May 2012
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Follow Mark Zuckerberg's Worth on Facebook IPO Day... →
Let’s watch Facebook’s shares go beneath their initial IPO price! Maybe Mark will stop smiling when they do.
“As he’s aged, and begun wearing his fancy “best-selling author” smoking jacket...”
– Jonah Goldberg’s desperation - Editor’s Picks - Salon.com
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April 2012
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China changes tack to allow North Korean defectors... →
This is a big deal.
Paul Gravett interviews Robert Crumb →
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“Professor Henry Brubaker said: “If rotting corpses rose from their graves...”
– The Daily Mash - Mass zombie attack would seem boring and cliched
Amen to that.
People Make Poor Monitors for Computers at... →
March 2012
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The Unwelcome Mat - NYTimes.com →
All of this is true, especially regarding the hideous ESTA website.
Bonus suggestion: every visitor should be handed a Stetson and a tiny American flag upon entering the US.
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper...”
– The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction Walter Benjamin
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cinemagr.am →
(Taken with http://cinemagr.am)
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Wink →
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February 2012
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Spacewar as a parable is almost too pat. It was the illegitimate child of the marrying of computers and graphic displays. It was part of no one's grand scheme. It served no grand theory. It was the enthusiasm of irresponsible youngsters. It was disreputably competitive ("You killed me, Tovar!"). It was an administrative headache. It was merely delightful. Yet Spacewar, if anyone cared to notice, was a flawless crystal ball of things to come in computer science and computer use:
It was intensely interactive in real time with the computer.
It encouraged new programming by the user.
It bonded human and machine through a responsive broadband interface of live graphics display.
It served primarily as a communication device between humans.
It was a game.
It functioned best on, stand-alone equipment (and diarupted multiple-user equipment).
It served human interest, not machine. (Spacewar is trivial to a computer.)
It was delightful.
In those days of batch processing and passive consumerism (data was something you sent to the manufacturer, like color film), Spaccwar was heresy, uninvited and unwelcome. The hackers made Spacewar, not the planners. When computers become available to everybody, the hackers take over. We are all Computer Bums, all more empowered as individuals and as co-operators. That might enhance things ... like the richness and rigor of spontaneous creation and of human interaction ... of sentient interaction.
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WatchLongest Dialog Box Ever!
(by pjsherman)
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“When police tried to stop the man, he threw another grenade at them, which local...”
– Iran behind Thailand blasts, claims Israel’s Ehud Barak | World news | The Guardian
