This is how I play Minecraft now. →
Throwaway account, can’t have you server admins all over me :)
I got bored playing Minecraft, building this, building that, mine mine mine for hours on end. I found a way to totally change things up. Hear me out, because this is technically griefing I guess…
The SMP server I’m playing on is a role-playing server of sorts, it has an economy and a rather large central town. In the centre of town is a large statue type structure made entirely of solid gold blocks. Passing through town one day I decided that I’m gonna pull off the greatest gold heist in the history of Minecraft (probably not the greatest, but I’m thinking large here).
So, I’ve spent the last week putting all of the pieces in place for this to go down. Some players on the server like to build things for other players in return for gold and diamonds. I am slowly building an underground army of players, and none of them know my true intentions. I’ve got one guy working the underground tunnel to my exact specifications (right underneath the booty), another guy collecting intel on the players that hang around town (to work out their patterns and where they live), and another guy who is going to run interference when it’s time to burgle town square. All are under contract and know nothing of each other or of my own goals, and they are all sworn to secrecy.
I used to build structures. Now I build underground criminal networks.
The emergent gameplay possibilities in Minecraft gives me a gigantic, rock hard erection
17th October 2010 • 27 notes
Sunday, October 17, 2010
This is how I play Minecraft now. • Quisby
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Laver’s Law of Fashion
James Laver was a museum curator for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from the ‘30s through the ‘50s. He was also a fashion theorist and historian who conceived Laver’s Law — an attempt to make sense of the fashion trend lifecycle.
Here is Laver’s Law:
I agree with this, although, when I try and visualize my wardrobe, I don't like it.
Reality Bites
Troy: My parents got divorced when I was 5 years old, and I saw my father about 3 times a year after that. And when he found out that he had cancer he decided to bring me here and gives me this big pink seashell and says to me "Son, the answers are inside of this" and I'm all like "What?" and then I realize that the shell is empty there's no point to any of this it's all just a...a random lottery of meaningless tragedy in a series of near escapes...So I take pleasure in the details...a Quarter Pounder with cheese...those are good. The sky about 10 minutes before it rains...A moment when your laughter becomes a cackle and I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.
Super Scary Dystopian Nightmare: Gary Shteyngart's satire delivers
IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS CHECKPOINT ('THE OBJECT'). BY READING THIS SIGN YOU HAVE DENIED EXISTENCE OF THE OBJECT AND IMPLIED CONSENT.
fuck yeah, science fiction! - Without thinking, Kaye turned right and found...
Quote with 4 notes
Without thinking, Kaye turned right and found herself in the religious section. Most of the shelves were filled with brightly colored apocalypse novels. The E-paper holograms leaped from lurid covers as she passed: endtime, rapture, revelation, demons and dark angels. Most of the books had speaker chips that could read out the entire story. The same chips replaced jacket copy with vocal come-ons. The shelves murmured softly in a wave, like ghosts triggered by Kaye’s brief passage.— Darwin’s Children, by Greg Bear
Must find copy of this now.
Monday, September 27, 2010
YMFY
Those three things-autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward-are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.Outliers
Clerks (Scott Schiaffo)
Clerks
written by Kevin Smith
Chewlie's Rep: You're spending what? Twenty, thirty dollars a week on cigarettes....Fifty-three dollars. Would you pay someone that much money every week to kill you? Because that's what you're doing now, by paying for the so-called privilege to smoke! ....It's that kind of mentality that allows this cancer-producing industry to thrive. Of course we're all going to die someday, but do we have to pay for it? Do we actually have to throw hard-earned dollars on a counter and say, "Please, please, Mr. Merchant of Death, sir; please sell me something that will give me bad breath, stink up my clothes, and fry my lungs. ....Of course it's not that easy to quit; not when you have people like this mindless cretin so happy and willing to sell you nails for your coffin....Now he's going to launch into his rap about how he's just doing his job; following orders. Friends, let me tell you about another bunch of hate mongers that were just following orders; they were called Nazis, and they practically wiped a nation of people from the Earth...just like cigarettes are doing now! Cigarette smoking is the new Holocaust, and those that partake in the practice of smoking or selling the wares that promote it are the Nazis of the Nineties! He doesn't care how many people die from it! He smiles as you pay for your cancer sticks and says, "Have a nice day."
