Category: culture

  • TempleOS and Bubsy 3D

    Richard Mitton on Terry A. Davis’ TempleOS: TempleOS is somewhat of a legend in the operating system community. It’s sole author, Terry A. Davis, has spent the past 12 years attempting to create a new operating from scratch. Terry explains that God has instructed him to construct a temple, a 640×480 covenant of perfection. Unfortunately Terry…

  • Almost Lost Big Bird

    Rob Crilly: Big Bird, the giant yellow-feathered Sesame Street character, was offered a place on the doomed Challenger space shuttle mission but had to withdraw because his oversized costume would not fit in the craft. The extraordinary revelation is contained in a new documentary I Am Big Bird, which tells the story of the Jim…

  • The Little Lebowski Urban Achievers

    Dan Benjamin (of many fine podcasts at 5by5) and Merlin Mann (of Back to Work and Roderick on the Line) recently recorded a podcast about the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski is such a great movie in all of its nonsense, and as Dan and Merlin point out we all know a Dude but…

  • Hypnotize

    How did Dinosaurs go extinct when they could rap like this?

  • Work It; Make It; Do it; Makes us DaftPunKonsole

    Malik Dellidj made this awesome pseudo-midi keyboard on codepen that plays clips from Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Dvorak not supported. Qwerty and Azerty are good to go. Here’s the video for inspiration while you music.  Our work is never over. When it is I need to go watch Interstella 5555.