2008

Aug

Dysfunctional App Store reviewers

well put: It takes a special kind of asshole to complain that $10 is too much for an iPhone app,...

Jul

tie my hands, lil' wayne

So, accept my emotion Do not take it as an offensive gesture It’s just the epitome of my soul...

terminal culture

From the current (#79) issue of the always-polemical Adbusters, Douglas Haddow on hipsterdom: The...

“But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will...”
— The Doors of Perception,...

i wonder how many people blogged this...

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and...

“At one point living a bohemian life meant embracing failure,...”
— Simon Reynolds on his...

In Changing Face of Beijing, a Look at the New China, The...

The plastic buttons we push

hah, so true: I earn my living—the food I eat, the apartment I sleep in, the books I read, etc. —...

Karl Rove flees the country “Karl Rove was scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary...

ne travaillez jamais, zürich, 2008.

Thích Quảng Đức, self-immolation, Saigon, South Vietnam, 11...

sweet thing, van morrison.

“We clutter the earth with our inventions, never dreaming...”
— The World of Sex, Henry...

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so...”
— Albert Camus

Jun

last day

today is my last day at joyent. (maybe coincidentally it’s also bill g’s last...

“I shall remember this hour of peace - the strawberries, the...”
— Block in The Seventh Seal

joyent connector code visualized with processing and code_swarm and girl talkthis is a visualization...

au revoir simone nyc appearances this summer. i...

björk + sigur rós concert in reykjavík this saturday. friday...

if you do this, you get what you deserve. Eight...

girl talk’s new album feed the animals is out today....

“Amanda Ireland, who graduated from Gloucester High on June...”
— Boston Area Teens Had...

“It is impossible to live without failing at something,...”
— J.K. Rowling in her Harvard...

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey...”
— Louis Adamic, via...

Keep it real!

This is how an average, 20-something year-old young man speaks: “I just had lunch with my friend...

ten things in tokyo

my friend patrick ewing is visiting tokyo right now + i promised him a list of ten things i...

Where Ideas Come From, David Lynch and Donovan for The Atlantic worth watching, especially for the...

my brother cycled over klausenpass in switzerland yesterday. in this video you can hear dozens...

“art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”
— lewis carroll, i think. also...

generative: i spent an incredibly productive and happy two...

i’m feeling kindof incredibly overwhelmed by life right now, so: belle + sebastian,...

“and see if people start @luke0x’ing”
— my brother travis, about an...

“The platform is the story. Platforms have staying power,...”
— John Gruber on the medium...

the new sigur rós album is really happy. update: i removed the embedded player, because it...

probably my favorite techcrunch article...

“Twitter suffered a minor period of uptime last night between database failures. Everything...

All those photos were probably the same. Maybe there should...

“Finding the spine of a story like “Out of Africa” was...”
— Goings On, Remembering Sydney...

May

nice downtempo song made mostly from sounds from disney’s ‘alice in...

California Court Affirms Right to Gay Marriage, New York Times “The ruling paves the way for...

the original is just embarrassing. this is plain absurdist beauty. Billy O’Reilly Meltdown...

it is ok for me to have everyting i want. (via kara)

richard alpert + donald draper two of television’s...

being into baudrillard’s ideas, i just had to make...

very well-dressed shiite militia fighters taking control of...

Glenn Gould Playing the Goldberg Variations. Long, but amazing.

Life Before Death. noch mal leben: portraits of the...

Sharing A Memory For Social Status, piers fawkes, again,...

“if you want to tell me something the emerging modern...”
— Will Visual Voicemail Kill All...

addictomaticaddictomatic, a new search site, launched today....

Apr

gangsta 7 year old steals car “i wanted to do it cos it’s fun. it’s fun to do bad...

an ad in the current weekly dig. more available...

this saturday: (!) The ROFLCon afterparty, hosted by...

cctv building by oma in beijing. this building has captured...

“Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things...”
— René Descartes, lulz.

fhwang in #nyc.rb (via jamiew)

“If you have low morale, for every $1 you spend, you get...”
— Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering...

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I...”
— Henry David Thoreau (via...

You Can’t Make This Shit Up (via gruber) i guess even...

worst news site: cnn

cnn sucks so horribly that i edit my local /etc/hosts file to point their site to www.nytimes.com....

autechre, quaristice tour. tonight @ the middle east,...

björk, juergen teller. (2001)

“I guess the only conclusion, here, is that it’s apparently...”
— The Agitator Blog

Detainees in a Guantánamo holding area, January 2002 this...

“Prediction: Over the next 5-10 years, as developers get used...”
— Steve Dekorte (via johan)

juergen teller, marc jacobs

god, i love juergen teller’s photos. Yet, because of his humor, his intimate method of...

National Priorities Project how your 2008 federal income...

