February 2012
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January 2012
2 posts
Urban eXperiment
WIRED recently published an article about Urban eXperiment, “A mysterious band of hacker-artists” that I found pretty fascinating. In the discussion thread about it at Hacker News, someone phrased it as “Gibsonian”, that’s a perfect description if I ever heard one. I’m not sure why I find the knowledge that this kind of thing goes on so satisfying – even when...
Crosses
Something I left off my list of music I particularly liked from 2011 was this EP by †††. They just released a new EP, which I’ve bought but not had a chance to listen to yet, but if it’s anything like the first it’ll be great.
December 2011
5 posts
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52 books (well, almost)
I made an attempt to read a book a week in 2011. I figured it wouldn’t be too hard to keep that average up – I often read a few books in a week when on holiday. Alas, I didn’t quite make it, and only managed 46 books up till now (2 hours before midnight doesn’t leave me much time to squeeze the last 6 in!).
I don’t think I’ll bother trying again next year, as...
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John Carmack on static code analysis →
Over the last year or two I’ve become convinced that static code analysis and (good) strong type systems are the way forward. Certainly for me at least. Perhaps in my case it’s because I’m not a very good programmer and can’t keep much in mind at once, but at least I’m not alone in this opinion!
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Favourite records from 2011
If “record” is still the right word to use these days. “Music releases” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. These are listed in alphabetical order as I seem to be incapable of deciding any kind of ranking for these kind of things.
Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Sólaris Listen to “Reyja” on Bandcamp
Deadbeat - Drawn and Quartered Listen to samples at Kompakt.fm
Earth - Angels Of...
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July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
1 post
September 2010
1 post
WatchSoundWorks Collection: “The Social Network” Sound for Film Profile (by Michael Coleman)
July 2010
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in...”
– George Bernard Shaw
April 2010
2 posts
March 2010
1 post
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January 2010
3 posts
The Interpreter →
“Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?”
December 2009
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September 2009
5 posts
“If you die after selling between 250 million and 700 million records you’ll be...”
– Norman Borlaug (via dailymeh)
Slowcoast →
August 2009
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June 2009
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Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less... →
April 2009
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March 2009
7 posts
Switcher →
A nice app for us Windows users who also like Exposé. Only works on Vista/Win7 with Aero though.
19.20.21. →
The Pig Farmer →
A pretty amazing story that ends quite differently from how it seems it might at the start.
Dave's Book Tutorial →
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of...”
– Karl Marx, Das Kapital
THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes YouTube →
February 2009
2 posts
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Cooper Journal: One free interaction →
January 2009
7 posts
The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The... →
L-Systems in Architecture →
Our world may be a giant hologram →
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The alluring danger of dilettantism →
December 2008
4 posts
“Saying that taste is just personal preference is a good way to prevent disputes....”
– Taste for Makers
“I believe that, if a triangle could speak, it would say that God is eminently...”
– Baruch Spinoza. (via dailymeh)
Worldchanging: The Last Viridian Note →
The (Mostly) True Story of Helvetica and the New... →
November 2008
3 posts
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