February 2012
9 posts
Dilbert comic strip for 02/11/2012 from the... →
I always feel a strange mixture of deep disappointment and contented amusement when Dilbert accurately reflects my working life.
James Gunn's video "Starring Nathan Fillion and... →
Chris Onstad on His Return to the Uncanny... →
Snow Under A Microscope | Akira The Don →
#shitsiskosays - Charlie's Diary →
Twitter's early-bird special on censorship - Boing... →
“Call me a hand-wringing killjoy, but there is something a bit alarming about...”
– Banker bashing in Britain: When the Daily Mail and Polly Toynbee are united in self-righteous anger, be afraid | The Economist
Snow Under A Microscope | Akira The Don →
January 2012
31 posts
Gumbel: Channel 101′s Best New Show | Slacktory |... →
The Front Line →
I’ve been on support for the last six weeks - and have been doing some sort of support for virtually my entire IT ‘career’ - and reading this is the first time in a long time I’ve felt proud of doing so.
“Whenever someone calls anything “cumbersome,” punch them in the face and yell,...”
– Things I Would Do If My Name Were “Benedict Cumberbatch” « Thought Catalog
Facebook Engineering: Why does Facebook not need... →
“I realize there’s a narrative that America is all done, and doesn’t make stuff...”
– Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America | Motherboard
“So let’s walk through this again: 50 Cent is refused money, but is instead...”
– Kill Screen - 50 Cent, Still Human
“Yeah, exactly. You know, we actually capped the ball at 24 hours of light so...”
– Kill Screen - The New Power Play
Let Me Tell You About That WoW Gold Seller Who... →
tl;dr of Neal Stephenson’s REAMDE
Wat — Destroy All Software Talks →
Interesting comment on the current stake of... →
“In other words, every step forward that a country takes towards eliminating the...”
– Surprise! Gender equality makes everyone better at math! : Starts With A Bang
“Will.i.am says the band has struck the right balance with the music in its...”
– Black Eyed Peas: The Most Corporate Band in America - WSJ.com
“Getting attention is hard.”
– Hide & Seek’s 10-11-12: “Ten games from 2011 that tell you all about 2012” - Wonderland
“At that point, I suddenly realized that more people had gone to the moon than...”
– The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold - Businessweek
In the Land of the Non-Reader « The Bygone Bureau →
When Your TV Show Gets Cancelled « The Bygone... →
“Fulton first used instrumented dummies as he prepared for a live pickup. He next...”
– Robert Fulton’s Skyhook and Operation Coldfeet — Central Intelligence Agency
What were you raised by wolves? →
Lovely dialogue-free comic
The Complete Oral History of Party Down: Movies ... →
This interview makes me so happy.
The Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2011 - NYTimes.com →
diamond geezer →
The Ben Aaronovitch books are light but very fun - recommended.
Six video game cocktails | Technology |... →
Whitehead, a huge fan of Sonic CD, had created an entire SDK specifically for porting the game, in the hope that his work might inspire Sega to revisit what is widely regarded as the strongest title in the Mega CD catalogue. However, after a few weeks, Whitehead's website was taken offline, as was the YouTube video he released to show off his work. It seemed as though Sega's lawyers had issued a cease-and-desist and ordered his work to be scrapped.
Two years later and an official Sonic CD release surfaces bearing Whitehead's name. Sega had done what few multinational companies of its size, age and resulatant inflexibility could have: made a fan a creative asset.
Brendan's blog » Visualizing Device Utilization →
December 2011
27 posts
My Superpower Is Being Alone Forever | The Awl →
Too many awesome quotes in here to choose only one; just read it.
Demon Santa: A Post-Christmas Advice Meme |... →
I laughed for an inappropriately long time at the penultimate one.
Dilbert comic strip for 12/03/2011 from the... →
My TV Christmas Cracker: The World's Strongest Man... →
World’s Strongest Man is the bestest
WatchingTV Online: TorrentFreak’s annual Top 10... →
“The end-game for Zynga’s take-over-the-world vision is the human race slaved to...”
– Productizing Twilio Applications | Kalzumeus Software
“1. only ever break one law at a time. 2. never break the law with somebody you...”
– The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution › I went to the same school as Julian Assange, but we learned different lessons