December 2010
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
August 2010
4 posts
pixels
new stuff from vj set @ culture box, summer 2010:
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“Cookie Puss has the ability to fly, though he requires a saucer-shaped...”
– i’m not sure we grasp what a society where wikipedia’s articles represent the most extensive body of shared cultural knowledge of our time, are leaving behind for future generations to discover about us.
July 2010
2 posts
“I got a call from the VP of anti-piracy at one of the majors. After I picked up...”
– justin ouellette on his experience of building muxtape.com, and why he ultimately ended up canning the project.
most interesting to me is how there’re conflicting interests deep within departments of the big 4 label companies as well as between them. obligatory reading for anyone interested in a...
Recommended reading
jimray just provided me with one of those falling-in-love-with-the-internet-all-over-agagin moments:
“Two recommendations for you. First, install the InstapaperIt browser extension, which will let you add any link to Instapaper with a simple right or option click.
Next, head over to Kevin Kelly’s excellent collection of best magazine articles ever and queue them all up.
May you never...
May 2010
3 posts
“Dammit. It’s the Nineties all over again.”
– iA comments on the newly released wired ipad issue.
MetaFilter Users Save a Girl From Human...
hey internet, i think you’re a pretty cool guy:
“D, please, stop calling somebody, please, don’t call to xxxx. All is ok.There is no problem!!! 11:25AM.
OK 11:26AM
D! Listen. I don’t know how thanks you. Lux lounge is a strip bar, if we will go there, i don’t know what would be… Thank you so much.! You saved our lifes. 3:33PM
No thanks necessary. It wasn’t only me. ...
April 2010
7 posts
An early euology of the computer era →
Charles Stross’ blog post titled “The real reason Steve Jobs hates Flash” in which he theorizes about what Apple’s recent moves to control their own eco-system can tell us about the world of computing 5 years from now. Hint: If your money are on netbooks, you’re fucked.
/via Daring Fireball
getting ready for an event apart
i’m in seattle for an event apart.
it’s 2 days of design, code and content.
jeffry zeldmann is the first speaker
i’m excited.
March 2010
4 posts
"The first time I ever came in anyone’s mouth, it...
i learned randomly of joel johnson from a tweet he made about 4chan, 30 mins ago.
i went to joel johnsons homepage to check up on him. the above was the first sentence i read; the beginning of his latest blog post headlined: “why i’m funny.”
i did nothing but read from that sentence until i reached the last. seldom have i had the joy of such a heavy testimonial written so...
February 2010
4 posts
January 2010
27 posts
Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock →
fraser’s blog post is about the ipad. so, sorry for that, but i think the underlying discussion about “technologists = wizards” is one of the most interesting trends to emerge from modern computing.
fraser writes:
Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. Those incantations that only we can...
Daring Fireball: Apple, Adobe, and Flash →
john gruber, above the competetion as usual, analyzes the whole flash-situation, re: the internet’s flood of debate over no flash support on the ipad this past week.
The iPad is a Comedy Gold Mine - CollegeHumor... →
o hai there, internet.
have i told you lately that i love you?
“Achievements — system-level awards for certain game play goals — are explicit...”
– from metagames and containers - part webdesign experiment and part excellent read on “metagames” - the games we create “using out-of-game information, or resources, to affect one’s in-game decisions.”
the sound design of star wars →
article about how many of the sound effects for star wars, created by ben burtt, were designed using everyday stuff. fx:
“Burtt blended the sounds of his TV set and an old 35 mm projector to create the hum of a light saber.”
Timeline twins, music and movies →
kottke writes:
“When I was a kid, “oldies” music and movies seemed ancient. Even though I’m now in my 30s, the entertainment that I watched and listened to in my youth still feels pretty recent to me. Raiders of the Lost Ark wasn’t all that long ago, right? But comparing my distorted recall of childhood favorites to the oldies of the time jogs my memory in unpleasant...
tom waits, on the definition of a gentleman
Q: What is a gentleman? A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
> full interview
“I think wireframes and blogging tools are the two worst things to happen to web...”
– from “What’s wrong with wireframes?”
a discussion about RAM causes a rant unklike... →
Old Jews Telling Jokes →
best. tumblr. ever.
Road to Recovery
rososo:
Happy New Decade all.
So sorry for the long downtime and associated, unacceptable radio silence on my part. We are turning over a new leaf here at Rososo and hope to be up and running soon.
A bit of background on the crash:
Rososo has a crawler that has to go check your feeds every X minutes to find out when they have last updated. To do this, the previous crawl method was relying...
