Band name of the day: tracks from the coast of hell

Band name of the day: fifteen foot sinus

Bad idea of the day: a robot that spills or dribbles paint onto canvas until the image is recognized as an object, then names the painting after that object.

Starting January 28, 2005 http://danbricklin.com/log/2005_01_28.htm#guiltlessness

Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you’re a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year – preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings

Band name of the day: terrestrial radio ducks

The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders”I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/

My journey into fractals “ Gregory Ivanov ” Medium https://medium.com/@bananaft/my-journey-into-fractals-d25ebc6c4dc2

Debunking “OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation” and a few words about Tor’s directory authorities https://dustri.org/b/debunking-osint-analysis-of-the-tor-foundation-and-a-few-words-about-tors-directory-authorities.html

Cody Wilson was Defense Distributed”so who is the organization’s new leader? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/how-and-why-a-london-poet-who-never-shot-a-gun-came-to-lead-defense-distributed/

Band name of the day: stage meat

How Eric Hobsbawm helped shape the global Marxist imagination | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-eric-hobsbawm-helped-shape-the-global-marxist-imagination

Waging peace is much more than ending war | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/waging-peace-is-much-more-than-ending-war

The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/

Halloween III Silver Shamrock Commercial - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7-uC0LDllM

Orion Magazine | Four Questions for the Author: Timothy Morton, Being Ecological https://orionmagazine.org/2018/09/four-questions-for-the-author-timothy-morton-being-ecological/

Band name of the day: deeper dimensions of the profane

Bram Stoker’s Dracula Is More Than Gothic Horror. It’s a Love Letter to Moviemaking. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a23570109/bram-stokers-dracula-review-francis-ford-coppolla/

Band name of the day: a festival of rats

So, mixing corpse ash into concrete probably isn’t practical but is it any more practical than eating it?

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is David Lynch’s Battlecry https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a23614696/fire-walk-with-me-david-lynch-review/

How Does an Intel Processor Boot? | Binary Debt https://binarydebt.wordpress.com/2018/10/06/how-does-an-x86-processor-boot/

Engine Problems vs Crime Scene Problems: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/10/engine-problems-versus-crime-scene-problems/

Elites like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos think they’re being philanthropic. But they could do so much more. - Recode https://www.recode.net/2018/10/3/17930990/anand-giridharadas-winners-take-all-book-changing-world-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-jeff-bezos

How the Wachowskis Construct Revolution - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nRImrK5h0

Discovery Writing and the so-called Forster Quote | rjheeks https://rjheeks.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/discovery-writing-and-the-so-called-forster-quote/

Sam Raimi - How Does Horror Comedy Work? (video essay) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwcjToDEsUY

If Vento Aureo doesn’t make at least a handful of references to Don’t Look Now, I’ll be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you

Things I won’t miss about twitter #72956298: keyword bots that reply to any international-relations-related links with advertisements for Alex Jones

Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5172/juggalo-juggalette-facepaint-makeup-hack-beat-facial-recognition-technology

So, the GCHQ has released a statement backing up Amazon & Apple’s denials. What do you bet the implant is 5eyes tech and not chinese at all? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-britain/uk-cyber-security-agency-backs-apple-amazon-china-hack-denials-idUSKCN1MF1DN

Periodic reminder that Apple is a predatory rent-seeking company that hasn’t done anything innovative since 1980: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair

The Gilded Age of (Unpaid) Internet Writing https://longreads.com/2018/10/02/webzines-90s-online-media/

The Importance of Simple Ideas - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/03/the-importance-of-simple-ideas/

QOTD: ‘For Lovecraft, if all horror can be explained by natural law, then the obvious inference is that natural law is horrific.’

Band name of the day: except at occasional intervals

Imagine if Mondo 2000 got the Fangoria treatment: instead of occasional issues, four times a year you get a fuckin’ BOOK and it’s super fancy so people are willing to pay 5/issue & more at newsstand.

The Automation Charade https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/

James Stanley - Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html

Kinda okay generated text https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/

Band name of the day: everlasting faint

Sans Forgetica http://sansforgetica.rmit/

Bad idea of the day: A book called Acknowledgements that’s just a book-length acknowledgements section thanking people for contributing to the book, House-That-Jack-Built-style

Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.

