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June 2014

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Thoughts on Technology: HOWTO: Scale Your Display under Linux

http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2011/09/howto-scale-your-display-under-linux.html
Something that has always annoyed me about a good deal of netbooks is the fact that someone decided that 1024x600 was an acceptable maximum resolution. While this isn't always an issue, it becomes extra annoying when you attach an external display to your tiny computer. By default your are typically forced into one of two choices:
#imported:pinboard #linux #tweaks
archive.org #24993

DISTRIBUTED: Remote Employees are Happier, Healthier and More Productive | Intridea Blog

http://www.intridea.com/blog/2014/6/26/distributed-remote-employees-are-happier-healthier-and-more-productive
Yep, you read that right. While it’s no surprise that remote employees are happier than their commuting counterparts, many business owners are shocked to learn distributed employees are also more productive. How could that be? It’s actually pretty simple. Psychologists have proven time and again that a happy employee is also a productive employee.
#distributed #imported:pinboard #productivity #remote #work
archive.org #24992

The Interval: A Bar With Robots, Books & a Spiral Staircase :: Sosh :: San Francisco

http://sosh.com/san-francisco/the-interval-at-long-now/the-interval-a-bar-with-robots-books-a-spiral-staircase/a/s3Cu/?fb_action_ids=10152629536456874&fb_action_types=soshdragon%3Abookmark&fb_ref=fb_share_timeline_activity
Circle up the spiral staircase and past the vintage surgery lamps and meet The Interval. As the latest project from the Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit that is dedicated to exploring long-term thinking, The Interval is equal parts bar, library, museum, and cafe.
#imported:pinboard #interval #sf #todo
archive.org #31843

The Interval: A Bar With Robots, Books & a Spiral Staircase :: Sosh :: San Francisco

http://sosh.com/san-francisco/the-interval-at-long-now/the-interval-a-bar-with-robots-books-a-spiral-staircase/a/s3Cu?fb_action_ids=10152629536456874&fb_action_types=soshdragon:bookmark&fb_ref=fb_share_timeline_activity
Circle up the spiral staircase and past the vintage surgery lamps and meet The Interval. As the latest project from the Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit that is dedicated to exploring long-term thinking, The Interval is equal parts bar, library, museum, and cafe.
#interval #sf #todo
archive.org #24973

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.1.html
Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.
#alcohol #booze #imported:pinboard #prohibition
archive.org #24965

About Us | The Digital Game Museum

http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/about-us/
Our office and collection storage in at 3553 Ryder Street, Santa Clara, CA. We don’t have enough space to put up exhibits, so we show exhibits at events like Maker Faire Bay Area, PAX Prime, and others, and we place small exhibits in interesting places. We hope to move to a space that will include changing exhibits and game play space in the near future. To do that, we need your financial support and the support of corporations. Can you help?
#california #gaming #imported:pinboard #retro
archive.org #31846

About Us | The Digital Game Museum

http://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/about-us
Our office and collection storage in at 3553 Ryder Street, Santa Clara, CA. We don’t have enough space to put up exhibits, so we show exhibits at events like Maker Faire Bay Area, PAX Prime, and others, and we place small exhibits in interesting places. We hope to move to a space that will include changing exhibits and game play space in the near future. To do that, we need your financial support and the support of corporations. Can you help?
#california #gaming #retro
archive.org #24964

Atari Party 2014, June 14th in Sunnyvale

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/2014/
"Atari Party" is free event celebrating decades of video game and computing history of Atari. They've been held annually since 2009, typically in Davis, California. This year, Atari Party once again migrates to Sunnyvale, California (long-time home to Atari, Inc. and Atari Corp.), where it's being hosted by the Sunnyvale Public Library.
#atari #california #imported:pinboard #sunnyvale
archive.org #31847

Atari Party 2014, June 14th in Sunnyvale

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/atariparty/2014
"Atari Party" is free event celebrating decades of video game and computing history of Atari. They've been held annually since 2009, typically in Davis, California. This year, Atari Party once again migrates to Sunnyvale, California (long-time home to Atari, Inc. and Atari Corp.), where it's being hosted by the Sunnyvale Public Library.
#atari #california #sunnyvale
archive.org #24963

Real-Time Chat With Node.js' Readline & Socket.io - Tuts+ Code Tutorial

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/real-time-chat-with-nodejs-readline-socketio--cms-20953
Node.js has an under-appreciated module in its standard library that is surprisingly useful. The Readline module does what it says on the box: it reads a line of input from the terminal. This can be used to ask the user a question or two, or to create a prompt at the bottom of the screen. In this tutorial, I intend to show off the capability of Readline and make a real-time CLI chatroom backed by Socket.io. The client will not only send simple messages, but have commands for emotes with /me, private messages with /msg, and allow for nicknames to be changed with /nick.
#imported:pinboard #node #nodejs #sockets
archive.org #24958

