May 2009
“A generation of little girls will want to be her. And a generation of little...”
– Steven Moffat on the casting of Karen Gillan as the new Who companion.
Mind Hacks: A hostage to hallucination →
The paper is from the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and contains case studies of people who have been held captive by terrorists, kidnappers, rapists, robbers, enemy troops and, er… UFOs.
The reasoning behind including two ‘alien abductees’ was to compare hallucinations in verified versus unverified hostage situations. Cases of people who were hostages but did not...
“Picasso (a macho artist if there ever was one) said, “Bad artists copy. Good...”
– Stuart Immonen on Computers and Art
“Time travel in a Terminator movie is like plumbing in a porno: a very loose...”
– Miss Cellania -neatorama
Eucalyptus available at the app store. →
well, that debacle has been resolved, thank the mothership. Eucalyptus is probably the finest e-book app available right now (classics is tastier, but heh, no books.)
DOLLHOUSE SEASON 2 (Or Why Fox Did It) « The Nick... →
Fascinating behind-the-curtains read.
Pete 1.0 was fired and replaced by Pete 2.0. Pete 2.0 liked what he saw in DOLLHOUSE but didn’t like what he saw in the C3 ratings. Whedon had provided much better product, but the ratings were horrible. The DOLLHOUSE brand was tarnished. Pete 2.0 wanted to keep working with Whedon. So they invited him to pitch season 2. They loved the pitch. So the...
Oh fuck you, Apple. →
The Foundry - CMOS rolling shutter fix →
Here’s a little something we’ve been working on in our spare time - correcting for CMOS rolling shutter artifacts.
oh god yes
“It’s better to be pissed-off than pissed-on.”
– PostSecret: Sunday Secrets
WatchThe Road trailer is up. Also, the esquire review : The Road Is the Most Important Movie of the Year - Esquire.
“Jacob cooks a “red herring” on a “black rock.”
– heh Lost season 5 finale.
The Difference Between Security And Safety →
Pertaining Mac OS X and Windows. In short, security is how efficient are your locks and how un-saw-able are the steel bars on your windows (see what i did there ?) . Safety is how dangerous your neighborhood is. via
“Reading on the web is almost certainly affecting the way we process information,...”
– Your brain is an index. The American Scene
(via apple-face)
Enable Lightroom 2 to run in 64-bit mode on the... →
Command + i the app. uncheck “Open in 32-bit mode”.
“If you were a James Bond villain, how would you take over the world?
I’d...”
– Seth Godin
Perfectly Happy - The Boston Globe →
The new science of measuring happiness has transformed self-help. Now scholars suggest it could transform society.
In recent years, cognitive scientists have turned in increasing numbers to the study of human happiness, and one of their central findings is that we are not very good at predicting how happy or unhappy something will make us. Given time, survivors of tragedies and traumas report...