Crazy/genius talks at Five Minutes of Fame at Noisebridge hackspace tonight.
If you have any interest in things hackerish whatsoever,CLICK ME, skip a couple minutes in, and keep listening despite the terrible audio quality.
For the opening talk, Jacob Applebaum recounted how he went to the military dictatorship known as Burma (or Myanmar depending on who you ask), and how he hacked everything in sight once he got there.
At 48 minutes in, Annie Newitz (editor: iO9.com) talks about designing cities to survive assorted apocalypses.
At 1 hour, 4 minutes, Naomi Most has some suggestions on nutrition for hackers.
At 1 hour, 19 minutes, we have a catalogue of terrible invention ideas.
At 1 hour, 29 minutes, we have a talk about causality. Unlike the previous talks, this one isn't hilarious. Then we have a musical performance on a hacked Casio. You can skip that one, too. (It was cool live, tho.)
Around 1:46, some guys demonstrated an XRay device they had rebuilt while the other talks were happening out of a trash can, a taser, a vacuum tube, and assorted other odds and ends.
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The pattern these last few months is that I get hypnotically in love with pop songs whose words describe people who I couldn't actually stand in real life.
To Wit:
"Somebody That I Used to Know", covered by Walk Off the Earth
A beautiful duet about two people who have a nasty breakup and blame each other for everything.
Blue Jeans, by Lana del Ray
They're so in love... so very in love... because he's a wannabe gangster who abandons her so he can reboot his fucked up his life. And he never even spent the night. And she loves him more for this, and wants him to stay screwed over so long as he stays with her. You know what? You two DO stay together. You deserve each other.
And as an honorable mention: River Flows in You, by Yiruma
Wow, that's really beautiful. And there's no lyrics about horrible people to ruin it.
If you have any interest in things hackerish whatsoever,CLICK ME, skip a couple minutes in, and keep listening despite the terrible audio quality.
For the opening talk, Jacob Applebaum recounted how he went to the military dictatorship known as Burma (or Myanmar depending on who you ask), and how he hacked everything in sight once he got there.
At 48 minutes in, Annie Newitz (editor: iO9.com) talks about designing cities to survive assorted apocalypses.
At 1 hour, 4 minutes, Naomi Most has some suggestions on nutrition for hackers.
At 1 hour, 19 minutes, we have a catalogue of terrible invention ideas.
At 1 hour, 29 minutes, we have a talk about causality. Unlike the previous talks, this one isn't hilarious. Then we have a musical performance on a hacked Casio. You can skip that one, too. (It was cool live, tho.)
Around 1:46, some guys demonstrated an XRay device they had rebuilt while the other talks were happening out of a trash can, a taser, a vacuum tube, and assorted other odds and ends.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
The pattern these last few months is that I get hypnotically in love with pop songs whose words describe people who I couldn't actually stand in real life.
To Wit:
"Somebody That I Used to Know", covered by Walk Off the Earth
A beautiful duet about two people who have a nasty breakup and blame each other for everything.
Blue Jeans, by Lana del Ray
They're so in love... so very in love... because he's a wannabe gangster who abandons her so he can reboot his fucked up his life. And he never even spent the night. And she loves him more for this, and wants him to stay screwed over so long as he stays with her. You know what? You two DO stay together. You deserve each other.
And as an honorable mention: River Flows in You, by Yiruma
Wow, that's really beautiful. And there's no lyrics about horrible people to ruin it.
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phileasfogg:
Happy new year! Have a great 2013.
jessikah:
I know it's hard to fathom. Over tired?