Technology runs counter to our personhood; technology is complicated and shallow, but people are simple and deep. Our true needs are not complex.
I have nothing to say, really.
Fuck off.
Bookmarks for August 23rd through August 24th
- Spidergoat-silk + human skin = (nearly) bulletproof flesh – Boing Boing
- "Jalila Essaïdi attempted to create bulletproof human skin by implanting transgenic spider-silk with human skin."
- Let’s give those a try | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
- Chinese sneakers. Build quality of a Soviet-era Škoda, but rather comfortable so far.
- Derek Powazek – “Nobody Uses Their Real Name” and Other Outdated Notions
- The Redditor
- HTML5 Rocks – How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers
Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In
Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In
"Like a billion other people, I download things illegally. I'm also an actor, writer and director whose income depends on revenue from DVDs, movies and books. This leads to many conflicts in my head, in my heart, and in bars."
Please do not change your password
Please do not change your password
"abc123", "hello" and "darling"
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
Triumph of the Cyborg Composer
"But robots will never be able to create art." Yeah, right.
Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity
Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity
"[..] when the conversation gets big enough, it shuts down."
I need to talk to you about computers.
I need to talk to you about computers.
Insightful essay about the history of computers in the light of the iPad.
Alex Payne — On the iPad
"The future of personal computing that the iPad shows us is both seductive and dystopian. It’s not a future I want to bring into my home."
Styrofoam Androids and Cowbells at Home Depot
These are my links for January 5th from 11:10 to 23:01:
- Kepler telescope spots ‘Styrofoam’ planet – A giant planet with the density of Styrofoam is one of a clutch of new exoplanets discovered by NASA's Kepler telescope.
- iPhone vs Android: It is Happening Again – Google's support of Apple's iPhone helped make a great and innovative Apple product more successful, and now Google is doing a Microsoft and driving its Android environment hard with new hardware and a more open approach that will create an entire ecosystem of incented hardware makers, software providers and carriers to make Android successful.
- Now you can play Foursquare anywhere – Attention, suburbanites: You, too, can be the mayor of your local Home Depot.
- YouTube – Boise State girl tearin’ it up on the cowbell! [720p] – Happy Cowbell girl is happy.
- Music Blog Zeitgeist of 2009 / The Hype Machine – Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2009 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers.
Bookmarks for November 5th through November 7th
These are my links for November 5th through November 7th:
- Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson’s "Pattern Recognition" —> NOGOODFORME.COM – So awesome you can't even see her.
- Captured Photo Collection » Ian Fisher : American Soldier Photos – Oh wow.
- Bob’s Blog – ColdFusion Tidbits: Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub –
- Mockingbird –
- Phone texting reveals sensitive new metrotextual | Technology | Internet | Reuters –
Bookmarks for October 30th through October 31st
These are my links for October 30th through October 31st:
Bookmarks for October 22nd through October 27th
These are my links for October 22nd through October 27th:
- Wibiya | Homepage –
- Search the Collections – Victoria and Albert Museum –
- A look at how the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory (VAIL) is changing the world –
- The Atlantic Online | November 2009 | How I Survived China | James Fallows –
- The US can’t manufacture the Kindle. Is that a problem? –
Bookmarks for June 29th through July 6th
These are my links for June 29th through July 6th:
- Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It’s Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity – Download Chris Anderson's "Free" as free audiobook.
- Use Zend_Cache to cache whole pages | Technotes From Blogkid – Well, okay.
- A Whole Lotta Nothing: Weight loss tips for geeks – Oh.
- Innovationspsychologie: Warum der Umgang mit Disruptionen so schwierig ist » netzwertig.com –
- BBC NEWS | Business | Gazprom seals $2.5bn Nigeria deal – What's up, Nigaz?
The Rise and Fall of Arduino’s Tremendous Tunnel
These are my links for March 22nd through March 25th:
- The Rise and Fall of TechCrunch : The Drama 2.0 Show – Quite a good write-up of the history of TechCrunch, soon to-be-forgotten Web 2.0 blog.
- Rome’s Tremendous Tunnel: The Ancient World’s Longest Underground Aqueduct – Roman engineers chipped an aqueduct through more than 100 kilometers of stone to connect water to cities in the ancient province of Syria.
- making a FON router speak serial to Arduino | EchoDitto Labs – I shall try this.
- 5 Ways ‘Common Sense’ Lies To You Everyday | Cracked.com – Usually cracked.com is rather silly. This time it's rather silly and yet interesting.
- Twitter / Jack Dorsey: just setting up my twttr – First twitter message, evr?