links for 2008-01-29
Passage
I linked to this before but it’s good enough to link to again. 5 minute sadness. The Hemingway short story “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” comes to mind. (That’s the whole story btw.)
(tags: passage games)
Passage
I linked to this before but it’s good enough to link to again. 5 minute sadness. The Hemingway short story “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” comes to mind. (That’s the whole story btw.)
(tags: passage games)
Jabber IM with Patrick Burleson:
1/28/08 4:09 PM
Patrick: got time to waste 3 hours?
Patrick:
Will: uh
Patrick: part one of 3 hrs of MTV recorded in 1983
Patrick: the nostalgia factor is high with this one
Will: wow that’s crazy
Patrick: luckily, you can background it
Patrick: the commercials are the best
Will: i like how he’s just sort of babbling
Will: […]
Video of the results of people player with the break out code
no understanding necessary, just play around with it and see what you come up with. cool seminar.
(tags: programming processing art education)
Hydra - Make HDR Images of OSX
Never forget that sunset again. | Creaceed
(tags: app photography hdr osx)
Who should I thank? My so-called “colleagues,” who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit “fooling around with computers,” go to […]
In Orphans’ Twilight, Memories of a Doomed Utopia - New York Times
(tags: education history)
Entrepreneur Unveils New Tourist Spacecraft - New York Times
Sign me up
(tags: travel space flight)
A Field Guide to Free Software Supporters
To outsiders, these schools of thought are more similar than different. In the same way that many Europeans see few real differences […]
Metacritic is normally my favorite site to go for movie reviews. Similar I guess to rotten tomatoes, a site which could be great but I’ve never really checked out, metacritic scans the web and looks for movie reviews and their ratings. It then aggregates them to give an overall score of the movie, which is normally […]
NginxSimpleCGI - Nginx Wiki
(tags: nginx cgi)
nagios version 2.10 for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Fluid: Wrap your favorite web apps in their own browser - (37signals)
(tags: app osx mac)
This is a series about how Sigmund Freud’s ideas about the unconscious mind have been used by those in power to control the masses in an age of democracy.
Each part is about an hour.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
ec2 walkthrough
(tags: ec2 aws amazon)
Flickr: Photos from The Library of Congress
Wow… these are some amazing photos. Flickr should really encourage this stuff.
(tags: history interesting photographs libraryofcongress images)
The Second World
The defining characteristic of a Second World country is the non-absorbent napkin.
(tags: travel)
Last last year I joined the Long Now Foundation. There’s some similarity to the Slow Food movement, but it’s more of a place trying to encourage long term thinking and planning rather than eating local and savoring every morsel, though I get the feeling that both groups would enjoy a long drawn-out meal with […]
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