acrobatic tendencies

Bob Zimmermann

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:18:30 -0700

Bob Zimmermann

One day I will be able to dance like this

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:34:00 -0800

One day I will be able to dance like this

new bob dylan movie coming up soon.

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:30:26 -0700

new bob dylan movie coming up soon.

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us (via )

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:18:12 -0700

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us (via )

Big Ten

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:13:53 -0700

Big Ten

Dream clip

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:19:05 -0700

Dream clip

Video

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:04:57 -0700

I just want FIOS, look what she has...

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:55:11 -0700

I just want FIOS, look what she has...:

This lady has the fastest broadband in the world…

Personal Traffic Alerts, With Made-to-Order Data

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:50:25 -0700

In the latest incarnation of traffic reporting, information is being sent using personalized text or voice messages to users’ cellphones or BlackBerrys, often at no charge.

Rona Kenan - "Ness" (Dir. Adam Bizanski)(..!)

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:43:34 -0700

A new video for the Israeli artist Rona Kenan.

Quicktime here.

The Punk Years

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:24:19 -0700

The Punk Years, “A definitive history of the music that shook the world, looking at the origins and development of the punk rock movement as a social, historical, political and musical force. Achieved a record audience for Play UK on Saturday July 13th 2002.”
Parts 1: Wham Bam Thank You Glam [1,2,3] | 2: Year Zero [1,2,3] | 3: 1977 Never Get To Heaven [1,2,3] | 4: Take Three Chords [1,2,3] | 5: A Riot Of Your Own [1,2,3] | 6: Typical Girls [1,2,3] | 7: Ridicule Is Nothing To Be Scared Of [1,2,3] | 8: Punx Not Dead [1,2,3] | 9: Independents Days [1,2,3] | 10: California Uber Alles [1,2,3].

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I can’t sleep before watching this every nite

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:28:07 -0700

I can’t sleep before watching this every nite

i can't believe how cute is he

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:06:03 -0700

i can't believe how cute is he

Daily Show covers Viacom suit against Google/YouTube

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:44:49 -0700

Xeni Jardin: Link. (Thanks, Angstrom).

Previously on BoingBoing:

Viacom censors Colbert Report machinima off YouTube

EFF sues Viacom over YouTube takedown of Colbert parody

YouTube/Google sued by Viacom for a billion bucks

Viacom: privacy-hating hypocrites

Viacom terrorizes YouTube with bullshit DMCA notices

Viacom announces deal with Joost

Why was Colbert press corps video removed from YouTube?

Fans protest Comedy Central’s YouTube demands

YouTube removes Comedy Central clips over DMCA claims

Steven Colbert: Machinima fantasy with Karl Rove, Soledad O’Brien…

Top 6 List of Programming Top 10 Lists

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:59:59 -0700

Presented, in no particular order, for your reading pleasure: my top 6 list of programming top 10 lists. To keep this entry concise, I’ve only quoted a brief summary of each item. If any of these sound interesting to you, I encourage you to click through and read the original author’s thoughts in more detail.

Jerry Weinberg: The 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming

Understand and accept that you will make mistakes.
You are not your code.
No matter how much “karate” you know, someone else will always know more.
Don’t rewrite code without consultation.
Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience.
The only constant in the world is change.
The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position.
Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat.
Don’t be “the guy in the room.”
Critique code instead of people— be kind to the coder, not to the code.

Dare Obasanjo: Top 10 Signs Your Software Project is Doomed

Trying to do too much in the first version.
Taking a major dependency on unproven technology.
Competing with an existing internal project that is either a cash cow or has powerful backers.
The team is understaffed.
“Complex problems require complex solutions”.
Schedule Chicken
Scope Creep
Second System Syndrome
No Entrance Strategy.
Tackling a problem you don’t know how to solve.

Omar Shahine: Top 10 Tips for Working at Microsoft (or Anywhere Else)

Process is no substitute for thinking.
Get out of your office.
Use your product (the one your customers will).
Fix things that are broken rather than complain about them being broken. Actions speak better than your complaining.
Make hard problem look easy. Don’t make easy problems look hard.
Use the right communication tool for the job.
Learn to make mistakes.
Keep things simple.
Add value all the time.
Use their product.

Michael McDonough: The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School

Talent is one-third of the success equation.
95 percent of any creative profession is shit work.
If everything is equally important, then nothing is very important.
Don’t over-think a problem.
Start with what you know; then remove the unknowns.
Don’t forget your goal.
When you throw your weight around, you usually fall off balance.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions; or, no good deed goes unpunished.
It all comes down to output.
The rest of the world counts.

Andres Taylor: Top 10 Things Ten Years of Professional Software Development Has Taught Me

Object orientation is much harder than you think.
The difficult part of software development is communication.
Learn to say no.
If everything is equally important, then nothing is important.
Don’t over-think a problem.
Dive really deep into something, but don’t get hung up.
Learn about the other parts of the software development machine.
Your colleagues are your best teachers.
It all comes down to working software.
Some people are assholes.

Steve Yegge: 10 Great Books

You may wonder why I included a top 10 list from someone who is clearly a designer and not a programmer. I agree with Joey deVilla:

Software development is a kissing cousin of engineering (if not an engineering discipline itself), and blends creativity with math and science. That’s why I find that a lot of advice to creative types is also applicable to software developers.

You may also want to contrast and compare my recommended reading list with Steve Yegge’s. And yes, there is a reason Refactoring and Design Patterns aren’t on my list, just as I’m sure there’s a reason Code Complete is not on Steve’s list.

Why is the burglary rate in Austria so high? Perhaps because...

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:55:46 -0700

Why is the burglary rate in Austria so high? Perhaps because of the great minimum security prisons. The outside of one particular prison is all glass like an Apple Store, the furniture is nicely designed, and the sports facilities are top-notch. (link)

Download TaxCut for free

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:30:00 -0700

Travelocity’s got a deal going on with H&R Block and offering the TaxCut software as a free download for Mac or Windows.

Looks like this is just TaxCut Premium Federal (not state), which sells for…

Sand castle explosions in reverse

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:18:12 -0700

Mark Frauenfelder: It’s fun to watch these reverse videos of elaborate sandcastles exploding.

Here we go again! For the second year in a row, “Sand Blasters: The Extreme Sand Sculpting Championship” brings a one-of-a-kind competition to Travel Channel. Paired off into teams of two, 16 of the best sand sculptors from across America dig in to picturesque Pacific Beach in San Diego, California, for the chance to win their share of $15,000 in prize money. But there’s one obstacle standing in their way… Explosions! Over the course of this intense two-day competition, five of the eight sculptures are randomly selected for complete destruction by a Hollywood pyrotechnics crew. The ill-fated blast victims then have the remaining time to create another world-class work of art in order to contend for the title of Sand Blasters 2007 Extreme Sand Sculpting Champions.

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Modernism: Good for the Brain, Hard on the Feet

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:00:00 -0700

Architecture, film, design, craft, painting, photography: In the early part of the 20th century, the modernist movement touched all of these art forms. Contemporary art and craft have been feeling the effects ever since.

“Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939,” an exhibition opening at the Corcoran on Saturday, shows how a collection of artistic movements dedicated to the principle of — to borrow a phrase from Target — design-for-all took hold in Europe and made waves across the Atlantic.

Il Lee does abstract drawings using ballpoint pens. This...

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:44:58 -0700

Il Lee does abstract drawings using ballpoint pens. This video of Lee’s work is worth a look. (link)