The Life of American Vagabonds thought-provoking photo...

valerie and her week of wonders

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia, 1970. A screen adaptation...

six pack and a laptop. my place, saturday.

expert expression

“the success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults—indeed...

three levels of knowing. simplicity, which is ignorance....

star witness, neko case

my true love drowned in a dirty old pan of oilthat had run from the blockof a falcon sedan, 1969the...

having fun ichatting with lindsay today during morning tea...

looking for a rails job, anyone?

i keep getting massive amounts of: recruitment letters seeking my rails skills queries asking what...

of course, björk’s video for ‘wanderlust’ doesn’t use travel motifs like...

Mar

matthew dear - deserter how many times can you listen to a song before you’re obsessed? 20+...

Joyent in Forbes

That’s certainly true for Joyent, a 22-person firm located in Sausalito, Calif., that is...

portishead - machine gun i missed the announcement back in february, apparently portishead are...

4,000 dead in iraq, and the news getting the most attention...

writing copy

respect people’s intelligence + time, gain their interest: “This isn’t an...

entropy prevails; assholes among us

my close friend wes, coming atcha with his usual lighthearted seriousness: “I tell you,...

“Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water. After...”
— Wu Li

Tough Rubber Sheath, Random Article on Wikipedia

Exnay on the reblogging gestapo

i really dislike reblogging (irony noted), so this is great news. marco: Tumblr users: This is a...

Reads like a article written by...

…but it’s the New York Times: Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip...

autechre, dropp. [via]

The Independent: “This is what I want to believe. I want to believe that she had a change of...

might as well be an orgasm. crystal castles, courtship date.

iPhone SDK, Apple's Touch Platform, and...

jason fried @ 37signals: “This is brand new big shit. It all started today.” agreed....

when i saw the thumbnail of this photo on flickr i thought...

memphis airport signs are in japanese + english

accidentally simultaneous tweets about the iphone...

(probably not) our next president.

web standards

an interesting week for web standards, which, thanks to abstracting libraries...

staff@joyent

filip: apparently the 'woman's touch' has a TTL of about 48 hours
filip: that's what it took for this place to start some suboptimal tidiness, after the rest of family left for a week

Feb

the ultimate oc, the extreme g.skill: crazy copy on the...

1 in 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study...

i don’t find if request.format.csv? particularly more...

something about this is kind of intimidating. “Left:...

100 trillion years in the future, the last stars burn out.

p3wn3d: america

#1: China, $363B #163: America: -$747B Note there are only 163 countries in the list… CIA...

felt like stating

broken social scene is my favorite band (they probably won’t be for very much longer, but i...

git hottness.

[luke@tolva:/Users/luke/Work/Joyent/git]$ du -sh * 104M private 445M public...

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence...”
— Richard P. Feynman, Appendix...

Hillary Clinton Is Your New HD-DVD...

highindustrial: “HD-DVD, Hillary … why do I always choose the runner-up?” Someone should register...

Rumplo - Awesome T-Shirts, from around the...

“BARACK OBAMA LISTENED TO YOUR MP3”
— Barack Obama Is Your New...

just heard guided by voices’ amazing 22 second cryptic/ironic masterpiece ‘hit’...

Trying to convince people you're smart

Marshall Goldsmith, Harvard Business Online: “If we are honest with ourselves, when we start...

16 bit: joyent co-sponsored south by southwest afterparty

Flickr, Now With More Suck

I wonder if Yahoo! will take this, how both companies would change as a result, and what will happen...

Jan

ESPN On The Patriots’ “Director of...

I’m not into sports at all, but I do love a good store about a smart guy who prefers remaining...

Twitter Pimps Joyent (Thanks!) “In fact, throughout...

Thank Fucking God

The scarriest presidential candidate (maybe) withdraws from the contest: Giuliani Ends Campaign and...

i saw this exact same sign today too (same sign, on a...

Finding work you love

DHH: “In light of this, I strongly recommend that you find a vocation in your life where you...

Robyn - Be Mine (Ocelot Mthrfckrs Remix)

“SMS texting alone is a 100 Billion dollar a year industry!...”
— The True Cost of SMS...

randall of xkcd supports obama

a simple, public declaration: “Please support Barack Obama. I want, for once, someone I can...

Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich...

Sad: “Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich is dropping out of the Democratic race for...

“It’s time to put a bullet to the head of the idea that...”
— Obie Fernandez, What’s...

positive feedback

after a rough week at joyent it’s nice to remember that the vast majority of our customers...

animal collective, grass. makes for an absolutely horrible (read: incredibly effective) alarm...

“Just a quick post to note that RubyForge just went over the...”
— congrats to the developer...

“NO”
— www.AreWeAtWarWithIran.com subs...

“World markets plunge! Newspapers full of down-pointing...”
— For those too young to...

“The study concluded that the statements “were part of...”
— Study: False Statements...

the joy of not being sold anything, banksy.

“I am so ignorant. How do you even subscribe to a blog?”
— good to remember that normal...

Mac OS X and the Missing Probes

#if defined(__APPLE__) /* * If the thread on which this probe has fired belongs to a process marked...