One Hundred Paper Cuts
(“A project led by Canonical’s Design and User Experience team to improve user experience in Ubuntu by identifying 100 small points of pain for users, or “paper cuts”, and healing them!”)
Mostly Yes
Michael Jackson, Dead at 50
I am suprised at how much I am affected by this news.
“ on the one ton temple bell
a moon-moth, folded into sleep,
sits still. Taniguchi Buson
a moon-moth, folded into sleep,
sits still. Taniguchi Buson
Old Jews Telling Jokes
(What it says on the label.)
The Git Parable
(Wish I had this when starting out with Git. It’s already dispelled most of the magic mumbo jumbo feeling that some git commands inspire)
A Mental Space Odyssey
(GEB as a series of MIT OpenCourseware lectures)
“Last Day Dream”
Charlie's Diary: LOGIN 2009 keynote: gaming in the world of 2030
(Charlie Stross gives *great* speeches.)
Chrome Experiments
Like Demoscene for Javascript.
Watchmen title sequence
Created by yU+co (all artsy fartsy website) in collaboration with Zack Snyder, a collage of the slightly off history that is the setting for Watchmen, over Bob Dylan’s Times they are a-changing. My favourite part of the film.
Wall Street on the Tundra
(Fascinating article on the curious case of Iceland’s financial clusterfuck: its stellar rise from a country of a few fishermen to a heavy-weight in the high-finance circuit, followed this last October by spectacular implosion. Fish, geothermal energy and Bjork seem to be all the stereotypical references you need to fully specify Iceland (I demand: what about Sigur Ros?). Loved this description of the circa 2003 Icelandic economy: “a machine for turning cod into Ph.D.’s”)
