posts from 2015 / 12

1. RT @hynek: @nickstenning maybe tricking ppl into clicking on ads is harder than a space station

2. RT @nickstenning: The women and men who wrote the nearly bug-free code that controlled a $4Bn space shuttle and the lives of astronauts wor…

3. 

   ufansius:

   Balls, #16 - Oskar Fischinger

   December 30th, 2015 1:30pm

4. 

   December 30th, 2015 1:30pm

5. RT @debian: Debian is saddened to share the news of the passing of Ian Murdock. We will miss him dearly. https://t.co/1EhZ5BwKSH

6. About to see star wars a second time, looking to see the hateful eight a second time, and the big short a first time, lmk if you wanna see any of the above at the SF Alamo.

7. Are there canonical essays rallying to not Manhattanize San Francisco? I’ve been to Manhattan and except for the weather it is pretty great.

8. Area Man Unblinkingly Guesses That Blood-Line Supremacy Possible Cause Of Successes, Burdens

9. https://t.co/PA1Gl5dyQd

   “My answer is maybe,” he said. “There’s a unique willingness to trust each other here. It’s kind of in our blood.”

10. historical-nonfiction:

    “Sandwich” was the title of an Earl before it meant the food. And the title was a place before it was a title – specifically a town in the English county of Kent. The name is Old English for ‘a trading-centre on sand.’ The sand part is obvious, and the trading-center part come from the Old English word ‘wic,’ a special purpose building such as a trading post.

    December 28th, 2015 10:31am

11. Old man spite is the most hilarious spite. https://t.co/xGUfINKViV https://t.co/FMAHI1xLWL

12. The Hateful Eight was pretty amazing.

13. RT @tastefactory: What the! https://t.co/9OOGetCJoL

14. 

    nevver:

    Don’t

    December 27th, 2015 3:38pm

15. 

    December 27th, 2015 1:04pm

16. RT @wolfpupy: ever since i put all my eggs in one basket i have received unsolicited egg advice, you dont know my life, you dont know what …

17. RT @mtredden: “I still like it and will come back.” https://t.co/yey3H6j7P5

18. 

    Who is Rey?

    adamserwer:

    Ok, this post will contain massive Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers. You’ve been warned. 

    Turn back now. 

    Ok here goes. 

    There are many theories about the as yet unrevealed identity of Rey, the protagonist of The Force Awakens. The most popular one I think, holds that she is Luke’s daughter. After all, she has the ah, Skywalker way with the Force, and the parallels between her and Luke’s modest upbringings are hard to ignore. But I think this is a little too obvious for Abrams, who deliberately pulled a bait and switch implying that Finn was the Jedi hero of the film, when it was really Rey. 

    There are other theories, that she’s Han and Leia’s daughter and Kylo’s sister or possibly twin (I find it hard to believe that two parents finding their daughter after two decades would not see fit to mention it to each other, and both of them clearly know who Rey really is) or that she’s Obi Wan’s granddaughter (not a bad theory, since we hear Obi Wan’s voice during the flashback, but it would require Obi Wan to have broken his vows and abandoned his post watching over Luke). 

    So here is my theory: Rey is a clone of Anakin Skywalker. 

    Think about it: The only reference to the prequels in the entire movie is Ren mentioning the possibility of replacing storm troopers with clones. Rey is great with machines, she’s a fantastic pilot, and she is effortless with the force. Not even Luke was that much of a natural–only ::shudder:: Anakin. This would explain the violence of Rey’s flashback–she was looking at what was essentially a past life. (Obi Wan, on the other hand, had no use for machines, wasn’t a great pilot, and was strong with the Force but not effortlessly). 

    This theory also explains why she is hidden away. It would be extremely hard for a parent to part with a child (if she were Luke’s daughter) but if she were a clone of Anakin, Luke would be more frightened of the possibility of training her, especially given what happened to Kylo Ren. 

