Tagged with 'geek-culture'
"A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken"
I’ve been reading Clay Shirky’s writing on social patterns in new media for a few years now, and I love this quote from this video (15 mins):
(Found at Lifehacker)
On the need for game criticism
Greg Costikyan has been saying this for a decade or more, but this is well-written at least:
The truth is that, for the most part, we don’t have anything like…
Nerdcore in the NYT
The New York Times has a spiffy article on Nerdcore Hip-Hop:
It could have been any other hip-hop show, but little details seemed off, like the songs that sampled the epically…
"I Would Rather Be A Jazz Programmer"
I love this idea. Possibly, because I played in my high school jazz band. (Saxophone, fyi.)
I think the other downside to recruiting for a "rockstar programmer"…
Optimistic
I remember, when I was just a little bit younger, feeling that anything (jet packs, colonies on other planets, alien species) was possible; and not only possible, but…
Cool quote
On the other hand, just muddling along is expensive, dangerous, and depressing.
- From an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, credited as the inventer of C++…
"Against Entropy"
Against Entropy
The worm drives helically through the wood
And does not know the dust left in the bore
Once made the table integral and good;
And suddenly the…