January 2012
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Kill Screen: "Silent Lights" installation is... →
killscreendaily:
Several artists have pooled their talents to light up the path beneath a busy expressway in Brooklyn.
Silent Lights is an architectural series of gates that frames a pedestrian pathway by day showing constant movement through shadows. It transforms sound into patterns of light at night as…
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The (Un)usual Suspect: Why Organic Spices Aren't... →
Quite interesting. Organic certification tells you nothing special about food safety. Also, irradiated food is perfectly safe, ne?
(Via Tom Ingram)
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No, I did not know that there were lyrics to this....
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Big Human on Campus Chapter 1: Prologue, a Ranma... →
Do you like Ranma 1/2? Ok well, do you like Rosario + Vampire? Hm, not heard of either, but like humorous action stories? Well if you like any of those (but especially the humor part) then this is a great story for you! Let’s see what the author has to say about this:
Ranma gets booted out of Furinkan after dealing with Saffron, and ends up on the bus to a new school called Youkai Academy,...
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Pac-Man Proved NP-Hard By Computational Complexity... →
bigweek:
Technology Review:
In the last few years, a few dedicated mathematicians have begun to study the computational complexity of video games. Their goal is to determine the inherent difficulty of the games and how they might be related to each other and other problems.
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On pirates and piracy →
infoneer-pulse:
Mashups, which have been repeatedly attacked by the entertainment industry, are by no means a new art form; they’ve been central to creativity for years (related examples are embedded below). Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” incorporate a number of popular songs of the era, including the always popular “Cabbages and Beets drove me away from you,” in its entirety, along with “Get...
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The story of Fernforest and Petro Dale | asymco →
A fable. But a relevant one.
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“There’s a common theme: all of us placed bets on Apple at a time when it wasn’t...”
– This. Though I’ve not been doing much gloating myself aloud/online (not being around people who care much at all about it right now), I’m gloating inside.
parislemon: Why We Gloat
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Press Pot – Stumptown Coffee Roasters →
An example of how people take their coffee seriously. I think I will be following these instructions from now on as I have a french press.
I blame Marco Arment (Instapaper creator) for this.
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Kill Hollywood, Not Movies
parislemon:
The fallout from the failure of SOPA and PIPA is just as interesting as the main topics themselves. First, many on the web with loud voices are finally waking up to how corrupt the lobbying/political system is in this country. Second, directly-related, there’s a quickly growing anti-Hollywood sentiment.
The most forceful stance has to be Y Combinator putting out a new RFS...
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Oh hey!
Cool! I just broke 1,000 posts! Quite yay.
Erm, nothing to see here, move along.
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Oooppps.. 404 - страница молдавских веб... →
A complicated 404 page.
Via @Avencri
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SOPA and PIPA | American Civics | Khan Academy →
SOPA video made by the Khan Academy. Quite in-depth and walks its way through the language of the bill itself.
This is one of the benefits of open publishing platforms for academics. They can share their expertise swiftly with the public on their terms.
(Via Groklaw)
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“Quick thought experiment – if you were to substitute “needs improvement” for...”
– This is the whole posting, but click through to support them please.
Eduwonk » Blog Archive » What’s In A Word?
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CryCraft: Mod Minecraft Into Crysis | Rock, Paper,... →
Why? Well, mods do do this.
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Why McGraw-Hill is selling iBooks for $15 | TUAW -... →
So, yeah. They’re not really losing anything, gain lockin, block resale, and cut distribution costs.
I wonder about the ability to lend these things, or put them on reserve at libraries.
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“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this...”
– MPAA head (and former U.S. Senator) Chris Dodd speaking to Fox News (as noted by Hillicon Valley).
I mean, he actually said this.
In one soundbite, he’s both threatening any and all U.S. politicians and implying that they’re corruptible. It’s a statement that so egregious, it’s hard to think of...
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Experience classical sheet music as...
This is a neat animation/ad.
killscreendaily:
This promo video for the Zurich Chamber Orchestra is somewhere between the thrills of Audiosurf and the fun-fun-fun compositions of Mario Paint. The production studio Virtual Republic notes:
The notes and bars were exactly synchronised with the progression in the animation so that the typical movements of a rollercoaster ride match the dramatic...
