Try the Quite Place Project. It’s nice.
Try the Quite Place Project. It’s nice.
Try the Quite Place Project. It’s nice.
Robot Love
Scott Adams worries about different things than the rest of us.
My prediction is that robots will eradicate humankind with love, not laser cannons.
When technological companionship beats real human interactions, the species is doomed…
Why Xanax is the Most Popular Anti-Anxiety Drug in America
Why Xanax is the Most Popular Anti-Anxiety Drug in America
Interesting article about the ways legal drug use follows the cultural mood.
Just as teenage rebellion flourishes in environments of safety and plenty, depression as a cultural pose works only in tandem with a private confidence that the grown-ups in charge are reliably succeeding on everyone’s behalf.
ZOMBIES, RUN!
I am severely tempted to buy an iPhone just to try this app that recreates the sensation of being chased by Zombies. Apparently, you are less likely to slow down or stop if there is a risk of your brains being eaten.
You tie your shoes, put on your headphones, take your first steps outside. You’ve barely covered 100 yards when you hear them. They must be close. You can hear every guttural breath, every rattling groan – they’re everywhere. Zombies. There’s only one thing you can do: Run!
Text From Dog
Profane but hilarious, this Tumblr, textfromdog.tumblr.com, is a collection of text message exchanges between a man and his loving canine companion.
Show this chart to the next person that says the Internet killed reading books
Show this chart to the next person that says the Internet killed reading books
The act of reading books is alive and well. Radio didn’t kill it. Television didn’t kill it. The Internet didn’t Kill it.
Alexis Madrigal muses about Golden age of reading:
Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens.
That time wasn’t in some bygone era. That time is now. Grab a book and join the fun!
Hammerforum.com
This forum thread is a parody of any camera (or your tech hobby of choice) gear discussion.
Thread Title: Nails for Stiletto TB15?
Hammeruser: I’ve saved up for months and just got my Stiletto TB15SS titanium hammer. At $220 they’re pricey but with the replaceable stainless steel face, ultra light weight handle, and excellent balance I can see myself using this for many years. I’ve had it 3 days now and it’s just wonderful. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good framing nail to use with this hammer?
Hammergeek:You say it’s wonderful but I don’t see any photos of nails you’ve driven. I think it’s just overpriced crap.
Hammerfiend: You know, Ken Rockbuster said the Stiletto is really overpriced and he wouldn’t have one. For $14 you can get a Tekton rubber mallet set. It’s not any good for driving nails, but it is great for body work on your car. That’s what Ken recommends.
Read the rest of this part of Hammerforum.com.
Stupid games
Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Fruit Ninja—they own real estate in pockets and minds around the world. Sam Anderson:
Game-studies scholars (there are such things) like to point out that games tend to reflect the societies in which they are created and played. Monopoly, for instance, makes perfect sense as a product of the 1930s — it allowed anyone, in the middle of the Depression, to play at being a tycoon. Risk, released in the 1950s, is a stunningly literal expression of cold-war realpolitik. Twister is the translation, onto a game board, of the mid-1960s sexual revolution.
What do the stupid games we play say about our culture today?
There’s a stupid game where you get to shoot all the elements on the page at the top of the article. That little feature just might keep you from reading the rest of the story, but it shouldn’t. Because, remember, the game is stupid. And you shouldn’t play it. For too long.
And here’s a fantastic, tone-setting, quote from the story:
Angry Birds, it seems, is our Tetris: the string of digital prayer beads that our entire culture can twiddle in moments of rapture or anxiety — economic, political or existential.
How much time to stupid games waste?
One tiny masterpiece, Plants vs. Zombies, ate up, I’m going to guess, a full “Anna Karenina” of my leisure time.
Or more.
The Book of the Future
This isn’t the book of the future, but the cartoon is still imaginative.
Jet-pack friendly reading material is important. Maybe books will go here, and we’ll have to deal the distracted flying issues.
Baseball Is Life
I’m mostly indifferent to baseball, but Tim Sidell’s new view of the “life is a lot like baseball” cliche helps me understand the appeal of the game.
Count me among those who believe, quite strongly, that baseball transcends the world of sport. It’s more than just a game of ingenious design, measured not by the artificial and cruel limits of a clock, but by equal opportunity. It’s more than just a symbolic renewal of springtime hope and summer frolic. It is, my friends, life.
Because just like life itself, baseball is boring. Amazingly, stupendously boring.
Despite this analogy, it is clear that Sidell is a fan of America’s pastime.