Printout of one of my first Pascal programs from high school. We worked on on beige terminals connected to a DEC machine that booted from a stack of punch cards. I wish I knew the model! Working in that lab felt like wizardry - arcane alchemy. Many of us had 386s […]
Archive for December, 2006
I’ve emerged on the other side of my preferred holiday with a tower of books and a week off of school in which to read them. The first stop is Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Chilling amid the lower priority books on my Hot List for years, it never quite made it […]
Going through some of my college leftovers, I came across an essay from 1985 titled Facts Every Teenager Should Know About Vi by Doug Cooper. Just another example of the brilliant CS writing that came out of the 1980’s.
Back in the days of punched cards, there were no text editors, because punching a card […]
This passage from the FOX Sports website is littered with references to DC punk label, Dischord Records:
REDSKINS 4-9 25 22 26 15 30 15
Its no surprise that theres some unrest among the Redskins fans. They put all their eggs in the Joe Gibbs basket, and the faith was not rewarded. Im sure Daniel Snyder will […]
Fighting the fading history of Haiti’s revolution with a wiki solution
December 14th, 2006 teaching | No Comments »The Louverture Project is a wiki site dedicated to preserving and extending the history of the Haitian Revolution. They intend to cover “the events leading up to the revolution, the rise of Toussaint Louverture as the leader of his country, the revolution’s impact on world history, and much, much more.” This is an […]
I’ve been working late for the last couple of nights and I can’t stop listening to this recording of Kites aka CF live on BSR via nu-Fuji-blog. It’s from 2004 and utterly ripping. There are head-banging parts, and hypnosis parts, and nice nice parts. Snap into it!
I walked into a room yesterday and heard this…
Man! If I were paralyzed and in a wheelchair, I’d have the nicest kicks! Wouldn’t have to worry about creases, puddles, glass.. nothing!
Hearing these statements warmed my heart, filled my glass, relaxed my brow, and cleared the skies over Cambridge.
Unsatisfied with the amount of glockenspiel on Born to Run, Cory Arcangel recorded his own glock parts. I just got the record in the mail and spent an hour trying to sync them up tonight. This is somewhere between trying to play Zep records in reverse on a belt drive turntable and the […]
Clearly I have a significant youtube habit. I am collecting dozens of videos that I want to be able to share but YouTube really fails in this area. Neither my “video log” nor my “playlists” have an RSS feed. Further, neither collection is stored chronologically so it’s unclear exactly how people are […]
This video is blowing my mind. I actually LOL’d and almost fell out of my chair watching it just now.
One more example of the creative possibilities that emerge as more and more people gain access to the tools and methods of media creation and distribution.
I’ve been listening to Ciara’s newest single, Promise all week. The beat is bombastic, dramatic, emphatic, and Ciara sounds nothing like the teen pop singer we know from Goodies and 1, 2 Step. She presents a woman discovering the complexity of adult desire and self-determinism.
Is there anything on the radio like this right […]
