Happy Father's Day
19 June 2011, early evening
Today is Father’s day. This is the first year I celebrate the day as a father. Shima made me t-shirt to commemorate the occasion.
That’s what I’m talking about.
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- The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High.
Jay Kang discusses gambling addiction. (In general, and his own.) This is some excellent reporting.
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- The invention of email.
Errol Morris’ brother might have co-written the first working email system.
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- Tech Investors Feel an Aura of Hope, a Touch of Dread.
The NYT looks at the (horrible) Internet start up Color, which raised $41 million dollars and basically accomplished fuck all. This is what a bubble looks like: people investing in ideas scribbled on napkins.
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- Tally Ho! Exposing the City’s Mindless Math.
City Hall fucking up? Shocking!
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- The Role of the Prison Guards Union in California's Troubled Prison System.
An average prison guard in California makes more than an average assistant professor. They also have better retirement and pension benefits than teachers.
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- The long and winding tunnel.
We are never getting new subways.
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- Basetrack's Photostream.
Street photography from Afghanistan.
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- Time-compressed panoramas.
I enjoy smart uses of the photochop. Peter Funch is great as well.
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- Dear Photograph.
This blog is absolutely wonderful.
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- Name-ache.
Sepia Mutiny discusses a song by Vivek Shraya.
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- Download Elzhi's Elmatic Mixtape Now.
Detroit rapper Elzhi has made produced a mixtape hommage to Nas’ Illmatic. And it’s good.
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- Sarah's Inbox.
Sarah Palin’s released emails presented as if you’re logged into her webmail account.
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- Google add's Search by Image to their search repertoire.
I wonder what this will mean for Toronto’s TinEye.
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- Sri Lanka's Killing Fields.
Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
With disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians the programme features devastating new video evidence of war crimes – some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.
I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet, but it’s apparently all kinds of insane.
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- YouTube: Conan O'Brien's 2011 Dartmouth College Commencement Address.
It’s quite good. It’s interesting to hear him get a little bit serious as well.
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- Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator.
TeleHack is absolutely amazing.
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- FaceFacts.
This is a particularly harsh take down of FaceBook. Jason Scott is pretty awesome.
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- YouTube: Bike Lanes.
“A little movie about a ticket I got for riding my bike not in the bike lane.”
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- How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code.
The Atlantic takes a look at Project Euler.
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- olduse.net: a real-time historical exhibit.
“Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago.”
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- Live from WWDC 2011.
Relive the entire keynote, in case you missed it. They announced some pretty awesome stuff.
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