Has anyone realized that the purpose of the fortune cookie program is to defuse project tensions? When did you ever see a cheerful cookie, a non-cynical, or even an informative cookie? Perhaps inadvertently, we have a channel for our aggressions. This still begs the question of whether the cookie [...]
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Piles of Ball Bearings
Danny Hillis wrote a wonderful article about working with Richard Feynman, at Thinking Machines:
In the meantime, we were having a lot of trouble explaining to people what we were doing with cellular automata. Eyes tended to glaze over when we started talking about state transition diagrams and finite state machines. Finally Feynman told [...]
Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation!
Some time around late 1994, a friend and I were in a computer lab, poking around the glacial internet. We were alone in the lab, because everyone else had worthwhile things to do.
With a flourish, my friend fired up a new program he’d found, and showed me the home page for the Mosaic Netscape 0.9 [...]
Ubuntu: Ancient african word for ‘less painful than a poke in the eye’
My five year old, home-built PC is now running Ubuntu seven point something something. It was that, or reinstall Windows XP.
Again.
Let’s just say that if I was going to put XP on this machine again, I’d be using an axe to do it. There are limits beyond which no-one should be pushed.
So. How was it?
Fairly [...]
Indexed
Some hairy “life stuff” has seriously curtailed blogging and web time, lately.
But fear not! I bring gifts.
Via Core 77, we find Indexed, a collection of amusing sketches on index cards.
And that’s all I got. Sometimes, life’s like that.
Dave Gray’s Post (index) cards
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Post cards, originally uploaded by dgray_xplane.
Dave Gray got a document-feed scanner, and he’s been using flickr to [...]
Hey! You got your obsolete 19th century technology in my obsolete 20th century technology…
As soon as I saw the Make blog’s iPod cassette case hack, I had to try this out.
Presenting, the ghetto index card bleachers:
No modification necessary.
Hey, I bet zip disk cases would work even better….
Your daily dose of WTF?
Via Dave Seah, I bring you the Productivity Geek’s Dating Kit.
Dave says:
I have to admit I’m a little curious about how they put everything together from a packaging perspective…is it actually useful, or is it primarily a novelty gift?
Hmm…
What, exactly, is post-modern, again?
I haven’t really said everything on this list during a design review.
The leprachauns don’t like to talk to me.
Via boingboing.
