Battlebots: an Oral History... was just thinking about that show...

Interactive Panorama of yesterday's rainbow

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"The sudden realization that Hodor might be a Pokemon."
--http://twitter.com/loresjoberg

It has been making the rounds but this "across the decades" cover of Get Lucky (a song I like more in theory than in practice) is terrific:

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Clicking around looking (fruitlessly) for end of Bruins game-- it's kind of hard to believe that the show "Hogans Heroes" happened.

"How embarrassingly essential happiness is."
--http://twitter.com/AsherVo

'Happy Birthday' is the public domain... I'd kind of miss the fake-y songs shows and restaurants put in its place "Happy happy birthday / You know we're all excited / We'd like to sing the real song / But we think it's copyrighted"

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I enjoyed this for the splitscreen fun. And the beards.

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I think people who love Backbone.js think more in nouns, and I think in verbs. It's a profund philosophical interactions vs essence divide.

Amazing rainbow over JP:

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"How do you spell non sequitur? With an orange."
--http://twitter.com/clintmakesagame

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"You know the web dev rule 'don't mix logic+content'? Now think coding: is OOP like html w tables & inline styles? (oop=func+data mixed!)"
--http://twitter.com/McFunkypants

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Racefail in Game of Thrones, specifically the white liberal woman as the saving and humanizing force for all the browns peoples.

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http://kirkdev.blogspot.com/ On my dev blog, quick thoughts on iOS7's "Today" view and what "slide to unlock" should mean.

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"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
--Nathaniel Borenstein

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http://www.yelp.com/biz/ups-customer-center-south-boston -- I think Geek Squad using these guys to send back my fixed camera is a form of punishment. I haven't noticed many Yelp scores that low.

This is an animated GIF scene from a rap battle parody -- the video was a kind of clever parody, pointing out how subjective the "winner" of a battle is, it's all about the belief your entourage has in you...

Love that guy looking like he's losing his mind, and the clever splicing of the video...

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I realized my life would be so much better if there was an easy way of embedding a browser (to make a UI) and maybe a tomcat-ish server as a standalone Java app. Any thoughts?

Another Alien Bill by my co-conspirator James Harvey. Not sure I've ever seen the guy in pants, but at least it sets him apart from that damn Monsters Inc guy.

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PROTIP: if you're trying out the upgrade to iOS7, take screenshots of your homescreens, because icon ordering might not be preserved.

There's a set of behind the scenes movie photos making the round-- my favorite is still that header they use of Brigitte Helm in Metropolis but Frankenstein having tea and a smoke is awesome:

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Sometimes I wish "playback at 1.5x or 2x speed" was standard for all video, especially keynote presentations and TED-like talks.

Quite a whittling talent!

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"Amniotic fluid... is that like Coconut Water?"
--Anthony

6 or 7 weeks in to my CCAE drawing class, and I'm finally drawing something that looks human-ish....instructor thought this was the best one he'd seen from me...

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"'Is easier to empty your pockets when your pants are on.' -Uninspiring Buddha, if pants had been invented then. #zentrousers"
--http://twitter.com/SteveDelfino

I find the end of life decisions of Chester Minitz Jr and Joan Nimitz very admirable and brave.

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Amazing article on some intriguing interpretations of the long term economic climate. Life of compelled leisure might be kind of sort of ok, but getting their is going to be painful. It seems like there would be potential for all kinds of art and beauty, but there's reasonable suspicion that the unwashed masses aren't up for it.

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That article linked to other thoughtful articles on Higher Education as a Bubble and the concept of Peak Capitalism. Hopefully I'm not too pollyanna in liking articles that say big disruptive changes are going to be happening, but it's not the gloom and doom for everyone some other pundits always are banging on about.

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"Actually, a fiction major was probably the best EVER preparation for marketing."
--Hannah Nyren

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I was trying to quantify what seemed off about the masses Zoosk shows me, like vs OKCupid, and I realized: none of them are in glasses. It's like Zoosk doesn't know me at all.

What do I look like sneezing?