Monthly Archives: January 2009

links for 2009-01-30

Bruce Sterling: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic Distilled Sterling concentrate. Happy new year! (tags: bruce.sterling future politics science)

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links for 2009-01-29

Star Wars: A New Heap – Triple Canopy Post-everything look at the original Star Wars trilogy. Noteworthy in that it doesn't mention Joseph Campbell once. (tags: architecture criticism modernism star.wars design history)

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Zombies In Area! Run!

From KXAN in Austin.

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“These Guys Are From England And Who Gives A Shit”

The unintended consequences of not checking your art. Some background on all of this. (wow, that was 17 years ago!)

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Calculating bi-weekly intervals in FileMaker

Today’s vexing problem in FileMaker was in calculating bi-weekly intervals (as in a payroll period) without using a lookup table. For example, given a payroll period of: Start End 11 Jan 2009 24 Jan 2009 25 Jan 2009 7 Feb … Continue reading

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links for 2009-01-23

Henchman's Helper Instant surveillance and monitor screens for the wall of your lair (tags: data surveillance weather video)

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NBS Nightly News with Ted Philips, March 11th 1970

I’ve been keeping a benign distance away from any of the viral marketing for the Watchmen movie, but this news report is pretty damn cool. Fonts, clothes, and design aesthetic seem spot-on. More at The New Frontiersman.

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Center For Visual Music’s “Essential Visual Music: Rare Classics”

I’ve shouted at length here before about Oskar Fischinger, MOCA’s Visual Music exhibition, and the occasional program from the Center For Visual Music. CVM shows are kinda rare and extremely worthy. Well worth the effort to attend. Here are a … Continue reading

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So what’s in the envelope that Bush left for Obama?

(An exercise in stream of consciousness…) via Boston Globe’s The Big Picture In this handout photo provided by the White House, a folder for U.S. President Barack Obama (the 44th president) is shown, left for him by Former U.S. President … Continue reading

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Running The Numbers III: 2008 in Music

Albums released in 2008 that I listened to more than once and still have a non-trivial number of songs in my iTunes library as of today. Best way I can think of to describe what I liked last year without … Continue reading

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