Gordon

SXSW chillin w/ Tylr

: )

fascinated:

Google Maps Adds Directions for Cyclists! #bikeyeah

Rode for the first time in years last weekend: broke my headphones, lost my camera, orthotics, last ipod cable, and gave myself a concussion.

Just bought this deck on impulse.  Can’t wait to go out and do it again.

From Aubrey de Grey’s TED talk on aging.

I mean, I just discovered this via an acquaintance in LA, watched it, screencapped, and posted it online in half an hour with my fucking phone. If immortality isn’t taken for granted by 2020 I’ll be dissappointed.

So, Jake made this sweet tag based browsing interface which is basically how I always wanted to browse 8tracks and, come to think of it, a lot of the internet. Keep it up, you’ll hit 1000 in no time!

8tracks:

8tracks is now available in delicious fluid layout Hybrowse form. Check it out!

2020:

Over the past several decades, Koza has internalized that lesson as deeply as any computer scientist alive and, arguably, made more of the insight than any coder in history. Now 62 and an adjunct professor at Stanford University, Koza is the inventor of genetic programming, a revolutionary approach to artificial intelligence (AI) capable of solving complex engineering problems with virtually no human guidance. Koza´s 1,000 networked computers don´t just follow a preordained routine. They create, growing new and unexpected designs out of the most basic code. They are computers that innovate, that find solutions not only equal to but better than the best work of expert humans. His “invention machine”, as he likes to call it, has even earned a U.S. patent for developing a system to make factories more efficient, one of the first intellectual-property protections ever granted to a nonhuman designer.

Yet as impressive as these creations may be, none are half as significant as the machine´s method: Darwinian evolution, the process of natural selection. Over and over, bits of computer code are, essentially, procreating. And over the course of hundreds or thousands of generations, that code evolves into offspring so well-adapted for its designated job that it is demonstrably superior to anything we can imagine. The age of creative machines has arrived. And its prophet is John Koza.

via azspot

Thanks for the helpful tip Ryan! Saved!

Brian Eno is on the same tip as Yukihiro.

The official 8tracks blog: Brian Eno on making music, innovation by “leaving things out,” & nomenclature [brilliant]

This is from a ruby slideshow, but it applies to lots more than programming. Really, any project in your life needs to start with a good name. I recently worked on something that for 4 months had a bunch of different names floating around because of legal issues and I have never had a harder time creating an interface design.

(via Tyler)

This was on Annie’s fantastic DJ Kicks a few years ago, I can’t believe it’s from 81’ … well, I guess I can.

faketv:

my Friday afternoon jam right now…

syntheticpubes:

La Bionda — “I Wanna Be Your Lover”

Hey Daft Punk and Matsumoto! 1981 just called you the fuck out!

Re-Thinking Interaction Design | design mind

Full of jargon but some very important insights and reminders for those of us on the interactive design grind. Branding and user experience are but supporting elements to the broader, more important pattern of behavioral and cultural change.

The long awaited follow up to The Ocarina of Rhyme.  Hell yeah!

FUR - Black Castles (Lunar Testing Lab remix)

Fucking Denton, Texas man.  What is in the water there that makes people so musically talented?

Anyway, expect to be seeing this kid Bryce, aka FUR, a lot more on Pitchfork.

New Radio Dept!!!

fred-wilson:

Heaven’s On Fire - The Radio Dept

“i think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture”

this track reminds me of Paul Weller’s Style Council and that’s a good thing

Danger - 09/17 2007 EP - 4h30 CityRiders Teaser

Flawless victory.

This video almost makes me want to visit San Francisco again.

rafer:

kkr:

thetenssf:

Rich in history, but progressive and modern today.
To boost tourism, I propose we air this during the Super Bowl.
(Found here: http://shanand.blogspot.com/)

lovely.

Rafer sez:
Wonderful and aweful, all at once.

FLAIRS - BETTER THAN PRINCE

I have a good feeling about today.

I’ve found myself using a lot of bookmarklets recently, for just about every type of online service.  It seems not a lot of people are as bookmarklet happy as I am though.  Do you use bookmarklets and if so which are your favorites?

I think modern music production should be taught in the same part of school curriculums as narcotic and hallucinogenic drugs - initially fun and mind expanding but ultimately an addicting drain on time, health, relationships, and financial well-being.

Can’t wait til those new B&W monomes go on sale again…

tylr:

Monome makes these beautiful, DIY, fully-customizable, no embedded software, grid interfaces (for use as instrument, step sequencer, etc). I really want one to use with my new Vermona DRM-1 MKIII.

Literal vampires.  I’ll be damned.

Federico Solmi: From the Uterus to the Grave with No Happy Ending

This show looks awesome.

Bloxels by Jinha Lee

by Justin David Cox

Here is a hilariously titled tour of my office, and the first time I’ve seen my last name spelled correctly in the press.

#3, #11, and #87 and well, all of them really.

I concur.

tumbledore:

“The global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announced PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, an inviting, luminous hue, as the color of the year for 2010.” I have absolutely no idea what the implications of such a selection are except that nurses and surgeons are going to be way cooler next year.

but I’m going to side with the commenters with regard to the hyperbolic writing:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 12/10/2009 - 09:46.

I think the words of a famous “anonymous” would perfectly describe this article:

“OP is a faggot”

faketv:

“I think a direct correlation can be made, for instance, between the rise of social media and the fall of the economy. The kaleidoscope of the Internet is more endless, more distracting and more mutating than even the most potent psychedelic drugs could have ever prepared us for.”

—

Jason Louv (via syntheticpubes)

The Facts About Bottled Water

g: how was your work received

m: well

i only spun for bout half an hour

was playing electronic drums and keys in the band temporarily known as neon sombrero

they had a giant glowing cube

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=10008048&id=324784095540

g: wow

so they did

Delo you are too fucking talented for someone your age.

courtneyc:

Just put myself on the list for a set of Chris Delorenzo’s Keyboard Stickers.

This headline just made my day.

Harry Clarke, Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 13 (via A Journey Round My Skull)

fascinated:

The Landscape of Music: It’s the music equivalent of the badass XKCD map of online communities.  You can zoom in and get more depth.  Go AT&T Research! (via Yan)

The bands displayed in large font are a hilarious amalgamation but totally make sense as representations of their genres when you think about it.

brobdingnag logic: I should say it is the most complicated photograph I have ever made…

educationalrap:

mattlehrer:

Visualizing empires decline via Chart Porn.

Teachers, try this in the classroom!

James Devane Ambient Set

Surf The Internet the Mostly Lower Case Way - corporate america - Gawker

Wolff Olins kills it again.

Zing.

Foursquare got a really big new whiteboard today…

Yep.

This pretty much sums how I feel about all sports.

tumbledore:

“We test this hypothesis using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location and time fixed effects, weather factors, the pre-game point spread, and the size of the local viewing audience, we find that upset losses by the home team (losses in games that the home team was predicted to win by more than 3 points) lead to an 8 percent increase in police reports of at-home male-on-female intimate partner violence. There is no corresponding effect on female-on-male violence. Consistent with the behavioral prediction that losses matter more than gains, upset victories by the home team have (at most) a small dampening effect on family violence. We also find that unexpected losses in highly salient or frustrating games have a 50% to 100% larger impact on rates of family violence.”

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faketv:

hahahahahahahahahahaha

natashavc:

Just freelancin’

(via waxandmilk)

COLONEL FRIDAY.

(via verypleasure)

adobegripes:

Illustrator: Couldn’t help but LOL at this, I mean how would this actually be any use to anyone?

My own disgusting but effective immune system boost/hangover cure. Not for the faint of stomach.