Nine practical suggestions to improve your chances of being accepted at that fancy startup incubator. …
Suggestions for a better startup incubator application
On Brutalist Design
A few days ago a journalist for net magazine asked me what I thought about Brutalism in web design, perhaps after finding my project site listed on BrutalistWebsites.com. He was kind enough to publish a portion of the interview on the magazine, but for the sake of completeness, I am publishing it here fully. …
Retro-gaming: not just nostalgia
In which I rant about the reasons that make retro-gaming (and especially Adventure Games) fascinating and relevant today. …
Fun with Delaunay
In which you too can Delaunize your picture with a simple editor and export it as vectors. …
Going like a bat
[Citation not needed]: During the Pascal-B nuclear test, a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) steel plate cap (a piece of armor plate) was blasted off the top of a test shaft at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 mi/s; 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph). Before the test, experimental designer Dr. Brownlee had estimated that the nuclear …
The most recurrent computer errors on the web
(Not a color blindness test) Error codes in computing are a curious heritage of a bygone era when paper was relevant and memory usage stripped to the bare minimum. In those days, it was normal for a programmer to stumble upon an error code, stand up, reach for a dusty manual on a shelf, look up the …
Dissection of a scam
Most internet-savvy people develop a kind of natural resistance against spam, obtrusive advertisement, and online scams. Stopping for a second to ponder the state of things reveals a wealth of information not only on the scammers themselves, but also sheds light on the people being scammed. A few days ago I noticed at the end of …
8-bit color cycling time-aware live wallpapers by Mark Ferrari
In which I am totally hypnotized by the retro art from the illustrator of Monkey-Islandian memory and set on a mission to have it always close to my eyes. …
Turn a ramen shop into a pasta bar
In which I go to Japan, fall in love with small ramen shops and think of adapting the model to Italian food. …
That is so Hollywood
[Citation not needed] Sandra Zober Sandra Zober was an actress. She was the first wife of actor Leonard Nimoy, with whom she had two children. […] She eventually joined a support group for women divorced from Hollywood stars that was initially called Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane (LADIES), but was soon renamed the Hollywood Dumpettes. …