December 2010
How slow was the Commadore 64?
If - on the day of its release - you started playing a Bluray movie, it would still be working on decoding the first frame.
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WatchIt wasn’t a holly-jolly Christmas that year, for many were killed.
Alternative titles for Tron Legacy
Tale of Two Bridges
A Bridges Too Far
House of Bridges
The Big-endian Lebowski
Cra Z <3
True Bit
“The [airline] industry’s big haul is in stark contrast to 2008, when it...”
– Dear Aaron Smith, staff writer at CNNMoney.com,
I’ll see you in the Hague for crimes against the English language, with two counts of exacerbated metaphor.
Sincerely,
A Reader
We took the greatest platform for personal... →
good job everyone
(referring to the internet at large, not just this particular)
Astronomers Find First Evidence Of Multiverse: Our... →
Mysterious opposing group of physicists leer threateningly, claim universe “just fell down the stairs; it’s nothing.”
(link via tragos)
The Two Best Things on the Web 2010
Frank Chimero’s plea for structured, comprehensive surveys of academic fields is very convincing. One of my favorite things this year was listening to Michael Sandel’s Justice (available as a handy podcast) on the drives to and from work. It’s all stuff I read and learned about in college, but it’s nice to be newly grounded in it from a fresh perspective.
Anyways, to...
“By presenting us with a limitless number of nonstopped stories, the narratives...”
– Susan Sontag’s “The Novelist and Moral Reasoning,” as excerpted in Alexander Chee’s excellent essay “I, Reader.”
How to watch the NASA press conference on your Mac
For an organization that regularly sends things into orbit, NASA’s streaming options are woefully limited. Their Quicktime streaming doesn’t seem to work, and their other options are Real Media and Windows Media Player.
BUT, they do have streaming for the iPhone/iPad. And even though they shoo you away if you try to use a Mac, there’s a way to make it work!
The trick is to...