May 2009
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“Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap. One thing you...”
– Ira Glass
Amen.
If you are not prepared, the result will suck. If you aren’t organized, the result will suck. If you talk out of your ass, the result will suck. If you are “winging it”, the result will suck. If you don’t care enough, the result will suck. And most of the...
Dies ist ein Medienüberfall. Wir halten sie fest...
Was recently reminded of this awesome...
Ficly - A better, shorter story →
Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel. You can start a story or jump into someone else’s tale. The possibilities are endless, and in some cases, so are the stories.
Shiny!
WatchNice. @BRIANMBENDIS on TSOYA.
There I was thinking that “This American Life” on the radio is the epitome of awesome. And then I discover the TAL TV series… I’m deeply humbled and embarrassed by the quality those guys produce. I wish more people would care that much about story telling.
Watchkryz:
HardTimes: Illusion
Ze Frank gives you the coolest optical illusion you will ever see.
I admit I have become one of those douchebags that have a “process” for email. It had to happen sooner or later…
Just saying this, because if you have to cope with a high volume of mail, as I often have, I’d like to recommend trying the “Inbox Zero” idea for a while. I’m quite happy with it for the last 4 weeks. :)
42 Points on the Future of Everything →
Nick Farr’s 42 points about the future from sigint09. I agree with quite a few of those.
Fear and Loathing: The Board Game →
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and...”
– Orson Welles
Honeycut - Exodus Honey - Full version of the (imo...
Colin is a new British horror film told from a Zombie’s point of view. It was made for £45 and apparently it went down well at Cannes . Peter Jackson’s first film Bad Taste did a similar thing. This documentary features Jackson’s parents talking about taking the film to France.
(via I, Zombie | MetaFilter)
Watchran-dom:
Du bist Terrorist. (including English subtitles)
I love this video. Sums up the situation in Germany perfectly.
“What is happening is no longer just a crisis for individuals, nor even for...”
– The week Britain turned its anger on politicians | Politics | The Observer
WatchLife Inc. - How the world became a corporation and how to take it back
“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
– H.P. Lovecraft
“The faulty Monk was turned out into the desert where it could believe what it...”
– DNA
“Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;...”
– That eternal bard dude.
WatchCelebrities and news-makers get grilled in exactly five minutes by Matthew Stadlen in a series for the BBC News website.
This week, evolutionary biologist, atheist and author Richard Dawkins talks about death, being good and the point of life.
How to search and play a Spotify track using AppleScript:
set savedClipboard to (the clipboard as string)
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Spotify"
open location "spotify:search:artist:rise against title:collapse"
delay 1
keystroke "l" using command down
delay 0.1
keystroke " "
delay 0.1
keystroke " "
delay 0.1
click menu item 5 of menu 1 of menu bar item 4 of...
Let There Be Doom - The paradoxically soothing... →
(via bristolpalin)
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
– Helen Keller (via ran-dom)
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His bike laying in the center of his favorite clearing, just minutes from this little hermitic cabin in the forrest, him sitting next to it, deeply entranced by poetry written in nanolang - his life could not be any better.
He finished up work on the next firmware release for Roche’s “Vivaris”. Someone had to program those nanobots against erectile dysfunction - it was good money and it...