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“Motivational speakers used to preach a few decades back that we should all think...”
– I need to stop reading distressing things.
The World is Small and Life is Long
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Athena Encounters the Technology of the Ancients –... →
This is kinda scary. I mean, I always knew I was part of an intermediary generation in media types, but really? Yeouch.
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The next SOPA – Marco.org →
Sobering thought, but with a call to action.
So maybe, instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law and changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform.
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“To harness the energy that fuels both these drives, we need to move beyond the...”
– A really cool piece on the rise of group-thinking as a methodology for everything.
(Via Library Juice
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
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Hard to compete with Free: €20 for unlimited... →
If the US market is so competitive, why doesn’t Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, or even T-Mobile offer unlimited texts, minutes, MMS, and 3G/4G internet for $25/month? There are some limitations that Free places, but they seem reasonable. Besides, with 0.1% churn rate per month they seem to be doing quite well - not to mention their regular broadband service (20-30Mbps internet + free landline calls to...
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Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright... →
This is not good news at all. Things in the public domain should remain there. It all goes back to the point of the copyright system. And keeping works freely available to the public that granted the creators a limited monopoly once that has expired was the payment for that ability. Now that people can just bring it back into copyright, the people really get no lasting benefit out of granting that...
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Remembering the last time the web went dark →
This isn’t the first time major and minor Internet sites have gone dark in protest against legislation. Just something to remember.
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"Content" Creep
dbreunig:
Publishers have stopped referring to their products as journalism, writing, literature, photography, or art. Today, everything is simply “content”.
Those working in media, especially digital media, can attest to the word’s popularity. Quantitatively we can observe this trend in the chart above: over the last ten years, annual financial reports from The New York Times have leaned...
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Believing in Tim Tebow - ESPN →
Regardless of what you think of his practices on the field, what he does around it is really admirable.
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Blogs I Read Part 1
Blogs I Read
I’m currently reading a number of blogs. I had the thought that it might be interesting to others to know just what I’m reading at the moment. The majority of what I link to from here are also derived from these blogs, with occasional extras that friends recommend to me. I follow blogs in two places, tumblr and RSS via Reeder. I’ll cover the two groups in separate...
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The Wife: Likes Life More Because of These Johnny... →
A cool review of a comic I read online.
johnnywander.com
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STRIKE AGAINST SOPA →
That’s… a lot of stuff going black on Wednesday. Including Wikipedia, so if you’re planning on using it on Wednesday, do it early.
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100 years in 10 minutes →
Kinda nifty, but a real US centric bias on events.
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Tim O'Reilly - Google - Before Solving a Problem,... →
More on SOPA/PIPA, but mostly questioning why no one (in Washington, even the White House) questions the economic harm claims made by interest groups.
This might not be an economic loss but an economic redistribution, hence no jobs “lost” but just money moved around to a different place, like that local ice creme parlor.
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India triumphs over polio, with no new cases in a... →
This is good news. Not just for India, but for everyone.
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Daring Fireball Linked List: Today's Edition of... →
What were they thinking? But it also could be an affiliate running a scam (though unlikely, given that it continued after swapping to Google India).
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Obama administration joins the ranks of SOPA... →
Well, this is good news I’d say. Not fear ending, but much closer. SOPA might not get out this time.
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“Well, let’s see. We’re back to black-box rules of thumb. People will...”
– A scifi author describes how science could die, but high technology remain.
The TOF Spot: The Autumn of Modern Science
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“In recent days, the museum [the Guggenheim] has made 65 art catalogues available...”
– Some more cool free ebook resources. This time it’s art!
Free: The Guggenheim Puts 65 Modern Art Books Online | Open Culture
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Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose... →
Cory Doctorow on the coming war on general purpose computing, of which the copyright wars are really just skirmishes. More than a bit chilling to read.
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How Copyright Industries Con Congress | Cato @... →
More SOPA/PIPA nonsense debunked.
(Via Ars Technica)
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Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Remarkably dry and... →
Well that looks rather extreme.
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