The beat issue « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction
http://emshort.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/the-beat-issue/On having characters in interactive fiction react to their environment in a satisfying, illusion-preserving way.
Sexual Math on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowfreak91287/2158987801/This is way better than that Pink Floyd cover (SFW)
Mercurial and Darcs : The Fugue
http://hans.fugal.net/blog/articles/2007/11/16/mercurial-and-darcsHey, I've used about a million RCSes now, I did what this guy did (darcs to mercurial), and most importantly I'm a guy on the Internet with an opinion -- I should blog about this too sometime.
MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS - FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS
http://78records.cdbpdx.com/Pretty great.
Rands In Repose: The Quirkbook
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/07/18/the_quirkbook.htmlTwo M&Ms at a time? Volume evenly divisible by 5? Freaks.
Language Log » Braised enterovirus, anyone?
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=367Mmm, braised enterovirus. Also: fuck the pot, bao zai, water to boil the type. Fuck a bullfrog
google-code-prettify - Google Code
http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/This actually guesses which language to use. That's way cooler than Google's recent reimplementation of ASN.1
Elephas maximus - Racetrack Playa
http://yathin.livejournal.com/201542.html#cutid1Dolomite races!
Age 1 to 100 banging on a drum
http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/age-1-to-100-banging-on-a-drum/Awesome!
FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/07/foratv---neal-s.htmlCulturally, it's difficult to distinguish SF from "the mainstream" because "the mainstream" *is* SF. But it does not follow intellectual trends, and is morally heterogeneous, so to critics it remains "a genre".
Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=allNote to self: don't turn out like these guys
Here's the new Mirror's Edge 2D trailer and some 3D screenshots - Joystiq
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/10/heres-the-new-mirrors-edge-2d-trailer-and-3d-screenshots/This looks like a sweet concept. I love the idea of parkour but am too lazy to actually do it. A game about it would be just the ticket.
We have lost control of the apparatus
http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/09/we-have-lost-control-of-apparatus.html"databases suck"
Core77 / design magazine + resource / post
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/chinese_minicastles_protected_by_un_10426.aspnonbeard 2008-07-10 01:08:51
Algae Eating Cyprinids from Thailand and Neighboring
http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/cyprinid.htmlThe flying fox-looking fish with the smooth stripe is fine in a community tank. The remarkably-similar-looking fish also known as a flying fox with a slightly bumpy stripe is intensely territorial and hates other fish of the same species
Fake Difficulty - Television Tropes & Idioms
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeDifficultynonbeard 2008-07-07 17:49:49
Hide & Seek Festival 2008 : Programme
http://hideandseekfest.co.uk/programmeLooks fun. Partially organised by my favourite LJ stalkee severalbees
Desktop Tower Defense
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.aspInteresting genre
Traditional Irish Soda Bread - Society for the Preservation of Irish Soda Bread
http://www.sodabread.us/NO YEAST
Play ELEPHANT RAVE, a free online game on Kongregate
http://www.kongregate.com/games/jmtb02/elephant-raveomg, best game ever! Turn the volume up.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/1211060Best SBS ad ever.
Video Games: New Video Game About Designing Video Games Is Probably A Sign That No One Will Ever Again Play Outside
http://gawker.com/tag/video-games/?i=396276&t=new-video-game-about-designing-video-games-is-probably-a-sign-that-no-one-will-ever-again-play-outsideLike many well-adjusted nerds, I sometimes fantasise about creating an MMORPG, but don't want the backbreaking deadlines, heartache, and million-dollar losses. Seems like this game's for me!
Super Mario Bros.: blik Surface Graphics
http://www.whatisblik.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=NIN-SMB1Awesome
St George Aquariums Pty Ltd
http://www.hotfrog.com.au/Companies/St-George-AquariumsApparently this is the best place in Sydney to buy aquariums :(
Sourdough Bread: How To Begin (easy sourdough for the beginner or novice)
http://www.io.com/~sjohn/sour.htmI've had a sourdough starter (named George) in the fridge for several weeks. Now I want to make the bread!
Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing
http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.htmlI use less than seven habits
Frank Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_WilliamsThe guy behind the counter translated my order for a "flat white" into "one Frank Williams". Here is Frank Williams.
