Acephalous - Teaching basic film theory through Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2010/10/hayao-miyazaki-nausic aa-valley-of-the-wind-visual-rhetoric-film-theory.html
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Acephalous - Teaching basic film theory through Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2010/10/hayao-miyazaki-nausic aa-valley-of-the-wind-visual-rhetoric-film-theory.html
Respectful Distance: The Telephoto Lens in Japanese Cinema http://colorfulanimationexpressions.blogspot.fi/2012/10/respectful-dis tance-telephoto-lens-in.html (via http://www.metafilter.com/122987/Such-animated-colors-you-have )
Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke http://rol.st/Uofmcn via @RollingStone
RT @ggreenwald: The PSY scandal: singing about killing people v. constantly doing it http://is.gd/XdC4CP
The story behind "Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs" http://kenlevine.blogspot.nl/2012/04/story-behind-tossed-salad-and-scr ambled.html (via http://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/14j10f/the_story_behind_tosse d_salads_and_scrambled_eggs/ )
RT @newsyc20: The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (1999) http://bit.ly/QOwJpu (http://bit.ly/QOwJpt) #trending #guru
StackOverflow - What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/218123/what-was-the-strangest-codin g-standard-rule-that-you-were-forced-to-follow (via http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/148prj/humorous_stack_ove rflow_thread_what_was_the/ )
Randomwire - Recreating "Ghost in the Shell" in Hong Kong http://randomwire.com/recreating-ghost-in-hong-kong
The awkward transitions of Disneyland architecture and decorations http://passport2dreams.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-awkward-transitions- of-disneyland.html (via http://boingboing.net/2012/11/24/what-disneylands-awkward-t.html )
RT @csswizardry: New blog post: Code smells in CSS: http://bit.ly/URRXQd cc. @chriscoyier
RT @regvulture: Killing IE becomes Korean election issue: Presidential candidate promises to kill crypto standard locking nation int… http://reg.cx/1YUT
RT @jedisct1: All the crypto code you’ve ever written is probably broken: http://tonyarcieri.com/all-the-crypto-code-youve-ever-written-is-proba bly-broken
Tales from the trenches - 'did no one else think the Watermelon was nice?’ http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/this-is-an-easy-job
RT @newsyc20: 9 ways to use cURL everyone should know http://bit.ly/WL5jEP (http://bit.ly/WL5hwB) via @KrisJordan #trending #guru
David Simon: "the last election in which anyone but a fool tries to play [...] the cards of racial exclusion" http://davidsimon.com/inevitabilities-and-barack-obama/
RT @codinghorror: I'm starting to believe that currency conversion is the biggest scam there is. http://transferwise.com/blog/2012-11/choose-local-currency-at-foreign- ATM
Anatomy of a Hoax - The Sony Nexus X http://anatomyofahoax.tumblr.com/ (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4675126 )
RT @daveg: Behold the full saga between me and Lockheed Martin, wherein I sent them a picture of a kitten: http://davidgalbraith.org/uncategorized/skunk-puppying-dealing-with-le gal-threats-with-cute-animals/3055/
An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research, Compiled by Golan Levin http://www.flong.com/texts/lists/slit_scan/ (via http://www.metafilter.com/120908/Were-all-like-worms-man-Everything-th ats-ever-existed-on-earth-just-one-big-connected-worm#4622177 )
RT @demorgen: Spotify in financiële problemen? De kern van de zaak is veel interessanter - http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/2461/Opinie/article/detail/1514779/2012/1 0/11/Spotify-in-financiele-problemen-De-kern-van-de-zaak-is-veel-inter essanter.dhtml #dmopinie
RT @robdelaney: An old piece on who I've voted for in every presidential election & why: http://www.vice.com/read/Take-a-stroll-With-Rob-Delaney-A-Voters-Guide I welcome feedback.
RT @alper: The write-up in Dutch is here: http://www.hackdeoverheid.nl/alle-nederlandse-wetten-in-github/ about why you would want to put all of a country's laws in github: https://github.com/statengeneraal/wettenbestand
RT @mathias: Detailed research on GPU acceleration and `requestAnimationFrame` across browsers by @zoltandulac: http://mths.be/bjk
RT @mikko: Bankruptcy auction for DigiNotar underway in the Netherlands: https://www.troostwijkauctions.com/nl/ingebouwde-demontabele-serverklu is/03-16930-1681-1973568/ https://www.troostwijkauctions.com/nl/datasafe/03-16930-8479-1973755/ via @Cryptoki @PascalVanHecke #SSL
RT @quarkness: Is ie dan! De markov-generated Troonrede 2012! http://land.genoten.nl/van/troonrede/116 #troonrede #prinsjesdag
The Best Interface is no Interface - http://www.cooper.com/journal/2012/08/the-best-interface-is-no-interfa ce.html/ (via @EduardoMorais )
RT @brad_frost: Complex Navigation Patterns for Responsive Design http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/web/complex-navigation-patterns-for-respo nsive-design/ New post from earlier today.
