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Enjoying the free drinks at my house.
Documentation | Spritely
Spritely is a simple plugin with only two key methods, sprite() and pan() both of which simply animate the background-image css property of an element.
http://www.spritely.net/documentation/
Stocking the liquor cabinet! @maximolly: @nealpollack we are in the same terminal right now and we are both going to @dakotasmith's house.
@Mickipedia That's weird because everytime you check in I get a DM telling me where you are...
@marshariti He has paint fumes too? I have these at home...
OHNOES I'm missing whateveritispeoplearedoingdowntown! Also, paint fumes. Serious paint fumes.
Ataraxia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It signifies the state of robust tranquility that derives from eschewing faith in an afterlife, not fearing the gods because they are distant and unconcerned with us, avoiding politics and vexatious people, surrounding oneself with trustworthy and affectionate friends and, most importantly, being an affectionate, virtuous person, worthy of trust.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ataraxia
@koolboobs Well, we are no more until Josh gives up on the Bay Area and moves back to Austin. Until then, I will sit on this album...
Thinking of @thebandpeel. Happy 5th birthday. RIP. http://peel.bandcamp.com/
Gamasutra: Erin Hoffman's Blog - Life, Addictive Game Mechanics, And The Truth Hiding In Bejeweled
Addiction is not about what you DO, but what you DON'T DO because of the replacement of the addictive behavior.
The reason why what defines addiction for one person may not define addiction for another person, even given quantified equal stretches of time action or consumption, is because addiction is not about the action, but about the individual person.
This is why merely resisting addiction of any kind is not enough. This is why -- although some activities are more broadly compelling than others -- virtually any activity can become an addiction. What addictive behavior does is reveal underlying anxiety (and often depression, which itself is nebulous) and lack of desire to perform the things we're "supposed to" be doing.
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ErinHoffman/20090916/3065/Life_Addictive_Game_Mechanics_And_The_Truth_Hiding_In_Bejeweled.php
where is my milk from?
Find out about your milk, yogurt, chocolate milk, soy and organic milk, coffee creamer, cottage cheese, ice cream...see full list
http://whereismymilkfrom.com/
Google - public data
The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
You got me wanting one, now where do I get one? RT @brizzly Packing for SXSW: http://brizzly.com/pic/1NT3
I am a sucker for SXSW house guests! I cannot wait to eat breakfast with you guys and put you on a bus to downtown!
Wow! Life is awesome!
Hidden Camcorder Flashlight | SPY Camera Hidden In A Flashlight
With this hidden camcorder that looks and acts like a regular LED flashlight, you can use it as just that, and record at the same time. With the built-in nightvision, you can record crystal clear footage and take pictures without anyone knowing exactly what you're doing.
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/hidden-camcorder-flashlight.html
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Handling legitimate cross-domain content duplication
We've recently discussed several ways of handling duplicate content on a single website; today we'll look at ways of handling similar duplication across different websites, across different domains. For some sites, there are legitimate reasons to duplicate content across different websites — for instance, to migrate to a new domain name using a web server that cannot create server-side redirects.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html
Powells.com From the Author - Neal Pollack
In Minneapolis on the last night of the tour, Dakota, my rhythm guitarist, plays a cover of "Best Friend's Girl." He's met with dead silence. [In Minneapolis, we should've gone with Purple Rain]
http://www.powells.com/essays/pollack.html
vector poem » Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom
he lesson for future games might be this: make your technology extremely simple, easy to modify, ship it with a diverse enough pool of content that people can extend it to create a variety of settings and styles, and promote the sharing of this content as a way to add value to your game.
http://vectorpoem.com/news/?p=74
The Interstate ’76 Arsenal - GOG.com
[Favorite action game of the 90s]
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/interstate_%E2%80%9976_arsenal
Common REST Mistakes
When designing your first REST system there are a variety of mistakes people often make. I want to summarize them so that you can avoid them.
