Foreshadowing and Irony in The Monogatari Series - Why Is Monogatari NOT Chronological? [PART… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m78E3bqkVO8

Foreshadowing and Irony in The Monogatari Series [PART 1] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qeq2OMfEUc

Fan Service in Anime vs. The Monogatari Series [PART 1] – Subverting Our Biases - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQa3dHlHSg

Evolution of Shaft in Openings (1987-2017) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAiM6zEwnNE

The thing about HTTP is that you should only get a 404 if two meteors simultaneously wiped out both your primary and backup copy (or if it never existed in the first place)

Keeping Old Anime Alive in the Age of Simulcasts - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGeyGbjUCdc

Tommy Wiseau: The Last Auteur - Brows Held High - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7pUs-9C-gY

Dissecting Software Component‘s Reproductive System - 250bpm http://250bpm.com/blog:51

band name of the day: autometalogolex

I wonder how much more effective trying to use scott/tiger as ackles for arbitrary oracle systems is than arbitrary (say) postgres systems

Bad idea of the day: a filter that eggcorn-izes test using substitutions from https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/

Drone-Ver v.1.sleepy.0.0.calamitous.1437363538.7 http://drone-ver.org/

Dare to be Stupid: that time Weird Al tried to make fun of Devo and instead just became Devo

Request Rejected http://www.typewritten.org/Media/

Productivity is dangerous | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/2595/productivity-is-dangerous

A Priesthood of Programmers – Jacobite https://jacobitemag.com/2017/12/05/a-priesthood-of-programmers/

This frostbitten black meta… https://theoutline.com/post/2556/this-frostbitten-black-metal-album-was-created-by-an-artificial-intelligence

The story of early tape music, microsound, … http://cdm.link/2017/12/the-story-of-early-tape-music-microsound-and-a-eurorack-resurrection/

band name of the day: members of a bizarre order

Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? - Atlas Obs… https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-power-lines-anime-electrical-infrastructure

Storming the Ivory Tower: The Next Homestuck Wil… http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2017/12/the-next-homestuck-will-not-be-made-in.html

Dynamicland https://dynamicland.org/

Alex Mordvintsev - Art - NIPS Creativity Art Submission - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PwY-Hfspoc

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers : … http://www.sicpers.info/2017/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-programming/

the lost medium https://www.dgsiegel.net/talks/the-lost-medium

GitHub - webyrd/Barliman: Prototype smart text editor https://github.com/webyrd/Barliman

bowser ❌ on Twitter: "WSJ is quoting the Illuminatus Trilogy, what is ha… https://twitter.com/browserdotsys/status/943233927795355648

Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again | The … https://theoutline.com/post/2689/mastodon-makes-the-internet-feel-like-home-again

The Screenless Office http://screenl.es/

A 1986 … https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/a-1986-bulletin-board-system-has-brought-the-old-web-back-to-life-in-2017/

UFO IPO-182 – Take me to your dealer: the Pentagon UFO story, crowdfund… https://boingboing.net/2017/12/18/ufo-ipo-182-take-me-to-you.html

GitHub - Jam3/math-as-code: a cheat-sheet for mathematical notation in code form https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code

Older Adu… https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/18/571120472/older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-faulty-brain-rhythms-in-sleep

band name of the day: sleep spindles

You know a situation is bad when the only way to prevent local monopolies on a popular service is to convince the town to run its own competitor and run cable.

Maybe the loss of net neutrality will revitalize interest in muni broadband projects, though they will be more expensive given the loss of common carrier status.

microscale http://alestsurko.by/microscale/

band name of the day: frolic in secret

André Staltz - A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet https://staltz.com/a-plan-to-rescue-the-web-from-the-internet.html

Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix http://9p.io/who/dmr/odd.html

This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle

This Code Is Remix… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbzvad/this-code-is-remixing-translations-of-the-bible-to-find-new-meanings

Emic Automata & Thematic Automata | Storyboard | maetl https://maetl.net/notes/storyboard/generative-writing-with-cellular-automata

Unlocking the commons: or, the psychoeconomics of patr… https://kottke.org/17/12/unlocking-the-commons-or-the-psychoeconomics-of-patronage

The Not Yorker https://thenotyorker.com/

The human brain’s bandwidth for visual images is s… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-human-brains-bandwidth-for-visual-images-is-severely-limited

How extreme rituals forge intense social bonds | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-extreme-rituals-forge-intense-social-bonds

Cold War propaganda: the truth belonged to no one country… https://aeon.co/essays/cold-war-propaganda-the-truth-belonged-to-no-one-country

How nuclear fears helped inspire creation of the interne… https://aeon.co/essays/how-nuclear-fears-helped-inspire-creation-of-the-internet

Can neuroscience rehabilitate Freud for the age of th… https://aeon.co/essays/can-neuroscience-rehabilitate-freud-for-the-age-of-the-brain

band name of the day: default mode network

Britain’s imperial dream-catchers and the truths of empi… https://aeon.co/essays/britains-imperial-dream-catchers-and-the-truths-of-empire

Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.

