Dirty Minds Think Alike
- KBKarma: I am the Mind-Blower.
- KBKarma: ... That sounds so DIRTY.
- brilliantology: a mind is a terrible thing to taste
November 2008
Letter to Warner Brothers: A Night in Casablanca →
chillingeffects.org
Groucho Marx at his finest (via Boing Boing, who reviewed a book about Groucho).
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“Even if you do go into a coma, you can still keep posting to Usenet — everyone else does.”
—Lance Olkovick
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“Isaac Asimov had writer’s block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.”
—Harlan Ellison (attr.)
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IBM Patents Splitting The Bill →
mindyourdecisions.com
I’m not sure whether to be impressed or sick with laughter (via Slashdot).
Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash :: 1969 Sessions →
aquariumdrunkard.com
Dylan and Cash met several times, and recorded several songs together. This site allows you to listen to them all (via Boing Boing).
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MacBook Pro users getting bitten by HDCP →
tuaw.com
You Mac peoples are getting sommat of a raw deal here (via Boing Boing).
RTÉ News: New laws to crack down on begging →
rte.ie
Punishments include, according to RTÉ News, fines. Good to know the governement is now going to be taking money from beggars.
Next up: candy from babies.
Adobe Labs - Alchemy →
labs.adobe.com
An Adobe beta application that compiles C and C++ code into ActionScript 3.0. Or, to put it another way, it takes specially-written C or C++ code and makes a Flash application (via Slashdot).
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Race in D&D
“In a game based around “role playing,” players are encouraged to take on the part of elves, dwarves, half-orcs, assassins, and warlocks, yet it is assumed that in all these roles they will still be white.”
— Race in D&D [via notemily/anthropophagous]
I find it odd how he keeps mentioning 3rd and 4th ed as touch-stones, but keeps harking back to 1st and 2nd ed. Surely he’s only commenting on half of the history. I can’t actually add much more, because I’m incapable of completely verbalising my feelings. But this comes off as written by an overly-sensitive PC-freak, who gets offended when black people are accused of crimes, or who forced the Vatican to get priests to replace all male plural nouns with male and female plurals (ie substituting “for all men” with “for all men and women” or “for all”).
In Addition: I read the original link after I wrote this (I know, bad me), and I scoffed a little. Doesn’t sit well with me, really, mainly because a) it’s a game, and b) my experiences actually, you know, playing it.
Couldn’t have said it better.
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“Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.”
—Ashleigh Brilliant (via affremblequotes)
Naomi Alderman: Computer games are good for you →
guardian.co.uk
An interesting article detailing the author’s method of avoiding the horror of 9/11 (via Rock Paper Shotgun).
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Failing hard drive sounds →
datacent.com
Used wget to stick these on my laptop for future use. Can’t get the 4th WD one, though. It plays off the site, but the mp3 location the source points to 404s.
Secret Rocket Balls Target WMD Bunkers →
blog.wired.com
The latest WMD neutralisation weapon: hollow spheres filled with rocket fuel that, when detonated, bounce at random, emitting a stream of high-temperature flames, which should incinerate everything it touches.
My Second #tumblrs Log (no, I won't number them all)
- toxick: this means that despite mona sax being nothing but eye candy in this movie, that we don't even see her tits
- nosmo: You can't even wallhack the film to see her in the shower :(
My First #tumblrs Log
- toxick: besides
- toxick: there are no girls on irc
- toxick: david needs people to know that girls use tumblr
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World of Goo →
2dboy.com
World of Goo is available for Mac now, as of November 2nd, and it’s amazing.
I think “amazing” is a good way to put it. I’d have said “awesome”, but that’s just me.
Interestingly, Greenhouse haven’t got the Mac version up yet.
Jim Bell →
en.wikipedia.org
James Dalton Bell (born 1958) is an American crypto-anarchist who created the idea of arranging for anonymously-sponsored assassination payments via the Internet, which he called “assassination politics”.
After his release, Bell was subjected to heavy surveillance and was rearrested for harassment and stalking of federal agents, charged with intimidation and stalking and again imprisoned, this time for a decade-long sentence.
Am I the only one who finds it funny that, while under heavy surveillance, supposedly FROM federal agents, he was rearrested for stalking them? Then again, the fact that his idea was nearly successful does temper that with horror.