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thisistheverge: Play practically every game for five vintage consoles in your web browser The Internet Archive is on a mission to ensure that decades-old software isn’t lost to the vicissitudes of time — and that anyone can use it on the web for free. In October, that meant releasing a Javascript port of the extremely…
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The trouble with Twitter isn’t that it’s full of inanity and self-promoting jerks. The trouble is that it’s a solution to a problem that shouldn’t be solved. Eighty percent of the battle of writing involves keeping yourself in that cave: waiting out the loneliness and opacity and emptiness and frustration and bad sentences and dead…
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murketing: Stephen Doyle: A Few Words “Words,” The New York Times, Op-Ed, August 13, 2003 From this slideshow and essay on Doyle’s work by William Drenttel. Read a selection of Drenttel’s writing, assembled by Rick Poynor, here.
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Seasonal visitors from Canada, sometimes as many as thirty.
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prostheticknowledge: Selfie Obliteration Online webtoy by whichlight takes your webcam selfie and disintegrates it with pixel sorting – the results of which are turned into a GIF and can be posted on your Tumblr blog: 2013 was the year of the selfie. 2013 is over. Welcome another you. You can try it out for yourself…
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paperbits: MicroSD Cards contain hackable CPUs: Bunnie Huang has found that SD cards contain CPUs with vulnerabilities, which allow arbitrary code execution. On the dark side, code execution on the memory card enables a class of MITM (man-in-the-middle) attacks, where the card seems to be behaving one way, but in fact it does something else.…
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theories-of: Catharine Ahearn Untitled, 2013 gouache, india ink and dyes on canvas 244 x 122 cm
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In my explorations of the electronics markets in China, I’ve seen shop keepers burning firmware on cards that “expand” the capacity of the card — in other words, they load a firmware that reports the capacity of a card is much larger than the actual available storage. The fact that this is possible at the…
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kenyatta: comicsworkbook: Eleanor Davis / The Emotion Room I sometimes think that there’s a entire generation that took the “u laugh u lose” thing way too seriously.