Fuckin A
Friday, September 24, 2010
nadeaushow. | In 1991 Honda offered the 4th-generation Accord...
In 1991 Honda offered the 4th-generation Accord and Civic, the Legend, the Integra, the CRX, the NSX, and this brilliant Prelude Si. Best product lineup anywhere, ever?
nadeaushow. | The Pantheon
The Pantheon
Samuel: What kind of formwork did they use to create this?
RH: If you can answer that, my friend, you will be a hero.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Ghetto
RAWDRUGRAPS: Billy introduced me to my new favorite blog, Ghetto Myspace. Comedian Dan Goodman posts the hoodest pics he can find on Myspace. Highly recommended. R.I.P. Murda.
I wish I could be this ghetto
This is...
I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be. I thought maybe I wanted to be a writer… but I hate what I write, and I tried taking pictures, but John’s so good at that, and mine are so mediocre… and every girl goes through a photography phase, like horses, you know dumb pictures of your feet…
This is me, except I'm not female.
nadeaushow. | On wayward benches
On wayward benches
“The sad little bench is deployed on West Avenue in Saratoga Springs, affording excellent views of four travel lanes plus one stacking left-turn lane and finally the Medical Arts building surrounded by its parking outparcels. The purpose of the bench is not rest for the weary traveler, for nobody ventures out here by foot. Nor is it a bus stop. It’s there to provide the illusion that we are interested in a humane daily environment.”
From the eminently quotable (though somewhat crazy) James Howard Kunstler.
nadeaushow. | The significance of a dream, we’re told, has less...
The significance of a dream, we’re told, has less to do with its overt drama than with the details; a long time ago it struck me that the same was true of real life, of what passes among us for real life.
Gregoire Bouillier - The Mystery Guest
How it Works | The PC Decrapifier
Simply download the file and run the EXE. There is no installer. If you have anti-virus software installed, it may complain about this program because it is written with a scripting language. These warnings can be safely ignored. Please see the FAQ for more details.
Running the Program
After you run the EXE you will be guided through the process with a "wizard" style series of questions. You will have the choice to pick and choose what you want to remove. It will not begin removing anything without prompting you first!
Click the images below to see a screen shot of various parts of the process.
Additional Commercial Version Features
The commercial version has the additional ability to automate itself. If you would like to include the PC Decrapifier in another script, you can pass additional parameters on the command line. The parameters are as follows: Usage: pc-decrapifier-CU.exe [/h] [--verbose] [/autoremove ] [/autoremovespecific ] [/l] [/f]
/h, --help show this help message /autoremove: Specify to remove either ALL or DEFAULT only items that were detected. BE CAREFUL! Specifying ALL may remove anti-virus, security and office software! Example: --autoremove default /autoremovespecific: Automatically removes all items specified in /l, --list Outputs possible programs to remove to pc-decrapifier-list.txt. To be used as input for autoremovespecific /f, --feedback Automatically provide feedback to pcdecrapifier.com without prompting
Example
To create a list of specific programs to remove first run:
pc-decrapifier-CU.exe --listNext, open up
pc-decrapifier-list.txtwith a text editor and remove anything you do NOT want the PC Decrapifier to look for. The file should only contain items you wish to remove if present.Finally, run the PC Decrapifier with your modified list file:
pc-decrapifier-CU.exe /autoremovespecific:pc-decrapifier-list.txt
Flying YouTube Packets Prove Visualization Can Make Anything Pretty
Networking in action, even if it is a RickRoll.
Militarized Skateboard Perfect for Hipster Invasions
This I want. Someone make me one.
Unhear it - get that damn song out of your head!
