August 2009
66 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
Björk (11)
Meshuggah (3)
Archie Shepp (2)
Kouki Miyata, Mitsuaki Madono (1)
Manu Dibango (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
B., Andy. Life-size LEGO house. →
Dorking. It’s in DORKING.
“
Every task involves constraint,
Solve the thing without complaint;
There are...”
– Falen, James. “Odelet in praise of constraints,” quoted in Hofstadter, Douglas R. Le ton beau de Marot.
“It’s the constraints that matter, and what separates a craftsman from just an...”
– Mittman, Noah. Don’t dick me around.
“Why would i want to check a voicemail on my cell phone? People want to talk to...”
– shitmydadsays (via nickdouglas)
Aoki, Deb. Iowa man pleads guilty in manga... →
From the announcement on Mangablog:
Handley pled guilty to one count of “possessing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children” and one count of mailing obscene material. He agreed to forfeit all the property that was seized by authorities and faces up to 15 year in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and three years of supervised release.
See also the Lawrence A....
Tweney, Dylan. DIY freaks flock to "hacker spaces"... →
Check out the one my brother and I are setting up, by the way.
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. World faces hi-tech... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
Johann Sebastian Bach (14)
Meshuggah (5)
Sunn O))) (2)
02 (Berry) Georges Simon (1)
Eyvind Kang (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Google Brings SVG Support To IE. →
From slashdot:
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is in most graphical tools. It is used heavily in many big projects, such as KDE and Wikipedia. But Internet Explorer’s lack of built-in support for SVG was keeping it away from mainstream use on the web. Google is fixing that now with a JavaScript drop-in named SVGWeb. They’ve posted a quick, one-minute overview, a longer and more...
Nichtern, Ethan. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's... →
“The Buddhist teachings on … interdependence don’t allow us to stop at the level of individual health and wellbeing. The more we pay attention to reality, the more we see the total impossibility of taking care of our own bodies and minds without taking care of others. The more we see interdependence — that our lives do not happen in a vacuum, separate from the lives of...
Haha, I just heard Todd P. on NPR. →
“The scene is better for it. It’s better now that tastemaker status and all that stuff has been kind of diluted and spread around,” [Todd P]atrick says. “At the same time, I don’t feel like my star has diminished. I feel like I still do great things; other people do great things. There’s just great stuff happening.”
If everything goes according to...
Streetlab Presents: Bootleg Remixes Vol. 1 →
Grab ‘em! That’s me singing the Pet Shop Boys song, by the way.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-16) →
Johann Sebastian Bach (16)
Toby Goodshank (12)
João Nogueira (3)
Trio Mocotó (2)
Mart’nália (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Ungerleider, Neal. Credit card, gun, stolen from... →
(via negevrockcity… Neal Ungerleider, that is)
Rasmussen College. Fifty amazing ramen noodle... →
(via sarahspy)
RadioShack Corporation. RadioShack invites... →
RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) will unveil its new brand creative platform, “THE SHACK,” on August 6, supported by an integrated television, print and digital media schedule, as well as a high-profile, three-day launch event taking place in New York City and San Francisco. The new creative was developed by Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners of Sausalito, CA, which was named the...
Schofield, Jack. Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851)... →
This is bringing me right back to my first-grade science fair project.
“Thanks to Google, hundreds of millions of people are today celebrating Hans Christian Ørsted’s birthday without having much of a clue who he is … so who exactly was he?”
Thomas Pynchon's soundtrack to "Inherent Vice." →
Awesome! Thanks to Jim for this one.
“The reason we studied redheads in the beginning, it was essentially an urban...”
– Sessler, Daniel I. The pain of being a redhead. (via nickdouglas)
Feld, Brad. A patent ban on Microsoft Word and a... →
“Oh, dear: I feem to be ftuck in the paft.”
– Talan Gwynek
J. S. Bach, Suite for Lute in G minor, BWV 995:...
The Online Life-Like CA Soup Search. →
The Online Life-Like [Cellular Automaton] Soup Search is a collaborative online project designed to find interesting patterns in Life-like cellular automata by watching the evolution of random initial configurations (known as soups). In particular, random soups are evolved until they stabilize, and all the resulting stable patterns are uploaded to the server and catalogued. If the initial soup...
United Steak of America. →
camillei:
the united steak of america. i wish i could eat this. craving more? check out TasteSpotting
Now I’m really living off the fat of the land. You too, New York.
Ten things we don't understand about humans. →
Strange new objects seen in Saturn's rings. →
Monks ban Buddha’s balls. →
(via the Worst Horse)
Weiner, Jonah. Does this purple mink make me look... →
negevrockcity:
There are regional and ideological differences in the modern United States: People in the Deep South and the Pacific Northwest eat different foods, have different accents, and (generalizing broadly) have different lifestyles and values. But as compared with a place like the USSR, a constructed nation with immense regional diversity, the United States is bound together tightly by...
Maitani, Yoshihisa. Maitani's philosophy. →
Iiiinteresting.
hammerito:
oldfilmsflicker:
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