Well, I think the stuff I put here is cool.
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A “capsule hotel” is reasonably priced, starting at around thirty dollars and a uniquely Japanese answer to overnight accommodations. The bed, in the shape of a space-age capsule, is about one metre in height, two metres in length, and one metre in width. It is your private space. The hotels usually offer sauna and public bath facilities and sometimes other amenities. It is becoming common in Japan, especially for a hard-working “salarymen” who missed the last train home to seek a night’s rest at one such hotel.
(via japanlove)Tags: Japan city
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jstn:
Real Steel: cool user interfaces, cool robots, terrible movie, Dr. Pepper.
(via jstn)Tags: film robots computers interface
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8bitfuture:
Space Invader, IRL.
From the artist:
My version of one of the first video game villains, taking the 1978 Space Invaders pixel art and “filling in the blanks”. Fun fact: I modelled him partly with my feet. I broke my left wrist halfway through making him, so instead of pressing CTRL, SHIFT and ALT on the keyboard to navigate in ZBrush, I used foot pedals instead.
You can check out more views of this little guy here.
(via 8bitfuture)Tags: video games
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Learning emacs
I “married” emacs as my text editor because I felt it would never hold you back. I saw and experienced some of that power and decided to always use emacs and start learning the commands needed to be a wizard. I haven’t put in the effort to learn the keys and therefore not getting much out of it. I finally have the free brain power to start actively learning the commands.
In deft I created a org-mode file that lists commands and I have that file be the start up file. I’m also looking up a way to randomly message me a line from that file.
Tags: emacs linux
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The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and YouTube is generational. It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.
(via emergentfutures & courtenaybird)