July 2010
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A brief experiment in making breakbeats with...
“You kids keep worrying about what tools you should use for making design. You...”
– Angry Paul Rand, inventor of graphic design.
North Korean football team shamed in six-hour... →
North Korea is stranger than fiction. (via guillee)
The players were subjected to a “grand debate” on July 2 because they failed in their “ideological struggle” to succeed in South Africa, Radio Free Asia and South Korean media reported.
The team’s coach, Kim Jong-hun, was reportedly forced to become a builder and has been expelled from the Workers’ Party of Korea.
The coach was...
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With Empty Hands Extended by Tragedy, via nosmo.
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“If you watch a horror movie backwards it’s about a white couple that makes...”
– reddit (via travors & realrealsoft)
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nostrich: X the shit out of Y →
I’m savouring the shit out of this snowclone.
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Something to Think About →
Dating advice for Christians, via nicolele. I don’t even know where to begin.
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“My notion of a story is an interesting situation in which a human being has to...”
– Robert A. Heinlein, via Boing Boing
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Show vs. Tell: Why “Visual” is Not Optional →
By Aaron Diaz, author of Dresden Codak.
There’s often an attitude amongst certain creators that the visuals “don’t matter” as much in comics, citing that elaborate visuals can and often distract from the “content,” which they see as the story, text or joke. This is a misinterpretation of the medium, but it also makes the mistake of conflating elaborate with effective.
Elaborate visuals...
Scott Adams on Conversation →
Consider conversation. How many times have you been in a restaurant and victimized by the loud guy at the next table dominating the conversation without the benefit of being entertaining? It seems somewhat common that people who are neither alien nor Asperger syndrome types have no conversation skills. Indeed, it appears that many so-called normal people don’t even understand the concept of...
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Outt! by Buke and Gass.
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Kill weasel words, avoid the passive,... →
The hardest part of advising Ph.D. students is teaching them how to write. Fortunately, I’ve seen patterns emerge over the past couple years. So, I’ve decided to replace myself with a shell script…
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“I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually...”
– Paul Graham’s Six Principles for Making New Things
Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High →
Wired asks some crucial questions about the “digital drugs” scare:
Will future presidential candidates defend their i-dosing past by saying, “But I had it on mute”? Are we supposed to declare a war on cyberdrugs or a cyberwar on cyberdrugs? How will police know if a teen is with headphones on is i-dosing or just listening to Justin Bieber? Is the iPod the bong of the future? What...