Easy accelerated 3D Games in a browser with JavaScript and WebGL using Three.js or Babylon.js - Scott Hanselman

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasyAccelerated3DGamesInABrowserWithJavaScriptAndWebGLUsingThreejsOrBabylonjs.aspx
Let's ignore that we haven't got a web-agreed-upon way to do just about anything, much less basic line-of-business apps with data-bound text boxes over data, and just revel in the fact that we can do hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in our browsers with WebGL. This works today in all the latest browsers.
#3d #games #imported:pinboard #webdev #webgl
archive.org #24957

Dark Arts | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/culture/2014/3/19/5475122/dark-arts-tumblr-cyberpunk-renaissance
We’re in a weird time for the way the future looks; somehow House of Cards can slyly introduce a floating text-message interface to their present-day political drama without so much as blinking, but most of our iconic near- and far-future worlds run on tracks laid down well before the ’90s. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #24955

Social loafing: A meta-analytic review and theoretical integration. - PsycNET - DOI Landing page

http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0022-3514.65.4.681
"Social loafing is the tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually. A meta-analysis of 78 studies demonstrates that social loafing is robust and generalizes across tasks and S populations. A large number of variables were found to moderate social loafing. Evaluation potential, expectations of co-worker performance, task meaningfulness, and culture had especially strong influence. These findings are interpreted in the light of a collective effort model that integrates elements of expectancy-value, social identity, and self-validation theories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)"
#collaboration #imported:pinboard #psychology #socialloafing #to:fb #work
archive.org #31855

Social loafing: A meta-analytic review and theoretical integration. - PsycNET - DOI Landing page

http://psycnet.apa.org/?doi=10.1037/0022-3514.65.4.681&fa=main.doiLanding
"Social loafing is the tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually. A meta-analysis of 78 studies demonstrates that social loafing is robust and generalizes across tasks and S populations. A large number of variables were found to moderate social loafing. Evaluation potential, expectations of co-worker performance, task meaningfulness, and culture had especially strong influence. These findings are interpreted in the light of a collective effort model that integrates elements of expectancy-value, social identity, and self-validation theories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)"
#collaboration #psychology #socialloafing #to:fb #work
archive.org #24945

DrPetter's homepage - sfxr

http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html
This is a little tool I made in connection with the 10th Ludum Dare competition held in December 2007. Its original purpose was to provide a simple means of getting basic sound effects into a game for those people who were working hard to get their entries done within the 48 hours and didn't have time to spend looking for suitable ways of doing this.
#audio #effects #games #imported:pinboard #sound
archive.org #24942

The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631/
A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and across a grassy square, 5-year-old Dylan can hear them through the window of his nana’s front room. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #31857

The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/hey-parents-leave-those-kids-alone/358631
A trio of boys tramps along the length of a wooden fence, back and forth, shouting like carnival barkers. “The Land! It opens in half an hour.” Down a path and across a grassy square, 5-year-old Dylan can hear them through the window of his nana’s front room. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #pocket
archive.org #24940

my year of mixtapes: Week 42: The Year In Rave—1992 (Part 1)

http://yearofmixtapes.blogspot.com/2010/03/week-42-year-in-rave1992-part-1.html
Ok, so 1992 was pretty much the best year ever for music. The Rave scene was blowing up, and every week it seemed like dozens of amazing records were coming out—way more than little 10-year-old me could buy. This was the year that the UK really took the reins from Belgium & the States w/r/t dance music, and when the idea of "rave music" as a distinct thing from house/techno started to emerge.
#audio #imported:pinboard #mixtapes #music #rave
archive.org #24936

Moog Sound Lab | Phantogram | Moog Music Inc

http://www.moogmusic.com/sight-and-sound/sound_lab/phantogram
Vocalist/keyboardist Sarah Barthel sings hauntingly through an MF-104Z Analog Delay while playing not one, but two Moog synthesizers. Her left hand is in charge of the Minimoog Voyager Select Series providing big fat bass lines; the Little Phatty Stage II is arpeggiating in latch mode throughout the entire song. It is also being MIDI synced with the drum machine that percussionist Tim Oakley is performing on. In addition to the drum machine, Tim uses the Minimoog Voyager XL for a percussive sound. Meanwhile, guitarist/vocalist Josh Carter covers both the full sustain and the mute modes of the Moog Guitar. Going through an MF-104Z Analog Delay and the MF-102 Ring Modulator, Josh creates an ethereal backdrop with the tremolo arm of the Moog Guitar..
#imported:pinboard #moog #music #phantogram
archive.org #24925

