the so complete pouët.net oneliner
- 2014-07-23
- "Bikeshedding gets ugly, because it’s a fundamental human impulse (and one that is especially strong in males) to lash out against unskilled creativity (or the perception of unskilled creativity, because the perceiver may be the defective one). "-- Michael O. Church
- 2014-08-01
- that moment when you're snoozing through a dance music compo and then the 11th entry has a few breaks . . . GIVE ME MORE!!!!!
- 2014-08-14
- adooooorable DIE FROM CUTE https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onetesla/tinytesla-the-little-singing-tesla -coil-anyone-can?ref=category
- 2014-08-19
- Products viewed as commodities rather than luxuries are priced cheaply, hiding the real cost of the product from the consumer. This initially drives up demand until cost-cutting through layoffs and wage depreciation collapses the market. Now go read Krugman and Piketty, everyone.
- re Gargaj "No economics principle warrants being an asshole." Well, yes.
- 2014-08-22
- http://imgur.com/gallery/NJBuH
- 2014-08-27
- http://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract -surfaces/ When thinking about a difficult math problem, “you don’t want to write down all the details,” she said. “But the process of drawing something helps you somehow to stay connected.” Mirzakhani said that her 3-year-
- forget bitcoin, bring back okkies
- 2014-08-31
- re zeitgeist http://lifeodyssey.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014_kalleske_zeitgeist_bottle .jpg
- 2014-09-01
- trixter, luis, I knew those were you even without the icon. I looove you guuuys. : D
- 2014-09-05
- Oh, did you see https://medium.com/@trisha/a-hilariously-sad-tale-of-gender-bias-54919595e482
- 2014-09-12
- "Portia had learned to partition its cognitive processes: almost if it were emulating a larger brain piece by piece, saving the results of one module to feed into the next" echopraxia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_%28genus%29
- 2014-09-18
- http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/5/3953972/li-hongbo-mind-bending-flexible-paper-s kulls-video
- 2014-09-22
- so either a demoscener did concert visuals for stromae or someone who knows about the scene did . . . .
- 2014-09-24
- http://io9.com/scorpion-brings-the-stupidest-most-batshit-insane-hack-1638333877 /+AnnaleeNewitz It's like . . . . IT imagined by febrile four year olds. With a file manager (Master Commander).
- 2014-10-16
- Ilmakitara http://catfinnish.tumblr.com/image/95928739989
- 2014-10-21
- looks like the days of disk-swapping are back . . .http://www.portfolio.hu/en/economy/hungary_to_impose_internet_levy_in_2015_tax_ plans_show.28561.html
- 2014-10-22
- http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding "But here's a good starting place: The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers."
- drift: correlation does not equal causation, but that article makes me unhappy. Plus side, I'm sure the number of female coders is now increasing. Yay various new schools and training programs.
- 2014-10-25
- http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/i-have-an-enormo us-favor-to-ask-you.jpg ( ; dogs of the scene
- not the first article I've seen that argued that . . . I guess it's a question of learning to be alone without feeling lonely. Or trying to weave a routine that fits in social like exercise and healthy food. Hiding inside with our computers probably does not help.
- " A guy told me one time, 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.' " That sounds like a good way to be lonely.
- 2014-10-28
- disk throwing compo for a purpose http://galeria.cdn.index.hu/belfold/2014/10/26/nemet_mondtak_a_netadora/7051527_ 54c9a821bc6f086da3a420c0c2743150.jpg
- 2014-11-03
- "you should not see this at all"oh well, I guess my browser is broken. So glad checking browser compatibility errors is no longer part of my job since 2008 or so. But now I know what latency autotuning is. Goodbye, brain cells.
- 2014-11-06
- Thelonious Monk says lead, follow, or get out of the way https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/75171803/monkrules.jpg