MetaFilter posts tagged with tldr http://www.metafilter.com/tags/tldr Posts tagged with 'tldr' at MetaFilter. Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:58:44 -0800 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:58:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 I am getting my information from NASA http://www.metafilter.com/145591/I%2Dam%2Dgetting%2Dmy%2Dinformation%2Dfrom%2DNASA <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/02/susan-miller-fashions-astrologer.html">Susan Miller </a><a href="http://www.refinery29.com/2013/08/50819/susan-miller">writes 40,000 words a month</a> at <a href="http://www.astrologyzone.com">Astrologyzone.com</a>, perhaps the world's most popular horoscope website. She also <a href="http://ny.racked.com/archives/2014/09/03/20_questions_with_fashions_favorite_astrologer_susan_miller.php">writes for Elle</a>, <a href="http://time.com/3479488/lunar-eclipse-astrologyzone-susan-miller/">TIME, </a> the <a href="http://live.washingtonpost.com/astrology-131204.html">Washington Post </a> and various <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/03/ceo_astrology_reading_the_star.html">stars and CEOs</a>. Recent delays have led to fan Twitter storms discussed in the Atlantic <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/dude-wheres-my-horoscope/374258/">(Dude, Where's My Horoscope?)</a>, Jezebel <a href="http://jezebel.com/susan-miller-s-illness-has-astrology-fans-losing-their-1633681909">(Susan Miller's Illness has Astrology Fans Losing Their Goddamn Minds)</a>, the NY Post <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/12/14/fashion-elite-freak-over-astrologists-unexpected-absence/">(Groupies of famed astrologer Susan Miller can't cope without her)</a>, the latest episode of the podcast<a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/story/tell-me-how-to-live-my-life/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+otm_tldr+%28TLDR%29">TL;DR </a>, and, of course, there's <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/astrology/comments/29vp0n/is_anyone_else_pissed_off_about_susan_miller/">reddit.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.145591 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:58:44 -0800 bq Reading is hard...It takes time...tl;dr;lit attempts to address this problem http://www.metafilter.com/145482/Reading%2Dis%2DhardIt%2Dtakes%2Dtimetldrlit%2Dattempts%2Dto%2Daddress%2Dthis%2Dproblem <i><a href="http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress/index.php/2014/12/18/tldrlit/">This bot</a> takes works of literature and algorithmically summarizes them, a chapter at a time, to 1% of their original length. These are then read aloud by the lovely voice of Fiona, a Scottish speech synth, and posted at on Twitter at convenient 3 hour intervals. This way entire works of literature can be consumed in bite-sized algo-chunks, giving you the gist of the book, without any troublesome cause to actually 'read' or 'understand' it at all...</i> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.145482 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:53:08 -0800 nebulawindphone Wikipedia: Condensed For Your Pleasure http://www.metafilter.com/138337/Wikipedia%2DCondensed%2DFor%2DYour%2DPleasure <a href="http://tldrwikipedia.tumblr.com/">TL;DR Wikipedia</a> (SLTumblr) tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138337 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:17:34 -0800 Chrysostom One Hundred Songs a Day http://www.metafilter.com/135512/One%2DHundred%2DSongs%2Da%2DDay <a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/story/tldr-hundred-songs/">On The Media meets Matt Farley</a>, who earns around $23k per year thanks to the 14,000 songs he has has composed, performed and uploaded to Spotify. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.135512 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:33:37 -0800 East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored. http://www.metafilter.com/124941/Bored%2DBored%2DBored%2DBored%2DBored The <a href="http://uwf.edu/svodanov/boredom/bps.htm" title="Farmer &amp; Sundberg&rsquo;s Boredom Proneness Scale.">Boredom Proneness Scale</a>&dagger; is the best-known of the various <a href="http://www.theboredomsite.com/measures.htm" title="The BPS and some other, similar scales.">metrics</a> for quantifying one&rsquo;s propensity to <em>ennui</em>. High-scorers who are &lsquo;understretched, unmotivated and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VH-tJSpkjA" title="Vyvyan is bored.">bored</a> in the world of work in the 21<super>st</super> century&rsquo; may in danger of &lsquo;<a href="http://www.boreout.com/images/documents/Boreout_Introduction.pdf" title="An introduction to the notion of &lsquo;boreout,&rsquo; as dreamt up by the Swiss business consultants Peter Werder and Philippe Rothlin.">boreout</a>&rsquo; <small>[PDF]</small>. While <a href="http://www.theboredomsite.com/boredom-quotes.htm" title="Some quotes about boredom.">boredom</a> needn&rsquo;t be perceived in an exclusively negative light (one might imagine a <a href="http://philosophynow.org/issues/77/La_Vie_DEnnui" title="&lsquo;La Vie D&rsquo;Ennui,&rsquo; by Colin Bisset.">perfect boredom</a> akin to the notion of <em>dolce far niente</em>), &lsquo;<a href="http://www.todmanpsychology.org/resources/Todman%20(2009)%20Boredom%20and%20Boredom%20Proneness%20in%20Children%20-%20Implications%20for%20Academic%20and%20Social%20Adjustment.pdf" title="&lsquo;Boredom and Boredom Proneness in Children: Implications for Academic and Social Adjustment,&rsquo; by Evangeline Lehr and McWelling Todman - the source for this quote.">boredom</a> <small>[PDF]</small> and <a href="http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Berryman.14.html" title="John Berryman's &lsquo;Dream Song #14&rsquo;">boredom proneness</a> [&hellip;] have been linked to a long list of negative outcomes in adults, including, depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and loneliness [&hellip;], impulsiveness [&hellip;], elevated rates of alcohol dependence [&hellip;], negative affect [&hellip;], pathological gambling [&hellip;] and higher rates of psychopathology in general.