May 2008
14 posts
Studio Pin-Ups →
Safe for work, if you work with typographers.
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine →
What amazes me most about The Connection Machine is that even now, very few scientific applications scale up to tens of thousands of processors. They were way ahead of their time.
And that Feynman prototyped the software in BASIC.
Everybody can make a difference, →
except you.
Watchmelissa:
S.P.A.M. Theater, Vol. III: “Love Song of Kseniya” - Boing Boing TV (from a few weeks ago, yes, but tell me you don’t rest easier with Xeni whispering lovelorn spam to you over clips of classic romance)
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“The young man who lives in the penthouse was supposed to be raising puppies up...”
– Lucille Cullon, a resident of the Oakland building in which two floors worth of pot farms were discovered when it went up in smoke.
WatchI know I’m the last person in the Bayrea to watch this, but damn, is it good.
“For me, that wisdom thing will probably take about another 50 years to kick in,...”
– Björk, in The Independent.
Yes, she is, and we love her for it.
Watchmelissa:
Before The LOL at ROFLCon, on pre-1995 internet culture. “No one sends each other @—-/—-;—- long stemmed roses much anymore…”
Some perspective.