million dollar idea: a Star Trek wiki that is also a dating site. think about it
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The extraordinary success of Instagram is a tale about the culture of the Bay Area tech scene, driven by a tightly woven web of entrepreneurs and investors who nurture one another’s projects with money, advice and introductions to the right people. By and large, it is a network of young men, many who attended Stanford and had the attention of the world’s biggest venture capitalists before they even left campus.
(Source: The New York Times)
Back around 1990, I was pretty sure I was going to become a ‘computer artist’ and I made a bunch of b&w pixel art like this (but much worse of course) on our family’s Mac SE. Presumably I still have it somewhere.
Cosmic Osmo was a really wonderful game. It had a wonderful sense of pointlessness. Click on this to see it without the moiré effect.
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My master used to read prayers in public to the ship’s crew every Sabbath day, and when I first saw him read, I was never so surprised in my life as when I saw the book talk to my master, for I thought it did, as I observed him to look upon it and move his lips. I wished it would do so with me.
As soon as my master had done reading, I followed him to the place where he put the book, being mightily delighted with it, and when nobody saw me, I opened it and put my ear down close upon it, in great hopes that it would say something to me; but I was very sorry and greatly disappointed when I found that it would not speak. This thought immediately presented itself to me, that everybody and everything despised me because I was black.
” — James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, from his 1722 autobiography, the first slave narrative to be published in English (via laphamsquarterly)[video]
Some notes I wrote to the beasts.
Emily packed quite a bit of intrigue into her early correspondence.
This is my friend Sarah Weis’ project. Click through for the results, i.e. one hundred and fourteen struggling voiceover artists recording themselves explaining the internet.
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I don’t understand people who don’t like Thomas Kinkade.
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