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Aesthetics and digital technology: this week Paul and Rich talk to writer Virginia Heffernan about her new book, Magic and Loss: The…

Track Changes is one of my favorite new podcasts, and this was maybe the best episode so far.

(That’s two “bros” in one moniker, by the way, an effect even the scriptwriters of “Silicon Valley” wouldn’t have gone for. Mr. BamBrogan’s real first name is Kevin. This is just one of many aspects to this undertaking that makes me feel that it will all be revealed as a breathtaking piece of performance art.)

Can a 700 M.P.H. Train in a Tube Be for Real? - The New York Times

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Three brothers search for a flat in the city. It must have tall ceilings to accommodate their three-story bunk bed. The lavatory must have three bathtubs, so their conversations do not have to end at bath time. The windows must not be too large, no more than one brother wide, and there must be three of them, all facing the street. Each brother fancies a girl, and each one will watch the sidewalk in anticipation of their girl walking by. They shout greetings to their girls as their girls pass by.

“Hoo hoo!” says the rightmost brother, locking eyes with her. A kiss is in the works.

“Ah, hi,” says the leftmost brother, barely taking leave from his distractions. She curdles a bit at this, but never fully sours.

The middle brother says nothing, for his love never arrives. She is a fish, and she cannot leave the sea.

It occurred to me then that the GUI would have felt very comfortable to people who drive everywhere, i.e. Californians. People were waking up, staring through their windscreen, going to work, staring at their screens, and heading back home (windscreen again), and going to sleep with the TV screen tuned to Carson. It’s hard, as citizen of a transit-centric city where everything is, ultimately, time-shared, to imagine the GUI happening among people who travelled only by train. And it’s no surprise that Palo Alto and Mountain View are where the self-driving car is being thrust into existence.

Deep Valley Thoughts & GIF Battle Updates — Postlight Posts — Medium

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The Devil, visiting from Seattle.

(via LILEKS (James) :: Restaurant Postcards)

Polly Davis. "Many locations." A classic American sign, with all the comfort words: Cafeteria. Lounge. BEEFSEEKERS INN.

Beefseekers! Come ye hear, all ye beefseekers, for here be the beef after which you have sought,

The sign even featured a man smelling meat - although he has a certain prissy quality to his face. Not to mention skunk-stripe hair. A real beefseeker might think he's overdoing it a bit.

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DRINK IT You were looking at that girl now DRINK IT

There's a cat litter mine not far from Advance, and one presumes a dark but absolutely odorless bar filled with grizzled litter miners drinking away their retirement.

Confronting New Madrid (Part 2) (Idle Words)

For the last 20 years, writer and comedian Eric Drysdale has been collecting photographs from the 1950s taken by amateurs with the Stereo Realist 3-dimensional camera system. This remarkable technology was something like the ‘50s version of virtual reality, pairing Kodak’s Kodachrome film with a precision viewer to deliver uncannily realistic, full-color, three-dimensional images. Think of it as an IMAX View-Master.

This sounds really fascinating.

(via Smith Journal - Daniel Clarke illustration)

Found via Less Adjectives More Verbs

“"This app is on fleek." - the opening line of the memorial haiku for human civilization.”

"Startups", then and now. (via Start-up Costs: ‘Silicon Valley,’ ‘Halt and Catch Fire,’ and How Microserfdom Ate the World «)

I was about 16 when "Microserfs" was published, and still in a teen phase where I was reading constantly. I can remember plenty of nonfiction books I read at the time, often about early PC era history, but this is one of the few novels I can remember too. I liked it, and I can't remember if I'd read "Generation X" first, but I think I had. We probably had that WIRED issue too.

So I guess, this is relevant to my interests is what I'm saying. Interesting article.

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You drink it raw. Hard and cold and just slightly thicker than water. No ice. Fridge cold.

You made some decisions that put you on people’s shit lists. Fuck those people. You drink it raw. You did what you had to do.

You were on the wrong side of the law for a little second. Whatever! You got that shit figured out. You did what you had to do. You threw some people under the bus but they had to know that they were going under the bus, the way they were living.

You had a pot belly for about one second and then you lost it. Drinking during that legally fucked-up period. You got a little belly on your skinny frame. It looked alright and it attracted a certain kind of lady. The kind of decent lady that you can’t help but cheat on and shit all over. You do what you have to do.

You lost that belly and thought stuff was going to get better, that everything was pretty tied up and tidy now. It’s working out differently. You live healthy and good but you’re stressed all the time. Stuff kind of sucks. It’s really unclear where you go from here. Turn into a skeleton, maybe.

You do what you have to do. You drink it raw, because that’s your thing now. One time they put sugar in it because of some miscommunication and you liked that, too. You don’t actually have a thing. You do what you have to do.

(via Bar Stars: 1939 | Shorpy Historic Picture Archive)

"Thinking this way will teach you two things about computers: One, there’s no magic, no matter how much it looks like there is. There’s just work to make things look like magic. And two, it’s crazy in there." <p>(via <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/">Paul Ford: What is Code? | Bloomberg</a>)</p>

(via Glen Hansard meets Van Morrison - YouTube)

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