Archive for May, 2008

All Dressed Up, Nowhere to Goth

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Despite my having slept for at least 15 of the last 24 hours, and despite F feeling even more sick than me, we got up off the couch and went to the Aladdin Theater for tonight’s Peter Murphy show. Peter, however, must have had the same thing we have, because the show, it was [...]

Lolkid

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

[One] thing that made yesterday teh aw3som3: tiggrrl and the_misha taught their adorable two-year-old to say “OH NOES!”

Rock On, Little Computer, Rock On

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Some Berkeley students built a computer vision system to play Rock Band.

Mister Language Person, Photographic Edition

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Give me my violas NOW, or I’ll prosecute you!

Because there’s nothing worse than trying to get on the Internet without enough spee.

Tools and Transformations

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Clay Shirky is a really interesting writer, if you happen to find analysis of the intersection between software and sociology interesting. His new book “Here Comes Everybody” looks quite interesting (being too cheap to buy the hardback, I’ve got it on hold at the library).
Here’s a bit from a blog post he wrote recently:
Imagine [...]

Goofus and Gallant — OF THE FUTURE!

Monday, May 12th, 2008

A coworker of mine back at Wolfram & HartHellerEhrman had a wonderful spoof of Goofus and Gallant on his wall. I was remembering it recently, and naturally, it’s on the Web. Enjoy: Looking Forward: Goofus and Gallant.