Back from Paris
9 May 2012, mid-morning
Expect the links to flow freely once more.
- Google is making a huge and annoying mistake.
Another example of Google pushing Google+ a little bit too hard.
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- Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry.
Tech blogs are mostly filled with garbage and often feel like a bit of a circle jerk.
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- Go right on YouTube. (via Waxy) #
- "Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley's Brogrammer Problem.
Incase you were looking for other reasons to ignore Path.
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- How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre.
“Say what again, mother fucker.”
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- Aeropress “Ritual†on Vimeo.
Dude should reuse those filters! As i’ve said before, the Aeropress is the best.
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- TSA has no idea how to screen a 7-Year-Old with Cerebral Palsy.
The TSA doesn’t know how to do a lot of things.
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- Obama slow jams the news.
Oh Obama, how can I stay mad at you?
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- Descriptive Camera.
I won’t be happy till I own a little thermal printer thing.
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- Best Of MetaFilter.
A new subsite on MetaFilter highlights some of their great links and comments.
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- The Verge at work: sync your text everywhere, never lose an idea again.
A great overview on The Verge on how to use SimpleNote and Notational Velocity to make your (note taking life) life better.
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- Introducing Google Drive... yes, really.
It’s been rumoured to be coming for ages now. It looks to be part Dropbox competitor, part upgrade to Google Docs. The best quote I’ve read about this whole thing is the following: ‘Awesome! Google Drive is live. Now I can put all my data into something they’ll cancel in 3 months.’
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Old School D&D
24 April 2012, early morning
I’ve been on a serious D&D kick recently. (That would be Dungeons and Dragons, the nerdiest thing ever.) I discovered a few weeks ago, via Kickstarter, that the version of D&D I played when I was a little kid is still “popular”. There is a sub-culture of a sub-culture that is all about playing old-school D&D. People play versions of the game from the 70s and early 80s, and speak disdainfully about the version of the rules being sold today.
There are retro-clones of the old games, so if you don’t own a copy Red Box D&D you can pick up Labyrinth Lord which more or less reprints the rules in a way that avoids a copyright infringement suit. If you prefer the first edition of AD&D you can grab a copy of the OSRIC. There are also modern day re-imaginings of the old-style game. I recently grabbed a copy of Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, which is very much its own game, but one clearly inspired by the same things that inspired the original D&D.
There are countless blogs all about this movement. Grognardia, written by James Maliszewski of Toronto, seemingly the most popular. It was from Grognardia that I learned about Loviatar, a D&D zine. I ordered a couple issues of Loviatar last week, and they arrived last night. I never get mail, let alone mail with my address written out in pen. It felt good. The little booklets were an enjoyable read as well.
I’m planning on converting funkaoshi.com into a D&D blog: stay tuned!
- Zero to twelve years old in under three minutes.
It’s similar to what Noah Kalina did with his self portraits, but the video snippets feel more fluid.
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- Inside the 1960 Democratic National Convention.
Some newly discovered photographs by Garry Winogrand.
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- When life hands you cancer, make cancer-ade.
I hate it when stories like this are flogged in media as “feel-good” stories. This story should make America feel ashamed, not feel good. Seriously? A working father gets cancer, and the family has to rely on charity, and a lemonade stand manned by a 6 year old, to obtain life-sustaining medical treatment? Fuck this.
Seriously. There is nothing feel good about this story.
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HackTO 2012
18 April 2012, mid-morning
My coworkers and I participated in the HackTO 2012 over the weekend.
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