2009.06.14

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log

• Well, after my computer exploded and my hard drive became an orphan, I finally built a working computer again and fixed up my scripts so they didn’t suck. Now I shall attempt to post the giant piles of stuff that have accumulated.

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diy,links

• The Repair Manifesto from Platform 21 – worth thinking about.

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motivational,practical

• Twelve Steps to Practical Problem Solving by Paul Polak
• No Nonsense Self-Defense – This is a helpful site. The author gives a vast collection of useful, well-informed articles about self-defense – and why too much of martial arts completely misses the point of it.

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food,photography

• http://www.tastespotting.com/ – My friend Cassie sent me this link. In its own words: “Think of TasteSpotting as a highly visual potluck of recipes, references, experiences, stories, articles, products, and anything else that inspires exquisite taste.”

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game,geometry

• The eyeballing game – Another link from Cassie… it’s a Flash game that’s sort of interesting, related to one’s ability to eyeball something and tell if it’s straight
• Nomic Game – A paperwork table game that looks a bit complex to actually play. The object of the game is to change the rules of the game.

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article

• The Score: How childbirth went industrial – An article in The New Yorker giving a (critical) opinion of why C-section is used so often. Interesting read.
• Perils of pop philosophy
  • Probably related to Dunning-Kruger effect – “…people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”
• The Zen of Drinking Alone from Modern Drunkard Magazine. I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Modern Drunkard before, but this is a surprisingly cogent article about the value of… drinking alcohol alone, or “using alcohol to find your inner monkey”.
• Well, more of an essay than an article… On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is something I should probably read at some point

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music

• Jake Speed and the Freddies – just saw them at the Southgate House and was extremely impressed, despite that ordinarily I’d never listen to “folk blues” voluntarily.
• StumbleAudio – I don’t really know what this is. but I wrote it down, so maybe it’s good. “Guide to discovering music and sharing great new music.”