Got a bad song stuck in your head? Use this to get a better one stuck in it.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
How will you
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions? Will you follow dogma, or will you be original? Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure? Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions? Will you bluff it out when you’re wrong, or will you apologize? Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in love? Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling? When it’s tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless? Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder? Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
Friday, August 20, 2010
Swearing - You Swear.
Awesome site, that teaches you how to swear in different languages, wish I had this in high school!
Sunday, August 1, 2010
YMFY - Chuck Palahniuk
The books are never about what you think they are about. Survivor is really about our education system because I feel, more often than not, kids are sort of taught or trained to be the best possible cogs in some big corporate machine. They’re not really taught in an empowered way that they can start their own company so that they can create and run their own lives. They are sort of taught to be just good employees, to just fit in.
The Oregon Trail on Twitter
Why should I have to buy clothes when I can just clothe my family in skins of the fifteen buffalo I just shot?RealOregonTrail
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X - Super User
It's not built in but this is the most effective way to get my wife to stop using my laptop to read celebrity news for hours after 4-5 requests to get my macbook back:
echo 'The system is overheating and needs to go to sleep now.' | \ growlnotify -a 'Activity Monitor' 'OVERHEATED'; \ sleep 1; \ say 'Overheated system.'Since it's almost always around 70c it's believable.
This I like.
Peaceful Warrior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1. "Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.
- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.
- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure
- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same."
This film sounds good, anyone know anything about it?
Ron Schnell
What is "Dunnet"
Dunnet is a text adventure I wrote in 1983, which became part of Gnu Emacs in 1992. I'm proud to say that it's quite popular, and I get fan mail almost every day. To play it, login to any modern UNIX system and type the following at the command line:
emacs -batch -l dunnet
Mac is included in this- go play it, very cool text advenure.
American Cinematographer Magazine’s List of the 50 Films with the Best Cinematography, 1998-2008
tobia: via erotic-transference: “This is an exhaustive list. They’ve covered more-or-less every brilliantly shot film from the last decade that’s worth a damn. Personal favourites: The Fall, The Man Who Wasn’t There and There Will Be Blood.”
1. Amélie: Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC (2001)
2. Children of Men: Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC (2006)
3. Saving Private Ryan: Janusz Kaminski (1998)
4. There Will Be Blood: Robert Elswit, ASC (2007)
5. No Country for Old Men: Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (2007)
6. Fight Club: Jeff Cronenweth, ASC (1999)
7. The Dark Knight: Wally Pfister, ASC (2008)
8. Road to Perdition: Conrad L. Hall, ASC (2002)
9. Cidade de Deus (City of God): César Charlone, ABC (2002)
10. American Beauty: Conrad L. Hall, ASC (1999)
11. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Deakins)
12. Tie: In the Mood for Love (Christopher Doyle, HKSC, and Mark Li Ping-bin) and Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Navarro, ASC)
13. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS)
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Ellen Kuras, ASC)
15. Gladiator (John Mathieson, BSC)
16. The Matrix (Bill Pope, ASC)
17. The Thin Red Line (John Toll, ASC)
18. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Kaminski)
19. Slumdog Millionaire (Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC, DFF)
20. Tie: Eyes Wide Shut (Larry Smith, BSC) and Requiem for a Dream (Matthew Libatique, ASC)
21. Kill Bill (Robert Richardson, ASC)
22. Moulin Rouge (Donald M. McAlpine, ASC, ACS)
23. The Pianist (Pawel Edelman, PSC)
24. Hero (Doyle)
25. Black Hawk Down (Slawomir Idziak, PSC)
26. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Deakins)
27. Babel (Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC)
28. Lost In Translation (Lance Acord, ASC)
29. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Peter Pau, HKSC)
30. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Claudio Miranda, ASC)
31. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Deakins)
32. The New World (Lubezki)
33. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez)
34. Atonement (Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC)
35. Munich (Kaminski)
36. The Prestige (Pfister)
37. Memoirs of a Geisha (Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS)
38. The Aviator (Richardson)
39. Zodiac (Harris Savides, ASC)
40. The Insider (Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC)
41. Gangs of New York (Michael Ballhaus, ASC)
42. Tie: Brokeback Mountain (Prieto) and The Fountain (Libatique)
43. The Fall (Colin Watkinson)
44. The Passion of the Christ (Caleb Deschanel, ASC)
45. Snow Falling on Cedars (Richardson)
46. House of Flying Daggers (Xiaoding Zhao)
47. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Eric Adkins)
There are some absolute awesome movies on this list, I hope to eventually see them all!
