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  • Another is the clothes hanger, which dates back to 1903 when Albert J. Parkhouse arrived for work at a lampshade frame factory in Jackson, Michigan, only to find that all of the coat hooks were taken. He made something to hang his coat on by bending a piece of wire into an elongated triangle and…

  • “It’s like twitter. Except we charge people to use it.”

  • But many creatives out there dream of earning enough from their art to pursue creative work full-time. It seems counter-intuitive to think that giving away one’s creative output could serve that goal, but obscurity = poverty. Perhaps even worse, obscurity = no one can hear the really important thing you have to say. But if…

  • Musica Globalista: Ellen Allien at Electro Venice 2010 | Beyond The Beyond

    Musica Globalista: Ellen Allien at Electro Venice 2010 | Beyond The Beyond Bruce Sterling shares an appreciation for DJ Ellen Allien’s performance at Electro Venice, with a link to 10 minute YouTube video.

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  • DrPetter’s homepage – sfxr This is a little tool I made in connection with the 10th Ludum Dare competition held in December 2007. Its original purpose was to provide a simple means of getting basic sound effects into a game for those people who were working hard to get their entries done within the 48…

  • Make 8-bit video game sounds with cfxr / sfxr (via Torley) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Third Cog Software – Cfxr cfxr is a Mac port of DrPetter’s sfxr. In his own words: Its original purpose was to provide a simple means of getting basic sound effects into a game for those people who were working hard to get their entries done within the 48 hours and didn’t have time to…

  • Three ways of looking at Steve Jobs (Best of Kottke)

    Three ways of looking at Steve Jobs (Best of Kottke)

  • immerse yourself in code: Formspring: Is Code difficult to learn?

    immerse yourself in code: Formspring: Is Code difficult to learn? immerseyourselfincode: Depending on what you want to do with it the answer could be “yes” or “no”. If you are passionate and determined, have clear goals that are within your current stage of learning, and you are very focused – it isn’t difficult at all.…