May 2012
93 posts
Humble Mumble: Introducing Humble Indie Bundle V! →
humblebundle:
Our newest collection of incredible games has arrived—say hello to Humble Indie Bundle V!
Be sure to watch it in HD!
If you’re new to the rodeo, here’s the breakdown. For two weeks, you can pay whatever you want to get these DRM-free games on Windows, Mac, and Linux:
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I learned a neat photoshop trick!
It’s really just a quick and dirty trick. By the end you’ll have something that looks a little bit like a line drawing, and would be a good starting point for further editing.
Here’s an imgur album of the full-sized screenshots, since they’re super small here.
Oh and I used this picture from flickr.
A possible explanation for why tumblr is mostly...
The time span of the various communities have been in existence long enough that the “it started with X gender” argument is not true. Facebook started primarily as male, because men are more likely to be early adopters. But as a product progresses (a la facebook) the gender evens out.
The real question is: why haven’t the genders balanced out over the long life span of these two applications?
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This is so ugly in real life: Arnhem Central /...
[shared via Google Reader from ArchDaily]
Courtesy UNStudio. © Ronald Tilleman
Architects: UNStudio, Ben van Berkel with Arjan Dingsté and Marc Hoppermann, Marc Herschel, Derrick Diporedjo, Kristin Sandner, Rein Werkhoven Location: Arnhem, the Netherlands Client: ProRail, utrecht Engineering: Movares Contractor: DAM-Dura Vermeer Gross Roof Area: approximately 8700 m2 Dimensions: 4...
The Return of D'Angelo - excellent article on... →
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Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome
[shared via Google Reader from Ars Technica]
Aurich Lawson
In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF).” David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University’s Department of Psychology at the time)...
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The AOL hotel
[shared via Google Reader from kottke.org]
Eric Simons is a 19-year-old entrepreneur who lived for two months in the AOL HQ in Palo Alto. Simons was given a badge while participating in Imagine K12, an education incubator housed at AOL. When the program ended, Simons’s badge continued to work. So he stayed, sleeping on one of three couches, showering in the gym, and eating for free in the...
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Mind = blown →
Ayyo this the Big Ghost aka the Mighty Hands of...
This is long, but worth reading. Re: the fresh...
for real the narrative of fresh prince is kinda fucked up. he goes to live an upperclass life and gradually forgets his roots in philly where his own biological mother lives to fend for herself. he goes back in one episode but his three friends are a charicature of blacks, especially the one big guy who is almost retarded. he is eventually “rescued” by carlton and they safely make it...
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Joe Kickass - Unga Bunga feat. Portformat
http://bit.ly/Jniq7X
So I just went to go see the Avengers because...
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I burn the competition like a flamethrower
My...
