January 2009
95 posts
(Yes, that’s Justin Long. Made me LOL.)
kryz:
Gargl. — http://bit.ly/lSfC (NSF♥)
Protect Yourself Against Energy Vampires →
digitalyn:
… It’s great to be a giver, a carer and a feeler (sometimes), but now and then we need to take a stand with certain people.. because if we don’t, we begin to suffer and then nobody wins.
Read this article. Take it to heart. It’s good advise. Bonus points for looking at the miserable people in your life and using them as a bad example to learn from.
“wishes are goals that you aren’t pursuing.”
“So please, take my advice, as I go into other concentrated endeavors. Fuck the...”
– ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD
It’s going to get worse, before it gets better →
Timestamp 1234567890
Feburary 13th, 11:31:30pm GMT is timestamp 1234567890!
For you non-unix geeks, timestamp (or Unix Time, or POSIX time) is the operating system’s internal representation of time, counting seconds since 1/1/1970.
I think we should celebrate that. Maybe like a new year’s eve party, but for nerds. Maybe at your local hacker space or some other geek friendly venue. If you have more ideas,...
“If you can stay healthy for 20 years, you will see 150, maybe 300.”
– Barry Schuler on coming advances in human life expectancy. I hope he’s right.
Photogamer →
A new photographic challenge each day. Sounds fun!
WatchProgramming DNA - a 2-bit language for engineering biology
I still love that talk. One of the most interesting and fascinating of that year.
Stupid idea no. 432 - Digital vinyls
Take old record player
Rig up electronics to decode a file from a analog audio stream coming from the record players needle and pass it to a ogg/mp3 player
Take favorite music, encode as ogg/mp3, convert to digital vinyl audio stream format (includes error correction and all that jazz)
Find small label that authors your vinyl for you
Put vinyl on player - Voila: Digital record player
Bundle...
We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence →
This image is 100 meters long (100m x 78cm)
Guys, I know, it’s way cool to be cynical, even more so about politics. But could you please at least shut up for a little while longer out of respect for a people that did not make the best decisions in terms of government in the past, and now managed to elect a black liberal guy talking about change and hope?
Regardless of what comes out of it and the realities of politics, it is a...
“Poe isn’t for everyone. He’s too heady a draught for that. He may...”
– Neil Gaiman - Some Strangeness in the Proportion: The Exquisite Beauties of Edgar Allan Poe.
Dear scientists,
I know some of you are busy solving our impending energy crisis, healing cancer or HIV and doing generally useful things. But could the other ones please concentrate on making augmented reality contact lenses happen? I need those. In return I will offer a service that let’s you filter things and people you don’t want to see. There will also be a free service that replaces them with ad...
“Ein Übersetzer muß sehen, was einen Sinn macht”
– Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 10. Januar 1760
Yes. That’s seventeen-fucking-sixty. Next idiot that tells me “Sinn machen” is an abominable anglicism of “making sense” and only used by dumb lowlifes, is going to be ass-raped by Lessing’s dead corpse. You have been...
“You pissed in the economy.
You shat on the law
and wiped your ass on the...”
– Highly topical words by Mr. Jerusalem
Matti Nikki, porn and Finnish online censorship →
Sobering article about finnish online censorship. Soon to be implemented in your favorite country as well…
If politicians were serious about doing something against child porn, they would lobby for stricter punishment. Not doing that and using the issue is cynical and despicable.
“Cameras Don’t Shoot People, People Shoot People.”
– Stu Maschwitz
Programmers are Tiny Gods →
digitalyn:
So if you’re working with a programmer, you have to treat him or her like a God. You have to pray. You cannot issue edicts. You have to come on bended knee. “Here’s the problem I have. I need a solution. Please help.”
Full ACK.
@chufmoney makes music? who would have...
Rabbit Hole Day
Let’s face it. You’re in a blog rut.
Most of the time, you write about more of the same kinda stuff that you usually write about.
Maybe it’s your day-to-day life, the stuff you did. Maybe it’s topical news response. Maybe it’s short fiction. Maybe it’s re-linking random stuff you see on the internet. Maybe it’s LOLCAT porn. (I hope it’s not LOLCAT porn.) Maybe it’s here on LiveJournal, or it’s...
A Guided Tour of the Most Awesome Depression Ever →
digitalyn:
It’s a typical morning in 2011: I start my day by bumming a few joules off a pal’s bicycle generator to power up my BlackBerry and surf over to FoodTube, where starving viewers like myself salivate over clips of the “carbo-rati” noshing on hoarded snacks.
I have a hard time deciding if this a dystopian or an utopian satire…