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Drawing Words Writing Pictures
good resources for learning comics, esp two textbooks on the subjects (HT fleen)
drawing  art  tutorial  online  !get  reference  useful  book  comics  from delicious
3 days ago
ORBIS
its down right now, but when it comes back up, its basically google maps for the roman empire. good to get a feel for ancient travel times/methods/etc
!check  online  reference  zek  map  travel  history  roman  from delicious
6 days ago
Lord of the Rings illustrations done by Frank Frazetta
didnt know these existed! now i wish bakshi had hired frazetta or something
tumblr  list  picture  lotr  frazetta  drawing  tolkien  from delicious
6 days ago
Dan Harmon walks us through Community’s second season (part 1 of 4)
"It largely had to do with this feeling that drove the whole second season, which was, I have this feeling that I’m not gonna be around next year. I’m either gonna be fired or the show’s not gonna be on the air. In either case, I’m never gonna be on NBC at 8 p.m. on Thursday night ever again."

...dan ;_;
article  interview  writing  behindthescenes  awesome  tvshow  community  from delicious
8 days ago
Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg's Bible
im absolutely ashamed i didnt know this earlier
europe  chinese  printing  book  writing  history  from delicious
9 days ago
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
on the topic of narratives & psychology
!get  amazon  book  narrative  cogsci  psychology  stories  from delicious
10 days ago
Lunch? Food Truck Tracker
this could be useful
useful  tracking  map  online  chicago  truck  food  from delicious
12 days ago
7 Up Series Documentary
every seven years a new film of the same group of children/adolescents/adults, via ryan north
britain  list  youtube  movie  aging  old  adult  kid  history  from delicious
13 days ago
Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student | The Professor Is In
this tag and others on the blog also seem pretty useful
selfimprovement  useful  blog  advice  gradschool  from delicious
17 days ago
AstroBetter — Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers
its targeted at astronomers but a lot is also applicable to other apprentice scientists
astronomy  advice  blog  selfimprovement  useful  gradschool  science  from delicious
17 days ago
Commander, you received a new text last night...
the mashup i never knew i wanted
tumblr  blog  picture  texting  humour  masseffect  funny  from delicious
17 days ago
PHP Tutorial - Introduction
this is a good, quick intro to php, looks like it has other languages on the sidebar too
useful  reference  programming  online  tutorial  php  from delicious
18 days ago
The Loneliness Scare
contra those internet/loneliness editorials that seem to have cropped up out of nowhere
article  criticism  history  culture  social  loneliness  internet  from delicious
21 days ago
Why I did TFA, and why you shouldn’t
ed refooooooooooorm
charterschools  article  criticism  reform  teachforamerica  teacher  education  from delicious
23 days ago
A failing grade for Steven Brill
on the charter reform movement and how it's being presented to the public
reviews  criticism  book  charterschools  reform  education  from delicious
24 days ago
The little Monoprice graphics tablet that could
frenden recommends the monoprice tablet, gotta keep this in mind if my wacom ever craps out
reviews  future  !get  hardware  computer  drawing  graphics  tablet  from delicious
26 days ago
Why Netflix Never Implemented The Algorithm That Won The Netflix $1 Million Challenge
its kinda funny how fast things change, makes you wonder how research can possibly catch up...
article  compsci  algorithm  recommend  tvshow  movie  netflix  from delicious
27 days ago
So, what is Homestuck?
sounds about right
blog  stories  summary  homestuck  funny  from delicious
29 days ago
At 92, a Bandit to Hollywood but a Hero to Soldiers
sharing is caring
article  bootleg  filesharing  illegal  movie  america  military  people  old  cute  funny  from delicious
4 weeks ago
Valve: Handbook for New Employees
well gosh, now i kinda wanna figure out how i could work there >.>
amazing  job  future  pdf  reference  employee  handbook  game  valve  from delicious
5 weeks ago
How to Sort your Gmail Messages by Size using Google Docs
just in case my gmail runs outta space
diy  future  reference  useful  cleaning  attachment  email  google  gmail  from delicious
5 weeks ago
Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness
awwww ye-err, well, i guess this is ok :-/
psychology  evolution  research  beard  from delicious
5 weeks ago
The influence of facial hair on impression formation
awwww yeahhhhhhh
psychology  social  research  beard  from delicious
5 weeks ago
Kisu on THE LEGEND OF KORRA
interview w/sifu kisu, whos basically responsible for the martial arts on ATLA and LOK
interview  reference  cartoon  fighting  martialarts  tvshow  avatar  from delicious
5 weeks ago
Workaround: iTunes Video and Dual Screens
just in case my quicktime 7 workaround stops being effective
multimonitor  useful  reference  video  itunes  from delicious
6 weeks ago
How You Got Videogames Wrong: …And film…and music…and literature…etc.
havent studied film theory or anything before but this seems like a good article on showing/telling and what that actually means. their analogy about AI and syllogistic logic is a little shaky but w/e
showdonttell  article  interactive  stories  philosophy  movie  game  from delicious
6 weeks ago
hROMDstcus-FR kc
its...its so beautiful. its...heomermstyuck
funny  aprilfools  comics  homestuck  french  hilarious  amazing  from delicious
8 weeks ago
Epic Sax Game
presented without comment. what could i even say? why should i even bother ruining this moment with words?
