Mark Pilgram dishes out some sage advice:
I’m a three-time (soon to be four-time) published author. When aspiring authors learn this, they invariably ask what word processor I use. It doesn’t fucking matter! I happen to write in Emacs. I also code in Emacs, which is a nice bonus. Other people write and code [...]
Sakura Park is a beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking poem from Rachel Wetzsteon, who died recently, and too soon.
This video makes me smile, every single time I see it.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
OK Go went viral a couple of years ago with a fantastic video that featured them doing cool things on treadmills, and yet, incredibly, their record company has forbidden them from allowing this video [...]
David Dalrymple peers into our internet-augmented future:
Within the next 50 years, I expect the development of direct neural links, making the data that’s available at our fingertips today available at our synapses in the future, and making virtual reality actually feel more real than traditional sensory perception. Information and experience could be exchanged [...]
This passage, from Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, just blew me away:
When he and Hooke and Wilkins had cut open live dogs during the Plague Years, Daniel had looked into their straining brown eyes and tried to fathom what was going in their minds. He’d decided that nothing was, that dogs had no conscious minds, [...]
There is, in this middle of this spittle-flecked and mostly incoherent anti-Android screed, a deeply troubling complaint about the Android market:
Seriously Google, you take no responsibility for the actual “experience” of this phone, yet you tout it as your tag line. Applications in Android Market don’t work for all devices. They have to [...]
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