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Ok, that's cool!

I've been using Jumpcut since 2008 when I switched to macos, and I'm pretty prone to app inertia, but that might actually make me switch. thanks.

I still remember and miss http://bluemars.org/

I discovered so much beautiful ambient music back in the early/mid 2000s.

Much of that baseline test actually comes from Nabokov's "Pale Fire" - which is also the book Joi picks up when she says "do you want to read to me".

Here's his actual keynote speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo

As always, John is a master of communication and clear thought.

It reminds me of the thread about the Quake 3 bots, who left alone for several years, figured out that the best approach was to not kill each other.

https://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg

A station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...

In Ubik by Philip K Dick, the door of his apartment won't open unless he pays it five cents each time. Life imitates art.

“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

I still hold that the scene where Grant and Sattler first see the Brachiosaur is one of the best acted (and I suppose directed) scenes ever. That subtle feeling of vindication when his theory is proven right against all the critics[1]... "they do move in herds"... and then the sheer wonder and child-like awe of Grant/Sam Neill when he just says, agape "...how'd you do this?" just spellbinds me each time.

I just couldn't imagine having that kind of emotional reponse as a viewer with today's CGI design by committee shitfest that seems to be the norm.

Also, don't forget that the first movie was based (fairly) closely on a riveting book written by a fantastic story teller - that sure helps with telling a good story.

[1] who you don't even know about - its just the way he says it makes you understand that he's been advancing that theory for a long time and facing a lot of criticism for it.

hah, reminds me of http://www.csszengarden.com but simpler.

I take it to mean that they're composed well: there's a balanced and sensible spacing/padding, the lines are a good weight, they are easy on the eye, there's a consistent look and feel between all of them etc etc.

For instance, I could mangle some SVG icons and while you could scale them to an infinite size.. you wouldn't want to use them ;)

These look great BTW!

Thanks for ZZT Tim. That game changed my life when I was starting high school in the mid 90s; it was one of the ways I learnt to really have fun with computers as well as to program and make my own games.

Also, Unreal Tournament still holds a very fond place in my heart. I don't play games these days, but on the very rare occasion I feel like it, that's one of my major go-tos, just for the nostalgia of Facing-Worlds ;)

...it doesn't just open up the Options menu?

My wife started buying Who Gives A Crap for our household a few months a go and we love it. We went the "mid-tier" quality (although we experimented with the the lower - 1ply tier at first wasn't that bad either). We also get the huge pack with 10 or 20 boxes of tissues included.

> Most mainstream toilet roll brands source their wood pulp from boreal forests in Canada, which are very old and take between 20 to 50 years to regenerate.

it's this kind of crap (pardon the pun) that makes us feel good about using recycled TP.

also, i have to give a shoutout to whoever Who Gives A Crap's copywriters are; the stuff they put on the undersides of the tissue boxes and TP rolls is genuinely hilarious. I worked along side great copywriters years ago, and I can just picture those kind of people sitting around brainstorming funny stuff to adorn the wrapping with.

edit: it's made from bamboo, not recycled.

Great project! there's definitely some interesting things to explore here.

I had an issue though, I clicked the top link on:

https://sideprojects.net/posts/7YZPLbcugbCyf94GY/non-vocal-m...

to visit the site and it takes me to

https://sideprojects.net/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.programme...

which is 404. hope it's a quick fix :)

Have you listed this as your own side project on there? ;)

It kind of sickens me that we only have this because some smart person dumpster dived behind the building of a bankrupt game company...

Who threw this stuff out?!

How much other irreplaceable source code has been lost because some janitor threw out some boxes of "old floppy disks" or whatever when everything was getting cleaned out...

I agree, although it was a different episode.

Duncan trussel's Tesla episode was masterfully done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ

the other few episodes I bothered with didn't do it for me.

yep, these are the kinds of posts on HN that I really appreciate, not the contrarian "well akshually" kind that usually appear.

yeah but.... actually, crap you're right. tech is better than ever. pity that it's being wasted on today's trivialities.

He was such a visionary that I can pretty much take whatever news headline from the last 10 years and link it directly to his work...

It hasn't been updated in a few years, but this site used to regularly take recent news articles and link them to story elements in Dick's stories: http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/philip_k_dick/

oh gee, i just LOVE websites that have about 300 pixels of readable space.

get rid of the huge fixed headers and fixed footers garbage. PLEASE. fuck this stupid trend.