Link Post - Iggy, Underworld, and Irvine Welsh
Cross Generation Transgression
Dangerous Minds - Irvine Welsh interviews Iggy Pop and Underworld about creating music for the Trainspotting sequel, and selling the rights to Trainspotting to the wrong guy.
Link Post - Crap Science Journalism, An Ongoing Series
Seriously you could do ten of these a week.
Link Post - RIP Harlan
One of the orneriest voices in SF passes.
Boing Boing - Cory gives Harlan a good, a more personal than professional one, obituary. He was an outspoken pain in the ass in almost every way and had a fanatical devotion to recognizing good writing, and elevating genre writing out of the minor leagues.
Link Post - Nostalgia Is A Toxic Impulse
- John Hodgman
Motherboard - Proving that millennials are hitting their own midlife crisis, AIM is resurrected from the dead. I can think of better dead tech to bring back, but people do not forget their first love. Personally, I'm waiting for someone to bring back Real Audio streams.
Link Post - Farming Rage
Cracked - This is a bit ham-fisted in its critique, but I think it's central premise that outrage farming is a marketing tactic isn't wrong. If the politics and the media of the 2000's were all about exploiting fear to get your way, this decade has been about farming your anger. It will be interesting to see when the anger wave . . .
Learning Diary - Python Mad Libs
Life before video games was terrible in many ways
I am still working through Code Academy’s course. Stopping to spin my own version of the Pro Course lessons. Not that I’m cheap or anything (okay I’m a little cheap), but this was primarily to challenge myself to build things without following along and having someone check my code. I’ll be working for these the next couple of weeks, as I . . .
Link Post - Portable History Nerd Kit
Crowdsourcing History
Mental Floss - There is an incredible amount of history out there that never finds its way to a library or archive. Mental Floss reports on a University Library that created a kit so anyone can easily archive history. It's only being used for a few limited collections right now, but it's a concept that more museums and libraries . . .