Sledgehammer and whore, a great story from a screenwriter named Josh, which details an unusual break-in at his office and how it could be pitched as a show.
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Sledgehammer and whore
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July 28 2010, 12:47pm | Comments »
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Vintage firing control computer
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A US Navy training film describing the mechanical computing involved in vintage firing control mechanisms.
July 28 2010, 8:43am | Comments »
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Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy
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Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy
July 28 2010, 6:37am | Comments »
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Street-fighting Mathematics
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Sanjoy Mahajan’s book, Street-fighting Mathematics, is about the art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving. In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don’t just stand there! This engaging book is an antidote to the rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. The book is available in traditional dead-tree format and also for download under a Creative Commons license.
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July 27 2010, 4:26am | Comments »
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Presets – Lightroom iPad Export Settings | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips
http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/presets-lightroom-ipad-export-settings/
July 26 2010, 1:02pm | Comments »
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Squared
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davekellam/4816583474/
July 21 2010, 2:23pm | Comments »
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Dieter Rams ethos
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A video about the design ethos of Dieter Rams.
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July 21 2010, 1:38pm | Comments »
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MacPaint source
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Apple has donated the the MacPaint source code to the Computer History Museum. Bill Atkinson was responsible for the code, including QuickDraw, which formed a large portion of the MacOS. A reporter asked Steve Jobs, “How many man-years did it take to write Quick Draw?” Steve asked Bill, who said, “Well, I worked on it on and off for four years.” Steve then told the reporter, “Twenty-four man-years”. Obviously Steve figured, with ample justification, that one Atkinson year was the equivalent of six ordinary programmer years. The main source is written in Pascal, and is quite beautiful to read — you can tell that he took pride in it. The rest of the code is written in assembler language for the 68000 processor.
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July 21 2010, 11:46am | Comments »
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Riepl’s Law
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In 1913, Wolfgang Riepl, chief editor and a Nuremburg daily, made this statement in his dissertation concerning ancient modes of news communications. New, further developed types of media never replace the existing modes of media and their usage patterns. Instead, a convergence takes place in their field, leading to a different way and field of use for these older forms. The old doesn’t necessarily die out. In some instances, the old methods are absorbed or recycled into a new form. In others cases, those methods are refined and distilled down to their essence.
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July 20 2010, 4:13am | Comments »