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“Demoscene: The Art of Algorythms”

Demos came about as a sort of “visual graffiti” that preceded video games that had been cracked (had their DRM removed) by a team or person who wanted to visually show off their artistic side as well as their technical prowess. In the early days, computing capabilities and space were severely limited and that required a certain finesse to create something amazing using very limited means. That meant that the music and animations created in…

Rise of the “Brogrammer”: Sexism in the tech startup world

Well, apparently luring frat boys into the world of programming is the new hot thing. Great. I read this article by a journalist at South by Southwest where she walked out of a talk by a guy who was trying to excuse the frat-boy culture he adheres to with a few off handed comments that completely alienated a segment of the audience, and then I decided to poke around some more on the subject. Apparently…

Thoughts from this week

Thoughts from this week: Thoughts from this week: Thoughts from this week 08:54:26, 2012-04… 11:26:26, 2012-04-20 "Born Female" must be some kind of Ponzi scam. This is mad ridiculous. Basically,this female body is by default set… 12:11:24, 2012-04-20 Wow! My new baby is soon to be delivered! Literally. — Hello, Liz, Congratulations on the purchase of your new… 16:31:24, 2012-04-20 Illinois Driver's Licenses are spectacularly hackable 16:31:28, 2012-04-20 Demo Scene…

“Urbanized” A Documentary on the Design of Cities

Urbanized posits that city dwellers must not only forge an innovative self-reliance, they must imagine higher forms of living. The radical fluctuations of growth and decline happening in modern cities necessitate infinite innovation. Urbanized is an extraordinarily ambitious attempt to make sense of a world flowing into cities. This visually arresting film, like Hustwit’s past work, elegantly conveys the omnipresence of design in daily life. Essential viewing. www.urbanizedfilm.com

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Thoughts from this week: Thoughts from this week 08:54:26, 2012-04-06 Thoughts from this we… 08:04:46, 2012-04-13 Thoughts from this week 08:46:19, 2012-04-13 "Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to do a newspaper crossword puzzle later in the day? Me neither. But… 15:59:36, 2012-04-13 I was standing up there like "what the fuck?" and alls I was hearing in my head was like, "wah-wah-wah-WAH-WHAH!… 19:52:31, 2012-04-13 In honor…

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Thoughts from this week 08:54:26, 2012-04-06 Thoughts from this week: Thoughts from this week: Congress Theater owner brings his lawyer to an interview with … 09:37:20, 2012-04-06 Overseas China Restaurant on #Yelp: My mom owns a vacation house here, and I'm vegetarian. So when I'm visiting, es… 01:33:38, 2012-04-08 Digital, Open Source School Program in Poland 15:51:36, 2012-04-10 "Most of us are idiots.We just like to think we're not idiots…

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Thoughts from this week: Congress Theater owner brings his lawyer to an interview with Jim DeRogatis htt… 08:10:38, 2012-03-30 Thoughts from this week 08:33:06, 2012-03-30 Alright, this is Alex Jones, and he likes to try and push buttons on hot issues and , but Billy Corgan deconstructs… 15:17:48, 2012-03-30 Google Maps now has real time traffic data. Hooray! Also, the CTA has bus-tracker if you don't have a car, and it's… …

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Congress Theater owner brings his lawyer to an interview with Jim DeRogatis Recent Yelp… 02:06:57, 2012-03-28 Check it out: Check it out: "Terra-forming for algorithmic efficiency" … his argument is that tiny efficiencies … 08:24:58, 2012-03-28 Peter the Elephant plays with a Samsung Galaxy Note. 15:42:50, 2012-03-28 Where's all that campaign money go from Obama and Romney? Mostly PR / Marketing. That's 61m and 56m spent… 16:31:50, 2012-03-28 “Sniffles,…

“Sniffles, The Frost-Breathing Dragon” Paper Toy

Sniffles is basically an “albino” in the dragon community. Through a strange combination of recessive genes, he doesn’t breathe fire, he breathes frost, which means he chills whatever he breathes on. While he later learned that this was useful at house parties without enough fridge space for all the beer, when he was growing up he had to deal with constant ridicule, just like deer Rudolph. Talk about awkward! Needless to say, he quickly learned…

Check it out

I just uploaded "Departure Mix" to Mixcloud. Listen at 00:50:58, 2012-03-21 "Mr. Linux: King of Geeks (Father of 3)" 02:08:05, 2012-03-21 A free 3D-printable "adapter kit" for all brick toys. 15:12:58, 2012-03-21 HeatMapz is a new smartphone app for clubbers, party animals and concert-goers. The app shows, in real time, what the… 22:14:03, 2012-03-21

An interesting take on "Emergency Adapters"

Anyone in the music industry who has to perform live understands the need for audio adapters–you just can’t get around this fact. Because of that, and because I was getting so tired of loaning adapters to the musicians and DJs I’d play alongside with, I created the Electronic Musician’s Emergency Adapters as an attempt to fix this for more people. Granted, there are people who have already created their own “first aid kit” along these…

"Shit Programmers Say"

There is exactly one line of dialog in this, and it kinda is totally true. However, they all have the same problem I do.. the laptop scrunch. Let’s all agree to go back to multi-screen-iverse land and make our backs happy.