johnke.meHorror Synths: Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Synthesizer »
Horror movie blog, Man is the Warmest Place to Hide takes a look at the huge role the Prophet synthesizer plays in 80s horror. This is why the internet is great.
Sublime Text »
The king is dead! Long live the king!
GoldenEye N64 included a full, working Spectrum emulator »
Something they put in as a test and never took out. Completely inaccessible through the console. Still, amazing.
World of the Living Dead »
Browser-based zombie strategy game using Google Maps as a back-end. Gorgeous. Like a HD Urban Dead, which sucked away months of my life.
Why Finish Books? - The New York Review of Books »
This really hits home for me. I’ve been slogging my way through books I haven’t been enjoying and I’ve had enough. As the article points out: “The more bad books you finish, the fewer good ones you’ll have time to start.”
LA Times: "All red meat is bad for you" »
I’ve been seeing a lot of links to news articles about this study saying that red meat is linked to a whole range of health-related risks. The part every news article leaves out, and which the original study takes into considerations, is that people who eat a lot of red meat probably have other lifestyle factors that would contribute to their general health level. From the study: “Men and women with higher intake of red meat were less likely to be physically active and were more likely to be current smokers, to drink alcohol, and to have a higher body mass index.”
Wat »
Gary Bernhardt’s nerd-heavy talk on the various WAT-inducing cases in Ruby and Javascript.
3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash." »
I think a large part of my secret desire to become a writer is just so I can rock a load of LaTeX and use a Makefile – a fucking Makefile – on my writing.
Religious Wars »
Things is to OmniFocus as Vim is to Emacs
I’ve always been a Vim man.
Gaming the system: On the rise of YouTube’s search-friendly “reply girls” »
I know, we all hate spammers. But you’ve got to admire their ingenuity and their grasp of human psychology.