August 2011
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Sleeper Agent (Drum & Bass Mix) →
I’ve spent the last week polishing the sound on a new EP. It will hopefully be ready in a couple of weeks! In the meantime, here’s a new drum & bass mix you can listen to. Features both drum and bass (not necessarily in that order).
Linden & Blocks - Lights over IO (feat. Escher)
Rockwell - Live for the Moment
Fracture & Mark System - Yeah, But…
D Minds - Stone...
Radiolab: Games →
The latest episode of Radiolab has managed to make me excited about sports again. Or competitive gaming at least. The middle segment is especially fascinating: it deals with the ‘tug-of-war’ between imaginative freedom and rules.
Checkers reached a point where all the best moves were known, and top-notch players realized it was possible to play an ideal game by using a set of plays...
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WatchManhattan by Ital Tek.
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“It was a rebus of heartbreak, misfortune a dog could parse.”
– Chronic City
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“Did I read The New Yorker? This question had a dangerous urgency. It...”
– Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
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“It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking...”
– Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Attention Tumblr →
“I am a guy who just saw the final Harry Potter movie without reading/watching any Harry Potter material beforehand. Being morbidly confused, I made up an entire previous plot for the movie to make sense in my head. I will answer your HP Series question based on the made up previous plot in my head. Ask me anything.”
The D Word →
As I type this I am tumbling down a rabbit hole. I started reading something about Chinese on Wikipedia, which led me into a fantastic mess of mutually incomprehensible dialects, code-switching, the ‘tender language of Wu’ and, currently, the five words you can’t say on TV in Hong Kong.
The five most common vulgar words in Cantonese profanity are diu (𨳒), gau (𨳊), lan (𨶙),...
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“It’s national book week. The rules are: grab the...
I got: “Fuck you.”
(via iladvi)
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Recently added to my to-read pile: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell (not the comedian). I like this bit from Wikipedia:
Mitchell spent four years working on the novel, researching and crafting a vision of 18th century Japan. Small details, such as if people used shaving cream or not, could use up lots of time so that a single sentence could take half a day to write....
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Your Face Left Before You by Buke & Gass,...
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The $300 Million Button →
We conducted usability tests with people who needed to buy products from the site. We asked them to bring their shopping lists and we gave them the money to make the purchases. All they needed to do was complete the purchase.
We were wrong about the first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They resented having to register when they encountered the page. As one shopper told us,...
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