How to steal an election by hacking the vote
Required reading, now freely available in PDF. Seriously, go read it.
Back in the day, I used to donate to Ars because I thought their tech coverage was the best around, and I wanted to support it. Now that I get most of my news aggregated in a feed reader (their RSS feeds only contain lede sentences), I don’t read their front page regularly anymore. Somehow, though, they’ve managed to maintain an unusually high standard for quality journalism all this time—about eight years running. #
“Where we live, the generous world suggests generous living. So we lay under low wide branches of the oldest tree on the dune, in the hay, where we will stay for so long that the careful birds will relax and make black nests in your black hair and walk around beneath my stale feet. We will only notice the play of the world for a moment and let it roll on.” —Phil Elverum #
“You know what I did yesterday? I didn’t say a word. I just walked around the executive suite tacking up copies of our earnings release from the same quarter in 1996.” —The (fake) Secret Diary of Steve Jobs #
Shaun Inman (the Mint guy) redesigned his blog so that its CSS gradually shifts colors over months, seasons, and years
I’m going to have to try really hard not to rip this off. It’s kind of the ultimate extension of some dynamic CSS techniques I was playing with a couple years ago… (via) #
I sit for minutes, trying to make a metaphor out of how she misspells ‘scent’ as ‘sent’. Sometimes, try as I might, I just can’t twist words well enough. #
A Ruby module that takes the work out of simple linguistics problems
Ordinal numbers, pluralization, verb conjugation, and more:
"cow".en.quantify(5) # => "several cows" (via) #
Big Wrens update from Pitchfork
Mostly cribbed from their blog entry; highlights: they’ll be putting streams of their entire back catalog online shortly, including 100+ unreleased songs going back to 1989 (!), Wind-Up is releasing Silver and Seacaucus again (!!?!), and the 5th Wren (!!!!!) #
The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D, in theatres this Halloween
Looks like they used digital post techniques to 3Dize the original film. (via my Dad by email) #
Iggy Pop’s hilarious 18-page rider
“Korg 2000 Digital Rack Tuner: Digital in the sense that it works via an electronically generated number system, not digital because it only works if someone holds it together with their fingers.” (via Mike Jones on AIM) #