Band name of the day: the bloom of outer darkness

Band name of the day: the perfection of the hideous

The Movie Assassin – Popula https://popula.com/2018/09/30/sarahs-magnum-opus/

Band name of the day: unmasked attacks

On free will: Daniel Dennett and Gregg Caruso go head to head | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/on-free-will-daniel-dennett-and-gregg-caruso-go-head-to-head

Bad idea of the day: a wikipedia project for creating and improving articles that are uniquely relevant to countries that qualified for internet.org

The interesting ideas in Datasette https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/

Band name of the day: kill ziggy

If imports from China suddenly dropped substantially (say, due to tariffs), would enough manufacturing business go back to S. Korea & Japan to affect Japan’s almost-30-year economic stagnation?

Band name of the day: penumbras of emanation

GitHub - aparrish/seaduck: A bare-bones simulation-driven narrative framework https://github.com/aparrish/seaduck

Crispin’s Model | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2017/10/04/crispins-model/

You guys think the halloween store across the street will have metal teeth?

Inspired by ‘They Live,’ these glasses block screens / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/03/inspired-by-they-live-the.html

Google 20th Anniversary: How Information Changed Forever https://tedium.co/2018/10/02/google-20th-anniversary-culture-importance/

In the grim dark future of 2019, the president forwards all his tweets through the Wireless Emergency Alert System. While some have moved to small communes surrounded by mountains, increasingly journalists have been puncturing their eardrums with sharp objects.

No Cash Needed At This Cafe. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data : The Salt : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data

Bad idea of the day: a machine that uses oscillators to manufacture high-quality sand

Band name of the day: iconic meat factory

Band name of the day: spiritual insulation from the Outer Monstrosities

Botnik feat. The Strokes - I Don’t Want To Be There - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dUOrktTQ4

Band name of the day: aggressively punctuated

Bad idea of the day: inform7 repl as command shell

Inform: Past, Present, Future http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html

Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/

This recipe for 3-ingredient carnitas makes taco night easy https://thetakeout.com/recipe-3-ingredient-carnitas-1828956318

Bad idea of the day: surreal and disturbing powerpoint presentations as public performance art

on terminal control http://xn–rpa.cc/essays/term

Psychologists Shouldn’t Cite That Famous Hungry Judge Study http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges

Band name of the day: moth drinking tears of a sleeping bird

How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language

BadCode.rocks https://badcode.rocks/

Letting neural networks be weird • Imaginary worlds dreamed by BigGAN http://aiweirdness.com/post/178619746932/imaginary-worlds-dreamed-by-biggan

Building the Universal Archive of Source Code | October 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/10/231366-building-the-universal-archive-of-source-code/fulltext

start [Chaosnet wiki] https://aosnet.ch/

A Short History of Chaosnet https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

Scale Modeling History: After the Postwar Boom in Tiny Designs https://tedium.co/2018/09/27/scale-model-hobby-history/

Colour Clash: The Engineering Miracle of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/2018/09/29/loading-ready-run-sinclair-edition-the-zx-spectrum/

Band name of the day: the uncorrelated targets

RE: Software disenchantment - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/09/re-software-disenchantment/

Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

Dril’s book of tweets shows he’s the best chronicler of the internet - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17907568/dril-book-official-mr-ten-years-anniversary-collection-review-tweets-twitter

Meet the Community Keeping Obsolete Supercomputers Alive - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvajn7/meet-the-community-keeping-obsolete-supercomputers-alive

Dave Rubin and the rise of YouTube’s reactionary right - Vox https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17883330/dave-rubin-ben-shapiro-youtube-reactionary-right-peterson

How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation

My career as an international blood smuggler | Society | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/27/my-career-as-an-international-blood-smuggler

Band name of the day: imported blood products

Regarding Theory as Technology - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/17/regarding-theory-as-technology/

Toward a Critical Technical Practice https://web.archive.org/web/20051221192206/http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html

Instagram’s in love with bare-faced brutalism “ and so am I | Steve Rose | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/25/instagram-love-brutalist-stark-architecture

Band name of the day: xtreme witchcraft

Readme Driven Development http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html

GitHub - minexew/Shrine: A TempleOS distro for heretics https://github.com/minexew/Shrine

Recreational Programming With LoseThos http://www.osnews.com/story/23796/Recreational_Programming_With_LoseThos

TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/

The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines To Explain Politics https://kotaku.com/the-socialist-youtuber-using-cities-skylines-to-explai-1829245653