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14 Microlog entries tagged with ‘kottke’
Robottke
A robot blog emulating the style of Jason Kottke. It was bound to happen at some point. Interesting ·
Pruney fingers for better gripping
Those wrinkles you get in the bath might be an evolutionary adaptation that allow for better gripping in wet conditions? Well I never. Science & Nature ·
Kurt Vonnegut explains the shapes of stories
Neat enough on its own. But then someone else went and fed those story graphs into Google Correlate. I wonder what Vonnegut would’ve made of that, being the cyber-luddite he was. Arts & Culture ·
Muphry’s Law
‘If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written.’ Guilty. Arts & Culture ·
Twitter sparklines
Filing this for future reference. Technobabble ·
Why don’t more people live in liveable cities?
Because ‘liveable cities’ lists are bullshit; they often confuse ‘aesthetically pleasing’ for ‘interesting’. Arts & Culture ·
Steven Soderbergh’s media diet
A year of films, books, TV, plays and stories consumed. Including Raiders of the Lost Ark three times. In black and white! [c/o Kottke]. Sound & Screen ·
List of Crayola crayon colours on Wikipedia
With hex codes! I heart this [c/o Kottke]. Interesting ·
The luckiest bastards alive
Some of these look very faked to me. You’ll know which ones I mean. Arts & Culture ·
Unassuming long takes in movies
Nice work; it makes me wonder if I really take the time to notice things enough. [c/o Kottke] Sound & Screen ·
Kottke on ‘the new rules for reviewing media’
It’s an interesting phenomenon, but not the kind of trend I want to see. Kottke says: “In the end, people don’t buy content or plots, they buy physical or digital pieces of media for use on specific devices and within certain contexts.” I disagree: people DO buy content. If I buy a book, I’m buying it for the story; the format is entirely secondary, regardless of my personal preferences. Giving a book a bad rating because you can’t read it on your Kindle or whatever? That’s just bullshit whatever way you cut it. Arts & Culture ·
Kottke on Greg Allen on rotating the dishes
I’m already getting in the habit of stacking from the bottom, after noticing half of our plates weren’t used in months. Interesting ·
A poor photographer blames his tools
Too right. Even the crappiest cameras can take great pictures; it’s the user’s eye that counts. Arts & Culture ·
Manhattan Elsewhere
What would Manhattan look like if it could be floated to another city? Nice work, but an even more radical thought occurs: what if any city could float? We can already reclaim land from the sea and live on soil where there was recently only water — what’s stopping us from constructing a true floating city? And I don’t mean some humongous ocean liner — I mean a giant man-made island that could be propelled from one sea to another. Rather than a Manhattan Elsewhere, how about a Manhattan Anywhere? Interesting ·
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