Ordering burritos from my SPARC

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos
Tired of standing in line at La Costena? This file documents an automatic facility for sending a fax to La Costena that orders 1 or more burritos, quesadillas, tacos, and whatever. The command will compose the fax, and send it to your favorite PostScript fax printer, for direct transmission to La Costena, and no paper at this end will be generated. Then, when you get there, your food will be waiting. No worries
#burritos #fax #imported:pinboard #lore #postscript
archive.org #24918

The Ultimate Fully-Loaded Bloody Mary | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/06/the-ultimate-fully-loaded-bloody-mary-recipe.html
Note: The most important part of a Bloody Mary is the tomato juice. Use a high quality juice, preferably not from concentrate. No need to use your best vodka here. Bottom shelf stuff will do fine. You can replace the celery salt rim with a salt and pepper rim if you prefer. Every ingredient should be adjusted to suit your own personal taste. I love horseradish. You might not.
#cocktails #drinks #food #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24913

French 75 | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/03/french-75-cocktial-gin-champagne-lemon.html
According to Ted Haigh (aka Dr. Cocktail), the French 75 is one of two cocktails named after the French 75-mm field gun, which was commonly used in World War I. "One barman in 1947," reports Haigh, "called it a Tom Collins with champagne instead of club soda. Vive la difference!" Here's Haigh's version of the recipe, from his wonderful book, Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails.
#alcohol #cocktails #gin #imported:pinboard #recipes #wine
archive.org #24912

Time for a Drink: the Sidecar | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/11/sidecar-drink-cocktail-recipe.html
Add another drink to this list: the Sidecar. As with most cocktails, the origins of the drink are hazy (be suspicious of those who state with certainty when or where the Sidecar was first mixed), but this entrancing mixture of brandy, lemon juice and orange liqueur started making the rounds in the most fashionable watering holes in London and Paris during the 1920s. Very simple in structure, the Sidecar is complex enough in flavor to satisfy even the most jaded palates, but not so over-the-top with mixological gewgaws as to frighten away the casual tippler.
#cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24911

Fresh Margaritas | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/08/fresh-margaritas-recipe.html
This recipe uses the International Bartenders Association's ratios of tequila, cointreau, and citrus juice, which makes a pretty strong margarita. Feel free to add extra syrup or to water it down some to suit your own tastes. To make short work of your lemons and limes, read our citrus juicer review here.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #margaritas #recipes
archive.org #24910

Time for a Drink: Daiquiri | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/05/daiquiri-recipe.html
But an old-school daiquiri is an exercise in purity, as beautiful in its unadorned simplicity as a well-made martini or Manhattan. Of course, "well made" is a big factor here, as well: to fully realize the daiquiri's inherent beauty, be sure to measure your ingredients; free-pouring, while easier and cooler-looking than eyeballing a measuring cup, frequently leaves you with an odd-tasting drink. And while you can mix the daiquiri with different rums or in one of its fruit-enhanced variations, the use of fresh lime juice is absolutely essential; those little green plastic limes and day-glo bottles of Rose's should stay as far from your daiquiri as possible.
#alcohol #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes #rum
archive.org #24909

The Brooklyn Cocktail | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/02/the-brooklyn-cocktail-rye-maraschino-vermouth.html
The Brooklyn may be less well-known that its neighbor, but it's equally delicious. The maraschino liqueur (we recommend Luxardo) adds a rich sweetness, which compensates for the fact that dry rather than sweet vermouth is used. You may have trouble tracking down Amer Picon, a French version of Amaro, an apertif most commonly made in Italy. Amer Picon is difficult to find in the United States, but an Italian Amaro such as Ramazzotti will substitute quite well. Or, you can skate by with a few dashes of bitters.
#alcohol #cocktails #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24908

Martinez | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/09/martinez-cocktail-gin-cocktail-recipe.html
The Martinez cocktail may be a predecessor to the martini, but these drinks could hardly be less alike to the modern palate. The Martinez starts with equal parts gin and sweet vermouth, and this alone distinguishes it in two ways from the modern martini. You then add a teaspoon of maraschino liqueur and either Angostura or orange bitters.
#cocktails #drinks #gin #imported:pinboard #recipes #vermouth
archive.org #24906

