Bad idea of the day: Raspberry Pi based seedboxes built into your shoes, connecting to every open network, and trying to break into every not-open one.
Bad idea of the day: ESP32 throwies with flash memory as store-and-forward nodes for an incrementally growing DHT
Guidelines for future hypertext systems – Rococo Modem Ba… https://medium.com/@/guidelines-for-future-hypertext-systems-647b6a10f7dd
Bad idea of the day: a claw machine except it’s a fishing pole with a hook on the end
Band name of the day: thanatosis
Announcing the 2018 No-Budget Film Contest – Rococo Mo… https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd
Your periodic reminder that I am running a no-budget film contest again this year. If you plan to make a no-budget film, submit it. If you want an excuse to make one, you have one now.
Bad idea of the day: at a wedding, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, and best man all wear identical suits and photorealistic masks of Richard K. James
Band name of the day: the parasite brood
Band name of the day: the brood parasites
Band name of the day: the enforcement specialists
How To Become A Centaur https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-case
[1511.04206] Quantum algorithms: an overview https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04206
How to Survive a Harem Anime - Public Service Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmtiDbg4xY
Beating Film Censorship in China: Online Big Movies - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyj7A6iD9Nk
The Cult of Debt Forgiveness - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ec2WLyUtbA
Band name of the day: international orbit
Band name of the day: an explosion was audible within each toad
When Amazon Opens Warehouses - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/amazon-warehouses-poor-cities/552020/
Meet the pirate queen making aca… https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit
You can now play with Spotify’s rec… https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/5/16974194/spotify-recommendation-algorithm-playlist-hack-nelson
GitHub - automerge/automerge: A JSON-like data structure that can be modified concurrently by diff… https://github.com/automerge/automerge
Labouring in the digital economy: The people making content (in)visible o… https://www.diggitmagazine.com/column/labouring-digital-economy
GitHub - chriskiehl/Gooey: Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application … https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
Linguistics Using Category Theory | The n-Category Caf&#… https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html
Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks … http://sciphijournal.org/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation-of-iain-m-banks/
Band name of the day: a sleeping suit for air-raid nights
bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow - Lion‘s Roar https://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-talks-to-john-perry-barlow/
The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries… https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/
The House That Spied on Me https://gizmodo.com/the-house-that-spied-on-me-1822429852
Band name of the day: let them eat art
Longbox History: The Compact Disc‘s Wasteful Container https://tedium.co/2018/02/06/compact-disc-longbox-history/
Bad idea of the day: spaghetti and cakeballs in a cinnamon-sugar-butter sauce
Dog World Pilot Animatic on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/48994457
Blue men of the Minch - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_men_of_the_Minch
Doki Doki Literature Club (Zero Punctuation) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krq6-1ht_kk
Early Legal Streaming Services: Why Pressplay and MusicNet … https://tedium.co/2018/01/30/legal-music-streaming-history/?utm_source=Tedium
Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/
Bad idea of the day: playing cards with oblique strategies on tghem
Rather than sending advertisements into outer space, it would be really nice if we made it so that Facebook and Twitter would run reasonably on six month old mid-market desktop computers. These JS timeouts are annoying.
Jordan Peterson’s Bullshit https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/jordan-peterson-enlightenment-nietzsche-alt-right
The Darkness Before the Right - The Awl https://www.theawl.com/2015/09/the-darkness-before-the-right/
Why I barely read SF these days - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html
The Age of Creativity · The Walrus https://thewalrus.ca/the-age-of-creativity/
Band name of the day: the mysterious night visitor
Manifesto Jam - itch.io https://itch.io/jam/manifesto-jam
The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland https://dynamicland.org/research-notes/social-dynamics-of-programming-together/
Linguistic bots explain why big gr… https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/linguistic-bots-explain-why-big-groups-produce-simple-grammar/
GitHub - Zulko/moviepy: Video editing with Python https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy
Ted Nelson: What We Can Still Learn from Xanadu - The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/ted-nelson-can-still-learn-xanadu/
‘Blow’ is an archaic term for ‘blossom’ in both its verb and noun sense, & that’s beautiful
Profile: Barbara Kruger on Trump, Supreme, &am… https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/profile-barbara-kruger-on-trump-supreme-and-harassment.html
Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/
Band name of the day: the taking of weapons
Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’
Band name of the day: we will ruin you
Band name of the day: external shrinkage
Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day
Band name of the day: a frightening inheritance
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Mission Statement - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4
Lemon Demon - Redesign Your Logo - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qImHuiYnVQ0
Understanding "Life On Mars?" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY27JurC1Y0
Solder History: The Unsung Hero of Digital Electronics https://tedium.co/2018/01/25/soldering-technology-history/
bixlee - pretty hate mashing (nine inch nails mashup album) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwXVEzfIzpo
Black Mirror and The History of Science Fiction - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr9_DcO6G3A
But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY
DJ Cummerbund - Jereloose - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wH9qBqTh4
The problem with building a “fair” system - O‘Reilly Media https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-problem-with-building-a-fair-system
Bad idea of the day: Adversarial social graphs. 99% similar to your actual graph, but friending one guy makes Facebook think you’re actually Al Gore.
[1801.01944] Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01944
Powerless Placebos | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/31/powerless-placebos/
Storming the Ivory Tower: Future City: BLAME! as Postmo… http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/01/future-city-blame-as-postmodern.html
Lemon Demon - Angry People - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJSkkkTRw0
Band name of the day: the obdurant desire for the taste of defeat
Band name of the day: the paradox of painful art
10 Essential Movies Based on H.P. Lov… https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/10-essential-movies-based-on-hp-lovecraft-works.html
Band name of the day: the dead room
Band name of the day: the outer universe
Band name of the day: night air
AMV - Schrodinger‘s Box - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8bOm7DrJ7o
AMV - LoveStruck - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5eCtfpWySA
AMV - Pandora - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSu7oveH-1Y
AMV - Pencilhead - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bx0dEYiDYw
Into The Labyrinth - Anime MV ♫ AMV - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXX7dRULFaE
tan(x) (clean) - Anime MV ♫ AMV - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TiyOJZvXEc
AMV - RAH HEY! - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s9PsfAAvY
AMV - Safety Dance - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z9PKIOEwI
AMV - Beatcaster - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaRsW_f0_o
AMV - The Nightmagi Cometh - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiKxNI7_5dc
AMV - Affective Schoolgirls - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHRi67mlsc
AMV - Just Funkin‘ Dandy - Bestamvsofalltime Anime MV ♫ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuzx3p12kB4
Band name of the day: future flesh
Band name of the day: tragic meat
Band name of the day: the garden of hours
Tank! (from Cowboy Bebop) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKpIh6xonc
Band name of the day: the death stench
Junji Ito: Master of Horror in Comics - Comic Tropes (Episode 75) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GxHtLyI4TQ
Band name of the day: the lovesick dead
Animating Virtualities in Net-juu no Susume - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggo7jpFBaTE