White Knight Syndrome | Niela Orr https://thebaffler.com/bread-and-circuses/white-knight-syndrome-orr

The Weaponization of Awkwardness - The… https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/the-weaponization-of-awkwardness/548291/

This Is How Visiting A Porn Site Can Make You A Pawn In An Ad Fraud Scheme https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/porn-runs-the-internet

How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult - Vox https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship

Fu… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/it-might-be-impossible-for-future-historians-to-understand-our-internet/547463/

Heuristic for cleaning up medium: start by unsubscribing from anybody who lists their occupation in their bio. Then, move on to anybody who posts under a name that looks real.

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

Millennials Are Screwed - The Huffington Post http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/

Testing 1 2 3…

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Why I love National Novel Generation Month – Liza Daly – Medium https://medium.com/@liza/why-i-love-national-novel-generation-month-b8f6e58c6422

Princess Principal‘s Hidden Details - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trOtP9n7Bu8

Dotsies http://dotsies.org/

https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-botnet-minecraft-scam-brought-down-the-internet/

https://quartzy.qz.com/1155687/botniks-human-generated-harry-potter-spoof-using-a-predictive-keyboard-has-gone-viral/

Higurashi When They Cry Abridged - Onikakushi - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UnFBtJD4x0

Announcing the 2018 No-Budget Film Contest – A pig in a cage on antibiotics – Medium https://medium.com/@enkiv2/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd

Makoto Shinkai: A Genius Hack Filmmaker - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezSdQ63phFw

The New Media‘s coming of age | Dan Carlin | TEDxMtHood - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K57kcs15DY

What Shonen Jump Was Like 30 Years Ago - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIh85_bCudk

"STRANGER THINGS: A Bad Lip Reading" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4rhjO6xYg

How BoJack Horseman Subverts Narrative - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7zZYnFADxk

The World Wide Web Sucks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefielQeHZY

Downtown Immorality Lecture Series: "THE DARK IMMORTALITY OF THE VAMPIRE" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmp6RONkEw

Storming the Ivory Tower: Hauntology/Headology: Carpe Jugulum and Gothic Justice https://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2017/11/hauntologyheadology-carpe-jugulum-and.html

Beatles Bible https://rawgit.com/JKirchartz/NaNoGenMo/master/2017/BeatlesBible/index.html

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_sci_fi_comic_book_story_that_inspired_they_live

How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-i-turned-my-discarded-novel-drafts-into-an-ai/

Letting neural networks be weird • The first line of a novel, by an improved neural… http://aiweirdness.com/post/168051907512/the-first-line-of-a-novel-by-an-improved-neural

KOD (Romeo and Juliet) http://kevan.org/nanogenmo/KOD-171130.html

How The Ancient Magus Bride Makes Magic Feel Real - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLvf1-3s_8

High Tech High Life: William Gibson & Timothy Leary in Conversation (1989) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/29/high-tech-high-life-william-gibson-timothy-leary-conversation-1989/

High Tech High Life: William Gibson & Timothy Leary in Conversation (1989) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/29/high-tech-high-life-william-gibson-timothy-leary-conversation-1989/

2d Markov · Issue #125 · NaNoGenMo/2017 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/125

Lossy Text Compression | Hackaday.io https://hackaday.io/project/5689-lossy-text-compression

A Library of Parallel Algorithms https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl/algorithms.html

Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators · GitHub https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5feda

AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/

Vrillon: the alien voice hoax that became a legend | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html

Is soup a beverage or a food? | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/2513/is-soup-a-beverage-or-a-food

GitHub - s-macke/SAM: Software Automatic Mouth - Tiny Speech Synthesizer https://github.com/s-macke/SAM

Guns tend to empower white, financially unstable men—who oppose gun control | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/study-white-men-facing-money-trouble-tend-to-cling-to-guns-for-power-identity/

Researchers find oddities in high-profile gender studies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/researchers-find-oddities-in-high-profile-gender-studies/

http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/11/vocoder-instrumental-instruments

Random promotion may be best, research suggests | Education | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/nov/01/random-promotion-research