Icky Blossoms is one of the most danceable bands around and I have a crush on their music. I saw them in a tiny venue in some hotel in NYC and they blew me away (then I saw them open for The Faint and I was blown even further away). “Heat Lightning” is probably my favorite song on their current album but they are all fantastic. (Good job choosing the opening song for your album, guys!)
The 30 Most Hilarious Autocorrect Struggles Ever
These autocorrect failures made me laugh so hard that my throat started to hurt and I couldn’t finish reading them.
“I stand up next to a mountain” – Want to know how a bulked-up Quetzalcoatlus would compare to a giraffe?
UPDATE: The Flickr link is dead, instead here’s a relevant link: 9 things you may not know about giant azhdarchid pterosaurs
Why do I @#$%ing love everything the Front Bottoms do? I had to reblog this video for the fireworks, if nothing else.
UPDATE: The Front Bottoms violate basically every fireworks safety guideline / regulation in this video, so don’t try this at home. If you want to learn how to shoot fireworks safely I recommend taking the PGI Display Operator Certification course. The PGI has a perfect safety record and are experts at using fireworks responsibly.
There was an old joke. Miller didn’t remember where he’d heard it. Girl’s at her own father’s funeral, meets this really cute guy. They talk, hit it off, but he leaves before she can get his number. Girl doesn’t know how to track the guy down.
So a week later, she kills her mom.
Big laugh.
It was the logic of [certain mass murderers]. “Here is the problem,” they said to themselves, “and there is the solution.” That it was drowned in innocent blood was as trivial as the font the reports were printed in.
“Leviathan Wakes” by James S. A. Corey
This song is perfection. The safety measures that The Lonely Island advocates in “YOLO” are only slightly more absurd than “safety” proposals that gain traction in real life.
RIP Aaron Swartz. I only met him once, at the Free Culture Phase 2 conference (he’s all the way to the left in this photo), but I use reddit and RSS and Creative Commons just about every day. These things and many others would not be the same without his contributions, and I’m sorry that I’ll never have the opportunity to somehow return these favors.
The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing
A compelling glimpse of the future from Cory Doctorow, and also a beautiful and unique way of displaying an article that started as a slideshow presentation.
Just did the git tutorials at http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git and http://openhatch.org/missions/git … I liked OpenHatch better.
The Code School tutorial is prettier and more noob-friendly because it doesn’t require you to install anything on your machine, it has a terminal right in the browser. I also liked the integration between Code School and Github. However, it seems to be “on rails” in the sense that your actions don’t necessarily change the outcome. For example, I tried entering in slightly different commit messages than the ones suggested, and it accepted my commits and advanced me to the next “level”, but when I viewed the commit messages later in the tutorial the commit messages were the ones they suggested, not the slightly different versions I actually input.
On the other hand, the OpenHatch mission required you to download and install Git, which may be less noob-friendly and present a larger barrier to entry, but is more effective at the goal of making people into (minimally) effective contributors to open source projects. By the end of the OpenHatch mission you can be confident that you are able to use the basic functions of git to create patches and send them to upstream projects. I also liked that you had a real git repository on your machine to play with, and your actions had real consequences.