Six Writers on Their Favorite Reading -- New York Magazine
If You Liked My Book, You’ll Love These
SCIENCE FICTION
William Gibson
SF’s current visionary has a new novel, Zero History (Putnam), due out September 7.
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Tiger! Tiger! (1956)
By Alfred Bester
It’s also known as The Stars My Destination. My favorite literary expression of mid-century Manhattan, and I doubt I’d have written without having read it.
Dhalgren (1975)
By Samuel R. Delany
It won’t work unless you can allow it to become your head for a few weeks; it helps if you’re rather young. Closest thing I know to a great “sixties” novel.
Arslan (1976)
By M. J. Engh
A very different sort of alien invasion: America as Earth. One of the best works of science fiction you probably haven’t heard of.
The Crystal World (1966)
By J. G. Ballard
It’s hard to pick just one Ballard, but you could certainly start with this.
The Forever War (1974)
By Joe Haldeman
The most adult and intelligent novel of military science fiction.
Pavane (1968)
By Keith Roberts
The Roman Catholic Church still rules England in 1968, Protestantism having been destroyed in the wake of the 1588 assassination of Queen Elizabeth.
Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1993)
By Jack Womack
A heart-rending and perpetually more likely near-future Manhattan.
Great Work of Time (1991)
By John Crowley
Vast and all-encompassing, it’s a novel magically disguised as a novella.
Holy Fire (1996)
By Bruce Sterling
A glacially logical yet emotionally intelligent extrapolation of age-extension technology. Also brilliant on bohemias.
334 (1972)
By Thomas M. Disch
Everyday life in Manhattan, 2025, at 334 East 11th Street, a vast housing project. I think of it whenever anyone seriously suggests my work is dystopian.
A great selection of books, by a great author. The Stars My Destination, is a personal favorite, even when I read it now, it feels as fresh as if it were written just yesterday.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Karl Urban confirms he's playing Judge Dredd
Karl Urban confirms he's playing Judge Dredd
Dr. McCoy is the law! We reported a rumor that Star Trek star Karl Urban would play the futuristic, fascistic lawman in the new Judge Dredd movie the other day. Asked about it at Comic Con, Urban said the rumor is "lookin' good." And he told another news outlet that director Pete Travis had actually offered him the role, "and we're in the process of making it happen."
And don't worry, purists - Urban says if he plays Dredd, he'll keep the helmet on the entire time. He adds:
I will say this, hypothetically if I went to a movie that was called "Judge Dredd" and the character or the actor who played Judge Dredd took the helmet and I would see his full face and features I would puke in my popcorn because that's not Dredd. He's mysterious and enigmatic. We're going to do it right.
[MTV and Collider and Movieline]
Send an email to Charlie Jane Anders, the author of this post, at charliejane@io9.com.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
YMFY
In a significant step toward an AIDS vaccine, U.S. government scientists have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any AIDS antibody yet discovered.
Looking closely at the strongest antibody, they have detailed exactly what part of the virus it targets and how it attacks that site.
The antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the scientific literature as Donor 45, whose body made the antibodies naturally. Researchers screened 25 million of his cells to find 12 that produced the antibodies. Now the trick will be for scientists to develop a vaccine or other methods to make anyone’s body produce them.
Holy shit.
Yes.
Straight out of William Gibson novel!
Stop or Start (Restart) a Windows service from a Linux machine
Stop or Start (Restart) a Windows service from a Linux machine
net rpc -I ADDRESS -U USERNAME%PASSWORD service {stop|start} SVCNAME2010-06-29 17:12:36User: f0rkStop or Start (Restart) a Windows service from a Linux machineControl (stop, start, restart) a Windows Service from a Linux machine which has the `net` command (provided by samba).
