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352 movies I have seen from an arbitrary list

Going through these lists are strange — I expected the 1,001 books to be the best books, or the new Classics, things that an educated person should read to know about life or something like that. It was more of a little of literary-pop novels rather than Good Books. That there were so […]

The failure of capitalism: people who won’t take my money

I’ve been looking to give someone $10,000. I realize that the dollar is in a slump, but by most measures this is a lot of money, and I would have thought that a normal person, all things being equal, would like to take it than not take it. I’m trying to achieve a […]

148 books I have read from an arbitrary list

Wow. It’s a wonder that I have time to get anything done. Of the 1,001 book you must read before you die I’ve read:

2000sOn Beauty – Zadie Smith
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen (which was shockingly […]

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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

links for 2008-05-10

MLB Extended Gameday Pitch Logs: A Tutorial

3D display — welcome to the future

links for 2008-05-09

John Resig - Processing.js
Insane!
(tags: processing visualization javascript)

Collection: All Toys, All the Time
These are all hilarious
(tags: pictures)

The Tao of Programming, Geoffery James
(tags: computer philosophy programming)

Common Lisp: A Tutorial on Conditions and Restarts
(tags: development lisp)

JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT) at noumena

Guys backflip into jeans

Unlike most people, these guys do not put their pants on one leg at a time.

links for 2008-05-08

Bill Clementson’s Blog: Lisp on the OLPC XO Laptop
(tags: lisp olpc)

Lisp Survey
(tags: lisp programming)

Ready Lisp: Common Lisp for Mac OS X
(tags: development lisp osx)

Yet another reason to go to Argentina!!!

links for 2008-05-07

Info Design Patterns
(tags: data gallery interface)

Explaining food vs. nutrition: Michael Pollan talks at Google - Boing Boing
(tags: etech google food)

The lost art of bootstrapping
(tags: compilers development programming)

links for 2008-05-01

Reason Magazine - Homesteading on the High Seas
Crazy story… reminds me of the artificial floating islands/ships made with discarded water bottles.
(tags: politics economics)

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
Where *do* they find the time? Creating time by wasting less of it watching tv…
(tags: analysis essay interesting internet media television time)

Building a Social […]