August 2012
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Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder →
By: Rands in Repose
Folks, I’m a nerd. I need rapid fire content delivery in short, clever, punch phrases. Give me Coupland, give me Calvin’n’Hobbes, give me Asimov, give me The Watchmen. I need this type of content because I’m horribly afflicted with NADD.
If you’re still with me, it might mean you know that you already suffer from some type of NADD-related disorder. Let’s find out:
Stop...
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The Classics, Circa 2050 →
By JULIE LASKY NY Times: August 29, 2012
DESIGNED by Philippe Starck in 2002 with an eye to the 18th century, the Louis Ghost chair pays homage to French baroque style. The chair has an oval back and twisted angular arms — fancy stuff for a piece of transparent plastic furniture.
But is it a classic? That’s the claim of its producer, Kartell, which recently announced that 1.5 million Louis...
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Twenty-Seven →
By: Adriane Quinlan The Awl, August 29, 2012
When you turn twenty-seven you start noticing the number, everywhere. Suddenly everyone else is twenty-seven, too: Every athlete and actor, all of the dead people who ever did anything. Your age is everywhere because you, at twenty-seven, are perfect. Just there. Just where you are right now: educated, but no longer preachy; fuckable, without being...
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“The more you document your own life, the more you check in, you tweet, the more...”
– Jonathan Harris
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Interview with a Casino Dealer on cheating →
BY SUZANNE YEAGLEY for McSweeney’s
Q: Do you see a lot of people cheating? A: It goes in waves. There are periods of calm and then the shit hits the fan and lots of things start to happen.
There are organized cheat teams from overseas. Like Hungarian or Ukranian. They’ll play Caribbean Stud, where there is a $100,000 payoff if you get a royal flush.
Q: How do they cheat? A: They’ll put...
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“I had suicidal thoughts when I was young. I fancied myself as a melancholic,...”
– Clive James
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Remember tiny bitmap fonts? →
Silkscreen is a four member type family for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke.
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Colson Whitehead's Rules for Writing →
By COLSON WHITEHEAD NY Times: July 26, 2012
The art of writing can be reduced to a few simple rules. I share them with you now.
Rule No. 1: Show and Tell. Most people say, “Show, don’t tell,” but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they’re like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone...
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“Startups are not magic. They don’t change the laws of wealth creation....”
– Paul Graham on “How to Make Wealth”
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Why China Resents Japan, and Us →
By: PETER HAYS GRIES NY Times, August 23, 2012
LAST week, anti-Japanese protests swept nearly a dozen Chinese cities. Angry demonstrators overturned Toyotas while Japanese restaurants and businesses were vandalized. In the central Chinese city of Chengdu, where thousands protested, some banners declared, “Even if China is covered with graves, we must kill all Japanese!”
The immediate cause for...
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What’s the deal with Dokdo? →
By: Michelle Borok 23, August 2012, Giant Robot
South Koreans want the world to know about Dokdo, aka Takeshima, aka Liancourt Rocks. Korean soccer player, Park Jong Woo scored the biggest audience so far for the Dokdo debate when Korea beat Japan for the Olympic bronze, but lost his chance to be a part of the medal ceremony. He may not get the medal awarded at all, but he does get out of...
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Parrondo's paradox →
Parrondo’s paradox, a paradox in game theory, has been described as: A combination of losing strategies becomes a winning strategy. It is named after its creator, Spanish physicist Juan Parrondo, who discovered the paradox in 1996. A more explanatory description is:
There exist pairs of games, each with a higher probability of losing than winning, for which it is possible to construct a...
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Scientists create new form of matter that can dent... →
by: phys.org
What do you get when you take buckyballs, soak them in a particular solvent and crush them under the pressure of more than 300,000 atmospheres?
The obvious answer is a bunch of crushed buckyballs. But a team of scientists that included University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng has found that by using the right solvent at the right pressure, they created a new form of...
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The Suite bergamasque (French...