Terminal - Stop or Start (Restart) a Windows service from a Linux machine homeofthevain: Daily Dose of Dylan Moran
homeofthevain: Daily Dose of Dylan Moran
Dylan Moran, What It Is (excerpt)
“So, yes… death. When you’re young, you think about it… Well, you don’t really think about it, you know — you have the intelligence of raspberry jam — you don’t think about anything. But it’s there, as a mode of force, making you do things. Go and get a job. Go and find a flat. Find somebody else. Put them in the flat. Make them stay. Get a toaster. Go to work. Get on the bus. Look at your boss. Say, FUCK. Sit down. Pick up the thing. Go blank. Scream internally. Go home. Listen to the radio. Look at the other person. Think, WHY? WHY DID THIS HAPPEN? Go to bed. Lie awake at night. Get up. Feel groggy. Put the things on — your clothes, whatever they’re called. Go out the door, into work. Same thing. Same people. Again. It is real — it is happening to you. Go home again. Sit. Radio. Dinner. Mmmm. GARDENING GARDENING GARDENING death.”
Sad but true, I want to know once you start to realize this, how do you escape from it?
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF- The truth about Elevators
In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the door-close button doesn’t work. It is there mainly to make you think it works. (It does work if, say, a fireman needs to take control. But you need a key, and a fire, to do that.) Once you know this, it can be illuminating to watch people compulsively press the door-close button. That the door eventually closes reinforces their belief in the button’s power. It’s a little like prayer. Elevator design is rooted in deception—to disguise not only the bare fact of the box hanging by ropes but also the tethering of tenants to a system over which they have no command.Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (Told you so, everyone who has tried to convince me that our elevators’ door-close buttons did anything.) (via marco)
I feel like my whole life has been a sham up until this point.
(via tomreynolds) (via mikehudack)
God, if this is true, then engineers are the biggest jokers of all :(
Wired News
When you can't understand what Wired is actually writing about (by running the website through a Webdings translator (wonder-tonic.com) it begins to look very artistic indeed.
ALPA of Switzerland - Manufacturer of fine cameras - ALPA 12 TC
This is how cameras should look, love the fact that you can get this is digital and analogue also.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Your Daily Computing, Minus the Computer
Why bother trying to show a service such as twitter, which can only exist with computers, when you're trying to have a video about analog computing!?
HONDA NSX TEASER | FORMAT67:MAG
I really want to know what the soundtrack is for this clip.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Should World Cup Broadcasters Mute Vuvuzela Horns? | Epicenter
The 582 people who voted that they want to hear Vuvuzelas must be trolls surely?!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Where's Waldo and I Spy For iPad: Worth Seeking Out
I remember these from when I was a kid, I think this is a brilliant re-imagining on the concept.
Orbicule | Undercover
Mac OS X
iPhone & iPad
Super awesome theft recovery tool for OSX and IOS, and cheaper than what Apple provides as well.
This Macintosh Is Really an iPad
A great way to re use an old mac, I thought, although, how is it still so white?!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Valve Parodies Apple's "1984" Commercial
The 1984 commercial that actually makes sense. Way to go Valve.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF
Today I set out from my house and walked. And walked.
I didn’t have a specific destination in mind, but wanted to walk a bit before finding a quiet place to write. So I walked, out of the town where I live and along the tropical, white-sand coastline, to the next town over.
As others drove cocooned in their cars, I walked, and emitted nothing but my breath.
As others spent their lunch hour pounding down fat-laden burgers and greasy fries or some other cheesy fried piled-high dish, I walked, and burned calories.
As others rushed and stressed, I walked, and took my time.
As others sat at their computers, I walked, and got my blood flowing.
As others held power business meetings and made deals, I walked, and had time to think.
As others were productive and got tasks done, I walked and got nothing done, and cleared my head.
As others had the comfort of shelter and air-conditioning, I walked and worked up a light sweat and was buffeted by the wind.
