Logicomix: An epic search for truth, “the graphic novel Logicomix was inspired by the epic story of the quest for the Foundations of Mathematics. […] The role of narrator is given to the most eloquent and spirited of the story’s protagonists, the great logician, philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell. It is through his eyes that the plights of such great thinkers as Frege, Hilbert, Poincaré, Wittgenstein and Gödel come to life, and through his own passionate involvement in the quest that the various narrative strands come together.”
Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted. “Why do we assume that because we are given a weapon and awarded for using it, that doing so is right?”
The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future, by Matt Jones
you know who i blame? the lurkers, Danny O’Brien on discussion culture.
Ich sah des Sommers letzte Rose stehn,
Sie war, als ob sie bluten könne, rot;
Da sprach ich schauernd im Vorübergehn:
So weit im Leben, ist zu nah am Tod!
— Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Sommerbild
The XIOMACS desktop environment combines stumpwm, emacs, and various small modules to create a complete power-user desktop.
Down With Minimalism! Clutter Is The Productive Way Forward!, by Giles Turnbull. I clutter my screen with windows.
Stacey is an easier way to create a portfolio site. Simple text-file based publishing tool.
Silence Is Golden, How a pause can be the most devastating effect in music.
Learning Advanced JavaScript, socratic-style slides by John Resig.
Surprises in Mathematics and Theory, a nice compilation.
Interview with Casey Reas and Ben Fry, at Rhizome.
neercs, a libcaca-based screen(1) on steroids.
SGI Octane III, nice specs but, oh, how ugly.
Curved Barrel Machine Gun, 1953, WJW.