    So who cloned Vader? My theory is that Palpatine cloned Vader in case he needed a spare, and that the clone process began as soon as Vader died. Luke and the rebellion find her, and horrified, Luke hides her away, unwittingly replicating his father’s upbringing as a slave on a desert planet (which he had no way of knowing about, not knowing his father well and having all information about him suppressed by those who knew both Luke and Anakin). 

    The other thing about this theory is that it is perfect torture for Kylo Ren: His biggest fear is that he will never be as powerful as darth vader. And Rey IS Darth Vader. Couldn’t be more perfect. 

    So of course maybe I’m wrong, and we won’t find out for a while, but that’s my theory. 

    December 26th, 2015 4:50pm

19. 

    silentauroriamthereal:

    jumpingjacktrash:

    ayellowbirds:

    glampersand:

    fozmeadows:

    I think that might be code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”.

    it is absolutely code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”

    As is the case with boxing, it most likely means that she was precise and methodical. So, yes. She punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy.

    “to the delight of several colliers who were passing” just imagining these coal miner bros standing around all WHOO YOU GO GURL

    I GOT UR HUGE FLOWER HAT BB KICK HIS ASS

    I love the bystanders’ delight!

    December 26th, 2015 1:13pm

20. Every Man Is Responsible For His Own SoulCaliber Player Selection

21. 

    December 26th, 2015 10:08am

22. @grahamvsworld @vogon just learned about calque, the word for a loanword literally translated, that is itself a loanword, as is ‘loanword’

23. Merry Christmas!

24. lucas plz go redo Antiques Roadshow, so’s that when the appraisers ask what’d you bring and people say idk they get nickelodeon slimed

25. 

    December 25th, 2015 8:27am

26. RT @animaldrumss: Actually, stupid doctor, you dont get it. I cant go to bed earlier. the night time is when I read and gain wisdom from my…

27. The Alamo is showing every possible Star Wars tie-in promo before the show. Pictured: the Empire Strikes Back Underoos commercial.

    

    It is excellent. I am definitely up for going to see it there again.

28. 

    my-tumblrisbetterthanyours:

    http://dericksmith.ie/

    December 24th, 2015 8:02am

29. 

    magictransistor:

    Mœbius

    December 23rd, 2015 11:03pm

30. labias:

    Coming back from the club like 

    December 23rd, 2015 11:02pm

31. RT @ibogost: Lucy: “Charlie Brown, you blockhead!”

    Charlie Brown: "Actually, it’s called blockchain, and it is poised to revolutionize p…

32. RFC 91142069 - Message Systems Testing
    Tests MUST be attributable. Tests MUST be labeled. Tests SHOULD not be funny. Tests SHOULD explain.

33. Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be @ Boys.

34. 

    December 21st, 2015 8:12pm

35. 

    nevver:

    Motor City

    December 21st, 2015 8:12pm

36. 

    nevver:

    Xmas Final card, Paul Belford

    December 21st, 2015 8:05pm

37. 

    magictransistor:

    Philip-Lorca diCorcia. New York City. 1997.

    December 21st, 2015 7:43pm

38. RT @lifewinning: Happy solstice, burn all the clocks

39. How to write email: Free-write. Make the last sentence the first. Delete the rest. Revise what’s left. Drop CCs to BCC and say so. Send.

40. RT @freecialis: rehearsing my TED Talk called What if Making A Show of Being Not Care Is Actually Very Care

41. 

    December 20th, 2015 10:15am

42. 

    December 19th, 2015 8:04am

43. 

    December 18th, 2015 6:13pm

44. Two-hour DJ set from Tycho

    jkottke:

    I have really been digging this Burning Man sunrise DJ set from Tycho. (via @arainert)

    December 18th, 2015 5:59pm

45. Me: Hi, please email me when my hair is on fire.
    Vendor: [VENDOR NAME] [ALERT CODE] [RN] Hair may be Flammable
    PS Don’t tell me what to do.