As a white gull floated serenely above a calm bay, I walked, and watched, and loved it.
I walked for an hour, then wrote and read, and then walked for another hour to get back home, tired but happy.
I can’t walk this much every day, but I walk as much as I can, because you need nothing to walk, you spend nothing, you consume nothing, you emit nothing.
And yet you have everything.
WONDER-TONIC
http://whythefuckdontyouknowabout.com/ aggressively challenges your familiarity with random Wikipedia art
Thursday, May 20, 2010
“Are you human?” video documentation GDFB | F.A.T.
I like it, poorly implemented :p but I still like it.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF
You’re going to study at Kyoto University and not quite sure how you’ll afford housing? How about Yoshida-ryo, a rundown dormitory built in 1913 that charges 2,500 yen a month.
At the southern edge of Kyoto University’s Yoshida Campus in Kyoto lies a tree-shrouded, sprawling and ramshackle wooden building. It is decrepit and sometimes even interweaved with overgrowth. But this building is no ruin. It’s the Yoshida-ryo dormitory — a bewildering anachronism in a city based on the idea of living history.
Nearly a century old, and looking every day of it, Yoshida-ryo is very likely the last remaining example of the once common Japanese wooden university dormitory. This building was built in 1913. Organized from the very beginning to be self-administering through a dormitory association (寮自治会), the students themselves have been responsible for selecting new applicants for residency. This autonomy, however, came under full-scale assault in 1971, when the Ministry of Education began a policy of regulating or closing dormitories, which were seen as “hotbeds for various kinds of conflict.” University authorities first tried to close Yoshida-ryo completely in 1979, and after failing to overcome opposition over the next 10 years finally closed the Western Yoshida-ryo across the street.
With the death of Japan’s violent student activism, the campaign to close the dormitory subsided for a time, but in the aftermath of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake there were new calls to replace the poorly aged building, which had already seen its maintenance neglected for decades by a university that had wanted to demolish it.
At present, the future of the dormitory is unclear. While residents have performed some minor upgrades over the years, such as the haphazard stringing of Ethernet cables through the halls to each room, they have only recently begun discussing the possibility of performing serious repairs themselves. There has even been some discussion of bypassing the university and applying for historical building preservation funds, although the building may be considered too far gone for proper restoration, particularly while still being lived in.
The university has recently been fairly insistent on their plan to replace it with a new, safer structure, which fits in with their aggressive earthquake-proofing campaign. But the current administration seems unlikely to take extreme action along the lines of Tokyo University’s demolition of Komaba-ryo in 2001, when its residents were literally dragged out of the building by over 570 private security guards and university staff in the midst of a raging typhoon.
Originally only housing male undergraduates, Yoshida-ryo went coed in 1985, started accepting foreign students in 1990, and since 1991 has accepted any sort of Kyoto University affiliated student, including graduate students, with some current residents living there from their freshman year all the way through the end of graduate school.
While the facilities are sub-par by modern standards, the unbelievably low rent of ￥2,500 per month (technically ￥400 rent, ￥1,600 utilities and ￥500 to fund the Yoshida-ryo Residents Association) and bohemian atmosphere make it an attractive living place for financially challenged students (including a large number of self-financed students from China).
Visiting Yoshida-ryo
Yoshida-ryo is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Higashiyama and Konoe Streets in Kyoto City. As Yoshida-ryo is a working school dormitory and not a museum, visitors should not wander around the interior of the buildings, but students hanging out near the main entrance are often willing to give a quick tour of the public areas if asked politely.
For the frugal and adventurous traveler, it is often possible to sleep on the floor of one of the large (and admittedly pretty filthy) common rooms for a nominal fee of ￥200 per night, although at the beginning of the semester these areas are sometimes used to temporarily house new residents before rooms are assigned and may not be available for guests. (via Yoshida-ryo dormitory at Kyoto University | CNNGo.com)
2500 yen, is about $38 NZD currently. I like the concept, and life you would live living there, wish there was something like that in Christchurch.
