January 2010
52 posts
This is why it's worth learning about advertising
rinich:
Other companies are selling computers. Apple’s selling magic. Which one would you rather have?
The one that’s isn’t evil.
JNC: Burton's Sentiment of the Sword 1 →
Parts of this make it one of the best books ever written about fencing.
“Robert Louis Stevenson and I, sitting in Union Square and Washington Square a...”
– Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson | Beyond The Beyond
CoffeeScript →
Pythonic Javascript pre-processor.
“For every hardware or software product, there are enthusiasts: wild, untamed,...”
– What I want from my Common Lisp vendor and the Common Lisp community - Naggum cll archive (via ln5)
“More than 100 published studies and two clinical trials involving...”
– Report: cancer studies used wrong cells
Shit.
“Broccoli is a tragic case in the vegetable kingdom, a flower of rare beauty that...”
– DR. BOLI’S COMPREHENSIVE HERBAL. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
“I saw Segovia’s last concert at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. They’d...”
– YouTube - Andres Segovia Plays Bach Chaconne (Part 2)
Sometimes I don’t regret looking at the comments.
“One story often told about Rowse is that he came down one day to breakfast at...”
– NYRblog - Isaiah Berlin’s Civilized Malice - The New York Review of Books
“In 2020 we will look back on the last days of publishing and realize that it was...”
– Richard Nash: Book Publishing 10 Years in the Future - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat (via ayjay)
Because the absorption of publishing concerns in media conglomerates has nothing to do with capitalism?
“Suppose the Chinese government acts as expected and tells Google that it may no...”
– Jonathan Zittrain (via ayjay)
Google is the only force I can think of that could lead popular adoption of Tor.
Here's the game: Grab the book nearest you right...
wurzeltod:
cavesoflilith:
(via graveyarddirt | honeysticks | emosloppy)
“Also present was a nurse with the head of a great brown rat.”
-The Dark Tower, Stephen King.
(honeysticks)
“Another fact which strongly suggests that it was an artificial phallus is that the women did not become pregnant by the Devil except by special agreement.” A Handbook on Witches, Gillian Tindall
...
“In any case, post-battle surveys later revealed that “more than half of...”
– BLDGBLOG: Nakatomi Space
Ballardian » Twitter: Defending the Indefensible →
Interesting defense of Twitter for bloggers.
Built By Google →
Libel by Twitter? The Suit Against Kim Kardashian... →
Libel by tweet.
Couple Stuck in Oregon Snow for 3 Days After GPS... →
“Yet Chandler should not be seen as an outdated reactionary like Mickey Spillane,...”
– sp!ked review of books | Why Marlowe is still the chief of detectives
What is it with this guy? The one thing nobody can accuse Mike Hammer of is fighting somebody else’s war.
“Chandler led the final charge in the American revolution, begun by pulp...”
– sp!ked review of books | Why Marlowe is still the chief of detectives
Boo. Praise Chandler, yes, but show some respect for Dame Agatha.
http://chryselephantine.tumblr.com/ask →
Reserving the right to ignore impertinent questions.
“THE CREATURE BORE some resemblance to a man, but dressed in such an outlandish...”
– ADMIRAL HORNSWOGGLE’S NAUTICAL ADVENTURES. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine.
symphonyno2ineminor:
Edison yellow paraffin...
Hurry Up and Wait →
plsj:
“The slow movement imagines itself to belong by rights to the cultural layer”—a slow-moving layer of society—“but it’s still in the layer of fashionable activism,” [Bruce Sterling] says. “An earthquake is rapid and shocking, it seems, but the underlying forces are geologically slow. So it’s actually our perception of pacing that’s odd, not pacing itself.”
“India is developing a weapons system capable of neutralizing enemy satellites...”
– http://nightwatch.afcea.org/NightWatch_20100103.htm
“When the Martian monarch saw that we had ceased the work of death, he sank upon...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
“I had also learned from her that Mars was under a military government, and that...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
“They had been astonished at the sight of the great mountains which surrounded...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
No mountains on Mars!
“Paralyzing terror had evidently seized them with the sudden comprehension of the...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
““I am going to step off,” I suddenly said to Lord Kelvin. “Of...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
I wonder why boathooks and fishlines aren’t standard NASA equipment?
““I am glad I thought of the disintegrator,” he said. “I...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
Silvanus P. Thompson, ready to reduce some Martians to the second order of smallness.
“When we were still further away, having slightly varied our course so that the...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
And they say no one anticipated that the earth would be cloud-covered from space.
“An elaborate system of signals had, of course, to be devised for the control of...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
Of course, when planning to embark an interplanetary armada in 1898, the first order of business is to work out a practical semaphore system. Space travel and disintegration rays, yes; radio, no.
“On the model of the celebrated corps of literary and scientific men which...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
“Let it suffice to say that when it broke up, in the small hours of the morning,...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
“What one fool can do, another can do”!
And if you don’t get that, you probably don’t know calculus.
“Now Mr. Edison had been able to ascertain the vibratory swing of many well-known...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
Edison? I know Tesla’s work when I see it.
“When a comet approaches the sun, the orbit in which it travels indicates that it...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
I think Poe posits a similar balance of gravitational and electrical forces in Eureka.
Of course the force responsible is actually the solar wind, which really “electrical” in nature—it consists...
“Now, rumor declared that Mr. Edison had invented and perfected a flying machine...”
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Edison’s Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss
Edison’s UFO!