RT @davewiner: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon. http://hs.r2.ly/
RT @troyhunt: Just blogged: Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/lessons-in-website-security-anti.html
RT @ZachWeiner: Anti-Vaccine Movement Causes The Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic In 70 Years - Forbes http://onforb.es/Mz2WhH via @sharethis
The Art of in-game Photography http://videogametourism.at/node/1634#.UBEHUIdH5Xs.twitter
clever use of polar coordinates for generating tiled shadow maps http://www.jasonnall.com/polar/ via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282348
RT @lrs: Mooi (en werkelijk prachtig opgemaakt) stuk over de Amsterdamse Krulletter (hetgeen leidde tot een computerfont) http://ilovetypography.com/2012/06/18/krul-the-untold-historyof-the-am sterdamse-krulletter/
RT @ID_AA_Carmack: I was going to comment on use of booleans in API, and I found that it has an idiomatic name: "boolean trap": http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2011/08/hall-of-api-shame-boolean-trap.html
When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: ‘People Staring at Computers’ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/people-staring-at-computers/a ll/ via http://www.metafilter.com/117828/I-was-prepared-to-make-people-a-littl e-uncomfortable-but-I-didnt-want-to-do-anything-illegal
RT @rmurphey: What's wrong with @netmag's "Optimise your JavaScript" post https://gist.github.com/3086328 (with thanks to @cowboy @rwaldron & everyone else)
RT @morgan3d: Article on efficient and elegant hex and triangle grids indexing http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/grids/
"The British Countryside Generator, as we’re calling it, is our procedural world engine for Sir You are Being Hunted." http://big-robot.com/2012/07/02/procedural-british-countryside-generat ion/
somehow missed this epic demoscene post on metafilter until now http://mefi.us/w/114704
RT @quarkness: Moup - De hardstwerkende columnist buiten de grachtengordel. http://genoten.nl/
Venue interview with photographer Edward Burtynsky http://v-e-n-u-e.com/Primary-Landscapes-An-Interview-with-Edward-Burty nsky via http://kottke.org/12/07/edward-burtynsky-has-a-drone
RT @hhariri: Why did Borland fail by @danny_thorpe http://b.qr.ae/N3CoRg
RT @MooseAllain: Yesterday people tweeted me their 'family games'. I gathered them on Storify because they're brilliant brilliant & heartwarming http://is.gd/JhvXjh
Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works http://blog.asmartbear.com/color-wheels.html via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4169356
The art of π, φ and e http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/pi/art/ via http://mefi.us/w/117319
RT @n0wak: I wrote a thing "Canada <--> Mexico" http://the-inbetween.com/2012/06/26/canada-mexico/
RT @nedbat: I'm charmed by the first BASIC manual: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dartmouth/BASIC_Oct64.pdf Even in 1964, warnings about float rounding, and readability over all else.
Matt from "Where the Hell is Matt?" does an AMA on Reddit: http://redd.it/vgk61
"Het meest droeve is de bedoeling dat het ironie was."! RT @quarkness: Op veler verzoek, een nieuwe Moup! http://voorgevorderden.com/2012/06/13/moup-zonde/
RT @pvdp: Schrijnend stuk van @zeegersmaarten over hoe hij, na Syrië uitgezet te zijn, door bureaucratie ook NL niet meer in kan pic.twitter.com/NPUFmPP0
RT @DaveGorman: If you were following my fight with Yahoo/flickr 3months ago, you might like to know it has a happy ending: http://gor.mn/fffflickr
"Ontelbaar veel banenbonen [sic]" RT @pvdp: Elle in Oeganda. Wat erg, WAT ERREG! http://www.elle.nl/lifestyle/Lifestylenieuws/ELLE-in-Oeganda-deel-2 (via @apjvalk)
Creating Fast Buttons for Mobile Web Applications https://developers.google.com/mobile/articles/fast_buttons via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4083357
RT @nedbat: Were you shocked by Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? So were these DBAs: http://oracle-wtf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/girl-with-ansi-tattoo.html #sql #dorks
RT @serafinowicz: Read @Glinner's brilliant piece on #twitterjoketrial http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/prague-1965/
how the THX sound was created http://musicthing.blogspot.co.uk/2005/05/tiny-music-makers-pt-3-thx-so und.html via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4030149
London’s Top Brutalist Buildings http://londonist.com/2012/05/londons-top-brutalist-buildings.php via http://mefi.us/w/116326
RT @elzadra: Wrote a piece for boing boing about the Quebec protest situation: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/25/report-from-the-front-lines-of.html
RT @DeSpeld: Mensenfluisteraar ingezet bij ontruiming Ter Apel http://www.speld.nl/2012/05/25/mensenfluisteraar-ingezet-bij-ontruimin g-ter-apel/
oldskool racing game pseudo-3d rendering explained http://gorenfeld.net/lou/pseudo/ (via http://mefi.us/w/116275 )
