September 2009
64 posts
“For good or ill, the justice system doesn’t work on behalf of victims; it works...”
– Fecke, Jeff. Quoted by Kate Dailey in “Roman Polanski Raped A Child: A Primer.” (via plasticlain)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
Lightning Bolt (16)
Skinny Puppy (7)
Es (5)
Schwervon! (4)
Four Tet (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Tara and Tyler. Going slowly: bicycle touring... →
FUN:
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 … Our adventure will end in Malaysia, this much is certain. The path by which we get there now lays before us largely undecided.
Do we ride through Northern Africa during winter, circling back through Spain before striking east to Moscow? Do we leave Africa unexplored and make our way to Asia through the Middle East? If we opt for Russia, will we be able...
“12 Miles” by Scout Niblett (via...
The Staffordshire Hoard. →
“The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found.” Discovered by a 55-year-old gentleman with a metal detector.
There’s also a slideshow of some of the better photos on the BBC site.
Lenssen, Philip. New: Google Sidewiki. →
Interesting… a wikilated metanet.
“Cut and paste is the first use of object-oriented design.”
– My next-cube neighbor.
“Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists in particular, as I...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “The People One Knows,” essay within Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (via sarahspy)
Colbert goes there: Only media figure in America... →
Knuth, Jenny. Bang! Bang! You're dead! →
There is a gap between how adults see weapons play and how children experience it. As one psychiatrist put it, “We are so afraid of aggression in this society that we haven’t been able to talk intelligently about it.”1 While adults disapprove, children are often doing the child’s work of play: experimenting with power and excitement, action and reaction, in a safe,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-20) →
Paul Haslinger (12)
Minikon (7)
atelecine (6)
Ochre (6)
The Legendary Pink Dots (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dorsett, Phil. Countdown to launch: Tour of a Cold... →
A nice little photo tour of a partially refurbished Titan D launch silo located in Abilene, Texas. Contact the owner if you’d like to see it for yourself. If you’d like to tour a fully refurbished silo, I highly recommend the Titan Missile Museum, located south of Tucson, Arizona.
Dufus. “Freedom.”
“Because I...
A JavaScript-Based NES Emulator →
If you want to see what Google Chrome is capable of, check out JSNES, a JavaScript and Canvas based NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator.
(via blogoscoped via robotwisdom)
EconomistMom. What exactly are they protesting? →
Subway Etiquette: The Art of Reading Over...
feelingsaregross:
cosmopsis:
It’s easy to tell when someone is reading over your shoulder—you can feel it. There are different levels of permission when trying to read over someone’s shoulder. Depending on what is being read (or written), the rules may vary.
1) DAILY NEWSPAPERS - Free territory. Passengers sitting next to someone reading a newspaper may look on with the reader. Whenever I’ve...
Kesner, Kenneth. Magazine lists Huntsville one of... →
Maass, Anne et al. The role of gender stereotypes... →
I think I recently posted (at least thought about posting) something about a man’s intellectual performance drastically declining in the presence of a woman he finds attractive.
“Forty-two male-female pairs, matched for ability, played two chess games via the Internet. When players were unaware of the sex of opponent (control condition), females played approximately as well as males....
“These are the prettiest witnesses we have had in a long time. I imagine you are...”
– Strom Thurmond, to a group of feminists testifying before the Senate (via syntheticpubes via fuckyeahmisogyny via feelingsaregross via plasticlain)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13) →
The Legendary Pink Dots (24)
Paul Haslinger (23)
Ochre (14)
Television (13)
Ata Ebtekar (Sote) (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Cheese or Font? →
Is it a Cheese or a Font? (via moreamysramblings)
“It rarely takes more than a page to recognize that you’re in the presence of...”
– A History of Violence screenwriter Josh Olson explains why he will not read your fucking script. (via plasticlain)
NPR. Homing pigeon faster than South Africa's... →
I wonder if they used IPoAC [update: they didn’t]…
“South Africa’s leading Internet service provider is facing some unexpected competition. A financial services company, frustrated with super-slow Internet speed, decided to try a homing pigeon instead. It strapped a memory card to the leg of a bird. By the time it arrived at the data’s destination, 50 miles away,...
Museum of the City of New York. The New York City... →
No Tesla!? All right, this is still neat.
sarahspy:
“The NYC400 is the first-ever list of New York City’s ultimate movers and shakers since the City’s founding—from politics, the arts, business, sports, science, and entertainment.
“In commemoration of Henry Hudson’s epic 1609 voyage into New York Harbor, the Museum is celebrating our City’s 400th birthday by recognizing the people who have...
“Honesty is the best piracy.”
The Z-machine preservation project. Play Infocom... →
No, really.
If you want to understand me, play a few interminable rounds of Zork… or Seastalker… or Hitchhiker’s Guide… or…
Brehm, Denise. Cement's basic molecular structure... →
“Oddly enough, the three-dimensional crystalline structure of cement hydrate—the paste that forms and quickly hardens when cement powder is mixed with water—has eluded scientific attempts at decoding, despite the fact that concrete is the most prevalent man-made material on earth and the focus of a multibillion-dollar industry that is under pressure to clean up its act.”