How to Write Games for the Internet without Embarrassing Yourself - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov78c0Kek84
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Bad idea of the day: whenever somebody talks about Green Book, pretend you think they’re talking about Green Room
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5-star phonies: Inside the fake Amazon review complex https://thehustle.co/amazon-fake-reviews
Running an IRC Network in 2019: Challenges and Opportunities - DareNET https://www.darenet.org/blog/running-an-irc-network-in-2019-challenges-and-opportunities
Wesley Aptekar-Cassels | Languages I want to write https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/language-todos
Psychic Healing at the End of History | Hannah Gais https://thebaffler.com/latest/psychic-healing-at-the-end-of-history-gais
“Ethics” and Ethics - iA https://ia.net/topics/ethics-and-ethics
Parapsychology in the PRC 1979-1989 https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R002600290003-0.pdf
Random link from the archives: https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page05.html#post117 originally archived Wed Jan 23 14:12:03 EST 2019
The New York Times sells premium ads based on how an article makes you feel – Poynter https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2019/the-new-york-times-sells-premium-ads-based-on-how-an-article-makes-you-feel/
Black metal has a real Nazi problem | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7313/black-metal-nazis-church-burning
The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-music-of-all-time-is-a-duet-between-order-and-disorder
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Bad idea of the day: twitter except it just updates your local ~/.plan file & keeps no history
Beware the ides of april
RANDU: A truly horrible random number generator https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/14/randu/
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Random link from the archives: http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/ originally archived Sat Dec 30 08:48:49 EST 2017
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Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
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Random link from the archives: https://skerritt.blog/how-does-tor-really-work/ originally archived Mon Apr 1 09:16:59 EDT 2019
Cunning Old Foxes I: Steed as Liminal Figure | Feather Dusters at 400 Yards https://therealavengers.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/cunning-old-foxes-i-steed-as-liminal-figure/
How the heck did Barbara Steele not age a day between Black Sunday (1960) and The Silent Scream (1979)?
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Random link from the archives: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites originally archived Thu Dec 20 10:50:07 EST 2018
One thing that Pet Sematary (2019) has over the 1989 version is that it actually looks like it was shot in the north country & people actually dress, act, & decorate like that’s where they are.
Chomsky vs Žižek (Electric Dreams and Real Life) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJKG6VubJ4
The Capitalist Realism of Black Mirror - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TNgCeOpdAw
Are Video Games and Gamers Trapped inside Capitalism? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueHiAfeksd0
Band name of the day: a game called history
Vaporwave and Stranger Things - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml1ECuWC1Hw
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Random link from the archives: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/topic/when-spies-come-home originally archived Tue Nov 7 14:19:17 EST 2017
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Random link from the archives: http://reallifemag.com/web-of-lies/ originally archived Mon Jun 19 11:30:55 EDT 2017
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Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Random link from the archives: https://deniskyashif.com/implementing-a-regular-expression-engine/ originally archived Wed Mar 27 14:57:55 EDT 2019
Hey, does Amazing Stranger share staff with Battle Programmer Shirase or is there just a lot of accidental style similarities for, like, budget and format reasons?
A Marxist Reading of Sarazanmai Weekly
The Shared Psychosis of Perfect Blue | Monsters of the Week - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHWSlSyjK5c
Jordan Peterson & The Meaning of Life | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEMB1Ky2n1E
Random link from the archives: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16614672/ideology-liberal-conservatives originally archived Fri Nov 10 08:36:31 EST 2017
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Band name of the day: barleymalt dermatology
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
I am drunk enough to be pointing fingerguns at random scenes from The Changeling
Random link from the archives: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-ode-to-new-metal-man-david-bunchs-moderan/ originally archived Tue Feb 19 10:51:53 EST 2019
Band name of the day: wonderland of murderporn
‘Sasuga Kei’ is like, the most absurdly dad-jokey pen name I’ve heard.
Band name of the day: noise pollution
QOTD: “Intellectual property is a form of rent”
Feel the pain of your friends, but more importantly, understand the pain of your enemies. (It helps if you want to cause them more, or bribe them by offering less.)
Hotter take: Mother of Tears isn’t a bad movie – only a much more conventional one
Hot take: Inferno is the best movie in the Three Mothers Trilogy
Random link from the archives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMS8QEYIQU originally archived Mon Feb 11 08:22:19 EST 2019
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Triple feature: The Mouth of Madness, XTRO, and Possession (1981)
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Herding Cats- Episode 1 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHefn45fX1M&list=PLFad02vA5AOHMFKVSG65S40QOtsx2nGFF
seize the means of representation
The Spectacle vs Capitalism (Snowpiercer vs Go West) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opMAQzMEkGg
Band name of the day: hedonic tone
santa klaus nomi
Random link from the archives: https://www.hackmud.com/ originally archived Mon Jul 2 08:46:17 EDT 2018
Master of web puppets: abusing web browsers for persistent and stealthy computation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/12/master-of-web-puppets:-abusing-web-browsers-for-persistent-and-stealthy-computation/
Band name of the day: click gap
Interactive Fiction https://www.eblong.com/zarf/if.html
A Feud Between Two Popular Statisticians, Nassim Taleb and Nate Silver, on Election Forecasting http://nautil.us/blog/nassim-talebs-case-against-nate-silver-is-bad-math
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Random link from the archives: https://mindhacks.com/2018/04/04/review-john-barghs-before-you-know-it/ originally archived Fri Apr 6 09:37:42 EDT 2018
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Random link from the archives: http://reallifemag.com/same-difference/ originally archived Thu Sep 27 11:22:39 EDT 2018
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
One Free Trick: How to Use the Writing Skills You Have to Learn the Ones You Don’t | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/25/one-free-trick-how-to-use-the-writing-skills-you-have-to-learn-the-ones-you-dont/
6 Ways That Fanfiction Makes Your Writing Stronger | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/04/08/6-ways-that-fanfiction-makes-your-writing-stronger/
Random link from the archives: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mind-of-amanda-feilding-countess-of-psychedelic-science/ originally archived Fri Feb 16 12:08:27 EST 2018
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Mankind Is Obsolete hasn’t aged a day in the 12 years since I last listened to them. Jesus.
when you no longer need to make a living in order to continue living, a lot of things become possible
Band name of the day: empty motion
Imagine how much better off we might have been if Wikileaks divorced itself from the Julian Assange brand in 2012, instead of doubling down on the association.
Band name of the day: sweat bees
The History of Text Generation | http://mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2015/12/15/randomly-generated-title-goes-here/
Band name of the day: more features for dead people
Your brain probably is a computer, whatever that means | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-probably-is-a-computer-whatever-that-means
GitHub - Mercury-Language/mercury: The Mercury logic programming system. https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury
Listen up bitches, it’s time to learn incorrect things about someone you’ve never heard of | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7295/buckle-up-twitter-is-cancelled
EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is ‘Terrorist Content’ | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190410/14580641973/eu-tells-internet-archive-that-much-site-is-terrorist-content.shtml
I could never become a politician. They’d have to swear me in on a copy of the Principia Discordia, and I suspect swearing people in on the Principia might be the cause of our current political situation…
Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/muhammad-an-anticlerical-hero-of-the-european-enlightenment
Why be armed to the teeth when you can just have tiny arms mounted on your teeth. Some of the arms could hold small knives. Fuck yeah transhumanism.
Often, when two people or organizations are fighting, both of them are awful. Don’t worry: you don’t need to take sides. And, even if you do, saying that one of them is in the right in some circumstance is not the same as supporting everything they’ve done.
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Ever notice how Rock the Casbah has the same plot as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
Band name of the day: we play only b-sides