art  beauty  awesome  !play  game  epicsax  music  amazing  from delicious
8 weeks ago
What Happened to Gallant Captain Faramir?
just learned that faramir was tolkien's favorite/"self insert" (not really but if he had to pick). and then i read this and its just like, lets spend the afternoon thinking about how great faramir is again
comparison  movie  lotr  book  faramir  tolkien  awesome  from delicious
9 weeks ago
Creating an Earthlike Planet
awesome page with links to a useful history of chemistry and another page about climate mechanics
list  reference  weather  chemistry  article  useful  design  world  conlang  conworld  from delicious
11 weeks ago
cinderella III: a twist in time is the best disney sequel ever
MICE??!?!!?!?!?!
blog  movie  disney  cinderella  list  screenshot  picture  face  funny  hilarious  from delicious
11 weeks ago
Film Nerd 2.0 - Star Wars
if you had any doubts about machete order (IV, V, prequels, VI) then this series of articles should settle them
scifi  stories  list  article  movie  kid  starwars  from delicious
11 weeks ago
Importing your ME1 Shep’s face into ME3
got dangit why didnt i hear about this sooner
face  reference  game  scifi  masseffect  from delicious
11 weeks ago
Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons
ahaha these rich assholes deserve a lot more than this, but its still great to laugh at their "suffering"
article  equality  occupywallstreet  people  business  rich  funny  from delicious
12 weeks ago
The machines that made the Jet Age
Big Stuff Is Cool
article  photo  picture  america  manufacturing  history  machine  huge  from delicious
february 2012
How the Potato Changed the World
the article reads a lot more interestingly coming on the heels of the three-Cs cultureburner one...
zek  reference  article  europe  america  culture  history  potato  food  from delicious
february 2012
PDFmyURL.com - Free & Online: Convert and save PDF from any web page
one suggested use case is for visiting "dangerous" looking sites
useful  converter  generator  online  pdf  from delicious
february 2012
The Culture Burner
absolutely fantastic primer on creating fictional nations/cultures/worlds. the big takeaways are the three Cs (construction, cuisine, and culture) and the seven words (hi, bye, yes, no, please, thanks, excuse me)
zek  useful  reference  rules  inspiration  language  words  building  food  culture  conlang  conworld  awesome  from delicious
february 2012
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
havent watched the whole thing yet but 10 minutes in he has a realtime coding environment based on braid so, yknow. yeah.
video  presentation  philosophy  design  visual  game  programming  amazing  from delicious
february 2012
Religion Explained (Pascal Boyer)
book rec #1 from bakker's blog
evolution  neuroscience  rationality  psychology  cogsci  religion  amazon  !get  book  from delicious
february 2012
In Gods We Trust (Scott Atran)
book rec #2 from bakker's blog
rationality  evolution  neuroscience  psychology  cogsci  religion  !get  book  from delicious
february 2012
Letter Frequency Analysis Calculator
nice little applet for getting word frequencies by dumping in a wordlist/corpus/example text
zek  useful  graphing  generator  letters  words  conlang  from delicious
february 2012
gen - language text generator
amazing tool by zompist, basically a more complex version of awkwords. simple to extend karthan with it since you can easily make pseudo-words :D
zek  useful  generator  words  language  conlang  online  awesome  from delicious
february 2012
Top official: drone critics are Al Qaeda enablers
as a reference for the times' editorial practices and their skeevy breaking of the same
article  reference  terrorism  newyork  news  war  robot  drone  from delicious
february 2012
Earth Station: The Afterlife of Technology at the End of the World
depressing that all of this old infrastructure is slowly crumbling away
photo  stories  article  moon  nasa  satellite  history  space  from delicious
february 2012
Beyond Lies the Wub, by Philip K. Dick
i wub PKD
scifi  telepathy  alien  online  stories  philipkdick  from delicious
february 2012
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
the key is whether this is wrong or not, since obv its legal. where should we draw the line on privacy when its based on database models?