46. nom nom nom

    

47. Angry blacksmith takes on 9/11 truthers

    jkottke:

    One of the most persistent “facts” used by 9/11 truthers is that burning jet fuel can’t generate the temperatures necessary to melt steel beams, therefore something other than airplanes crashing into the WTC towers brought them down, therefore the US government or the Jews or, I don’t know, the buildings’ owners did it to collect the insurance payment.

    In his workshop, blacksmith Trenton Tye easily demonstrates that although it’s true jet fuel can’t burn hot enough to melt steel beams, it can definitely soften the steel past the ability to bear any sort of load.

    December 17th, 2015 6:02pm

48. Adam Kuncewitch

49. RT @sarahjeong: I can’t believe the US Attorney’s name is Capers https://t.co/J0rVa210Aa

50. RT @waxpancake: Your annual reminder of the hidden costs of taking venture capital. https://t.co/w0VCWRwIsi

51. RT @nickmullen: Just tried this beer: dogshit head 90 minute IPA last night. Highly recommend it to my fellow beer experts

52. RT @nickmullen: (brown smear all over my lips and face)
    Well I have to say the dogshit head 90 minute is good but this 120 minute is too mu…

53. 

    samueldelany:

    Samuel Delany reviews the first Star Wars movie, 1977, in Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy.

    December 17th, 2015 7:05am

54. RT @ryanqnorth: walking in a winter wonderland
    ME: where’s bluebird?
    BIRD: gone
    ME: w… who are you?
    bird looks around shiftily
    BIR…

55. Has @twitter archived the engineers supporting Twitter Archives? https://t.co/rPFU6SNkFB

56. William Shakespeare displayed a great variety of expression, producing his plays with a vocabulary of about 1,500 @duckduckgo bang commands.

57. 

    nevver:

    Charles Robinson, The Happy Prince and other stories, Oscar Wilde

    December 16th, 2015 7:28am

58. 

    December 16th, 2015 7:26am

59. RT @direlog: uh. http://t.co/2yYMMwfvWa

60. 

    vintageeveryday:

    Riding an American Star Bicycle down the steps of the United States Capitol, 1885

    December 15th, 2015 10:51pm

61. 

    wowgreat:

    Howard Hodgkin - Indian Sky

    December 15th, 2015 6:15pm

62. 

    seinfeld:

    “Maybe this will become a cool thing… living with your parents.” 

    December 15th, 2015 6:12pm

63. ISIS! ISIS! ISIS!

64. 

    December 15th, 2015 8:22am

65. RT @BigMeanInternet: I freelance for a lot of places and a big zero of them reliably pay within 30 days. Not any https://t.co/vSeqoOdSVB ht…

66. RT @ibogost: ‘Home Alone,’ written by Cormac McCarthy: https://t.co/0FRC507c2Y (via @AdrienneLaF)

67. 

    December 14th, 2015 6:39pm

68. omg

69. Halloween, I nuked my LinkedIn profile and salted it. Recruiter queues are so deep that opportunities keep coming. https://t.co/ZU0rCxY5Pi

70. We need the police to carry tactical legislation passers and tactical gavels so that they can perform the duties of all three branches.

71. 

    thats-the-way-it-was:

    December 14, 1972: Astronaut Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

    Photo: Eugene Cernan 10/13/72 (NASA)

    December 14th, 2015 8:43am

72. But Grant, how can someone so poorly read link the scant few texts they’ve consumed so tenuously without shame? Great question!

73. Rogaway: https://t.co/nvmHQQomOF -> Benda: La Trahison Des Clercs: https://t.co/pfQvlLAclu -> Glennon: https://t.co/kTDizYOKvv

74. 

    December 13th, 2015 5:32pm

75. https://t.co/8dhO2kNUVE nobody on Earth wants to share anything, that’s why sharing’s a lesson, how’s this tired rhetoric so unquestioned?

