Dennis Rodman spent the weekend partying with Kim Jong-un.
#“The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero.”
#A nice visual aid to help teach what the hell is going on when you mess around in Git.
#Put This On recommends buying a warm cardigan. Fuck that noise. Who wants to live in a cold house, like an animal?
#Who thought that was a good idea?
# [1]This happens in real life?
# [1]Say what you will about Groupon, and how it might be a giant ponzi scheme, this resignation letter has to be one of the best i’ve read in ages. If you name drop Battletoads you are A-OK in my books.
#On the rise and fall of Gowalla.
#I didn’t realize 2.0 was on the horizon.
#An excellent retrospective on the rise and fall and rise of the link blog. I copied Kottke and started posting my del.icio.us links on my site around 2004 as well. As Daragh mentions in the article, this sort of thing used to be fairly complex. (My post on how I first did it reads kind of crazy now. Even now, to get my links and posts displayed the way they are on this site is more work then you would think it would be.)
# [2]the name warsan means good news in the somali language. i hated it. i despised my name. i wanted to be called something soft, something that ended with an “ah” sound. my name is difficult to whisper into the side of my face. my name is easy to use with a hard voice. i appreciate that now. the hesitation on the other side of the phone. the way they would replace my name with ‘baby’. give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right. my mother calls me ‘warsanay’. if a man ever tried to call me that, it means he understands that i am someone’s daughter. it means i’ll let him call me down from a long building. praise my grandmother, warsan baraka. my father’s mother. the woman i was named after.
— the birth name by Warsan Shire
26 February 2013, late afternoon
2005 using a Canon S30:
2009 using a Ricoh GR Digital II:
2013 using a Ricoh GR Digital IV:
By coincidence i’ve ended up taking a photo of myself in a bus shelter every 4 years. I should go back to the Gladstone and take another one there.
Callie Mitchell gave her child up for adoption, documenting her thoughts about the process in words and photographs. It’s a little bit heart breaking.
(via MetaFilter) #I stopped paying attention to much of the post-war writing about Sri Lanka, since it’s all kind of a downer. Apparently the author of this article has written a book about the conflict, Still Counting the Dead.
#I missed the Oscars, so I apparently missed MacFarlane being really horrible. Still, if there were no 2013 Oscars we wouldn’t get to enjoy Jennifer Lawrence’s hilarious winner’s press conference interivew.
#A gesture based colour palette generator. This thing is fantastic.
# [1]Oh shit this looks amazing. I need to force Shima to sit down and just watch all of the second season already.
#“According to the Society for Community Organization, 100,000 of the city’s laborers live in sub-divided apartment units averaging 40 square feet (3.7 sq m).” These photographs are insane.
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