William Gibson Interview: William Gibson Talks to io9 About Canada, Draft Dodging, and Godzilla
http://io9.com/5015137/william-gibson-talks-to-io9-about-canada-draft-dodging-and-godzilla"I don't want people to be completely sucked into the mechanism. They should remember that they're riding on a rollercoaster. But I roll with the human characters."
Coding Horror: Exploring Wide Finder
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001131.htmlTerrible benchmark: an trivial, embarrassingly parallel problem. Coding horror guy's right about the real value of the test. That said, the fastest Ruby implementation is slower than the slowest Python implementation. Gosh.
English too hard for students, principal says | NEWS.com.au
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23838302-421,00.htmlTeehee, Shore kids are stupid
Squirrelfish bytecode
http://webkit.org/specs/squirrelfish-bytecode.htmlNew JS backend for Webkit has regexp and getter/setter bytecodes, making x86's BCD support look positively RISC. Now to put it in hardware... ;)
Natascha Kampusch: from darkness to limelight - Times Online
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article4044283.ece“I believe that one characteristic of being happy is that it is not a constant state. If one were constantly happy, how would one notice the difference when one is unhappy? In that sense, I can say that I am happy, among other things.”
The next and last person that will see and enjoy my body will be a husband AS GOD INTENDED!
http://www.clubericacampbell.com/nonbeard 2008-05-15 13:52:15
Canon Crotch | Flash Games
http://www.dailyhaha.com/_flash/cannon_crotch.htmThis is freakin' awesome
Melissa the Loud - Rhythms
http://melissatheloud.com/rhythms.htmlUse the rhythm generator linked from this page to play the rhythms. Very cool!
Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/time.htm1. It's marching on
Features : Radar Online : Gynecologists say the darndest things
http://radaronline.com/features/2008/04/gynecologists_exams_funniest_comments_01.phpNot as darndest as I had hoped
PinupGlam.Com - Jana Princessa - "Boob Proof"
http://www.pinupglam.com//jana-boobproof.htmlI am so impressed by this porn site's dedication to science. (Link contains nudity)
Mikoshi - 151 - 155 fitzroy street st kilda 3182 9534 9559 : eajguide
http://www.eajguide.com/?q=node/view/37Delightfully bitchy review of what is actually quite a good, if expensive, Japanese Restaurant in St. Kilda
Pepper's Ghost
http://www.phantasmechanics.com/pepper.htmlThe classic ghost illusion which relies on the reflection of an image onto a large pane of glass.
gladwell dot com - the tipping point
http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/index.htmlAh, Malcolm Gladwell wrote The Tipping Point. Refer to previous bookmark for refutation of this theory
What we can learn from spaghetti sauce (video)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/20There is no perfect Pepsi. Funny, engaging talk by Malcolm Gladwell on the "democratisation" of the food industry.
Steven Poole: Free your mind
http://stevenpoole.net/blog/free-your-mind/"I was particularly amused by the number of those people who left $0.01, which seems a lot of clicks to expend when you could just write “Fuck you” in the comments."
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Waxy.org
http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/'maybe this is a good idea. One person I talked to said, "When it sells 20,000 copies we'll finally be rid of Douglas Adams." That may be a little cynical. However, let's look at the alternatives.'
Mind Hacks: Neuroweapons, war crimes and the preconscious brain
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/04/neuroweapons_war_cr.html"Causing something dreadful to happen without any intent or knowledge is considered an accident and not a crime. [...] this concept is based on the theory that the conscious mind forms an intention, and an actions follows. Unfortunately, we now know that
a u d r e y * k a w a s a k i
http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/index.phpvia claudine ko
Melanie Klein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_KleinTheory of eros and thanatos. Life is an anomaly
How To Deconstruct Almost Anything
http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html"Tour de force: The Intel i486DX programmer's reference manual." Teehee! (via Robyn)
The Assignment Operator Revisited
http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_assignment_operator_revisited.htmlA lengthy follow-up which ends "I don’t know about you, but there’s something really scary to me about a language where copying state from one object to another is this complicated". I don't know about me, either.
The Anatomy of the Assignment Operator
http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_anatomy_of_the_assignment_operator.htmlThis is a really interesting treatment of the C++ 'operator=', the reading of which has given me opportunity to reflect on my theory that C++ appeals to old people.