Negroni | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/04/negroni-cocktail-recipe-gin-campari-vermouth.html
While enjoyable at any time of year, the crisply bitter Negroni seems particularly well-suited to springtime imbibing. Composed of only three ingredients measured in equal amounts, a Negroni is also remarkably difficult to foul up (though I won't way it hasn't happened) even by novice bartenders.
#alcohol #campari #cocktails #drinks #gin #imported:pinboard #recipes #vermouth
archive.org #24905

Time for a Drink: Boulevardier | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/09/boulevardier-recipe.html
This isn't a Negroni. It is, however, the Negroni's long-lost autumnal cousin. First noted in print in 1927 in a slender volume called Barflies and Cocktails, and forgotten almost ever since, the Boulevardier takes the same Negroni formula--a good dose of gin brushed up with equal parts Campari and sweet vermouth--and gives it a twist by substituting whiskey for the gin.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24904

Time for a Drink: The Sazerac | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/07/cocktails-recipes-the-sazerac.html
That's one reason why, every year, hundreds of spirits and cocktail aficionados from around the world converge in the swampy heat of New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail, a five-day conference celebrating everything shaken and stirred. Now in its fifth year, Tales of the Cocktail is currently in full swing, and countless tipplers--myself included--are scouring the French Quarter, asking bartenders at venerable watering holes such as the Carousel Bar, the Napoleon House and Tujaque's to mix up a perfect Sazerac.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24903

Ramos Fizz | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/06/time-for-a-drink-ramos-fizz.html
Perfectly suited for a hot afternoon or evening, the Ramos Fizz holds special appeal as a breakfast or brunch drink. I'll be in New Orleans in two weeks for Tales of the Cocktail, and I expect to get on the outside of several of these during the week. But for a drink this good, it's best to start warming up now—who's with me?
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #gin #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24901

Time for a Drink: Mint Julep | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/04/how-to-make-a-mint-julep-recipe-derby-day.html
With a formula almost as old as the republic, the mint julep is a product of an era in which things were done much slower. Somewhat labor-intensive to properly make, a good mint julep can't be rushed, and cranking them out by the hundreds using prepared mixes and flavored syrups can only result in sadness.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes #whiskey
archive.org #24900

Mai Tai | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/03/time-for-a-drink-mai-tai-recipe.html
Spawned from the rum-soaked genius mind of "Trader Vic" Bergeron, the mai tai is one of the most regal refreshments in the exotic-drink universe. Originally made with 17-year-old Jamaican rum, imported French orgeat, Dutch curaçao and fresh-squeezed lime juice, the mai tai quickly became a phenomenon; it also quickly became perverted. Hordes of Trader Vic-wannabes took wild stabs at recreating Bergeron's long-secret recipe, and the result is what we all-too-often experience now: a sweet, murky drink filled with assorted fruit juices and syrups, with little resemblance to the original swoon-worthy concoction.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24898

Time for a Drink: Planter's Punch | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/07/planters-punch-cocktail-recipe.html
The Planter's Punch flowed out of the rum-rich Caribbean well over a century ago, and its origins date back centuries. Originally a simple combination of a full-flavored rum with lime juice, sugar, some form of spice and plenty of ice, the Planter's Punch morphed over the decades into elaborate concoctions containing pineapple juice, grenadine, several types of rum and so on, and the drink is the common ancestor of all those tiki drinks and punches that are once again in vogue.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24897

Time for a Drink: Tom Collins | Serious Eats : Recipes

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/08/tom-collins-recipe.html
The Tom Collins dates back more than a century and a half, but its welcoming crispness keeps it fresh always. So established in the libational world, the Tom Collins even has its own eponymous glass (tall, with plenty of room for ice). Over the years, the drink has faced some challenges--bottles of Holland House Collins Mix in my parents' liquor cabinet spring to mind. Was squeezing a lemon really so difficult? But successfully navigating its course from horse-and-carriage days to the digital age, the Tom Collins is built for survival. Keep some lemons and soda water on-hand this weekend and knock together a Collins in between grilling stints.
#alcohol #cocktails #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes
archive.org #24895

What Sibling Rivalry Has Wrought - WSJ

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123578523945698543
Cooper Brothers Cocktail 1½ oz bourbon ½ oz St-Germain elderflower liqueur ¼ oz Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur Stir, stir, stir with ice and then strain into a stemmed cocktail glass. Twist a piece of orange peel over the top of the drink. Garnish with a fresh orange twist.
#cocktails #domainedecanton #drinks #imported:pinboard #recipes #stgermain
archive.org #24884