Band name of the day: a literature of exhaustion

Band name of the day: explode the palimpsest

Band name of the day: that oddly heroic act of postponement

Band name of the day: a vision for the macrocosm

Band name of the day: instant literature

Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptati… http://locusmag.com/2018/01/cory-doctorow-persuasion-adaptation-and-the-arms-race-for-your-attention/

Self-Contained Cities: … https://99percentinvisible.org/article/self-contained-cities-hyperdense-arcologies-urban-fiction-utopian-fantasy/

Plaque in Circulation: Dec… https://99percentinvisible.org/article/plaque-circulation-deciphering-philadelphias-sidewalk-easement-markers/

Wax - Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees – ~ajroach42… http://ajroach42.com/wax-or-the-discovery-of-television-among-the-bees/

DIY Media – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, cultur… http://ajroach42.com/diy-media/

A Modern Office with Vintage hardware – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write … http://ajroach42.com/a-modern-office-with-vintage-hardware/

Mental models http://www.defmacro.org/2016/12/22/models.html

The Brilliant Fake News of “LiarTown” | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/the-brilliant-fake-news-of-liartown

I wonder how long it’ll take for people to realize that they should be publishing all their paywalled medium posts on the first of the month…

A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of t… https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review

Improving Ourselves to Death | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/improving-ourselves-to-death

Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU

Self: The Movie; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5P7QyL774

Google and Others Are Building… https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609762/google-and-others-are-building-ai-systems-that-doubt-themselves/

“A Sloppy Machine, Like Me&#8221… https://wearethemutants.com/2018/01/09/a-sloppy-machine-like-me-the-history-of-video-synthesizers/

Life in UNIX® V7: an attempt at a simple task | Fun with… https://virtuallyfun.com/2018/01/10/life-in-unix-v7-an-attempt-at-a-simple-task/

Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down– and the Alternative - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs

Conway‘s Game Of Life in APL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

Permanent Redirect: digital art tha… https://kottke.org/18/01/permanent-redirect-digital-art-that-moves-to-a-new-url-when-someone-views-it

Help Me Somebody ~ Brian Eno - David Byrne - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxeO0LBR6GY

V7/x86 Home | Robert Nordier http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 | Random … https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

Free Will and Waifus - The True Horror of Doki Doki Literature Club - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qebsRBIleDY

Ask Dr. Time: Orality and Literacy from Homer to Twitter https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy

Anime Openings openings.moe

Devo - S.I.B (Swelling itching brain) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcaVXeyBR44

Wall Of Voodoo - Back In Flesh - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIiWtGa2TmU

Why Foucault‘s work on power is more important than ev… https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever

Exhilarating if flawed, Colin Wilson helped open my mind |… https://aeon.co/essays/exhilarating-if-flawed-colin-wilson-helped-open-my-mind

How the Sausage Gets Made: The Hidden Work of Content · An A List Apart Article https://alistapart.com/article/the-hidden-work-of-content

These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/

The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms | Ufunk.net http://www.ufunk.net/en/insolite/salles-de-controle-sovietiques-vintage/

If you make something and you aren’t OK with the idea of a degraded, broken zombie form of it existing forever, killing it is your responsibility.

Nothing is temporary unless you put in the effort to destroy it. Nothing gets maintained unless you fix it.

Slavoj Žižek | Maybe We Just Need a New Chicken | Full Film - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHqY3id5p5Y

Understanding "Hurt" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8n78hRFSew

gritty Freakazoid reboot when

The Martians Claim Canada | Margaret Atwood | Granta https://granta.com/martians-claim-canada/

Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/for/adjective

Reality has a surprising amount of detail http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

There are two classes of bug. One is where the program doesn’t match your mental model of the program. The other is when the problem doesn’t match your mental model of the problem. Most bugs are both.

Is the Mill Architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_architecture) immune to the new out-of-order-execution attacks, theoretically?

