March 2013
5 posts
This is about basic worker fairness.
Didn’t want to lose this link-
February 2013
2 posts
“the One Percent Party is the most successful political enterprise in American history.” Great article by Will Bunch.
January 2013
6 posts
In his writing tips, Max Sebald echoes T. S. Eliot’s notion of idea incubation and the concept of unconscious processing in creative work, something iconic designer Paula Scher has captured aptly in her slot machine metaphor for creativity.
More famous advice on writing here.
(via explore-blog)
Exhibit A: Jonathan Coulton’s cover of “Baby Got Back,” released 8/14/2005.
Exhibit B: Glee’s cover of “Baby Got Back,” due to air on 1/24/2013
There’s (understandably) a lot of anger on the internet about this, and it’s clear that if this is an actual recording…
The people who swallow this stuff are the people hoarding guns. Be afraid, be very afraid (and, I don’t know, maybe arm yourself? - those people are nuts!).
December 2012
8 posts
“The trick — and it’s imperfect and can take a while, but — is simply to write something else. Don’t let your hands go cold. Don’t let yourself stop thinking. Shift to something different. I think it was Robert Silverberg who used to do his (type)written correspondence on bad days, and then “trick” himself into writing by slipping manuscript paper into the machine once his fingers were flying…”
Click the title for a link to the rest of the piece
I was about to post this myself, when I saw that Kadrey had beaten me to it.
The BBC is sharing some of the sound effects they used on the radio in the 1960 as part of a broader Web audio project they’ve been working on. In the collection called Recreating the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop using the Web Audio API, they offer explanations of the effects and the technical information associated with the API (which you don’t need to understand), and most importantly they offer that you “have a play” with the virtual devices. The Wobbulator is calling to you.