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF
Dex christened the Tao after the detached cool exhibited by three Steves of the world, Steve McQueen, Steve Austin from The Six Million Dollar Man, and Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-0.
The Tao itself is the philosophy that Dex employs to succeed sexually with women. It consists of three rules:
- Eliminate your desires.
- Do something excellent in her presence, thereby proving your sexual worthiness.
- Retreat, for as Martin Heidegger said, “We pursue that which retreats from us”.
Or, as Dave later recaps it:
- Be desireless
- Be excellent
- Be gone
sup Brodeep!
syntheticpubes: What is terrible is not death but the lives people...
What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.”
— Charles Bukowski (via 50yearstorm)
I agree, now how do I not end up being one of these people.
Dead Media Beat: analog journalism | Beyond The Beyond
http://www.mndaily.com/2010/05/02/journalism-professor-asks-students-unplug
Journalism professor asks students to unplug
Students were told to go five days without modern technology.
PUBLISHED: 05/02/2010
BY BRENT RENNEKE(…)
Last month, Heather LaMarre, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, asked the students in her principles of strategic communication course to go five days without using technology created after 1984.
(…)
Also, the assignment enlightened the students on what life was like for many of their future employers, according to LaMarre, who said the year 1984 was chosen because this is the time frame in which many of the bosses of today lived in.
“That age group grew up without this technology and comes from a very different viewpoint,” LaMarre said.
The majority of the students in LaMarre’s classroom, however, come from an age group with a viewpoint firmly entrenched in technology.
Lucy Knopff, public relations sophomore, said the assignment forced her to give up her cell phone, which she has used since junior high.
“It is what I know, and it is hard to stray from what you know,” Knopff said.
LaMarre said technologies like Knopff’s cell phone have provided a valuable tool of convenience, but how we utilize this tool needs to be realized.
“I wanted them to realize the difference between using it in a strategic way and using it mindlessly,” LaMarre said.
LaMarre said technology should be used with an intended purpose and not needlessly.
“You wouldn’t just pick up a hammer or screwdriver and use it mindlessly,” LaMarre said.
It is this kind of “mindless” use that ended Knopff’s attempt a half hour after leaving the classroom the day it was assigned.
“After leaving class, I put on my iPod,” Knopff said. “It is so second nature to me that I didn’t even realize it.”
LaMarre said early failure in the project was common, with less than 10 percent of her 43 students making it past two days…. (((I’m surprised they made it that long.)))
I wouldn't think it's that hard to do, but then I don't have the motivation to do it.
Staplerfahrer Klaus [Uncensored, English Subs, High Quality]
Awesome training video, skip straight to 6.26 sec if you don't want to learn anything, but watch.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF
How Hipsters Break Up
OR: I just don’t think we’re compatible… I need someone more like Joanna Newsom. Plz forgive me? We can discuss this over a Red Stripe if that would make things easier.
God, I wished I used this a few times, before I became so entrenched with some peoples lives :S
Why Roger Ebert Hates 3-D (And You Should Too) - Film - Gizmodo
Why Roger Ebert Hates 3-D (And You Should Too)
While Avatar was technically impeccable, we have already said that 3D is Hollywood's next big scam. Film critic, Russ Meyer devotee (amen), and overall good guy Roger Ebert agrees. And he provides a definitive list of reasons:
1. It's the waste of a dimension.
2. It adds nothing to the experience.
3. It can be a distraction.
4. It can create nausea and headaches.
5. Have you noticed that 3-D seems a little dim?
6. It's an excuse to buy new digital projectors.
7. Theaters slap on a surcharge of $5 to $7.50 for 3-D.
8. I cannot imagine a serious drama in 3-D (neither can I).
9. Whenever Hollywood has felt threatened, it has turned to technology to save the day.I have to agree with him. I see 3D serving a purpose in interactive experiences like gaming or science visualization, but I hope 3D movies die soon. At least, in its current form.
Read Ebert's crystal clear explanation of each point in his list at [Newsweek]
Send an email to Jesus Diaz, the author of this post, at jesus@gizmodo.com.
I agree, especially point 9.
