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2014-04-15T04:32:26+00:00April 15th, 2014|Tags: , , |

didn’t MacKaye have any real feeling of Fugazi’s place in history? “I’m not a nostalgic dude and I just don’t think about stuff like that. It’s just the work.” No matter how hard I pressed him for some shred of pride, I couldn’t feel it over the phone. “Some of the songs, you put a guitar in my hand and I would have no idea how to play them. With that kind of removal I can listen to the songs and think, ‘That’s a good song.’ It’s not me playing it, it’s just the guy in the recording.” It turns out Fugazi’s greatest legacy might be something that everyone involved in creating media could use a lot more of in 2014 — humility.

Fugazi’s sound and fury, now on demand | The Verge (via soxiam)

Stop thinking, just »

2018-03-27T08:46:04+00:00April 14th, 2014|Tags: , , |

jtotheizzoe:

One of my favorite GIFs of one of my favorite NASA visualizations to preview Monday’s It’s Okay To Be Smart and get you excited and all that jazz. Think you can guess what tomorrow’s vid is about?

Blue = sea salt
Green = organics
Red = dust
White = sulfates

Check out the full NASA video below, featuring simulated global “stuff in the air” over a two year period on Earth. Ain’t Earth beautiful? (Even if, as in this case, it’s a 3 million processor-hour computer animation)

I could look at this all day.

2014-04-14T02:50:29+00:00April 14th, 2014|Tags: , , |

When I headed to Osaka a few months ago, my friend Nick Coldicott, who lives in Tokyo, urged me to visit what he contends is the best bourbon bar in the world: Rogin’s Tavern. Knowing Nick’s command of the spirits universe, I take a commuter train out to Moriguchi, an obscure little town about half an hour from the center of Osaka. When I emerge from the station I can see a neon light spelling “Rogin’s” in English. Inside it is dim, with a long wooden bar backed by hundreds of bottles. American jazz comes from an ancient-looking jukebox in the rear.

Nearly every bottle is bourbon, though there is a smattering of rye and sour mash. I can see bottles from the 1800s next to obscure export bottlings of Jim Beam next to standard-issue Jack Daniel’s. Seiichiro Tatsumi, an older »

2014-04-11T21:19:58+00:00April 11th, 2014|

When I was a child, it was believed that animals became extinct because they were too specialized. My father used to tell us about the saber-tooth tiger’s teeth — how they got too big and the tiger couldn’t eat because he couldn’t take game anymore. And I remember my father saying, with my brother sitting there, ‘I wonder what it will be with the human beings that will be so overspecialized that they’ll kill themselves off?’

My father never found out that my brother was working on the bomb.

Richard Feynman’s sister, Joan (via historical-nonfiction)

Well, then.

(via jtotheizzoe)

Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever

2014-04-09T17:05:24+00:00April 9th, 2014|Tags: , |

Why the Web Needs Perfect Forward Secrecy More Than Ever

most HTTPS websites on the Internet still don’t support forward secrecy, which means that a large chunk of your past communications with those servers is vulnerable to decryption when private SSL keys are compromised. For example, if someone has been intercepting your HTTPS-encrypted messages to Yahoo for the past several years and then stole a copy of Yahoo’s private key yesterday with Heartbleed, they would be able to use it to go back and decrypt the previously-unintelligible recording of your old communications today — if those communications weren’t made using a forward-secrecy-enabled connection.

In the aftermath of yesterday’s events, it’s clear that forward secrecy is necessary to protect against unforseeable threats to SSL private keys. Whether that threat is an existing or future software bug, an insider who steals the »

2018-03-27T08:46:14+00:00April 8th, 2014|Tags: , |

the-overlook-hotel:

In Vivian Kubrick’s documentary on the making of The Shining, several crew members can be seen wearing a black sweater with “The Shining“ in red letters, and a white hawk hovering above the text. The hawk is a nod to Stanley Kubrick’s production company, "Hawk Films Ltd.”

These custom sweaters were given as gifts by actor Jack Nicholson to everyone on the crew during the production. 

Time to setup an ebay notification alert.

2018-03-27T08:46:15+00:00April 7th, 2014|Tags: , |

fastcodesign:

This Xbox Controller Can Sense Your Boredom, Make A Game More Violent

Heart rate, temperature, respiration, and perspiration: These are our autonomous functions—our core physiological processes—that signal stress or arousal and can betray our otherwise cool exteriors. Stanford researcherGregory Kovacs is reading these signals through a modified Xbox game controller. By adding a new, sensor-laden back plate, he can measure heart rate, blood flow, rate and depth of breath, and how hard and fast the user shakes the controller.

In response to these measurements, Kovacs has designed a game that can maximize excitement by adding more stimulus (like bad guys or explosions) whenever a gamer’s heart rate drops. Or it could do the reverse, ramping down the zombie factor for someone who wants to take it easy (but insists on playing zombie games to do so).

all sensors all »

2018-03-27T08:46:18+00:00April 7th, 2014|

“ Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.” – Josh Billings (at Laika’s House)

2018-03-27T08:46:19+00:00April 6th, 2014|

Set your phasers to sad.

Jan Harlan discusses his work with Stanley Kubrick

2022-07-09T02:28:52+00:00March 31st, 2014|Tags: , |

One of the first things we did together was get the rights to “Eyes Wide Shut.” It’s called “Traumnovelle” and he was very much in love with that story, but it proved to be just too difficult, so he dropped it. He had already a contract with Warner Brothers ready to go and he pulled out. He chewed over it for thirty years. When he finally made it he really considered it his greatest contribution to the art of filmmaking. Many people wouldn’t agree with him but that doesn’t really matter.

– Jan Harlan

I knew he was quite proud of the movie, but I never realized it was to this degree. I’d be curious to know more details around the “final cut” of the movie. Everything I’ve read has suggested it was not finished before he passed away and a little work »

How I track my life

2014-03-31T17:27:46+00:00March 31st, 2014|Tags: |

How I track my life

You get one death bed point whenever you do something that you believe will still be valuable and meaningful to you when you’re on your death bed. He/she who dies with the most death bed points wins.

Rules on how to live your life, .

2018-03-27T08:46:30+00:00March 30th, 2014|

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda (at Laika’s House)

2014-03-30T19:29:45+00:00March 30th, 2014|Tags: , |

Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones. And so people who have the omniscience that they can say with high certainty that something has not happened or is not being tried, have capabilities that are — what was the word you used, Pam, earlier?

Donald Rumsfeld (via azspot)

Reblogged under the category of “things I never »

“Horse and Train” (1954) by Alex Colville

2022-07-09T00:55:06+00:00March 29th, 2014|Tags: , , |

the-overlook-hotel:

As Wendy guides the pediatrician into her living room at the beginning of The Shining, they pass a painting of a horse galloping along train tracks towards an oncoming train. The painting is titled “Horse and Train” (1954) by Canadian artist Alex Colville.

A common interpretation of the painting is that it is intended to invoke feelings of helplessness and tension, and that the anxiety is heightened because we are not shown the outcome. It can only be assumed that the results will be disastrous if the subjects continue on their current course.

The choice of this image is certainly in alignment with the anxiety and tension Kubrick has already begun to invoke as the Torrance family prepares to move up to the Overlook Hotel for the winter.

Colville died in 2013 at the age of 92. After »

2018-03-27T08:48:22+00:00March 28th, 2014|Tags: |

Yes please.

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