article  privacy  economics  psychology  modeling  math  marketing  from delicious
february 2012
Perceiving Minecraft
using AR tags as a way for an AI to interact w/minecraft
video  game  compsci  computer  ai  augmentedreality  minecraft  from delicious
february 2012
lowpoly mini Mass Effect scene
~adorable effect~
forum  picture  modeling  3d  lowres  game  scifi  masseffect  cute  funny  from delicious
february 2012
Obvious Engine
lab mtg #2: sophisticate-looking AR sdk
phone  research  video  software  augmentedreality  from delicious
february 2012
Visible Assets, Inc
lab mtg #1: really cool magnet-based location sensing (rfid competitor)
military  research  hardware  compsci  magnet  rfid  location  from delicious
february 2012
Sky Series Selected Works 2011
pretty pictures of clouds and gradients and stuff
art  list  picture  sky  cloud  photo  beauty  from delicious
february 2012
What Your Favorite Video Game (Series) Says About You
its all true
jokes  list  humour  game  funny  from delicious
february 2012
My 14 Favorite Dishes from Chicago's Chinatown (Tony Hu Edition)
oh gosh im gonna have to take a trip to cermak soon
restaurant  list  chicago  !get  picture  food  chinese  from delicious
january 2012
Playing God: On Death, Motherhood and Creating (Artificial) Life
makes me think about ubik and gk and the suporcomputer
article  kid  seamonkeys  parenting  game  death  life  from delicious
january 2012
Why the ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real Native Americans
i was confused at first how a particular pattern or style could (or should) be owned or protected, but this article really clears up a lot of the complicated history (and present) of how native designs are used by non-natives
article  business  morality  culture  design  pattern  blanket  clothing  fashion  america  native  history  from delicious
january 2012
Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1
very cool video illustrating how search algorithms work
picture  google  recursion  search  video  from delicious
january 2012
Gothic Alphabet
so effin purtee
picture  reference  zek  writing  language  alphabet  gothic  from delicious
january 2012
How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics
the article is great but i really really wish it was the norm for everyone to source what they write. makes fact-based stuff much more convincing
article  reference  republican  democrat  election  america  politics  obama  from delicious
january 2012
BUNTAIN SIMPSON
jeeerrrrryyyyyyyyyayyahigwherohgajwhgkdaslh
comics  picture  drawing  horrible  satire  seinfeld  simpsons  from delicious
january 2012
The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit
the last line and the bit about the ring...got to me. best read in conjunction with that tim rogers piece about the sims social (the longer one, obv)
article  psychology  social  facebook  game  cow  horrible  from delicious
january 2012
ifttt / Mirror Pinboard links on Delicious (with properly delimited tags)
shhhhhh delicious, shhhh, dont worry, shhhhhh......... >.>
future  useful  reference  pinboard  delicious  from delicious
january 2012
Horzart
the revelation (?)
picture  !get  art  spam  twitter  horse  from delicious
january 2012
The Ballad of @Horse_ebooks
the fever pitch
article  humour  spam  twitter  funny  hilarious  horse  from delicious
january 2012
Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
insane bombadil theories awayyyy
article  crazy  book  tombombadil  tolkien  lotr  from delicious
december 2011
Dear Jamie Dimon,
what the occupy "hate" is directed at
reference  article  privilege  money  business  economics  occupywallstreet  from delicious
december 2011
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
good grief
peanuts  christmas  tvshow  comics  article  list  from delicious
december 2011
Layout Templates
huizenga shares some pretty awesome four-row templates with variable column-gutter spacing
comics  reference  useful  page  layout  panel  blog  picture  from delicious
december 2011
The Dragon's Egg
great article, esp since the two paragraphs starting at "First, kids experience them..." exactly describes what i now realize is my internal book-liking schema o_o
fantasy  book  stories  tolkien  writing  article  from delicious
december 2011
i2Speak - Free Online Smart IPA Keyboard
probably the best feature is the auto-HTML generation
IPA  language  typing  words  generator  online  useful  from delicious
november 2011
Minecon or bust!
origin of the IRL minecraft models at minecon. best tidbit: deadmau5 had notch kill one of the chickens (does notch even remember this deed??)
minecraft  modeling  character  statue  construction  behindthescenes  picture  list  blog  from delicious
november 2011
BlobDetection library
pretty straightforward edge detection library for processing-- not sure if its good for 2.0 but working just fine in 1.5
processing  programming  edgedetection  library  video  camera  from delicious
november 2011
11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard
1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11
sound  history  video  future  list  retro  from delicious
november 2011
25YEARLEGEND: A Legend of Zelda Indie Game Composer Tribute
yeah this is riiiight up my alley B-)
zelda  music  nintendo  cover  free  indie  game  remix  from delicious
november 2011
'Twas the Night Before Second Apocalypse
read r scott bakker's second apocalypse series if for no other reason than for this poem to make sense. omg the best fanwork in history :D
hilarious  funny  bakker  christmas  song  lyrics  satire  writing  forum  from delicious
november 2011
Review: Cards Against Humanity
people i know made this game and now it is available again! with an expansion pack!! get it!!!!
funny  reviews  cards  game  article  friends  from delicious
november 2011
Murmuration
your new go-to video for EMERGENCE
via:blatch  bird  flocking  emergence  canoe  amazing  video  from delicious
november 2011
Willat Effect Experiments With Tea
make sure to click over to the "more about the willat effect" post too. basically, its like the evil handmaiden of choice paralysis-- when you do decide, it makes the other things no longer acceptable!
cogsci  rationality  choice  research  blog  article  from delicious
october 2011
How To Draw (This Is Not An Article About How To Draw)
negative space
psychology  cogsci  drawing  metaphor  picture  article  from delicious
october 2011
Uncreative Writing
suuuuch a good idea for a class
writing  plagiarism  creativity  technology  literacy  copyright  education  article  from delicious
october 2011
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