The Last Psychiatrist: Couple Reveals Child's Gender Five Years Too Late
The Flight From Conversation - NYTimes.com
“What was the point where it broke down? There was no evil executive coming in from on high telling us to make the game more lowbrow. The team was not a bunch of sniveling adolescent boys (a couple were, to be honest, but most were of the aforementioned good type). I think instead that the problem was structural— deeply structural to the product itself, at a level where no amount of “smart” versus “dumb” choices can really change things. One of those games centered around shooting aliens with guns and lasers. Another was about navigating an environment and punching people until they died.” — from Dumbness in Games, or, the Animal as a System by Matthew S. Burns
I like shapes.
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“Leaving aside the work of Ada Lovelace - the 19th century countess who devised algorithms for Charles Babbage’s never-completed Analytical Engine - computer programming has existed as a human endeavor for less than one human lifetime: it has been only 68 years since Konrad Zuse unveiled his Z3 electro-mechanical computer in 1941, the first working general-purpose computer.” — from Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Seibel (via mundanity)
“Three attributes of the typical hacker are laziness, impatience, and hubris.” — Larry Wall from Scripting on the Lido Deck
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Park Benches - Love is Everywhere [Couple flirting on a fire escape], 1946, by Stanley Kubrick. More can be seen at the Museum of the City of New York. He took an astonishing number of perfect photographs.
Stanley Kubrick was a photographer before he was a filmmaker, and it shows in his films.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m35mhxUzk91qz6ivco1_500.jpg)
Park Benches - Love is Everywhere [Couple flirting on a fire escape], 1946, by Stanley Kubrick. More can be seen at the Museum of the City of New York. He took an astonishing number of perfect photographs.
Stanley Kubrick was a photographer before he was a filmmaker, and it shows in his films.
“One of the maddening things about starting out with someone new is that everything’s possible—and that’s not necessarily good. It’s the same with any relationship: you want to cut down the world of possibilities; you want the other person to know that you hate pizza, so don’t even think about pizza. When you work or live with anyone for a long time, you narrow your range of possibilities in a positive, creative way.” — Medium Cruel: Reflections on Videodrome - From the Current - The Criterion Collection
Two Ideas That Would Make America A Better Place
My friend got me iPhone camera lenses for my birthday! This is the fisheye lens. (Taken with instagram)
Grog -
According to the Pirate Leaders, the mixture for grog is secret, but may contain one or more of the following:
- kerosene
- propylene glycol
- artificial sweeteners
- sulphuric acid
- rum
- acetone
- red dye no. 2
- scumm
- axle grease
- battery acid
- pepperoni
All of the interviews on The Verge in one convenient place. Brilliant.
(Source: theverge.com)
Monolake: Ghosts in the Machine -
On the heels of the release of Ghosts, his latest album as Monolake, we spoke to Robert Henke about his recording process, unique approaches to instruments, designing virtual space and more.
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