February 2009
81 posts
“I was supposed to be in that movie Rush Hour, but two weeks into shooting I was...”
– Tracy Jordan
of Montreal - Your Magic Is Working
From Satanic...
just redesigned →
dannygarcia:
Eh. Tumblr has one major problem when posting items. Sometimes the description of images, links, videos and other posts don’t automatically add paragraph tags. I don’t know if this is just an issue with the bookmarklet or what but it’s freakin’ annoying because it screws up all the padding and, well, frankly it makes me sad.
(sad face goes here)
I’ve gotten this same issue....
Just under 100 pages in
And I just glanced at a major spoiler to Atlas Shugged on Wikipedia. So many dammits right now. Really, steaming right now. I wish I could swallow one of GOB Bluth’s forgetmenows.
If you’ve read the book, can you email me? I want to know how much I’ve just ruined. peter@yeahdu.de
GREEN DAY - BRAIN STEW
“Whenever he was asked, ‘What is your masterpiece, your greatest...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright: Master Builder (Universe)
Scaling Background à la Brendan →
jstn:
I hereby release this source code into the public domain. No strings attached, no attribution necessary, make something cool.
Nice timing, thank you.
Watchjoelaz:
Nuit Blanche Bruxelles
“Crea composite and AntiVJ teamed up to produce a short ”son et lumière” show for Nuit Blanche Bruxelles on the 4th of October… The content is a mix of 2D / 3D visuals, and also a part with mapping and architecture related projections.” (via a link from @fascinated)
This gets insane about 03:30 in, but it’s worth watching all the way through.
The final effects...
Against Me! - We Laugh at Danger and Break All the...
“The first time you do something, it’s science. The second time, it’s...”
– Clifford Stoll (via pilnick)
WatchA conversation about the future of newspapers with Walter Isaacson of “Time,” Robert Thomson of “Wall Street Journal” and Mort Zuckerman of “The New York Daily News” on Charlie Rose
“When Vernon E. Miller was sentenced for stalking last November, cellphone...”
– Though Many Are Stalked, Few Report It, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
That’s at least every ten minutes for a month.
Infinite Scroll Action
paulgiacherio:
hilker:
paulgiacherio:
Anybody seen this on a tumblr. I swear I’ve seen it somewhere, but I forgot to bookmark. (stupid) You know, like the soup.io interface?
there’s a greasemonkey script called autopagerize.
True, but that’s greasemonkey. I’d swear I’ve seen endless scrolling implemented on the front end somewhere without greasemonkey.
Lookbook.nu uses it, love it. ...
“According to analysts, the nation’s singles were still happy to spend the...”
– Nation’s Couples Descend On Nation’s Rotating Restaurants | The Onion
I've stopped reading my dashboard
mikehudack:
iamdanw:
I’m sorry Tumblrs, but I must confess to no longer reading the dashboard. There’s simply too much stuff on there.
This feels a lot like a repeat of when I stopped checking Google Reader. Many eons ago I used to remember a small list of sites in my head. Every day I would type them in and go visit them. Sites like slashdot and userfriendly. Then along came RSS. No longer...
“This massive half-million dollar tool is about the dimensions of a delivery...”
– Amish Hackers via Marco
The Answer
…to this post is semantic satiation.
Semantic satiation is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon where intense repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.