Guess and Check

11/30/2013

I Can Beat Him Up

Filed under: General — 11:59 am

Cute.

10/31/2013

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

Filed under: General — 8:39 am

A lecture explaining why using our imaginations, and providing for others to use theirs, is an obligation for all.

9/30/2013

Autumn Leaves

Filed under: General — 6:50 pm

8/31/2013

Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

Filed under: General — 12:01 pm

So the Texas sharpshooter fallacy is a thing.

7/30/2013

Pixar Story Basics

Filed under: General — 1:09 pm

Pixar story artist Emma Coats has tweeted a series of “story basics” that are quite interesting.

6/30/2013

Megan Jaegerman

Filed under: General — 10:02 am

In this 2007 writeup, Edward Tufte highlights and includes many examples some of the amazing graphics of Megan Jaegerman.

5/31/2013

The Malice at the Palace

Filed under: General — 11:51 am

Here’s an interesting article that takes an oral history approach to The Malice at the Palace.

4/30/2013

ISS Star Trail Photographs

Filed under: General — 6:51 am

During ISS Expedition 31, astronaut Don Pettit took some really cool star trail photographs.

This is the same guy who back in Expedition 6 made his own barn door tracker out of spare parts he found around the space staion.

3/31/2013

Voyager Golden Record

Filed under: General — 1:13 pm

I think my favorite photo on the Voyager Golden Record is “Supermarket, NAIC”.

2/28/2013

Dune

Filed under: General — 3:18 pm

I’ve been reading the Dune series, and it’s been great so far.

There’s a quote here on the back cover of the copy of the 1977 paperback printing I have of the first book:

“Unique… in the depth of its characterization and the extraordinary detail of the world it creates. I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings.” – Arthur C. Clarke

1/31/2013

Interplanetary Cessna

Filed under: General — 7:53 am

This week’s what-if.xkcd was pretty good.

12/30/2012

HelixSnake’s Skate 3 videos

Filed under: General — 4:09 pm

HelixSnake’s Skate 3 videos are always a good time.

11/27/2012

JL8

Filed under: General — 3:42 pm

Yale Stewart (twitter/tumblr) writes/draws/colors/edits/publishes the amazing JL8: A Webcomic. As he puts it, it “follows the adventures of popular DC comic characters as children in elementary school.”

I like it very much. If you want to get into it, I’d suggest starting at the really nice fan-archive that Axel Samuelsson put together.

10/4/2012

Mark Pilgrim

Filed under: General — 8:00 am

A year ago, Mark Pilgrim disappeared from the Internet. I was always a fan of his writing, in particular the brand of humor he blogged with. I used his fruit salad recipe once.

I hope he starts up again some day.

9/19/2012

XKCD 1110

Filed under: General — 1:28 pm

After you’ve gone and experienced the 1110th xkcd for yourself, you may be interested in seeing the whole thing at once, put together and presented by mah boy Phlip.

8/31/2012

Lance Armstrong The Onion Editorial

Filed under: General — 6:32 am

As usual, The Onion seems to handle, summarize, and satirize an issue extremely well.

7/31/2012

“Time Out” – The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Filed under: General — 7:18 am

YouTube user gilmour509 has a bunch of great complete album uploads.

Here’s a favorite:

It’s the cats that really make it.

6/30/2012

Sudo Uncle Ben

Filed under: General — 8:56 pm

A long time ago, dsandler posted about the diff where the sudo sources were updated to include the Uncle Ben quote in the lecture. The diff link has changed, but it’s still a great find.

5/30/2012

Bill Clinton Plays Not My Job

Filed under: General — 9:02 pm

It’s from last June, but President Clinton played Not My Job and got all three questions about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic correct.

4/30/2012

Seinfeld Economics

Filed under: General — 6:20 pm

Do you like Economics but just can’t get yourself to want to learn about it? Well if you enjoy Seinfeld, you may find The Economics of Seinfeld rather interesting and helpful.

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