76. 

    magictransistor:

    D. W. Griffith Presents; ‘The Greatest Thing in Life’ (A Light For Your Cigarette), An Aircraft Picture, 1918.

    December 13th, 2015 12:16pm

77. RT @OldHossRadbourn: 1-EYED OLD MAN: This city, boy. There’s no code. People killed every day. Life ain’t worth a clay brick.

    YOUNG HAMMUR…

78. December 13th, 2015 9:36am

79. 

    December 13th, 2015 9:28am

80. 

    utf2005:

    fluffy-overlord:

    bitchwhoyoukiddin:

    drst:

    unbelievable-facts:

    Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.

    *fistbump*

    Confirmed.  He’s also dumped millions into cancer research.  I really do love Keanu Reeves a lot.

    Keanu Reeves is like the nicest person. He still lives in an apartment/flat and he gives most of his money away to charities and people who need it. He even invites some paparazzi people to sit down and eat with him when he’s at a coffee shop or restaurant. He’s such a nice person.

    December 13th, 2015 9:27am

81. 

    gifttoast:

    When your killer moves need a little help this year, JCPenney has the perfect #GiftToast for you. Looking at you, Left Shark! JCPenney introduces #GiftToast, a new way to tell 2015 what we thought of it with the gifts it needs.  Explore more.

    December 13th, 2015 9:27am

82. RT @BBW_BFF: when a dark secret from your past threatens to destroy the new idyllic life you’ve created for yourself http://t.co/yA895CejOX

83. RT @McGrewSecurity: Fuck mayonnaise

84. RT @SpaceCatPics: The littlest nope ever. http://t.co/mJHclYBzVw

85. Shit, they made me reserve a ticket, now I have to fly to the east coast in winter and cope with seeing friends and family.

    =[

86. Prepare to be disappointed. https://t.co/MtZ68vKEp0

87. 

    sfmoma:

    SubmissionFriday 

     Clara Fialho. Untitled #290, 2015. Watercolor on paper, 12 x 16 inches.

    December 12th, 2015 7:37am

88. 

    December 12th, 2015 7:37am

89. 

    littlebigdetails:

    Evernote - When you have an event in your calendar and create a new note it automatically titles your note with the event name and date.

    December 12th, 2015 7:32am

90. RT @vineyille: [whispering to date while watching Chappie when Chappie first appears on the screen] That’s Chappie

91. @will_torres Vanna? Two Ts!

    It worked on my Mac but then not my phone. Computers! https://t.co/eaUzKe7cOB

92. 

    archatlas:

    Dogs Can Fly Claudio Piccoli

    December 11th, 2015 6:01pm

93. 

    nevver:

    Tattoo you, because.

    December 11th, 2015 6:00pm

94. 

    ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos:

    the consequences of wind

    December 11th, 2015 5:59pm

95. @will_torres 𝑮𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑻 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑫𝑰𝑺𝑷𝑬𝑵𝑺𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑫𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑾𝑨𝑻𝑬𝑹!

96. RT @WorfEmail: All crew,

    Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: https://t.co/FzVbi4Kcoh

    …

97. I just backed NeoPing© on @Kickstarter https://t.co/uMmtQXqb2f

98. 

    worldartcollection:

    Willem de kooning

    December 11th, 2015 9:35am

99. historical-nonfiction:

    From September 7, 1978 to May 9, 1989 skateboards were illegal in Norway. For 11 years Norway was the only country in the world where it was forbidden to buy, sell, or stand on a skateboard.

    December 11th, 2015 9:35am

100. tfw a rude af webmaster thanks you for using a form but doesn’t send a handwritten thank you note, per netiquette. https://t.co/JfT4wgW4KA

101. php is to yin as bash is to yang

     Like, y’all mock the hell outta one, and then squint and offer 10 wellactuallies about the other, smdh.

