A running photo essay of forgotten corners in Iowa: http://forgotteniowa.tumblr.com/
Category: On the Web
Wash often
Possibly the weirdest Kickstarter campaign I’ve ever seen: The Pokie [1]. Fleece isn’t particularly great at hiding the snail trails.
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1084791252/the-pokie
Bitchin’ rad cool
Dude plugs a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern World Wide Web [1]. Of course doing this involves some serious bit of nerding out with a Pi, a chain of interface adapters, and a stroke of good luck. Using it takes much patience.
I remember spending many lunch periods in the library lab writing a text-based psychiatrist emulator in BASIC on one of these.
[1] http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/12228/mac-plus-modern-web/
Fun!
This looks like a fun project: http://qrznow.com/converting-morse-code-text-arduino/. If nothing else, that flowchart is a great visual for learning “the code.”
No worm
Band names I wish I had thought of first. One in a series: Tom Selleck’s Moustache.
Build Nazi
It’s every CM worker bee’s Sisyphean nightmare. Goddamn developers breaking builds and then leaving them hanging around all day without a claim.
Behold the latest weapon in my arsenal of jokey (but not really, dude, I’m serious here) hints to fix/claim your broken builds.
Aesthetics
I’ve been digging this guy’s design work lately: http://andrewbmyers.tumblr.com/
Better than crow
I think the next time I’m having a gloat party I’ll serve some schadenfreude pie. [1] I think this would taste how excessive gloating feels.
Mr. Popularity
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/02/19/the-devil-has-been-in-twice-as-many-movies-as-jesus-and-how-that-has-changed-our-theology/
An interesting discussion on the origins of our shared concept of the devil. And by interesting I mean how little of it is shaped by the historical tome as compared to popular culture.
Geek Code
I remember spending an afternoon studiously plonking out my GC [1]. I may have even included it in an email signature at the time. Man….blast from the past.
Brought to you by a light discussion at work of creating a unique identifier for every developer based on their positions in the various geek religious wars (vi or emacs, *nix or windows, Firefox or IE or Chrome or Opera or what-have-you, tabs or spaces, etc). Assign each facet a set of prime numbers. Add the primes and you get a unique integer. It shouldn’t take more than, what, 32 different facets?