Being a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library
(#)This is chompy.net, a part of Spaceship No Future.
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Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur
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The Case Against Layoffs
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“Just encountered the word ‘telegance’ at work. Best to pretend it never happened.”
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Austin Center for Design
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“At Aaron & Sandra’s with boudin, gumbo, and king cake. WHO DAT?”
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Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman - Golden Globes After Party
Amanda Palmer just went up a notch in my book. (#) -
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“Sun came out and is transforming snow into ice. It’s going to be a fun week.”
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samurai umbrellas
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Museum of Unintended Use
The Museum of Unintended Use collects pictures and stories about objects, and how people use them. Which is often not the way designers intended them to be used. Unintended Use is opening a bottle of beer with a cigarette lighter, using your mobile phone as a pocket light, or decorating your cherry tree with cd’s to chase away birds.
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Conference of the Nerds
“[An] amazing group effort… to correct the jazz historical record, by creating… [a] canon of significant jazz albums released from 1973 to 1989.” (#) -
The Forever Font
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“Lost power for a bit this morning, but they got it back on quickly.”
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Anna Borowy
seen at janinebeangallery (#) -
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The day I had my brain switched off
Studying the Broca’s region of the brain via transcranial magnetic stimulation, temporarily “shutting off” the brain
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Mappy - Pläne, Routen und Adressen in Europa
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Bamboo Issues - FTC
The FTC sent warning letters to top companies in the US this week, because some were labelling rayon products ”bamboo.” (#) -
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Finder: Timeline (Wikipedia)
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mahemoff’s Instalicious at master - GitHub
Instalicious is a mashup of Instapaper (http://instapaper.com) and Delicious (http://delicious.com), allowing you to push your Delicious “toread” bookmarks to Instapaper for offline reading. It's a single Python script which you probably want to run from a periodic cronjob. (#) -
Cox Communications - Cable, High Speed Internet and Telephone services in Cox Communications
To defer the cost to Cox of compliance, payment of the following minimum fees is required for all subpoena, court order and warrant requests (#) -
“Pay your taxes. The IRS is buying another 60 shotguns. http://is.gd/7HAcU”
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AskTog: Starfire Home
[From the very beginning, this is dated. There is an announcement of Princess Di being appointed to some position in the European Council. Ha. Past Future, you are so funny.] (#) -
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Die Antwoord, Over-Analyzed
That’s Die Antwoord, the new rap-rave crew from South Africa that has taken over the Internet this week. I think they’re great. At least, that’s where I am right now. I spent all of Tuesday obsessing over them, trying to find every bit of information I could and really over-analyzing the entire thing (as you’ll see below). When I found out it was performance art, I was initially deflated. But now I may actually appreciate it even more. I’m still in flux about the whole thing, which is part of why I like it so much.
Where first I thought that it was this incredible outsider art that was being exploited by some ruthless A&R; guy a la Malcolm McLaren, I now am satisfied that as art commentary on global socioeconomic disparity and the rise of the slum culture in modern urbanization, this is the most incredible… -
UNITY: Game Development Tool
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ShiVa iPhone Publishing
Cross-platform 3d game engine (#) -
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“The World is Moving to HTML 5” and Other Flights of Fancy
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The first smart rabbit - Nabaztag
fun connected things, for communication or ambient display (#) -
shutup.css
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Steven Strogatz: From Fish to Infinity
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‘“i am like a JOKEMACHINE INPUT: WHATEVER OUTPUT: SUPERFUNNY” - @adammathes’
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`Nerdgasm.txt` - Notational Velocity Now Syncs with Simplenote | 43 Folders
f you live in text files and crave seamless, no-brainer syncing (that doesn’t require growing a neckbeard), that little icon represents a milestone in the evolution of simple, low-friction workflows. (#) -
Classical artists such as Hilary Hahn chart big on Billboard with little sales - washingtonpost.com
Sales of 200 or 300 units are enough to land an album in the top 10. Hahn's No. 1 recording, after the sales spike resulting from her appearance on Conan, bolstered by blogs and press, sold 1,000 copies. (#) -
The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist? | Alan Rusbridger | Media | guardian.co.uk
The full text of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger's Hugh Cudlipp lecture (#) -
“the snowfall is lovely — when I’m inside working and don’t have to be out in it.”
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U.S. Haggis Lovers’ Hopes Dashed
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San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church
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‘“knobs were the last control that fit with humans” - @torrez’
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“Well, I only partially missed the work meating… I’m here! Doing my review by myself.”
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“Brizzly says PLEASE BEAR WITH US AND THERE IS A BEAR THEY SHOW ME!”
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“WTFebruary already really rally cry cry cry 96 tears in 28 days later ta ta for sure for now.”
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LackRack - Eth0Wiki
[An equipment rack built from a $8 piece of Ikea furniture. Don't try to order the Lack table online, though. They charge 300% for shipping.] (#) -
VoiceGrowl - Instant Google Voice Prowl and Growl Notifications
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Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
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Olafur Eliasson | Works
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Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (1978) | THE SLAVER
This is the famous Documentary on Hunter S. Thompson from 1978. You know … the one where he attributes his good health to grass in his whiskey. It’s part of the “Omnibus” TV series. Also, a rare glimpse of the British weirdo, Ralph Steadman and, the less rare, Bill Murray (#) -
Holden’s History of the United States
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Teaching Ruby to High School Girls
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A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Because there are around 7 billion humans on the planet, the identity of a random, unknown person contains just under 33 bits of entropy (two to the power of 33 is 8 billion). When we learn a new fact about a person, that fact reduces the entropy of their identity by a certain amount. There is a formula to say how much: ΔS = - log2 Pr(X=x) Where ΔS is the reduction in entropy, measured in bits,2 and Pr(X=x) is simply the probability that the fact would be true of a random person. (#)