large black coffee.
Barista: Do you mean a venti?
Danny: No, I mean a large.
Barista: Venti is large.
Danny: No, venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
Beeferman, Leah. Monitoring the architecture of... →
Beeferman’s work is awesome in general, and I’ve been consistently impressed by this project since its inception. Happy to see it presented on the web now, too.