&rsquo; Historians of <a href="http://www.theboredomsite.com/defs.htm" title="Some definitions of boredom.">boredom</a> have noted the relatively recent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Schuessler-t.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1360764914-VAQrURNH2VJ9b3X+VVpkQQ" title="&lsquo;Our Boredom, Ourselves,&rsquo; by Jennifer Schuessler.">advent</a> <small>[NY TIMES]</small> of the term, coinciding with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, but our more distant ancestors were not free of the related <a href="https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/12336/illinoisclassica131988TOOHEY2.pdf?sequence=2" title="&lsquo;Some Ancient Notions of Boredom,&rsquo; by Peter Toohey">afflictions</a> <small>[PDF]</small> of <em>horror loci, t&aelig;dium vit&aelig;,</em> <a href="http://www.nhinet.org/humsub/irvine12-1.pdf" title="&lsquo;Acedia, Tristitia and Sloth: Early Christian Forerunners to Chronic Ennui,&rsquo; by Ian Irvine [PDF].">a</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/their-noonday-demons-and-ours.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" title="&lsquo;Their Noonday Demons, and Ours,&rsquo; by John Plotz [NY TIMES].">c</a><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/personal/04/06/got.acedia.spiritual.morphine/index.html?hpt=Sbin" title="&lsquo;Struggling with 'a bad thought',&rsquo; by Kathleen Norris.">e</a><a href="http://mindyourmaker.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/aldous-huxley-on-accidie-aka-melancholy-boredom-ennui-despair/" title="Aldous Huxley on accidie, from &lsquo;On The Margin.&rsquo;">d</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-sloth.html" title="&lsquo;The Deadly Sins / Sloth; Nearer, My Couch, to Thee&rsquo; by Thomas Pynchon [NY TIMES].">i</a><a href="http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2861758&fileOId=2861759" title="&lsquo;Pale King or Noonday Demon? Acedia, The Pale King, and David Foster Wallace&rsquo;s Moral Vision,&rsquo; by David J. Michael [PDF].">a</a>, <em>mal du si&egrave;cle,</em> etc. <small>&dagger; &lsquo;The statements in the test can be answered using a 7-point scale — from &lsquo;1&rsquo; (highly disagree), to &lsquo;4&rsquo; (neutral), to &lsquo;7&rsquo; (highly agree). To find out your own proneness to <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/18/boredom-a-lively-history/" title="&lsquo;Anatomy of Boredom,&rsquo; by Maria Popova, which includes a section on how to score the BPS.">boredom</a>, add up the total of the scores you gave each question. The average score is 99, and the average range 81-117. If you scored above 117, you become <a href="http://www.roflcat.com/bored-cat-is-bored" title="Bored cat is bored.">bored</a> easily, and if you scored below 81, your boredom threshold is very high.&rsquo;</small> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124941 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:02:43 -0800 misteraitch Too Long; Do Read http://www.metafilter.com/112619/Too%2DLong%2DDo%2DRead <a href="http://aeiowu.com/365-puzzlejuice-emails-pt-1/">The complete story of the collaboration between Asher Vollmer and Greg Wohlwend on Puzzlejuice</a>. <blockquote><em>"<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/clckwrk/status/123993406564352001">Any tips on how to go about making an entirely abstract game about squares on a grid attractive? (cc: @aeiowu )</a>"</em></blockquote> With that tweet, student and indie developer <a href="http://asherv.com/">Asher Vollmer</a> reached out to game developer and artist <a href="http://aeiowu.com/">Greg Wohlwend</a>, setting off a chain of e-mails that turned his game <a href="http://puzzlejuicegame.com/">Puzzlejuice</a> from summer project into <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?ix=hca&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=puzzlejuice+reviews">smash hit</a>. Greg took all their e-mails, which were their only form of communication, and compiled them into <a href="http://aeiowu.com/365-puzzlejuice-emails-pt-1/">one epic post</a>. It's long, very long, but it gives a unique insight into the game's evolution from <a href="http://vimeo.com/27758029">programmer art phase</a> to final <a href="http://youtu.be/ezpFkdQUGEo">polished</a> <a href="http://vimeo.com/35236358">product</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.112619 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:22:34 -0800 howling fantods tl;dr http://www.metafilter.com/102398/tldr <a href="http://joerg.piringer.net/">Jörg Piringer</a> presents <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_sl99D2a18">all displayable characters in the unicode range 0 - 65536</a> (49571 characters). one character per frame.</em> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.102398 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:43:17 -0800 juv3nal TL;DR? Book Shrink. http://www.metafilter.com/100434/TLDR%2DBook%2DShrink <a href="http://www.bookshrink.com/">Book Shrink</a> tries to pick out the sentences of an input text that are most representative of the text as a whole; that is to say, find the essence of a text. I just find Book Shrink very useful when coming across text walls. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.100434 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:47:43 -0800 Foci for Analysis On the Lack of Left Wing Discourse in the Blogosphere http://www.metafilter.com/99629/On%2Dthe%2DLack%2Dof%2DLeft%2DWing%2DDiscourse%2Din%2Dthe%2DBlogosphere <blockquote> Who, exactly, represents the left extreme in the establishment blogosphere? You'd likely hear names like Jane Hamsher or Glenn Greenwald. But these examples are instructive. Is Hamsher a socialist? A revolutionary anti-capitalist? In any historical or international context-- in the context of a country that once had a robust socialist left, and in a world where there are straightforwardly socialist parties in almost every other democracy-- is Hamsher particularly left-wing? Not at all. It's only because her rhetoric is rather inflamed that she is seen as particularly far to the left. </blockquote> Freddie De Boer on the<a href="http://lhote.blogspot.com/2011/01/blindspot.html"> lack of left wing discourse in the blogosphere</a>. <blockquote> No, the nominal left of the blogosphere is almost exclusively neoliberal. Ask for a prominent left-wing blogger and people are likely to respond with the names of Matt Yglesias, Jon Chait, Kevin Drum.... Each of them, as I understand it, believe in the general paternalistic neoliberal policy platform, where labor rights are undercut everywhere for the creation of economic growth (that 21st century deity), and then, if things go to plan, wealth is redistributed from the top to those whose earnings and quality of life have been devastated by the attack on labor.</blockquote> Matt Yglesias <a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/01/pas-dennemi-a-gauche/">responds</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.99629 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:47:01 -0800 ennui.bz Not unlike various films by Fritz Lang http://www.metafilter.com/97206/Not%2Dunlike%2Dvarious%2Dfilms%2Dby%2DFritz%2DLang <a href="http://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/notes-on-the-duel-of-the-fates/">Notes on 'The Duel of the Fates.'</a> Bob Clark of <a href="http://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com">Wonders in the Dark</a> takes a look at a single scene from <em>The Phantom Menace</em> by way of Eisenstein, aspect ratios, <em>The Last Temptation of Christ</em>, the NFL, Slim Pickens, Godard, <em>Fantomas</em>, and of course Kurosawa. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.97206 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:59:45 -0800 shakespeherian Christians in the Hand of an Angry God http://www.metafilter.com/95745/Christians%2Din%2Dthe%2DHand%2Dof%2Dan%2DAngry%2DGod In a five part series he wrote a few years ago, blogger J. Brad Hicks breaks down how, in the mid-1960s, the Republican party made a conscious decision to rebrand themselves as the party of Christians, and in doing so, how they had to shift the ideology of the churches to what he calls a "<a href="http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/118585.html">false gospel</a>". Part 1: <a href="http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/118585.html">The False Gospel</a> Part 2: <a href="http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/118805.html">The Republicans and fear of the Communists</a> Part 3: <a href="http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/119283.html">Homosexuality versus the "Holiness Code"</a> Part 4: <a href="http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/119661.html">Abortion and Contraception</a> Part 5: <a href="http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/119950.html">Public prayer and Conclusion.</a> The overall essay is fairly long, but provides some uncommon and unconventional insights into the shift from what the Republicans and modern Christianity were, what they've become, and why. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.95745 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:36:42 -0800 quin Heads I win, tails you lose... http://www.metafilter.com/90234/Heads%2DI%2Dwin%2Dtails%2Dyou%2Dlose <blockquote>"Although the word "entitlement" fits, it's been used so frequently as to have become inadequate to capture the preening self-regard, the obliviousness to the damage that high-flying finance has inflicted on the real economy, the learned blindness to vital considerations in the pay equation. Getting an education, or even hard work, does not guarantee outcomes. One of the basic precepts of finance is that of a risk-return tradeoff: high potential payoff investments come with greater downside. But how did that evolve into the current belief system among the incumbents, that Wall Street was a sure ride, a guaranteed "heads I win, tails you lose" bet?" </blockquote> Yves Smith<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/03/indefensible-men.html"> writes an essay</a> on 'indefensible men.' tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.90234 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:04:21 -0800 ennui.bz Faux Friendship: "...