December 2012
1 post
“They started out looking backward for their moral compass, and were afraid to...”
– brucecohenpdx
September 2012
1 post
“One of them tells me which subway to take to the dentist’s office. The other...”
May 2012
1 post
pathod →
pathod, a pathological HTTP/S daemon useful for testing and torturing HTTP clients. At its core is a tiny, terse language for crafting HTTP responses. It also has a built-in web interface that lets you play with the response spec language, inspect logs, and access pathod’s full help document.
February 2012
2 posts
“it’s almost certain that Yahoo has simply forgotten that Yahoo Bookmarks still...”
““Und dann habe ich natürlich überhaupt nichts zurückgenommen. Und dann hab...”
– Uta Ranke-Heinemann
November 2011
1 post
“If you have any fact that is really sinister, that can only point to some...”
– Josiah Tompson via Erol Morris
August 2011
4 posts
“Dem Schornstein der Lokomotive entstieg Dampf, oder so genannter Rauch. Und das...”
– Daniil Charms1
“Sinnigerweise hat Charms seine Texte meist datiert, so dass wir erkennen können welcher abstruse Gedanke mit welchen Zeitereignissen korrespondiert” ↩
“I sat on a bus and watched as people got on, sat down and got off again once the...”
– Sebastian Borckenhagen, The Man is Disappearing
“We run for the weaker soldiers
Even when they are not around
Always run for...”
– St. Thomas - Falling Down
“For a while I was convinced that I saw the world. But the world as a whole was...”
– Даниил Хармс, Whirled, via, via, via
July 2011
2 posts
“[It] can come as a shock to realise that the world we hear described by...”
– Douglas Adams
June 2011
4 posts
“because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can...”
– David Foster Wallace, via Ostap Karmodi via Andrew Sullivan
“If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than...”
February 2011
2 posts
Los Angeles Street Crossing Trail
[Reposted from antifuchs]
I need a recipe database that works like this. If you want to code one, let me know :)
[Reposted from supe]
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
“There is no need to turn a gene pool into a lake”
– John Oliver on TheBugle #134
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
— Flannery O’Conner (via azspot)
That’s a nice heuristic for what art is.
October 2010
5 posts
“We look around and see rational choices, but we’re afflicted by enormous...”
– The Yorkshire Ranter
“When you know an actual person is checking your screen at random intervals, and...”
– Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment
“Curiosity seeks to annihilate itself”
– Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
“A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the...”
– Fred Wilson (via)
“silence
break your heart
you only know
your time
words can find a way
to...”
– St. Thomas - Silence Break Your Heart
September 2010
4 posts
“Because we know so little, we cannot make value judgments and that may be...”
– What I Learned Today: in 2 hours
August 2010
4 posts
“Emotion follows upon the bodily expression”
– William James
“You think that the next-gen web is about conversations. Hello? That started in...”
– a very nice rant by Aaron Brazell
“I’m not sure what’s going on with Kodak all the way to the right...”
– http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/
July 2010
3 posts
“I recall a recent book proposed that there will be a global catastrophe when the...”
– heteromeles in a comment here
The Mirrored Spheres of Patagonia →
this resonates on many levels:
physical laws as memes, replicating by being used. Wiping out competing laws whenever observing both would create a paradox
the expression put it in the public sphere
The world as a single fractal canvas.
And: This is actually implementable now.
We see this space, three-dimensional environment as being a canvas on which all sorts of applications can play...
Words
constellational thinking: ignoring space and time when looking for patterns. Related: Macroscopes, Holographic Storytelling
also: Watch the messenger lectures!
Ken Burnsing: “we’ll soon want more on there than our picture libraries Ken Burnsing slowly away to themselves”
This is so true. There is a lot of unharvested partial attention in the world.
by default meaning...
June 2010
2 posts
“… regular use of caffeine produces no benefit to alertness, energy, or...”
– Steven Novella via moeffju
May 2010
2 posts
“Mr Coolidge’s genius for inactivity is developed to a very high point. It...”
– hegemonicon quoting Walter Lippmann
April 2010
3 posts
“Negative Taste: the ability to tell when something is bad.”
– Aaron Swartz
“the moral objection was that zero-sum behavior is wasteful in our non-zero-sum...”
– evan_tech
“An organism turns food into shit; an ecosystem turns shit into food. The waste product of an ecosystem is weirdness.”
–”Graydon” in the comments to Charlie Stross’s Chrome Plated Jackboots
[Reposted from antifuchs via 1stmachine]
February 2010
1 post
Watchmerlin:
R.E.M. - “So. Central Rain” (Live on Letterman, 1983-10-06)
“Too New to Be Named”
January 2010
17 posts
I Love Walled Gardens
rinich:
Instead, they will go to the carefully-screened App Store, and they will search for “How do I make video games”, and they will find a little button that teaches them and gives them a run-time environment in which to tinker.
Runtime environments are forbidden by the iPhone SDK TOS - that’s whats depressing about the whole thing.
Not the Nine O’Clock News - Monty Pythons worshipers [Reposted from gammel via hairinmy]
POLYAMORY IS WRONG! It is either multiamory or polyphilia but mixing Greek and Latin roots? WRONG!
[Reposted from frapzzt via krannix]
Daily Aphorisms from The School of Life
[Reposted from cookies via hairinmy]
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