102. RT @strcpy: I need feedback for my NeoPING kickstarter: https://t.co/89hN2PFHhP

103. OK Santa, fine, I’ll pay. Twitter: this is what a strong monetization game looks like.

     https://t.co/h2h7omylEn https://t.co/kanqbTcv8E

104. 

     thats-the-way-it-was:

     Yoko Ono, John Lennon - December, 1968

     Photo: Susan Wood

     December 9th, 2015 8:23am

105. 

     ufansius:

     紅葉山 (Red Leaves Mountain) - 朱金石 (Zhu-Jinshi)

     December 9th, 2015 8:23am

106. RT @AtomicAnalyst: Roger Fisher’s idea for making the decision to use nuclear weapons less abstract (from March 1981 @BulletinAtomic): http…

107. I have an extra ticket to the 7:30 premier at the Castro Theater tonight, Wednesday the 8th, please invite yourself to join me.

108. If we don’t know who the jerks are out there, and we think somebody should make a list of jerks, and together we start by putting people who haven’t been jerks yet on this list of jerks, we, and the people making the list would be making a grave mistake.

109. Test VLH on one rule before using on others. Use as directed. Not legal in all states, sorry MD, VA, DC. In case of eye contact, apply bour–

110. “Very Likely Hostile” is like a little can of urgency that you can spray on user agents to restore shine and luster. VLH also works on TLDs.

111. I likely analysts who contribute IDS rules to Emerging Threats with “likely” and “very likely” in the message. Now, that’s a spicy ordinal.

112. Surname variant and post-season-handle in The Picture of Dorian Gray, the enemy of my enemy, Dorian Gray, is a jerk. https://t.co/WpOME2ZOLT

113. 

     ms-dos5:

     Airport Card installation instructions for an iBook G3 (Dual USB)

     December 8th, 2015 8:22am

114. 

     December 8th, 2015 8:15am

115. 

     December 8th, 2015 8:09am

116. cya shitlords! https://t.co/rvBEUvyKlQ

117. OH Aspirational Control List

118. 

     December 7th, 2015 7:06am

119. Oh, my. https://t.co/WgHqP67geC

120. RT @aedison: “Add one small onion (finely chopped), then half an onion, then a quarter of an onion, then an eighth of an onion…”–Recipe f…

121. RT @BoobsRadley: My dad once told me bagged cereal was cheaper because the artists who do the boxes are expensive. Hey dads, you can just s…

122. 

     brilliantology:

     sumerianlanguage:

     prokopetz:

     thesparkofrevolution:

     blacktyranitar:

     thesparkofrevolution:

     jakovu:

     dama3:

     tastefullyoffensive:

     Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

     old school hate mail

     Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock

     Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead.
     The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.

     Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole

     More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.

     And we haven’t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:

     • He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.
     • The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

     Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

     But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

     [ source ]

     every time this post comes across my dash (which is often) it has even more cool info attached to it

     As a former student of ancient near eastern archaeology, this whole thread right here makes me incredibly happy.

     I love things like this, these little snapshots of human nature through time. We are all the same, we have always been the same. We can all relate to this guy’s customers 4000 odd years ago. We can probably all think of someone who’s a little bit like Ea-nasir.

     I love this.

     December 6th, 2015 11:50am

123. 

     December 6th, 2015 10:31am

124. merlin:

     SNL - “Close Encounter”

     They were real respctful about it.

     Kate McKinnon is a national treasure.

     December 6th, 2015 10:28am

125. RT @biorhythmist: I’ve watched this 982x https://t.co/WaOQ94kqhN

126. Someone created a bunch of accounts with really long passwords and we ran out of disk space on the pas—Write error: No space left on device.

127. RT @BrilliantMaps: The United States of America From Alaska’s Point of View - https://t.co/IsLBkoO0vS https://t.co/ZwnLgtzbqz

128. @rmondello rad. Reader is a great feature!

129. 

     December 5th, 2015 12:32pm

130. 

     nevver:

     Bomb Science 101

     December 5th, 2015 12:28pm

131. 

     December 5th, 2015 12:28pm

132. 

     magictransistor:

     Bridget Riley. Spiral. 1969.