http://www.prescod.net/rest/mistakes/
[0909.3976] The Information Theory of Emotions of Musical Chords
The paper offers a solution to the centuries-old puzzle - why the major chords are perceived as happy and the minor chords as sad - based on the information theory of emotions. A theory and a formula of musical emotions were created. They define the sign and the amplitude of the utilitarian emotional coloration of separate major and minor chords through relative pitches of constituent sounds
http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3976
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
To translate visual patterns to neural activity, what is needed is a coordinate map, a rule which links each point in the visual field to a point on the flat model of V1. In the 1970s scientists including Cowan came up with just such a map, based on anatomical knowledge of how neurons in the retina communicate with neurons in V1.
http://plus.maths.org/issue53/features/hallucinations/index.html
iProcessing
iProcessing is an open programming framework to help people develop native iPhone applications using the Processing language. It is an integration of the Processing.js library and a Javascript application framework for iPhone.
http://luckybite.com/iprocessing/
Die Cast Medal, Die Cast Medallions, Die Cast Emblems, Custom Design Medals, Employee Incentive Awards
[Diecast and other medals]
http://www.maxmedals.com/medals/custommedals/diecast.php
SuperDeluxe / schedule
[Hot looking calendar. Time map!]
http://www.super-deluxe.com/#Oren%20Ambarchi
Must Watch - All Documentaries - Sprword.com - Spread the Word
The documentaries below epitomize the importance of free flowing information and the lack of it in mainstream media.
http://www.sprword.com/all.html
Puddle thinking - but does it float
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!”
This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
(Douglas Adams)
http://butdoesitfloat.com/260223/Puddle-thinking?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ButDoesItFloat+%28but+does+it+float%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Ross Berens
Under the Milky Way series
http://cargocollective.com/rossberens/#92805/Under-the-Milky-Way
Peel Live Concert at Red Eye Fly (Austin, TX) Mar 15, 2008 - WolfgangsVault.com
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/peel/concerts/red-eye-fly-march-15-2008.html
Uniform - Sexy forms with jQuery
Have you ever wished you could style checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs? Ever wished you could control the look and feel of your form elements between all browsers?
http://pixelmatrixdesign.com/uniform/#
MoMA Store - Kore Stool
It gently rocks on its slightly rounded base, encouraging active sitting. It exercises the legs, back, and abdominal muscles, preventing and relieving stiffness and soreness.
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Kore%20Stool_10451_10001_61113_-1_11461_11467_null_shop_
mahemoff's Instalicious at master - GitHub
Instalicious is a mashup of Instapaper (http://instapaper.com) and Delicious (http://delicious.com), allowing you to push your Delicious "toread" bookmarks to Instapaper for offline reading. It's a single Python script which you probably want to run from a periodic cronjob.
http://github.com/mahemoff/Instalicious
Cox Communications - Cable, High Speed Internet and Telephone services in Cox Communications
To defer the cost to Cox of compliance, payment of the following minimum fees is required for all subpoena, court order and warrant requests
http://www.cox.com/Policy/leainformation/default.asp
AskTog: Starfire Home
[From the very beginning, this is dated. There is an announcement of Princess Di being appointed to some position in the European Council. Ha. Past Future, you are so funny.]
http://www.asktog.com/starfire/
`Nerdgasm.txt` - Notational Velocity Now Syncs with Simplenote | 43 Folders
f you live in text files and crave seamless, no-brainer syncing (that doesn’t require growing a neckbeard), that little icon represents a milestone in the evolution of simple, low-friction workflows.
http://www.43folders.com/2010/02/01/notational-velocity-now-syncs-simplenote?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+43Folders+%2843+Folders%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Classical artists such as Hilary Hahn chart big on Billboard with little sales - washingtonpost.com
Sales of 200 or 300 units are enough to land an album in the top 10. Hahn's No. 1 recording, after the sales spike resulting from her appearance on Conan, bolstered by blogs and press, sold 1,000 copies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012904193.html
The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist? | Alan Rusbridger | Media | guardian.co.uk
The full text of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger's Hugh Cudlipp lecture
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/25/cudlipp-lecture-alan-rusbridger
LackRack - Eth0Wiki
[An equipment rack built from a $8 piece of Ikea furniture. Don't try to order the Lack table online, though. They charge 300% for shipping.]
http://wiki.eth-0.nl/index.php/LackRack
Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (1978) | THE SLAVER
This is the famous Documentary on Hunter S. Thompson from 1978. You know … the one where he attributes his good health to grass in his whiskey. It’s part of the “Omnibus” TV series. Also, a rare glimpse of the British weirdo, Ralph Steadman and, the less rare, Bill Murray
http://theslaver.com/2010/01/11/fear-and-loathing-in-gonzovision-1978/
A Primer on Information Theory and Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Because there are around 7 billion humans on the planet, the identity of a random, unknown person contains just under 33 bits of entropy (two to the power of 33 is 8 billion). When we learn a new fact about a person, that fact reduces the entropy of their identity by a certain amount. There is a formula to say how much:
ΔS = - log2 Pr(X=x)
Where ΔS is the reduction in entropy, measured in bits,2 and Pr(X=x) is simply the probability that the fact would be true of a random person.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-theory-and-privacy#footnote2_8lgeyy1
Dynamic Dummy Image Generator - DummyImage.com
Example: http://dummyimage.com/640x480
http://dummyimage.com/
An Austin fried chicken sampler
[I actually liked the fried chicken at the Highball. Let's go get fried chicken!]
http://www.austin360.com/food-drink/dining/an-austin-fried-chicken-sampler-187253.html
Internet Archive: Free Downloads: Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. The library was developed under the auspices of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (the university's Department of Writing and Poetics) founded in 1974 by poets Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg. It contains readings, lectures, performances, seminars, panels and workshops conducted at Naropa by many of the leading figures of the U.S.literary avant-garde.
http://www.archive.org/details/naropa
World Government Data | guardian.co.uk
Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing you to check out the numbers for yourself. This is the Guardian’s gateway to that information.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data
U B U W E B - Film & Video: William S. Burroughs - Burroughs The Movie (1985)
Featuring - Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Jackie Curtis, John Giorno, Lauren Hutton, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs
Directed By - Howard Brookner
http://www.ubu.com/film/burroughs_movie.html
On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno
Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/17/brian-eno-interview-paul-morley
favicon.ico (GIF Image, 16x16 pixels)
[Love it]
http://awthum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/favicon.ico
The Technium: The 2-Billion-Eyed Intermedia
But as I flow through this slippery Web of ideas, it often feels like a waking dream.
We don't really know what dreams are for, only that they satisfy some fundamental need. Someone watching me surf the Web, as I jump from one suggested link to another, would see a day-dream. [...] And that was just the first few minutes of my day on the Web this morning. The trance-like state we fall into while following the undirected path of links may be a terrible waste of time, or like dreams, it might be a productive waste of time. Perhaps we are tapping into our collective unconscious in a way watching the directed stream of TV, radio and newspapers could not. Maybe click-dreaming is a way for all of us to have the same dream, independent of what we click on.
This waking dream we call the Internet also blurs the difference between my serious thoughts and my playful thoughts, or to put it more simply: I no longer can tell when I am working and when I am playing online
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2010/01/the_2-billion-e.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kklifestream+%28KK+Lifestream%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
The Withering Watchdog - Exposé: America's Investigative Reports
Bad design. Decent journalism.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/2009/06/the-withering-watchdog.html
Attenuators
More often than not, your amps output is more than your ears can handle. To maintain the tone of a cranked amp with saturated tubes and output transformers, a device called an attenuator is placed between the output of your amp and the speaker. Weber offers a variety of attenuators for different applications.
http://www.tedweber.com/atten.htm
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At work, I like to offer folks a beer. If they decline, I say "Why, can't code drunk?" They laugh. Then I say "you can't code sober either."
nanaze
If I ever make an Interstate '76 spiritual sequel, it will take place in the post-apocalypse outskirts of a city called Destroyt.
adammathes
Also, my son says that the "penis is the best part of the soufflé, because of the chopped-up onions." Please explain to me what that means.
nealpollack