[a] numberless multitude of people, of whom no one was close, no one was distant." http://www.metafilter.com/87454/Faux%2DFriendship%2Da%2Dnumberless%2Dmultitude%2Dof%2Dpeople%2Dof%2Dwhom%2Dno%2Done%2Dwas%2Dclose%2Dno%2Done%2Dwas%2Ddistant <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Faux-Friendship/49308/">Faux Friendship</a> traces the evolution of friendship from classical times to the modern Internet age. By <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Deresiewicz">William Deresiewicz</a>, literary critic and former associate professor of English at Yale. (Warning: long.) tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.87454 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:23:02 -0800 the littlest brussels sprout Without Guilt & Justice http://www.metafilter.com/84050/Without%2DGuilt%2Dand%2DJustice "<a href="http://taimur.sarangi.info/wgaj-1">Humanity craves but dreads autonomy.</a>" – <a href="http://taimur.sarangi.info/wgaj">Without Guilt &amp; Justice</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaufmann_(philosopher)">Walter Kaufmann</a> argues that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidophobia">decidophobes</a> employ ten strategies in order to avoid indecisive dizziness. He cites <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/73812/Solzhenitsyn-dead-at-89">Solzhenitsyn</a> as an individual who demonstrated autonomy through "the most awesome courage". tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.84050 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:33:52 -0800 ageispolis The Most Civilized Country. http://www.metafilter.com/71748/The%2DMost%2DCivilized%2DCountry <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/iceland">The Most Civilized Country.</a> Fascinating article challenging conventional notions of how best to have a society. "Best" being defined by what makes people happy and empowered, mind you. Makes me feel my own country and culture isn't such hot shit after all. Pretty much a dismal failure, by comparison... tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71748 Sat, 17 May 2008 22:55:42 -0800 five fresh fish A completely revised edition of the Masseian corpus with all the flaws taken out http://www.metafilter.com/71626/A%2Dcompletely%2Drevised%2Dedition%2Dof%2Dthe%2DMasseian%2Dcorpus%2Dwith%2Dall%2Dthe%2Dflaws%2Dtaken%2Dout <a href="http://www.masseiana.org/intro.htm">Masseiana</a> - Containing the three major works of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey" title="'A Book of the Beginnings', 'The Natural Genesis' and 'Ancient Egypt, The Light of the World'">Gerald Massey</a> and his minor work commonly titled: <a href="http://www.masseiana.org/ml0.htm">The Lectures</a>. Published here in their entirety, fully revised and amended, with additional material by the editor. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71626 Tue, 13 May 2008 18:52:58 -0800 tellurian The Unqualified Reservations of Mencius Moldbug http://www.metafilter.com/66006/The%2DUnqualified%2DReservations%2Dof%2DMencius%2DMoldbug <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/">Unqualified Reservations</a> is a fascinating ongoing commentary on society and governance in postmodernity. He's currently on <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1.html">about</a> <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-2.html">the</a> <i><a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/10/interstitial-comments-on-dawkins.html">pwning</a> <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-3.html">of</a> <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-4.html">Richard</a> <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-5.html">Dawkins</a></i>, after writing about <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/09/mediocracy-definition-etiology-and.html">Mediocracy</a> and <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/09/is-journalism-official.html">Official</a> <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/09/comments-on-is-journalism-official.html">Journalism</a>. It might be best to first read his earlier posts in which he defines the self-invented terminology he's fond of using, like: <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/04/formalist-manifesto-originally-posted.html">Formalism</a>, <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/05/iron-polygon-power-in-united-states.html">The Iron Polygon</a>, <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/universalism-postwar-progressivism-as.html">Universalism</a>, <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/against-political-freedom.html">Neocameralism</a>, and <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/rotary-management-next-big-thing.html">The Rotary</a> <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/landscape-of-bewildering-contradictions.html">System</a>. I stumbled upon this blog after <a href="http://commandline.org.uk/ethics/freedom-on-campus-2007-10-26-18-00.html?showcomments=yes">another blog</a> linked to Mencius' posts about the role of <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-navrozov-moments.html">Graduate Schools</a> in <a href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-wrong-with-cs-research.html">Computer Science Research</a>, and I got drawn in! His posts are long, and the comment threads on them are exceptionally longwinded and well-reasoned as well. Be warned, you could easily lose a whole day reading through his archives, as I did. Part of what's so fascinating about it is that he often writes from the perspective of hundreds of years in the future, discussing present society as if it's major features had been distilled and anthologized for many generations already. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.66006 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:59:40 -0800 blasdelf
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