May 2009
HOME OF THE WHOPPER →
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. We lie daily, very complexly, and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, we would be…
PatchMatch, incredible video demo of interactive... →
taking seam carving to the next level, I really could’ve used this last week
Papyrus →
Netherlands runs out of criminals, has to shut... →
The Netherlands (where most drugs are cannabis is legal) has so few criminals that it is now faced with the choice of shutting down its prisons and laying off the staff, or importing criminals…
This is Not a Game →
No reset button here, kiddo. What happens when you decide to drop a novice into the middle of the 24-hour race in your Nissan 350Z race car…? Gran Turismo game designer Kazunori Yamauchi…
Davario's Draw Yourself As A Teen meme on... →
over 500 submissions in a year, some highlights
Sorry I'm Late, a stop-motion short film →
I loved seeing how it was made, from the first test animations to the final shoot [via]
[from joshua] Polytron Corporation →
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The real Human Interface →
Deep down, don’t we all think they work like this? [Via Aza Raskin] Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
The real Human Interface originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 May 2009…
Neuromancer - Amiga Screenshots - MobyGames →
via http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/neuromancer/screenshots/gameShotId,72202/
[from vaguery] Beg the Internet... →
“Google is beginning to fail to scale: there are now so many things on the internet and my memory for unique key words is so foggy that I can no longer find things I know exist.” …
[from deusx] Smut for Smut | Atheist Agenda →
“During the the hours of 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. the Atheist Agenda, a student organization of The University of Texas at San Antonio, had a table on campus with the purpose of exchanging religious…
'V' 2009 Mini-Series Trailer →
Firefly hottie Morena Baccarin returns as the Alien Lizard Queen in ABC’s reimagining of the classic V miniseries. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
Profile for emilymmkay - hey Ginette →
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Too much cola causes muscular weakness →
Greek researchers have published a paper in International Journal of Clinical Practice about a growing incidence of muscular problems brought on by too much cola consumption.
“Evidence is…
[from negatendo] Tiny Art Director →
“The Brief: A dinosaur eating a baby, like last time.
Artist Negotiation: How about something other than a dinosaur?
The Brief, Revised: A duck. A duck biting a dinosaur’s tail.
The Critique: I want…
Flicked Off: ‘Terminator Salvation’ →
Have you ever worked at a place where everyone’s head may be on the executioner’s block? (Sure you have! Or did!) Then you know that only the strong and/or the sycophantic survive. But…
[from vaguery] PHD Comics: Science News Cycle →
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[from negatendo] nasty nets " ghstbstrsbstrs →
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Graph of how #topics get played out on Twitter →
From The Guardian’s Meg Pickard, a graph that “compares ‘people talking about #topic’ and ‘people talking about talking about #topic’. Outside of Twitter, this applies to pretty much any popular…
Cowabunga →
Kool-Aid Man In Second Life. Mesmerizing video. [via]
Roland Barthes quote on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
via http://www.flickr.com/photos/hulk4598/3411851620/in/set-72157617084066866/
WolframAlpha rendering text as images to prevent... →
though they claim it’s for “consistency,” which is absurd; on second thought, I think Paul Ford’s right, it’s just Wolfram culture
[from deusx] New Danger Mouse CD Released As A... →
“due to ongoing legal troubles with EMI, he can’t actually release the music. So he’s come up with a rather creative solution. Found via Andrew Dubber, the news is that the next album will be…
Sexuality Map →
A map of the lands of human sexuality, from 4Chan. Where do you live? And where is your vacation home? Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
Auto Tune The News #3 →
Obligatory since this’ll be everywhere by Monday anyway… [Editor’s Note: Hillary Clinton is Auto-Tune perfection at 1:50, for real.] Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
Graph of how #topics get played out on Twitter →
From The Guardian’s Meg Pickard, a graph that “compares ‘people talking about #topic’ and ‘people talking about talking about #topic’. Outside of Twitter, this applies to pretty much any popular…
Ubik's Voxel →
absolutely stunning animated 3D pixel-ish art [via]
Stephen Wolfram demonstrates Wolfram|Alpha in... →
after watching the screencast, I’m much more excited about tonight’s launch
faustian style →
Scouts training to fight immigrants and terrorists →
A new Scouting program teaches children to fight immigrants, Arab terrorists:
“United States Border Patrol! Put your hands up!” screams one in a voice cracking with adolescent determination as…
Visualization Nostalgia: Flowcharting Techniques,... →
Once upon a time, flowcharts and coding sheets were the prime tools of a programmer. They formed (and still probably are) one of the primary usages of visualization. I recently stumbled on…
Pixel City, Shamus Young's procedurally-generated... →
his ten-part series of blog posts breaks down how it’s made
Breathlyzer source-code sucks →
After a long legal wrangle, some defendant-side attorneys have audited the source-code of Alcotest, the breathalyzer used in New Jersey DUI stops. Turns out it was programmed by muppets who don’t…
Bits & Pieces » Blog Archive » Two suicides →
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Ubik's Voxel →
absolutely stunning animated 3D pixel art [via]
Low-fi sci-fi →
Nice black and white covers for science fiction books. “Sanda created each cover using A4 paper, with all the typography printed and placed on the structure by hand,” Jones continues. “We then…
Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson →
Instead of spending its oil riches, Norway saved, and it is now growing in the midst of the global recession.
Dresden Codak has tricked you again →
5/11/09 | Harvet Ismuth’s 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists
PHOTO: Dashboard from the 1978 Toyota Land Cruiser... →
Dashboard from the 1978 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40.
Making old Trek look like new Trek →
everything’s better with lens flare [via]
What Makes Us Happy? →
Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college…
Rats trading stocks →
Advice from rats who trade stocks…”the latest advice from our most successful trading rats for individual investors”. We are continuously crossing the best trading rats with each other in…
On The Impossibility Of Identity →
Whenever I’m asked—weirdly, it happens with some frequency—which celebrity I most resemble I always answer Mike Tyson, which I for some reason think is hysterical, although I recently developed what…
Brit MP saw undercover cops egging crowd to riot... →
A British Member of Parliament claims he saw two undercover cops acting as agents provocateurs at the G20 demonstrations, attempting to get the crowd to riot. It was during one of the “kettling”…
Jer Thorp's animated 3D visualization of take-offs... →
he grabbed every “just landed in…” query, extracted locations, and mapped the results with Processing
Jonah Lehrer: The secret of self-control. →
In the late nineteen-sixties, Carolyn Weisz, a four-year-old with long brown hair, was invited into a “game room” at the Bing Nursery School, on the campus of Stanford University. The room was little…
MILFs Eat Free →
This picture really upsets me because nothing should sully the sentiment of taking your mom to a Pizza Hut buffet for Mother’s Day. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »
Brit MP saw undercover cops egging crowd to riot... →
A British Member of Parliament claims he saw two undercover cops acting as agents provocateurs at the G20 demonstrations, attempting to get the crowd to riot. It was during one of the “kettling”…
[from negatendo] Gizmodo - Long-Exposure Shot of a... →
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