     December 5th, 2015 12:20pm

133. Third bike’s a charm.

     

134. Finally, a conference named how I feel about all conferences. https://t.co/LUbHWY8NvJ

135. Safari Reader (⇧⌘R) advances and whatever the opposite of advances is the page by block elements with j and k respectively.

136. Everything is like it has always been except for the most recent changes and any suggested changes that don’t propose to revert the recent changes, which I think we can all agree were obviously mistakes because look where we are with them now. The people proposing changes are the problem, while the people doing ok how things are deserve to keep doing ok how things are. This is patently obvious because they are doing ok how things are, and as we agreed, things have always been this way, except for the most recent changes.

137. Who knew the Hells Angels were a Girl Scouts troop?

138. 

     December 3rd, 2015 9:07pm

139. 

     nevver:

     Money makes money

     December 3rd, 2015 9:05pm

140. RT @Michael1979: Me: Bob, it’s pronounced CHANGING, not a-changin’.
     Bob Dylan: ?
     Me: Can someone teach Bob to say CHANGE?
     *David Bowie stan…

141. RT @jenniferdaniel: I don’t read or tweet design theory often but @ilynam’s takedown of Tokyo’s Olympics visual identity is ❚█══█❚ https://…

142. RT @granitetide: The transformation is complete and Trump has taken on his final form as dril https://t.co/assx7YwTmf

143. That’s no moon.

     

144. 

     nevver:

     Nope

     December 2nd, 2015 6:30pm

145. 

     December 2nd, 2015 6:30pm

146. RT @haley: i did it https://t.co/CfxLV01DKY

147. The first pillar of the treaty is non-proliferation. The second is disarmament. The third is to use ASCII^W<strike>HTML</strike>unicode.

148. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Text Markup Weapons recognizes four systems known to possess markup Weapons: Jira, Slack, and Github

149. RT @pbowden: my favorite thing about tech people is they’ll apply deep criticism to a technical problem.

     political? NOPE. SURE EVERYTHING …

150. Tele type mini com
     Console to serial USB port
     KeySpan Serial Assistant Icon
     Twentieth century ray trace vector man https://t.co/Tb6edlqijG

151. In a world. Where networks run on passwords. One jerk. Thinks networks don’t run on passwords. Every morning. https://t.co/8plHDVhmIF

152. oh huh, another mass shooting, if only anything at all could be done differently, how unfortunate, oh well

153. 

     robotindisguise:

     forever the best

     December 1st, 2015 10:45pm

154. 

     thats-the-way-it-was:

     Elephant trainer John Gindle - England, December 2 1946

     Photo: Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty

     December 1st, 2015 10:39pm

155. 

     ms-dos5:

     My Bob screenshot came up on my dash and I remembered that I wanted to add more fires and DOS prompts.

     December 1st, 2015 10:38pm

156. 

     December 1st, 2015 10:37pm

157. RT @imskytrash: this is how pigeons are born https://t.co/NmBkyp5MZB

158. RT @noahmccormack: This German plutocrat explaining why the rich should pay taxes and not be charity barons is pretty excellent. https://t.…

159. Be wary of anyone who considers trust to be a positive security attribute.

160. RT @madeleinedoux: mary immaculately conceives a divine child and instead of being like “holy shit SHE’S God” ppl were like "holy shit she …

161. files and boxes just all over the dang place

162. RT @chriskingstl: By a teacher of the 13 year old killed trying to steal from someone’s car. You know you shouldn’t read comments. https://…

163. 

     grossnational:

     Why did the salmon cross the road?

     November 30th, 2015 10:25pm

164. Safari in full screen with all the chrome hidden really wants to be a thing but that ⌘W will fuck you every time. https://t.co/mp3PtRMThT

165. 

     drilpencils:

     (art/tweet)

     November 30th, 2015 6:42pm

166. RT @AlwynPayne: http://t.co/TnhdbDpAot