Category: culture
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The Katering Show
Somehow I’ve never posted about The Katering Show, a comedy cooking show featuring a “…food intolerant and an intolerable foodie.” Lets remedy that and you can watch the entirety of their first season on YouTube. The show is amazingly funny if you enjoy British or colonial-british humor. Unless you’re in Australia and have access to…
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Garbage Game for Garbage People, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Might Have Had Music from Michael Jackson
Todd Van Luling has an article for the Huffington Post about the sad garbage people who got too caught up in Sega’s marketing to recognize that Sonic gameplay was awful and their sad hunt for finding the hidden connection in Sonic 3’s soundtrack to Michael Jackson. Spoiler, Jackson didn’t even want to be associated with…
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Eric S. Raymond’s Turn at Becoming The Biggest Asshole in Open Source
Eric S. Raymond: The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a “women in tech” advocacy group is going to…
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Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Archive.org has a special on archived muzak in aisle 89: In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. Anyways, I saved these tapes from the trash…
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Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus
John Carmack is one of those rare people who pretty much everything they write is worth reading. He’s not always right, but it is always entertaining to watch his level of genius on display. In this case, Carmack is writing about overcoming the problems he ran into while developing a custom virtual reality environment where…