February 2012
3 posts
“As for the ideas tentatively proposed in that dystopian fantasy thirty years...”
– BBC News - Viewpoint: V for Vendetta and the rise of Anonymous - Alan Moore
“If you still don’t know what recursion is, read this sentence.”
– Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Recursion
January 2012
22 posts
In a city of the future It is difficult to find...
“Your salary negotiations are probably going to be the most important financial...”
– Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued | Kalzumeus Software
Photorito
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The More the... →
“Then one day we were eating Japanese food and talking about redoing the patio, and Tim looked in my eyes and I looked in his, and we just knew. We had to marry a third guy.”
Issues of McSweeneys Lost In Fire
Saved here for remembering.
1-3 reprint (unread)
11 w/ DVD
13
15
16 (unread)
18
Wholphin Vol 1
19
24 (unread)
25 (unread)
26 (unread)
33 (unread)
Survived:
17 (minor smoke damage to some sections)
20 (was in L.A.)
Repurchased:
15
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24
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The Magical (and Sometimes Ridiculous) Gadgets of... →
“That’s everything you need to know about TVs in the coming year.”
The Wirecutter’s CES wrapup is perfect.
“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
Google Personal Results
This morning Google announced that results from your social network will begin appearing in search results. Unfortunately it looks like only results from Google’s social networks will be appearing.
One of the highlighted examples shows images from Google+ matching a search term. Will Google be showing Flickr photos from my Flickr friends too? Yeah right.
Another example shows Google+ posts...
“Here is an example of a Terminally Bad Sign for any organization in the computer...”
– How I got here in the end - my non-writing careers - Charlie Stross
Peeing out the window of a moving Muni bus «... →
“HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEARS ASSHOLES, I JUST PEED OUT THE WINDOW OF A MOVING BUS”
December 2011
11 posts
“The point isn’t nostalgia, that things were better in simpler times, but...”
– Ian Bogost - The Virtues of Long Compiles
daniel sinker: I'm starting to think Lego is evil →
sinker:
Well, maybe not evil, but “highly problematic.”
First, let’s remove what we all *think* Lego is (i.e. our own nostalgic memories, our aspirational beliefs, or $250 robot sets), and instead concentrate on what Lego today is, for the most part: It’s movie-tie-in model sets marketed pretty much…
“They haven’t really been a competitor for a long time. Once you’re...”
– Facebook buys Gowalla | Hacker News
November 2011
8 posts
“So if your goal is to enrich the Arringtons of the world while maybe, if you win...”
– Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. | jwz
“Shit is fucked up and bullshit.
We agree.
Except that we would substitute...”
– http://m.newyorker.com/humor/2011/11/28/111128sh_shouts_kenney
“My wife was speaking to the young deputies about the importance of nonviolence...”
– At Occupy Berkeley, Beat Poets Has New Meaning - Robert Hass - NYTimes.com
“If you really like the atmosphere at universities, that is cool. Put a backpack...”
– Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
“Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the...”
– The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com
Playing with fire...
catalogliving:
Some people disagree with our choice to leave Gary Jr. at home by himself, but Elaine and I can’t imagine what could go wrong.
October 2011
16 posts
“Apps are the new channels.”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Bloomberg TV for iPad
