December 2009
41 posts
“Thinking back, I realize that my first house could quite easily be described as...”
– The Shoebox
Glenn Gould plays the Goldberg Variations →
Bert Cooper: Young men love risk because they can’t imagine the consequences.
Don Draper: And you old men love building golden tombs and sealing the rest of us in with you. You’re done, you know that right?
Bert: So I should just throw away my fortune? I don’t have the rest of my life to earn it back.
Don: I understand. I’ll let you go back to sleep.
Bert: Why do you care?
Don: Because I’m sick of being batted around like a ping pong ball. Who the hell is in charge? A bunch of accountants trying to make a dollar into a dollar ten? I want to work. I want to build something of my own. How do you not understand that? You did it yourself 40 years ago!
Bert: That’s true. But I’m not sure you have a stomach for the realities.
Don: Try me.
“Factoid: C# exposes more than 10 integer-like data types, none of which are...”
– Tim Sweeney
The Physics of Space Battles →
Totally awesome. I’m a little sad there won’t be broadsides like in Star Wars, though.
Give attribute_mapper a try →
“GLADWELL Thanks for bringing up Tiger. First thought: Elin has nothing on Lisa...”
– Malcolm Gladwell-Bill Simmons III
“Sandra Bullock is still carrying chick flicks and heartwarming Disney-esque...”
– Gladwell-Simmons III
_why's Estate →
“People will misread and misunderstand my content, usually because they’re...”
– What I expect
MongoDB Aggregation →
Fantastic series on doing clever things with data entirely inside MongoDB.
Notes from the No Lone Zone →
Regarding a tour through an old ICBM silo in Arizona. Amazing stuff.
“Since the show’s conception this past March up until today, The Roots crew...”
– Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Sandwiches (Free EP)(you should download this post-haste)
WatchRogers Hartmann at TEDxSMU - one of the most amazing presentations I saw at TEDxSMU
SwiftFM - The Roots with Lenny Kravitz: Blinded By... →
Best use of the tuba, perhaps in the history of the instrument. Also, I’m glad Tuba Gooding, Jr. didn’t get buried in the mix for once!
“The river’s algorithm is simple. At each step, flow down. For the essayist...”
– The Age of the Essay
Watch“Dollaz & Sense”/”Tellin’ Me Things” Live on Jimmy Fallon
Programmer vs Rap Star →
Bryan Liles is on to something here. Flamewars as beefs, oversized egos as bling, tryin’ to be gangsta as tryin’ to be gangsta. But if programmers are like rappers, I want to know what’s the programming equivalents of autotune, freestyle, and deleting all the skits immediately after you rip an album.
Just For Fun →
Tween.lib - Motion Tweening for Processing.js →
Javascript. Tweening. Hawt.
Continuity →
An absolutely brilliant puzzle/platformer Flash game.
