Band name of the day: a nice flat heaven
GPS History: The Evolution of Global Positioning https://tedium.co/2018/01/11/gps-history-evolution/
Band name of the day: superfine
Bad idea of the day: a TMBG cover band called In Those Days There Were Giants
Visualizing Data Using t-SNE - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVL80Gg3lA
Band name of the day: the savvy dealer of unpopular time
After Hours — Real Life http://reallifemag.com/after-hours/
Band name of the day: keepers of the bones
Band name of the day: physical relics
John McAfee Appears to Move … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9knnpz/john-mcafee-twitter-coin-of-the-day-cryptocurrency-markets
Band name of the day: black reef
Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-ce… https://boingboing.net/2018/01/15/bad-vibes.html
One model to learn them all | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/12/one-model-to-learn-them-all/
Band name of the day: the spirit of system
We should look closely at what Adam Smith actually bel… https://aeon.co/essays/we-should-look-closely-at-what-adam-smith-actually-believed
Band name of the day: the patriotic speed limit
It’s not that computers are awful on some general axis, but that we spend more effort than necessary getting less out of them than we easily could out of myopia, greed, and laziness.
The Man Who Would… https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/?single_page=true
How the Modern City Disadvantages Women http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/your-city-has-a-gender-and-its-male
Band name of the day: the echo questions
Band name of the day: the sarcastic interrogatives
Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.
Band name of the day: too many facts about blood
Band name of the day: refocus the system
Band name of the day: scriptorium
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
Band name of the day: new lines for a new mind
Foreclosing on the future of the book https://kottke.org/18/01/foreclosing-on-the-future-of-the-book
If I resurrected my newsletter, would anybody subscribe? I’m thinking of modifying the format to have it contain the content I usually post on Medium, and then paywall the Medium essays for a month. (So, subscribers would be getting the free essays early.)
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is unclassifiable acts of kindness toward disadvantaged strangers
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is making and serving coffee
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is burning dollar bills on live television
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is computing a giant-ass rainbow table
Band name of the day: snarf buffer
pos2tracery https://www.npmjs.com/package/pos2tracery
How to Think Like a Medieval Monk | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/how-think-medieval-monk
Band name of the day: the noonday demon
Band name of the day: proof of burn
Grid computing - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing
Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.
Band name of the day: command phrase
Band name of the day: innovation theatre
The Importance of Being Mishima Yukio | Nippon.com https://www.nippon.com/en/column/g00471/
Doki Doki Literature Club - A Metamodern Horror Game - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTTDdzxqdo
Sustainable community education through WTFM http://web.archive.org/web/20170416184606/http://www.roaming-initiative.com/blog/posts/wtfm
A look at Barbara Kruger and Jenny … https://catnormoyle.com/2011/02/02/a-look-at-barbara-kruger-and-jenny-holzers-use-of-typographic-art/
Band name of the day: whimsical doodles of fireproof hell-flesh
Band name of the day: whimsical doodles of fireproof hell-flesh
NDN – Why Bother? — NDN Tutorial at ACM SIGCOMM 2017 – Van Jacobson - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvnP-_R-RYA
Named data networking - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_data_networking
OFFSystem - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem
A Constructive Look At TempleOS http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos/
We need tools that will encourage us to do what Jefferson did to his bible with razors and glue. These tools will be discouraged and limited for the same reason that these practices were discouraged on the bible.
Bad idea of the day: Distribute a copy of Society of the Spectacle in the form of playing cards
Band name of the day: the crashing crescendo
Band name of the day: strange tricks of cartography
Band name of the day: cognitive estrangement
Thinking Weirdly with China Miéville - Los Angeles Review of … https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thinking-weirdly-with-china-mieville/#!
How Good is: Devilman Crybaby? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQQYD0Ia5fA
Devilman Crybaby - Instant AOTY? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bGjnA30XYw
William Gibson: The Gernsback Continuum - Semiotic Ghosts - #8 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWjhxhMI-Qo
WATCH OLD ANIME - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztNup6Xlew
Richard Williams- Animating Movement - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAwfXsYMrA
The Problem With Card Game Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ6YeGCM1wo
Band name of the day: drink the web
Band name of the day: unadaptable cinema
Band name of the day: a mysterious force
This shit is my jam: http://botnik.org/apps/writer/?source=5e1146383c382d6a9d2bf9c879fa4d1f http://botnik.org/apps/writer/?source=fd5562a2ed723d22d654d384b165a819
Steve Jobs has been dead for 10 years but Apple (& the rest of us too) still hasn’t recovered from poor decisions he made in 1981. Come on guys, get with the program.
GitHub - mewo2/ketchum: Use word vectors to interactively generate lists of similar words https://github.com/mewo2/ketchum
Band name of the day: moon logic
From Machen to VanderMeer: The Weird Landscape as th… http://weirdfictionreview.com/2018/01/machen-vandermeer-weird-landscape-avatar-evil/
A Tiny New York Town With Not One, But 5 Indie Bookstores - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobart-book-village
Band name of the day: cosmic ear bakery
we have established that soup can be a sandwich – but can it be a vehicle?
spectre and the end of langsec – wingolog https://wingolog.org/archives/2018/01/11/spectre-and-the-end-of-langsec
Band name of the day: the war on sleep
Band name of the day: a time for evil
Band name of the day: the strong owls
Band name of the day: third bird
Band name of the day: face furniture
Neural Style Transfer for Musical Melodies – Ashis Pati https://ashispati.github.io//style-transfer/
Band name of the day: home sysadmin
Exquisite Tweets from @hondanhon, @peterme, @knolleary, @GLucasRoe, @aab_123, @jerry… http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/blech/4171
Band name of the day: process and reality
Band name of the day: math not politics
Band name of the day: the low lights
It Is Silly Season in the Land of Cryptocurr… https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-blockchain-silly-season/550184/
We don’t even live in a cyberpunk dystopia. We live in one of those early-90s cyberpunk ripoff stories by an author who half-read Neuromancer & missed the point.
The Bizarre Motivating Power of Aging Into … https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/the-end-is-near-time-to-run-faster/549014/
Situated Knowledges http://www.appstate.edu/~stanovskydj/situatedknowledges.html
Band name of the day: the culture jam
Band name of the day: arise chicken
Band name of the day: funeral apology
Band name of the day: experiments in tone
The OpenBSD web stack, by Michael W. Lucas (EuroBSDcon 2017) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLwAcruM65A
we need more books designed to be packaged as decks of playing cards. the family arcana is great but not enough.
#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.