Something More Than a Machine

Crush, Texas: I don't know why, but this article about Crush, TX and the train-wreck-as-public-spectacle fascinates me. I wonder what the modern day equivalent would be?
Reblogged May 27, 2008 at 03:40 PM #

Directly manipulating videos: Innovative way to navigate through a video timeline.
Reblogged May 23, 2008 at 02:39 PM #

Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks: Want to write shorter, cleaner code? Have an unfortunate situation where you need to fit as much as you can in one expression? Prefer a quick dose of hacks to spending the rest of your life reading the docs? You've come to the right place.

Reblogged May 22, 2008 at 02:24 PM #

Design Will Define You (Whether You Embrace It or Not): Good design reflects the core of what you stand for and what/who you value

Reblogged May 22, 2008 at 02:00 PM #

The Covers Project: A cover chain is a set of songs in which each RECORDING is a cover of a RECORDING by the ARTIST who covered the preceding song.

Reblogged May 12, 2008 at 01:50 AM #

IKEA: Flat-pack accounting: If you ever wondered why IKEA seems so charitable -- what, with the low-price breakfast, free childcare, allegedly great employee benefits and in some cases free room and board for traveling customers, it may be because IKEA is in fact a Dutch not-for-profit foundation dedicated to "innovation in the field of architectural and interior design". Fascinating read.
Reblogged May 8, 2008 at 08:33 PM #

The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher: Interesting essay from 1991. I admit I've been out of the loop and can't speak for today's public education climate, but I can say this is an accurate depiction of my experience in high school -- and to a lesser extent, middle school. Unfortunately, most private schools are either religious or disciplinary in nature and the home-schooling movement is dominated by religious fundamentalists and paranoid schizophrenics. Choice quote:
"School" is an essential support system for a vision of social engineering that condemns most people to be subordinate stones in a pyramid that narrows to a control point as it ascends.
and bonus:
We cannot afford to save money, not even to help children.

Reblogged May 7, 2008 at 01:13 PM #

Colours Are Brighter: Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, The Kooks and Four Tet are amongst the artists contributing to a collection of children’s songs curated by Belle and Sebastian, to raise funds for children’s charity, Save the Children.

Reblogged May 6, 2008 at 08:12 PM #

Thom Yorke - Atoms for Peace (Four Tet remix): Don't know how I missed this.
Reblogged May 6, 2008 at 07:53 PM #