Category: words

  • 1984 was a love story.

    1984 was a love story. austinkleon: Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story, in his Fresh Air interview: When I think of “1984” and “Brave New World,” two brilliant, dystopian books, I remember some of the ideas better in “Brave New World” because I think some of the ideas were stronger and more…

  • theavc: huffpostcomedy: unlikelywords: “It’s a damn travesty that we live in a world where @lindsaylohan gets to host @NBCSNL for the 4th time – but @azizansari remains snubbed.” Kenny Fucking Powers clued me in to this stat and it was obvious people would need graphical evidence of this travesty. As I am inartistic, I got…

  • What if we could see and interact with the output of the code directly? Why isn’t coding more like drawing a picture? How does it come that traditional tools, like pen and paper, are still the benchmark when it comes to connecting the creator with her piece of work? Emanuels Journal: The Tools We Need…

  • What if we could see and interact with the output of the code directly? Why isn’t coding more like drawing a picture? How does it come that traditional tools, like pen and paper, are still the benchmark when it comes to connecting the creator with her piece of work? Emanuels Journal: The Tools We Need…

  • (via xkcd: Kerning)

  • (via xkcd: Kerning)

  • Not “audience”, not “viewers”. These terms are no longer sufficient, they privilege one of the senses over the sensorium. Maybe we have perceivers, participants, and (in ludic works) players. I also don’t like “user”. (trying to get better language)

  • Not “audience”, not “viewers”. These terms are no longer sufficient, they privilege one of the senses over the sensorium. Maybe we have perceivers, participants, and (in ludic works) players. I also don’t like “user”. (trying to get better language)

  • blacksitcoms: Jackée Harry In 1987 Jackée Harry became the first and so far only African-American to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on 227. Robert Guillame In 1985 Robert Guillame won the Outstanding Lead Comedy Actor primetime Emmy Award for the series Benson, making him to this…

  • blacksitcoms: Jackée Harry In 1987 Jackée Harry became the first and so far only African-American to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on 227. Robert Guillame In 1985 Robert Guillame won the Outstanding Lead Comedy Actor primetime Emmy Award for the series Benson, making him to this…