BBC iPlayer - Bletchley Park: Code-breaking’… https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b069gxz7/bletchley-park-codebreakings-forgotten-genius

Ten new principles for good design https://kottke.org/18/01/ten-new-principles-for-good-design

Wars are not won by military genius or decisive battles | A… https://aeon.co/ideas/wars-are-not-won-by-military-genius-or-decisive-battles

Who is Marx now and what can he say to the 21st century? |… https://aeon.co/essays/who-is-marx-now-and-what-can-he-say-to-the-21st-century

The WELL: State of the World 2018: Bruce… https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/503/State-of-the-World-2018-Bruce-St-page01.html

GitHub - tombh/texttop: A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH https://github.com/tombh/texttop

Don‘t Be Evil https://logicmag.io/03-dont-be-evil/

IRDC 2017 - Tom Ford, Narrative Dungeon Generation - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ea57XERywM

Simulating Chutes & Ladders in Python | Pythonic Perambulations http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2017/12/18/simulating-chutes-and-ladders/

GitHub - achlipala/frap: Formal Reasoning About Programs https://github.com/achlipala/frap

Xuan Luo http://roxanneluo.github.io/PeppersCone.html

The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/

How to Read Mathematics http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dcranston/490/handouts/math-read.html

This Is the Most Important Fallacy You’ve Never Heard Of http://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/the-resulting-fallacy-is-ruining-your-decisions

Proceed With Caution: Let‘s Talk Warning Signs https://tedium.co/2018/01/02/warning-signs-history/

Web app developers: OF COURSE I DIG THESE TRAIN TUNNELS WITH A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED GOLD DECORATIVE COCKTAIL FORK. EVERYBODY DOES. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO USE, A TOOTHPICK?

SOME PEOPLE HAVE POINTED OUT THAT WRITING APPS IN POSTSCRIPT IS SANE-ISH. THIS IS TRUE. IT’S HARD TO COME UP WITH COMPARABLE SITUATIONS THAT ARE MORE ABSURD, BECAUSE WE COLLECTIVELY DID THE ABSOLUTE WORST THING AND THEN CONVINCED OURSELVES IT WAS OK.

Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/

Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER

If you cannot use it to trivially put a pixel at an X,Y coordinate, YOU SHOULD NOT WRITE A COMPLEX UI IN IT, EXCEPT AS A JOKE.

HTML is a mistake. Generating HTML is a bigger mistake. Generating HTML at runtime as a display layer for interactive applications is the basis for modern UIs & I want to cry

The Russian netstalkers are still at it apparently: https://pastebin.com/TPuEZd3m

Hypertext Research: The Development of HyperTIES http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/

It’s time for cyberpunk games to remember how to be punk … http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/

The People That Capitalism Makes | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/the-people-that-capitalism-makes

GitHub - basic-gongfu/cixl: a minimal scripting language https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl

YourLanguageSucks - Theory.org Wiki https://wiki.theory.org/index.php/YourLanguageSucks

jesus christ quora stop asking me about acronyms

Decentralization 2017 https://rbs.io/2017/12/decentralization-2017/

34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmIgJ64z6Y4

The Future Will be Technical https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html

Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters https://pudding.cool/2017/07/comics/

Not Explicit https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2017-12-27-things-explicit-is-not/?

GitHub - lf94/blots: A simple paper-based storage format https://github.com/lf94/blots

Bad Behavioural Science: Failures, bias and fa… https://jasoncollins.org/2016/05/11/bad-behavioural-science-failures-bias-and-fairy-tales/

Dr Phibes is just steampunk Deadpool

How I learned to program https://danluu.com/learning-to-program/

Conspiracy theory: Satoshi Nakamoto is the avatar by which Roko’s Basilisk walks on this plane.

As the year draws to a close it becomes ever more clear: nothing has prepared us for the Strange Times.

Festival 23 - Wonderism, Fake News… http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/12/17/discordian-festival-23-wonderism-fake-news-neo-discordian-revival/

The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy https://longreads.com/2017/12/13/the-human-cost-of-the-ghost-economy/

Who Is Reality Winner? http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/12/who-is-reality-winner.html

Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback…. https://www.poynter.org/news/text-only-news-sites-are-slowly-making-comeback-heres-why

OkCupid begins e… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/okcupid-begins-enforcing-real-name-rules-insists-its-a-good-idea/

Evil Coding Incantations - Posts http://9tabs.com/random/2017/12/23/evil-coding-incantations.html

Keyboard latency https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

Computer latency: 1977-2017 http://danluu.com/input-lag/

Today is boxing day. Celebrate by picking a fight with a kangaroo.

Today is boxing day. Celebrate by casting to Object.

Bad idea of the day: mirror all google fonts on ipfs and then use an extension that rewrites the urls to use that version. Alternately: use an extension that downloads them via tor.

If somebody tells you that their favorite christmas movie is Eyes Wide Shut, run.

Fan Service in Anime vs. The Monogatari Series [PART 2] - Redefining Relationships - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBT3wH_0NGw

Foreshadowing and Irony in The Monogatari Series - Chekhov‘s Gun, Panties & Ougi Oshi… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhRycjAxzg0