October 2009
71 posts
September 2009
111 posts
“Some things, they say,
one should not write about. I tried
to help my father...”
– David Mason - Fathers and Sons
WatchJoystiq’s Tokyo Game Show 2009 “Game of the Show”
Man, I think it looks pretty cool at least.
Mildly related observation: Japanese people sometime think it’s called “Fra dance.” Can you guess why?
WatchDaft Punk on a Korg DS-10
C4[2] Conference Videos →
Videos from the third Indie Mac Developer conference C4 (named C4[2], on accounta programmers loving in-jokes). These are pretty cool if you want to hear what it’s like to be a independent programmer. These people really care about their craft.
Aid Watch - How the British Invented “Development”... →
Interesting link via Reason:
During the early years of World War II, Japan won major victories (such as the capture of Singapore) against the British and threatened India. Japanese propaganda pointed to British racism and offered themselves as the defenders of non-white peoples. The British feared that non-white people in the colonies might side with the Japanese rather than their colonial...
Aaron Swartz - The New Science of Causation →
And there the matter has stayed. Causality is a concept as meaningless as “the soul” and just as inappropriate for modern mathematical science. And yet, somehow, this doesn’t seem quite right. If causation is nothing but a meaningless word that laypeople have layered over correlation, then why the ceaseless insistence that “correlation does not imply causation”? Why are our thoughts filled with...
WatchNylon Magazine x Yoko Ono & Sean Lennon
I’d like to see somebody make a fictitious blog, where all the links and embedded videos and whatnot are to pages that don’t actually exist.
Rich Hickey - Are We There Yet? A deconstruction... →
The developer of Clojure (a JVM based version of Lisp) uses the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead to make some remarks about the future of programming languages. Perhaps concurrency would be easier if instead of having mutable objects in memory we had static actual entities that are referred to by different temporal functions.
It’s an interesting slideshow at least. I’m...
WatchPomplamoose - Single Ladies
Come Now, Let Us Take Refuge Inside This Waffle... →
Do you see it? That yellow glow. Has the sun itself plumbed the darkest clouds and settled upon the earth next to that gas station over there?
Take heart, my love, for sanctuary is at hand. It can only be a Waffle House!
♥♡♥♡♥♡!
The List of N Things →
Top ten criticisms of this article:
He should have written it as a list of n things.
9 other things.