Archive for March, 2009
links for 2009-03-29
Sunday, March 29th, 2009-
"The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?"
links for 2009-03-27
Friday, March 27th, 2009-
Bookmarked entirely for this: “Some of the technicians who did our early chip layouts were a little spacey,” Alcorn savs. “When the Sears guvs came by we'd hide them in the back room. Well, Bob Brown had designed Video Music, our weirdest product ever. Hook it up to your stereo and TV at the same time, and the sound triggered some pretty psychedelic visuals. The Sears guys took one look and asked what we'd been smoking when we did that. Naturally, one of our techs lit up a joint and showed them.”
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1973 documentary on video art. Prescient.
links for 2009-03-20
Friday, March 20th, 2009-
“He may seem like Mister Rogers. But in a revealing interview, the travel guru shares his daring views on Iran and terrorism, spoiled Americans and the best places to smoke pot in Europe.”
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Doug Bowman on leaving Google.
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Matt Taibbi. Bummer: “It's over — we're officially, royally fucked.”
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Processing.js in effect.
links for 2009-03-19
Thursday, March 19th, 2009-
An all-time favorite of mine. Floating logos, environmental typography and more.
links for 2009-03-18
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009-
Rushkoff on the economy.
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Interesting nature-created art and other things.
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On John K. Ousterhout on scripting languages.(tags: programming work)
links for 2009-03-16
Monday, March 16th, 2009-
Mugshots = comic genius.
links for 2009-03-14
Saturday, March 14th, 2009-
More Clay Shirky. Picking up his book from the library tomorrow. I can't get enough.
links for 2009-03-13
Friday, March 13th, 2009-
That is what I call a party. Jai Ho!
links for 2009-03-12
Thursday, March 12th, 2009-
Really enjoying the commentary.