Category: found
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CV of Failures
Just want to acknowledge the joy of this endeavor. A running documentation of your failures is a great idea that I fully support.
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Org as a Word Processor
http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/orgmode-wordprocessor.html When I first saw one of his videos I was wondering how sick an effect was achieved, though I never asked–thanks to all who did for me.
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How the internet flips elections…
On the one hand: of course it does. On the other hand: pretty terrifying. So if Google favours one candidate in an election, its impact on undecided voters could easily decide the election’s outcome. Source: How the internet flips elections and alters our thou…
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Aaron “tenderlove” Patterson
Aaron “tenderlove” Patterson http://usesthis.com/interviews/aaron.patterson/ Firefox has an extremely nice feature that I like for web development: if you hit ‘ (single quote) it will bring up a search box, but the search box only searches through links on the page. Then you can hit enter to navigate to that link. That way I can avoid…
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Internet Art
I don’t think I agree with the unsupported conclusion, but the video is interesting and generally well done―and the examples are fun. [kad_youtube url=”https://youtu.be/783hwpJTjlo” ]
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transitions
[kad_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv0sizg3Vz0″ ] Watching this makes me feel somewhat nostalgic about the days when copies were hard. Also, it seems so important to document this transition from old to new ways of doing things (and all the drama and challenges inherent to the change). It also reminds me of this clever video showing the changing…
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Awesome work on G’MIC
My latest ten months working on G’MIC http://opensource.graphics/latest-ten-months-working-on-gmic/
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Free Music Archive: Steve Combs
Free Music Archive: Steve Combs. Some really great music here and—bonus—it’s cc-by licensed. Heard the music in this video. (Ah! The internet!)
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Sapping Attention: Fundamental plot arcs, seen through multidimensional analysis of thousands of TV and movie scripts
This is my vote for best post of 2014. What a fascinating look at structure via data analysis. The entire article is such a refreshing surprise. It explores the structural arcs in TV and Movie scripts across screen time (by breaking episodes into 6 or 12 even chunks) and then creates a single, multidimentional, visual…
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Alex Buono | HOW WE DID IT — SNL Title Sequence
It’s pure in-camera trickery…EUREKA! — suddenly we had our approach. The often overlooked approach. This was a fun read with lovely images. via Alex Buono | HOW WE DID IT — SNL Title Sequence.
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Spotify Doesn’t Hurt Artists: My Band Would Be Nowhere Without It | WIRED
I hope artists will pause and realize that misplaced blame and oversimplification of the issues could set us back. Physical album sales are not the long-term solution (case in point: the laptop I’m typing on doesn’t have a CD drive)… …and he’s not even trying to be funny. via Spotify Doesn’t Hurt Artists: My Band…
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Neil Gaiman: How I learned to stop worrying and love the duplicator machines – Boing Boing
Agreed. …humans are bright enough to think our way out the problems we think ourselves into. via Neil Gaiman: How I learned to stop worrying and love the duplicator machines – Boing Boing.
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Superintelligence
This article pointed me toward the book Superintelligence which pointed me toward a quote from a shorter document by the author from which I’ve quoted below. Anyone wondering what to gift me this Christmas can look into the linked book above. I enjoy being terrified by other people’s thoughts. Two things are striking from the below quote: The…
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An email signature to encourage encryption use | parker higgins dot net
ToDo list: added. I prefer to use encrypted email. My public key fingerprint is 4FF3 AA1B D29E 1638 32DE C765 9433 5F88 9A36 7709. Learn how to encrypt your email with the Email Self Defense guide. via An email signature to encourage encryption use | parker higgins dot net.
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Being the Worst
What a great idea. “I don’t have anything against Yelp. The idea is fantastic, but the blackmailing thing is ferocious,” says Cerretini. “I think I should be the one deciding if I’m on the site or not. At least I can be there on my terms. The only power they have is they make you…
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Hypo-quandary of the Week
♥ — 5 Useful Articles is great. While on an expedition in Indonesia, a nature photographer’s equipment is hijacked by a roving band of artistic monkeys. One of them snaps a photograph of herself. The photographer recovers his camera and posts the picture to the internet. A designer creates a 3D model based on the…
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Transform any text into a patent application – Sam Lavigne
I wrote a program that transforms literary and philosophical texts into patent applications. In short, it reframes texts as inventions or machines. This is just plain awesome software art. Just look at this patent by Kafka! If a visual artist out there doesn’t start creating the visual figures for these wonderful patents I’m going to…