August 2009
Brand New Colony by The Postal Service
I want to...
“Here’s a little world you can all join in with,
It’s very simple...”
– Traffic - You Can All Join In
The Long-Awaited Ramp Champ « Smoking Apples →
As usual, I remembered about five things I’d meant to put into this review about five minutes after it was posted.
Note to self: last-minute writing is okay for papers, but reviews need to be done a day early when possible.
“He probably figures that we don’t get to see a lot of handsome women out...”
– Klim Dochachin to Deanna Troi, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Unification I.
“1. Recall a music video from ten years ago.
2. Find the music video on Youtube....”
– waffle → iTunes Roulette
This sounds like a terrible idea.
Watchthijsjacobs:
Touchwall Demo from Schematic (via Vimeo).
Awesome. Next requirement for living in the future: some amount of voice recognition.
“The Founding Fathers couldn’t have seen this coming. If they had, the right to...”
– Margaret and Helen
A political blog by feisty octogenarians. From the little I’ve read, I’d say it’s worth a look.
Apologia: Design in Star Wars →
My response to John Scalzi’s article on bad design in Star Wars.
Warning: geekery ahead.
Daring Fireball: The Android Opportunity →
This causes me no small amount of regret that I didn’t try to get into this market when I had (however small) a shot at it.
“You ain’t nothing to me if you got nothing to say
I don’t know what...”
– JET - Last Chance
If you got nothing to say, what are you doing here?
On Travelling « The Wayfarer →
My rebuttal to Penelope Trunk’s argument that travelling is a waste of time.
More or Less: The minimal wardrobe
minma:
jxnblk:
About a year and a half ago, I decided to stop being a pack rat and significantly reduce the number of things I owned. One of the first areas I decided to tackle was my wardrobe. As a twenty-something graphic designer, it’s easy for me to go to work in the same clothes I would wear going out. And, at 6’0” 145 lbs, trying to find clothing that fits well in the U.S. is not a very...
“Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of...”
– Genesis 2:19
Why is a study as central to the Judeo-Christian foundation myth as taxonomy so roundly ignored in this “Christian” country of ours?
“We are, all of us, abandoning taxonomy, the ordering and naming of life. We are...”
– Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World - NYTimes.com (via lenorajayne) (via chrbutler) (via infoneernet) (via jacquelynn)
“When I grow up, I want to be a math teacher and a chef on Mars.”
– Graham, my 7-year-old brother. He always leaves me with little gems like this. (via meghannjane) (via fishy)
Do it, kid. I really hope you make it happen.
“We’re flying forever bored
And for a moment I love everything
that I see...”
– Eve 6 - Open Road Song
Joy and wonder.
“The greatest and most wonderful mystery of the universe is that it exists at...”
– (via horrorwine)
Ebon Musings: The New Ten Commandments
“[Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp] says that humans can...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Freerunning UK-style →
I can’t decide which part of this video I like better: the fact that he’s freerunning, or the fact that he stops to give the Tardis a puzzled look.
“May I introduce to you the law of future Apple products: They aren’t defined in...”
– waffle → Not Where It Has Been
“And for fuck’s sake, please, the original Apple tablet will not look like a supersized iPod touch. Even if it roughly did, it would certainly not look like this.”
No kidding.
Biking: Trails and Tweed
oberlin-college:
Tweed Rides:
“With the incredible popularity of fixed-gear and single-speed bicycles, a subculture of tweed has quietly been gaining speed. Tweed Rides have started to spring up in many cities, creating an ever-so-stylish trend with an unusually low carbon footprint.”
…what.
“(1) Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.
(2) In all...”
– horrorwine:
From EbonMusings, quoted in The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, which I finished yesterday. The book was well written [though Dawkins is most likely a hugely pretenious egomaniac] but had very few sections that grabbed me as much as these quoted ‘New Ten Commandments’.
Dawkins is...
Bronze Age tomb found in Scotland →
This causes a huge swirl of emotions for me. Gods, I want to go back.
“• ‘Aleph is the subject of a midrash which praises its humility in not...”
– Aleph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If I had renamed @Kitten_Alice, she would probably have become Aleph.
“Something smart is happening here.”
– lonelysandwich - Always On
Adam Lisagor talking about the inner workings of the iPhone’s camera feature. He’s right—there’s something really smart happening there.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via theimpossiblecool)
"The most breathtaking special effects TV... →
This is fascinating to me mostly because of the “stickiness” of the commercial, a concept made popular (in a slightly different meaning) by Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. If you can keep someone’s attention, you’re that much closer to winning their heart—and their wallet.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Smoking Apples's... →
I’ve been fireballed.