Above is from “Alien” released in May 1979. Below is from Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures”, April 1979.
Alien vs Joy Division
Friday, March 6, 2015
Category: Wide world
Selling Swift: what a fool believes
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Ok, Apple comes out with a brand new programming language. Creating a new programming language is the absolute surest way to invite a hurricane of internet pain from coders worried they’ve bet on the wrong horse. Generally they’ll try to shout at the horse until it dies – mostly with nasty tweets. Yet somehow Apple […]
Bitcoin market visualizer thing
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Having a slight slither of skin in the Bitcoin game, I decided it would be prudent to more closely monitor my investments. There’s some fantastic tools for this: Bitcoin Wisdom and Trading View and Co. But they all show a single view, designed to be viewed in a browser tab. I needed something that would […]
Spam, my friend.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Hi there could I allusion some of the perceptiveness from this participant if I minister to a relation help to your site? I just deleted 18,311 pending comments that had been submitted to this blog. 99.99% were spam, but 0.01% were real comments from real people, so I had to vet them one at a […]
My new bitcoin-enabled business card
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Caine’s Arcade Fun Pass Generator
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Caine’s Arcade is the coolest arcade ever (even better than Flynn’s Arcade and Bailey’s Arcade. The “pros” of Caine’s Arcade are that all the games are hand-built by a 9 year old, out of cardboard. But the “cons” are the prices: $1 gets you 4 plays, and $2 gets you a “Fun Pass” ™ valid […]
Syntax highlighting for writers
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Ok, This was a “here’s an old project I’ve abandoned” type post, but after some interest in the matter I’m re-opening this for questions… Syntax highlighting for writers: what do you think? Yay, or nay? When you have a brilliant idea for a start-up, you mock up a prototype and show your intended audience. They’ll […]
You can skip this ad in 0:02
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Yeah, I can skip it MUCH faster than that.
Translating marketing garbage
Saturday, January 7, 2012
French is a beautiful language, so of course it makes sense that some right-wing crazies would fight like heck to keep English from ruining it. That’s exactly the intent behind Toubon Law – which mandates that any commercial publications written (or containing text) in another language also come with a visible French translation. This usually […]