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"Here’s an exercise: The next time you see someone talking about algorithms, replace the term with “God” and ask yourself if the sense changes any. Our supposedly algorithmic culture is not a material phenomenon so much as a devotional one, a supplication made to the computers we have allowed to replace gods in our minds, even as we simultaneously claim that science has made us impervious to religion." Ian Bogost on lazy thinking and simplifications, amongst other things.
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$45, all in one cellular phone module – will do data, albeit over 2G. Still: iiiinteresting. But I imagine hard to get to the UK, because of certification. Sigh.
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All of this is brilliant: fun, skilled, eloquent, a great crowd cheering somebody on. Also: I hadn't realised how hardcore the arcade Tetris games ("Grandmaster") had got. Blimey.
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"Instead of asking “will it scale”, ask a better question: “Does it gracefully handle massive diversity?”… This is not to say that scale doesn’t matter. Rather, understanding diversity is the better starting point. The diversity question accommodates scaling; the scaling question tramples all over diversity." A good post from Matt Edgar, but this point is particularly good.
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Lovely – an encoding designed for people, not machines.
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Great year-in-review from Panic: open, honest, and excited all at once. Envious of the environment and space they've cut for themselves.
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Ooh, these look good: decent earplugs/filters/attenuating devices for non-horrendous cost.
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Quake, rendered in wireframe, spat out as audio and into an oscilloscope. Wow. (The wibbly-wobbly wireframe jitter is beautiful, if you ask me.)
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Nils Frahm makes a mix from his vinyl collection. It's just marvellous, and I'll definitely be listening a few times – not just at Christmas, either.
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All of this.
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Filing these away for future (non-Christmas) reference.