Plurib.us Entries

Entry 2010-03-08

Peter

AUSTIN, Texas�The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of writer David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author of "Infinite Jest" (1996), "The Broom of the System" (1987), "Girl with Curious Hair" (1988) and numerous collections of stories and essays.

The archive contains manuscript materials for Wallace's books, stories and essays; research materials; Wallace's college and graduate school writings; juvenilia, including poems, stories and letters; teaching materials and books.

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2010/dfw/

Man, there's a guy who should have stuck around.

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Entry 2010-03-07

Brian

A new version of FileZilla (cross-platform FTP client) just came out, which includes my latest theme. (It's not the default, but it's selectable under Settings > Interface > Themes.)

Here's a presentation, of sorts, I made on the theme.
http://plurib.us/1shot/2010/filezilla-icons2.0/demo2.html

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Entry 2010-03-01

Peter

Artist Caleb Larsen has created a device: A black cube, 8x8x8", with an ethernet jack. Upon connection to the internet, the cube checks to see whether it is for sale on Ebay. If not, it re-lists itself. The sale conditions mandate that the new buyer will keep the cube connected to the internet, and will sell it to the highest bidder whenever the auction ends. In the event of a sale, the artist gets 15% of the purchase price. The title of the artwork: "A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter".

The artist's page on the project:
http://www.caleblarsen.com/projects/a-tool-to-deceive-and-slaughter/

The cube's re-direct to its own auction page:
http://atooltodeceiveandslaughter.com/

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Entry 2010-02-27

Chris

Olympic medal counts by country, by year: http://2010games.nytimes.com/medals/map.html (and http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html).

Hooray for intuitive & interactive digests of data.

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Entry 2010-01-28

Peter

A comic written by a 5-year-old and drawn by a 29-year-old. Axe-Cop is my favorite new thing of all time.

http://axecop.com/index.php

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Entry 2010-01-24

Brian

The human predicament, summarized in 26x3 "auto generated" google searches:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-01-24-n80.html

Though a lot of the letters sum it up all by themselves:

how to get pregnant
how to get a girl to like you
how to get rid of fruit flies

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Entry 2009-12-09

Brian

I've wanted to make a site like this for years - a personal reminder when artists I indicate produce an album. Someone finally beat me to it. And it appears it couldn't be simpler.

http://www.albumreminder.com/

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Entry 2009-11-24

Brian

Inkscape 0.47 is out. Comes with about a million new features:

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047#New_effects

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Entry 2009-10-14

Brian

Super cool isolated tracks from Beatles recordings, on a recent BBC radio program.

http://waxy.org/2009/10/audio_analysis_of_the_beatles_multitrack_masters/

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Entry 2009-09-30

Brian

Really good hands-on overview of "Google Wave" and what it's all about. Starts getting me excited to try it.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/09/surfing-the-google-wave.ars

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Entry 2009-09-30

Peter

IBC, Hires, A&W, and Stewart's Root Beer. Nantucket Nectars and Snapple. Orangina, Sunkist, Crush, and Squirt. Also, Clamato.

What company owns all of these brands?

Why, the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, of course!

http://www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com/

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Entry 2009-09-16

Brian

The latest result of my sound visualization project. Run on pronunciation examples from a learn-english web site. This sound sample has turned out to be a useful benchmark for testing, and it shows off the range of colors nicely too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blukis/3926020346/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blukis/3926020346/sizes/l/

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Entry 2009-09-09

Peter

Apparently, Minnesota has a state-wide service where you can, at any time, get online real-time research help from a librarian.

http://www.askmn.org/

This is maybe the coolest governmental service I've ever heard of.

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Entry 2009-08-17

MarkG

MST3K reunion tour:
http://tinyurl.com/qlvvk2

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Entry 2009-07-24

MarkG

Google "recursion". I love those nerds.

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Entry 2009-07-22

Elizabeth

http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/jketland/SpringerPomo.html If Jerry Springer contained more philosophy than philandering.

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Entry 2009-07-17

Brian

Seventeen percent said that they made a mistake when they did so�understandable�but another 13 percent said they simply had no idea why they did it; they just did. Another six percent "wanted to see what would happen."

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/07/12-of-e-mail-users-try-to-buy-stuff-from-spam-e-mail.ars

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Entry 2009-07-08

Brian

Today I found myself wondering about opposite sides of the earth, and remembered this little Google maps mashup.
http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html

Then I wondered how much of earth's land had land also on its opposite side. Little did I know, the whole problem (and answer) can be expressed in a single, simple picture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Antipodes_LAEA.png

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Entry 2009-07-05

MarkG

I am curious whether you young fellas had wilderness in your childhoods. Did you run out and explore, or was it all playdates and programmed activities?
This article makes me sad about how my son will experience his childhood.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22891

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Entry 2009-06-28

Peter

Fox News, as described by their captions:

http://imgur.com/ARXD4.jpg

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