October 2009
35 posts
“Das Schöne ist nichts als des Schrecklichen Anfang, den wir noch grade ertragen.”
Fight Club - The Return of Hobbes →
In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give “Jack” more of an everyman quality. Do not be deceived. “Jack” is really Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It’s true. Norton portrays the grown-up version of Calvin, while Brad Pitt plays his imaginary pal,...
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“Every Halloween, Linus faithfully waits by a pumpkin patch, in the hopes that he...”
– Nathan Radke: Sartre & Peanuts (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
Collaboration is not Communication
We interrupt the regular transmission of LOLCATs to bring you this discussion about collaborative text editing:
There’s an interesting (to me) discussion going on, about live typing in Google Wave. Jens Alfke (of ex-iChat fame) wrote an insightful article about its history in iChat to which John Gruber replied:
I never mind instant updating when I use SubEthaEdit to collaboratively edit a...
“Ist das Kunst, oder kann das weg?”
– Joseph Beuys (via riot36)
“Programming is an exercise in overcoming how wrong you’ve been in the past. At...”
– Guy English - Don’t Be A Dick: Compiled Flash and You.
How to build a nice Fluid web app for Google Wave... →
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blest:...”
– Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man