We have lost control of the apparatus

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/09/we-have-lost-control-of-apparatus.html

"databases suck"

nonbeard 2008-07-10 05:26:31

Core77 / design magazine + resource / post

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/chinese_minicastles_protected_by_un_10426.asp
nonbeard 2008-07-10 01:08:51

Algae Eating Cyprinids from Thailand and Neighboring

http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org/cyprinid.html

The 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

nonbeard 2008-07-09 09:39:00

Fake Difficulty - Television Tropes & Idioms

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeDifficulty
nonbeard 2008-07-07 17:49:49

Hide & Seek Festival 2008 : Programme

http://hideandseekfest.co.uk/programme

Looks fun. Partially organised by my favourite LJ stalkee severalbees

nonbeard 2008-07-06 08:52:04

Desktop Tower Defense

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp

Interesting genre

nonbeard 2008-06-30 06:55:33

Traditional Irish Soda Bread - Society for the Preservation of Irish Soda Bread

http://www.sodabread.us/

NO YEAST

nonbeard 2008-06-29 11:27:05

Play ELEPHANT RAVE, a free online game on Kongregate

http://www.kongregate.com/games/jmtb02/elephant-rave

omg, best game ever! Turn the volume up.

nonbeard 2008-06-24 02:36:06

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/1211060

Best SBS ad ever.

nonbeard 2008-06-23 06:36:48

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-outside

Like 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!

nonbeard 2008-06-18 07:16:03

Super Mario Bros.: blik Surface Graphics

http://www.whatisblik.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=B&Product_Code=NIN-SMB1

Awesome

nonbeard 2008-06-16 05:46:58

St George Aquariums Pty Ltd

http://www.hotfrog.com.au/Companies/St-George-Aquariums

Apparently this is the best place in Sydney to buy aquariums :(

nonbeard 2008-06-15 07:13:03

Sourdough Bread: How To Begin (easy sourdough for the beginner or novice)

http://www.io.com/~sjohn/sour.htm

I've had a sourdough starter (named George) in the fridge for several weeks. Now I want to make the bread!

nonbeard 2008-06-15 03:37:46

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing

http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html

I use less than seven habits

nonbeard 2008-06-13 02:32:50

Frank Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Williams

The guy behind the counter translated my order for a "flat white" into "one Frank Williams". Here is Frank Williams.

nonbeard 2008-06-11 04:09:05

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."

nonbeard 2008-06-11 03:57:54

Coding Horror: Exploring Wide Finder

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001131.html

Terrible 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.

nonbeard 2008-06-10 17:12:15

English too hard for students, principal says | NEWS.com.au

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23838302-421,00.html

Teehee, Shore kids are stupid

nonbeard 2008-06-10 06:50:14

Squirrelfish bytecode

http://webkit.org/specs/squirrelfish-bytecode.html

New JS backend for Webkit has regexp and getter/setter bytecodes, making x86's BCD support look positively RISC. Now to put it in hardware... ;)

nonbeard 2008-06-10 04:34:07

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.”

nonbeard 2008-06-02 13:57:32

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.htm

This is freakin' awesome

nonbeard 2008-05-10 06:15:37

Melissa the Loud - Rhythms

http://melissatheloud.com/rhythms.html

Use the rhythm generator linked from this page to play the rhythms. Very cool!

nonbeard 2008-05-07 15:41:27

Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/time.htm

1. It's marching on

nonbeard 2008-05-02 13:15:51

Features : Radar Online : Gynecologists say the darndest things

http://radaronline.com/features/2008/04/gynecologists_exams_funniest_comments_01.php

Not as darndest as I had hoped

nonbeard 2008-05-02 09:31:12

PinupGlam.Com - Jana Princessa - "Boob Proof"

http://www.pinupglam.com//jana-boobproof.html

I am so impressed by this porn site's dedication to science. (Link contains nudity)

nonbeard 2008-05-01 11:11:38

Mikoshi - 151 - 155 fitzroy street st kilda 3182 9534 9559 : eajguide

http://www.eajguide.com/?q=node/view/37

Delightfully bitchy review of what is actually quite a good, if expensive, Japanese Restaurant in St. Kilda

nonbeard 2008-04-26 11:14:22

Pepper's Ghost

http://www.phantasmechanics.com/pepper.html

The classic ghost illusion which relies on the reflection of an image onto a large pane of glass.

nonbeard 2008-04-22 13:38:40

gladwell dot com - the tipping point

http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/index.html

Ah, Malcolm Gladwell wrote The Tipping Point. Refer to previous bookmark for refutation of this theory

nonbeard 2008-04-22 13:12:14

What we can learn from spaghetti sauce (video)

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/20

There is no perfect Pepsi. Funny, engaging talk by Malcolm Gladwell on the "democratisation" of the food industry.

nonbeard 2008-04-22 08:42:55

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."

nonbeard 2008-04-20 00:33:00

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.'

nonbeard 2008-04-18 06:22:10

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

nonbeard 2008-04-16 03:19:02

a u d r e y * k a w a s a k i

http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/index.php

via claudine ko

nonbeard 2008-04-15 05:35:57

Melanie Klein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Klein

Theory of eros and thanatos. Life is an anomaly

nonbeard 2008-04-10 02:19:27

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)

nonbeard 2008-04-09 07:09:48

The Assignment Operator Revisited

http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_assignment_operator_revisited.html

A 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.

nonbeard 2008-04-08 15:16:20

The Anatomy of the Assignment Operator

http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_anatomy_of_the_assignment_operator.html

This 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.

beard 2008-04-08 14:59:02

Bay 12 Games: Dwarf Fortress

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens.html
nonbeard 2008-04-07 04:18:15

Mazapán.se - You Have To Burn The Rope

http://www.mazapan.se/games/BurnTheRope.php

A fantastic Flash game

nonbeard 2008-04-07 01:01:01

REV: Energy Drink: Old Lutheran Gift Shop

http://www.oldlutheran.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=OL&Product_Code=7028

Want want want want want

nonbeard 2008-04-06 04:21:03

Generic Wii Patcher - GBAtemp.net

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=77938

Wii hax

nonbeard 2008-04-05 06:55:18

Korean Language (Script, Orthography, Phonology, Korean Alphabet,

http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/korea/language.htm

Hangul seems pretty gosh-dern interesting

nonbeard 2008-04-04 06:57:03

The Megas

http://web.mac.com/themegas/The_Megas/main/main.html

Since the year 200X (4), The Megas have strived to bring a message from Dr. Light to the people. They have chosen to transmit that message, the tale of a small blue robot named Megaman, directly into the eardrums of the general populace through the power

nonbeard 2008-04-04 01:52:14

Maxim publisher Felix Dennis: 'I've killed a man' - Times Online

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article3660995.ece

"I'm just trying to have a bloody good time filling in the gap between being born and dying. So - you can accuse me of anything else but if you call me a hypocrite, I shall get cross."

nonbeard 2008-04-02 11:50:03