categorizing different ways to implement 2d platform games http://higherorderfun.com/blog/2012/05/20/the-guide-to-implementing-2d -platformers/ (via http://mefi.us/w/116275 )
RT @paul_irish: A little history on three.js and @mrdoob's tale of getting into coding: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/issues/1960
"Give me a break, Gosling!" http://pajiba.com/think_pieces/about-the-time-i-was-reprimanded-by-rya n-fcking-gosling.php
Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3g hz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/
RT @sgalineau: Making Sublime Text more awesome: http://opensourcehacker.com/2012/05/11/sublime-text-2-tips-for-python- and-web-developers/ (via @paul_irish)
RT @jordanmoore: Source shuffling - serving the right image for the right device using @adactio's Conditional CSS - http://www.jordanm.co.uk/post/22964442013/source-shuffling-responsive- images-based-on-media #rwd
RT @mathias: Why you shouldn’t serve content (e.g. html5shiv.js) directly from *.googlecode.com: http://mths.be/bgn
RT @stronk: gegrepen door de visionaire spreekbeurt van @scottjenson: "Mobile apps must die" http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/mobile-apps-must-die.html #mobilismconf
Pixel-fitting – how antialiasing can ruin your logos and icons http://dcurt.is/pixel-fitting via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3950740
The Geeks Who Saved Prince of Persia's Source Code http://wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/prince-of-persia-source-code/?pid=24 80&viewall=true /cc @nvh
RT @ignorethecode: iPhoto's Mystery Meat Gestures http://ignco.de/433
RT @DaveGorman: @glinner @jackofkent updated post on the DMCA/Degban/@Flickr thing: http://gormano.blogspot.com/2012/03/oh-flickr-youve-been-degbanned.htm l Long. The Degban stuff = ridiculous.
http://kottke.org redesign, 2012 version http://kottke.org/12/03/kottkeorg-redesign-2012-version (via @kottke)
RT @codinghorror: Kon Boot: if you have physical access to the computer, passwords aren't relevant http://blog.superuser.com/2012/03/01/kon-boot-getting-into-a-clients-c omputer-without-using-a-portal-gun/
RT @Pinboard: My pal Aaron (a former flickr-r) has posted his own talk on parallel-flickr from #pda12; highly recommended! http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2012/02/14/incentivize/#pda2012
RT @daraobriain: What a bunch of whiny fools... RT @guardianscience: Why we sued Simon Singh: the British Chiropractic Association http://gu.com/p/35jek/tf
RT @codinghorror: "take yourself out of your first world techie social media smart-shoes for a second [and] imagine this" http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210
RT @Teunvandekeuken: "ik ben een kwart MOE- lander" Mijn #Paroolcolumn van vandaag: http://teunvandekeuken.nl/teunschrijft/2012/02/moelander/
RT @Flickr: milov tells us how his photos on Flickr give him an easy visual reference to his life over the past 8 years http://blog.flickr.net/en/2012/02/11/8-years-8-members-8-stories-milov /
RT @waxpancake: This week on Wired, I dig into the risks of using apps that access your Gmail: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/02/perpetual-window-into-gmail/ Think before you oAuth!
RT @Gelada: Tim Gowers http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfal l/ and Stewart Lee http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/22/stewart-lee-david-ca meron-pinewood-film?cat=commentisfree&type=article go well together on the crushing power of over-commercialisation
RT @mcsweeneys: In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-which-i-fix-my-girlfriends-grand parents-wifi-and-am-hailed-as-a-conquering-hero
RT @waxpancake: Metafilter joins the SOPA/PIPA protest, with a crazy story from @mathowie about Michael Jackson and a DMCA takedown: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/21380/SOPAPIPA-blackout
"Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody", by Adrian Mitchell: http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/11/ten-ways-to-avoid-lendi ng-your.html
lots of interesting reads in this summary of top Hacker News stories for every day of 2011: http://rrrewind.com/assets/yearly/2010hn_comments.html
RT @jeresig: New Blog Post: JavaScript as a First Language: http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-first-language/
comments on @waxpancake UC Davis post http://waxy.org/2011/11/viewing_the_uc_davis_pepper_spraying_from_mult iple_angles are an interesting/scary insight into the minds of police brutality apologists :/
RT @anildash: By request, my list of questions for the Republican candidates: http://2.dashes.com/uRWXoW (Please share & add your own)
RT @waxpancake: No copyright intended! I wrote some thoughts on copyright and intent. http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
RT @waxylinks: Jamie Zawinski on Mike Arrington and the myths of startup success: "When a VC tells you what's good for you, check your wallet, then count your fingers." http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/