29 June 2017
So you want to potentially not use a laptop anymore, but you also want a computer that does all the same things as a laptop, in pretty much the same way. In which case, I think the computer you’re looking for is a laptop. Incredible burn on every tech journalist who has written this.
27 June 2017
A very modern situation: Company does spin control without considering the ramifications, ends up screwing over the already victimized: A German email provider has closed the account of a hacker behind the new ransomware outbreak, meaning victims can’t get decryption keys. The exploit, unofficially named Petya, uses the same vector as WannaCry.
27 June 2017
Like most web trends intended to increase “engagement” (nobody knows what this actually means), sticky bars are overused and poorly used. Kill ’em all with this bookmarklet.
26 June 2017
Point at a spot on the globe, and hear their radio.
23 June 2017
Dirge magazine: What I Like About Dungeon Synth is, primarily, the music and the wide range of emotions it encompasses; the bombast and the subtlety, the melancholy and the fury, the epic and the transient. It blends genres that are dear to my heart, from medieval airs to black metal malevolence, into something that is […]
22 June 2017
An excellent review and historical contextualizing of Netflix’s new Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling show, by Mairead Small Staid for the Ringer.
22 June 2017
Police drag away protesters, some in wheelchairs, outside of Sen. McConnell's office after draft of Senate health care bill is revealed pic.twitter.com/uWRR0uJniY— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 22, 2017 Republicans: The party of cruelty.
20 June 2017
Vann Newkirk on the most famous American emancipation holiday, and why it must be celebrated: Juneteenth, rather, celebrates a belated liberation. Enslaved people in the Confederacy who didn’t manage to escape to Union lines or find themselves in occupied territory were not all made free by Lincoln’s proclamation, and had to await the end of […]
14 June 2017
An article about a cool thing with a goofy lede: An algorithm has usurped the traditional role of a designer to generate millions of unique packaging designs for Nutella. Emphasis mine. It’s goofy because nothing usurped anything. A designer created an algorithm to create variations. It’s just a different kind of design.
14 June 2017
Traces I is the sound of synthesizers wrapped in cheesecloth being broadcast from the last radio tower of a dying world… in the shape of a 5-track pay-what-you-can album on Bandcamp. I’m enjoying it a lot. You can contribute to the artist’s patreon, too.
14 June 2017
The Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park is doing a live stream of their Amorphophallus titanum, aka Corpse Flower, blooming. This plant blooms once every 10 years, and during the bloom grows almost two times its normal size and emits a foul stench for two days before shriveling up and starting over. It’s pretty […]
13 June 2017
“Dinosaur Comics!” “Hyperbole and a Half” and “xkcd” are among the initial class of now-nationally-archived webcomics I grew up reading. The Washington Post: The library will announce Tuesday that the Webcomics Web Archive is officially launching at loc.gov as part of its growth in “born-digital” collections. The first phase of the webcomics online collection will […]
13 June 2017
Apparently Maciej acquired it for $35,000. Former Delicious community manager (and fellow waferbaby alumni) Britta Gustafson is running the twitter account.
13 June 2017
Indivisible has a complete guide to letting your lawmakers know that they need to oppose Trumpcare. Make use of it.
12 June 2017
A beautiful list of valid HTML colors which are also english-language words. There’s a poetry to how some of these match up; “defied / #DEF1ED” for example seems perfect somehow?
09 June 2017
What a zany thing to have existed: This is the instructional video that was bundled with the Singer IZEK sewing machine/Game Boy Color combo. Hopefully this will help others who may be struggling to set up or operate their IZEKs or for those who just want to enjoy awesome VHS goodness! via Frank Cifaldi on […]
09 June 2017
A longish read which is better summed up at the very top: […] if you’re using a technology that originated at a large company, but your use case is very different, it’s unlikely that you arrived there deliberately; no, it’s more likely you got there through a ritualistic belief that imitating the giants would bring […]
08 June 2017
Apparently there are now about 70 Radio Shacks left across America. I’ve scavenged a few closings here in San Francisco. I will cherish those still-overpriced-at-70%-off toggle switches forever: But buried in the recent news about store closings—which have largely decimated a chain of thousands of locations—is the fact that the company is auctioning off much […]
06 June 2017
Kottke: Bob Dylan finally delivered his Nobel Prize lecture in the form of a video (you can also listen to it on Soundcloud). Over the course of just 27 minutes, he talks about his influences, both musical and literary, and muses on the differences and similarities between music and literature. Listening to the speech, instead […]
05 June 2017
Open Culture has the rundown. You can buy back issues for $2.99 a pop, or read them all with Kindle Unlimited. But that’s not all: Jerrick Media, owners of the Omni brand, have also begun to make available on Vimeo on Demand episodes of Omni: The New Frontier, the 1980s syndicated television series hosted by […]
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