February 2010
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“Perhaps that’s not the same as truly driving us toward faith. But perhaps...”
– GameSpy: God’s PR Problem: The Role of Religion in Videogames - I am genuinely surprised, and impressed, by this article’s exploration into the role religion plays in video games. Surprised that it’s asking serious questions (on a level I haven’t seen since Next Generation...
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WatchSuper Mario Galaxy 2 Video Game, Nintendo Media Summit Trailer HD | Game Trailers & Videos | GameTrailers.com - Awesomeness!
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“The only problem with these new Vista typefaces is that they’re only distributed...”
– JeffCroft.com: An open letter to Apple and Microsoft - This letter is three and a half years old now, but it’s never too late to stop hoping Microsoft and Apple will arrange an agreement to provide Microsoft’s ClearType Font Collection to OS X users for free (similar to the Core fonts...
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“Jason Garrett-Glaser, currently lead developer of x264, on the state of Internet...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Flash, Google, VP8, and the Future of Internet Video - I’d venture to add “thorough” to the list of adjectives for Jason’s piece.
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Sweden's high court rules against ad breaks →
sidkan:
The Supreme Administrative Court ruled that when pubcast TV4 took commercial breaks during the most thrilling moments of films “Leon” and “Clear and Present Deanger,” [sic] it violated the “integrity and the value” of the films.
The article could just as well be headlined, “Swedish high court outlaws tastelessness”. It’ll be a cold day in hell when America comes...
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“Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world’s...”
– Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation - If Google heeds this letter’s advice, the web would change for the better overnight.
Update 7/17/10: They did.
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“The deckle edge dates back to a time when you used to need a knife to read a...”
– The Millions: Deckle Edge in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Interesting.
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“There are many ways to look at the past: as a list of important dates, a...”
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An Edible History of Humanity « tomstandage.com - Wishlisted.
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“That pain, the way my aspirations were dashed, that’s going to find its...”
– Quentin Tarantino: The Inglourious Basterds Interview - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice - Tarantino, about how he works within genre to express himself more earnestly than he could by working outside of it. Solid interview.
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Speech Accent Archive →
The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.
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BBC - A History of the World - Programmes →
“A History of the World in 100 Objects.”
I only wish it were available in a more open, archivable format.
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“It was on the sound mixing stage when we were expecting a wire transfer that...”
– The Aughts (and The Aught-Not- Haves) | Mediaite - I’m not a fan of Eli Roth’s movies, and until this article I wasn’t really a fan of him either. But I can’t help but have some respect for the guy after reading this article (written by him) about breaking into the film...
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“Synecdoche, New York” is the best film of the decade. It intends no less...”
– The best films of the decade - Roger Ebert’s Journal - A great list of great films.
I still have not seen Synecdoche, New York, unfortunately. For me, it’s Kaufman’s honesty, his frankness in his work that makes it so powerful and meaningful and admirable. In a time when we are...
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WatchLegend.
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Poets on Poets →
The Poets on Poets project is an audio archive that testifies to the continued importance of Romanticism in the contemporary poetry world. The premise of the collection is simple: we have asked practicing poets from around the world to read a Romantic-period poem that they particularly admire and that has influenced the way in which they think about their craft. The results are gathered here.
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“The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government,...”
– CIA - The World Factbook - Like Wikipedia, but official.
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PennSound →
Related to the previous post, an audio archive of authors reading. Includes many contemporary authors. Needs a redesign something awful (to better organize what’s in there).
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HarperAudio →
From Robert Frost to T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes to J.R.R. Tolkien, a collection of recordings of various authors reading their work.
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“Phones looked like PCs, but a phone is not a PC, it’s smaller, more...”
– Microsoft CEO unveils Windows Phone 7 - PCWorld - Thanks for discovering that for us, Joe. Never woulda guessed it otherwise.
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Intel, Micron announce 25nm NAND flash production →
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This is the tipping point for SSDs to become mainstream.
Currently, good SSDs (the bad, cheaper ones generally aren’t worth buying) are small and expensive. Intel’s excellent X25-M series, the gold standard, is about $450 for 160 GB.
SSDs based on this 25nm flash are likely to offer 160 GB in the $200 range and 320 GB in the $500 range.
I’m really excited by this, too....
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“I asked Kaminsky if it were possible for him to talk about how he hears his own...”
– San Diego Reader | Tie This Guy Up, Make Sure He Stays at SDSU - Thomas Lux, under whose wing I am privileged to have studied, interviews Ilya Kaminsky, a poet from Odessa. My girlfriend recently had the pleasure of attending Kaminsky’s class at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and like Lux,...
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“Everything we did was entirely absorbed in the act of doing it, in wanting to do...”
– When I Was a Very Small Boy: Observatory: Design Observer - Beautiful words from Ettore Sottsass, designer of the famous red Olivetti typewriter.
(via clusterflock)
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“In the realm of industrial design, Dieter Rams is Yoda.”
– THE Q&A: DIETER RAMS, INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER | More Intelligent Life - This interview with Dieter Rams deserves a link for two reasons. One, it’s Dieter Rams. And two, that quote is the first sentence of the article.
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“Alcohol tweaks mind wandering in a particularly interesting way, as Schooler and...”
– Who doesn’t want to write a serious, scientific paper called “Lost in the Sauce”? Ha!
That particular quote comes from an article on DISCOVER Magazine online, but the link for this comes from Lloyd Morgan’s wonderfully curated Lone Gunman: In Search of the Infogasm. Another...
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WatchA sometimes-enlightening discussion of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. The film historian is an average scholarly bore at best, and the production values of this program leave something to be desired, but McDowell and Burgess are great. (via Google Video)
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“What’s left out from these movies is as important and beautiful as what’s...”
– Subtraction.com: Minimalism, Michael Mann and Miami Vice - While I don’t think Mann is doing anything particularly unique among the works of other great directors (see the films of Jean-Pierre Melville, Stanley Kubrick, Wim Wenders, Michelangelo Antonioni, Terrence Malick, etc., and...