April 2009
48 posts
WatchCarlsberg Beer Pong
Programmers Should Give Up More Often →
Great Data Visualization Tells a Great Story →
WARNING: A long, rambly exploration of the state... →
Simon Hoegsberg: Photographer →
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“By making intentional, conscious decisions about the personality of your...”
– Stephen P. Anderson: In Defense of Eye Candy
Tribe's 14-spot marks record books →
I love seeing the Yankees get demolished. Last year when I saw Chien-Ming Wang open for the Yanks in Toronto the Jays lit him up for a bunch of runs early as well. I wonder if he’s got the stuff for the big leagues.
WatchM83: We Own the Sky from Saturdays=Youth.
Dan Auerbach: Trouble Weighs a Ton, from his solo...
Playoff Picks
Here’s who I got in our 8 man draft:
Joe Thornton (San Jose) Out in 1st Round (5 pts)
Zach Parise (New Jersey) Out in 1st Round (6 pts)
Mike Green (Washington) Out in 2nd Round (9 pts)
Patrick Kane (Chicago) Out in 3rd Round (14 pts)
Michael Ryder (Boston) Out in 2nd Round (13 pts)
Niklas Kronwall (Detroit) Out in Final (9 pts)
Dennis Wideman (Boston) Out in 2nd Round (7 pts)
Viktor...
“No longer can we assume the Earth’s resources are limitless; that there...”
– Yvon Chouinard & Tom Frost (A Word, October 1974)
Pitchfork gives music 6.8 →
“Schreiber’s semi-favorable review, which begins in earnest after a six-paragraph preamble comprising a long list of baroquely rendered, seemingly unrelated anecdotes peppered with obscure references, summarizes music as a ‘solid but uninspired effort.’”
Oldie but a goodie.
Dear Designer, You Suck →
“Like it or not, you can’t have a serious discourse about an art form until you have people whose sole involvement in that art form is criticism. You need, in effect, an independent press. Actually, to be clear, what you need is an economic model that can support a corps of passionate, clear-thinking individuals who are dedicated to vigilantly watching over the progression of the medium....
“so they took me to the hospital
they put my body through a scan
what they saw...”
– Andrew Bird: Masterswarm (from Noble Beast)
“There once was a man who really loved salt, So he tied his nose to the sea.
And...”
– Devendra Banhart
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I...”
– Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums
"to craunch the marmoset" →
English As She Is Spoke, by Pedro Carolino, offered to Portuguese speakers as a guide to the English language. Uniquely, Carolino spoke not a word of English, and was not possessed of an English-Portuguese dictionary.
He overcame this disadvantage through the clever combination of a Portuguese-French dictionary and a French-English one, through which the entire corpus of English idioms was...
ShuRaku →
This is my favourite sushi restaurant in Vancouver. Their Enchanted Forest Roll defies the laws of ingredient mixing. Also, they have a sweet website, and their online reservations actually work!
Blue Jays schedule in iCal →
Subscribe to the Jays schedule from within iCal. Adds all the games to your calendar, including probable starters and what channels are carrying the game. Sweet!
Goodbye, Google →
“Without a person at (or near) the helm who thoroughly understands the principles and elements of Design, a company eventually runs out of reasons for design decisions. With every new design decision, critics cry foul. Without conviction, doubt creeps in. Instincts fail. “Is this the right move?” When a company is filled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each...
Thom Yorke: Skip Divided (Modeselektor Remix) from...
Squarepusher: Boneville Occident, from the weird...
Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence... →
“But close though we may have come to a theory of the brain, the body - computer hardware - wasn’t capable of handling the extraordinary processing demands that any reasonably “intelligent” brain would place on its circuitry until Moore’s Law really kicked in a few years back and the modern ultra-dense machinery of atomic scale-sized gates and their light-based...
