Your drummers may die, but your dreams never will.
Do you enjoy good things? Then you will enjoy Lost Albums, a new weblog, and you will subscribe to its insanity.
This just in: Cordozar Calvin Broadus’ feelings hurt.
WikipediaIt should be noted that only famous rappers get national media coverage when it comes to dissing others.
Hello, world.
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Hoist.
The design firm Office recently gave an identity to the 826 Valencia San Fancisco pirate supplies store. 826 Valencia is the fantastic writing workshop center franchise headed by Dave Eggers (TED). It’s a visual bonanza of fantastic beauty. (via Brand New by Armin)
A hugsploration unleashed.
When you woke up this morning, did … did you feel different? The air seemed brighter, and the light seemed fresher. When you pulled the curtains back, did … did you tingle? There’s something in our atmosphere today that wasn’t there before. It’s not the anthrax, and it’s not the botulism. It’s something more ephemeral. Something glittery and beautiful and sexy, all at once, if that’s possible, and I think it is. No, that something something with the extra something something is a new podcast, a podcast called Shirtless Hugging, by me, and some other folks.
Now I want a job.
Two excellent Ask MetaFilter threads about touchy discussion topics when you talk about someone’s job.
Naughty balance.
Ethane and Prashanth, in order of coolness, recently made a video about a distributed version control system.
- Prashanth: Maybe you should get that checked.
- Ethane: Maybe you should shut your face.
More top 10 web pages of 2006.
Previously. This time, in reverse order of coolness, more or less.
- Gödel and Einstein and time (Jim Holt, New Yorker).
- xkcd and the ferret.
- David Hasselhoff is hooked on a feeling. Also, he’s high on believing. Take that into consideration, “SpongeBob”.
- Dan Egnor and Heath Hunnicutt break open an 8-ball.
- “Dear favorite cabbie who was killed yesterday.”
- “My internet penis is a gigantic monster. Awesome!” (Timothy Farrell) Part of Dead Monkey Comics.
- Stabilized version of the alledged Bigfoot film. Spoiler alert: disillusionment. (Save to your desktop first.)
- Things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army.
- A comprehensive comparison of Germany and the U.S.
- Eyezmaze releases Chronon.
- The Parlor by Geoffrey Haley. High production values, simple concept. Geoffrey Haley has gone on to greater things.
- Festial International du Cinéma d’Animation, The Bendito Machine (a lovely short film of silhouettes and betrayal)
- Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik debate health care. Say what you want about Gladwell, he’s a first-rate thinker. (Gopnik is too.) Are debates supposed to be this much fun to read?
- Mark Dominus on the envelope paradox.
- Frigging SEC filing by Paul Kedrosky.
- John Hodgman becomes famous.
- Why do Supreme Court justices get more liberal over time (Jon D. Hanson and Adam Benforado).
- Stephen Colbert bombs at the White House Correspondents Dinner. One of the tiny prides in my life is that I actually first watched this on C-SPAN.
- Hapland 3.
- Ze Frank begins The Show.
- “Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass” by Lucas Kovar
- Grandiloquent Dictionary: A collection of the most obscure and fancy words in English by Edward Bird. I’m sad to report that Edward Bird died in 2007 at the age of 64 or 65.
- Animating music.
Top 10 web pages of 2006.
I culled these links from my awesome del.icio.us linkblog.
- Peter Norvig generates a 15,139-word palindrome.
- 72andSunny releases a beautiful Zune ad.
- Mission in Snowdriftland (so much fun) is released for only a month.
- Apple Macbook becomes a marionette thanks to Andreas Nicholas Fisher.
- On curing meat by Peter Hoffman.
- Classic insults.
- The Mocha Dunk Mug from Charles & Marie.
- Gregory Crewdson’s eerie photographs of suburban life become famous.
- GCC gets C++ variadic templates.
- Danielpi releases “How to Write a Fugue” using Britney Spears’ “Oops I Did It Again”.
- Ze Frank speaks at TED and absolutely rocks the house in a downward motion.
- The Blogmatic Programmer talks about fragmenting your disk with LISP (on purpose).
- culturekiller synthesizes The Simpsons and Star Trek theme songs, uses a theremin.
- Guido kills the <> operator.
- PHP has a huge function call overhead, found by Jim Plush.
- David Foster Wallace writes about Roger Federer for NYT.
- Jeff Lee releases a Stephen Colbert “On Notice” generator.
- MetaFilter Music is released, establishes itself as the premiere place on the internet for lo-fi and semi-country music.
- Dr. Nic releases Magic Models for ActiveRecord.
- Drawn to be Alive puts 2D into 3D.
- The Java call stack with Spring and Hibernate vs. Ruby on Rails by Incremental Operations.
- PixelJam releases Gamma Bros., an excellent and difficult Flash game.
- Mario gets a shave.
- Best movie endings by Filmcritic.com.
- C++ Boost.Spirit recursive descent parser using expression templates is released.
- How statistics helped in World War II by Gavyn Davies.
- Make Windows Explorer delete files faster by patching
shell32.dll. - ridiculous_fish beats
grep. - Michael Gartner writes a beautiful eulogy for his father.
- “Characters for an epic tale” by Cabanon Press.
Post-increment.
Today, I found out about Minus by Ryan Armand. It’s about a girl with magic powers or maybe just an imagination or maybe it’s a metaphor for a simile for an adverb. Minus takes place in the most heartbreakingly beautiful universe, ever.
Joule’s law.
Obama recently received endorsements from the White Aryan Resistance, the American Nazi Party, segregationists, and anti-Semites. The dumber the world gets, the more I think Terry Pratchett’s Discworld isn’t all that different from our world.