Monday again? Dear me, they turn up when you least expect them. Coffee and assorted stuff on t'Internet is the answer:
Happy invoicing!
- My Manhattan Project: How I helped build the bomb that blew up Wall Street - "I have been called the devil by strangers and 'the Facilitator' by friends. It’s not uncommon for people, when I tell them what I used to do, to ask if I feel guilty. I do, somewhat, and it nags at me. When I put it out of mind, it inevitably resurfaces, like a shipwreck at low tide. It’s been eight years since I compiled a program, but the last one lived on, becoming the industry standard that seeded itself into every investment bank in the world. I wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds." Michael Osinski reminisces about his career in Wall Street, and the contribution his CMO trading software made to the epic fail.
- After the Final Curtain - "...is a photographic documentation of the effects of years of neglect and decay in some of America’s greatest theaters."
- Doctor Grumpy in the House: A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life - An explanation of how bureaucracy hinders important healthcare provision. The NHS? No, American insurance companies: "So after telling your life history to Dr. Denial, one of 2 things will happen. They'll deny both studies, and want you to try medication or physical therapy or psychotherapy or holistic reflexology or whatever, and if you fail that THEN I can try to resubmit a request for the test. OR they will flip a coin and say they will cover the MRI, but not the MRA. Or vice-versa. They'll say that if the first test is fine, THEN I can start over trying to get the other covered. Maybe."
- A Year of Biblical Womanhood - "An evangelical blogger is spending 12 months following the Bible's instructions for women—and she's doing it for egalitarian reasons." Apparently those who make a lot of noise about taking the Bible literally are getting quite hot under the collar at Rachel Held Evans for demonstrating what they ought to be doing if they mean it
- Dissolve My Nobel Prize! Fast! (A True Story) - "It's 1940. The Nazis have taken Copenhagen. They are literally marching through the streets, and physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear." Luckily, chemist Georgy de Hevesy had a good idea.
- Disney Agonistes: Night on Bald Mountain - "This is the penultimate episode of Fantasia, coming immediately before the Ave Maria... It is also one of the most frightening, if not THE most frightening cartoons ever made." Interesting analysis of the sequence by Bill Benzon. I'm surprised Walt let them get away with those naked women in the flames...
- The Daily Mail’s List Of Things That Give You Cancer: From A To Z - From Age to X-Rays, although most of them aren't quite as obvious as that - Facebook? Really?
- Old-Games.com - "5000+ games to download" There's at least one of which I was the programmer buried in there, but I'm not saying where
- The Floodwaters Rise - Another excellent reason to link to Jason Scott's ASCII: "I am currently in a project to gather up scanned copies of every computer magazine or newsletter that has gone out of print. That’s what I’ve mostly been up to, and that’s where I am." He works for the Internet Archive (custodians of the Wayback Machine) now, and they've got a big and growing collection of classic computer mags, from 6502 Micro Journal to Zzap!64 Magazine. (One issue of The Games Machine in this archive has a review of the game mentioned above... and I'm not saying where that is either
)
- Bullseye Contestants - Might as well continue with the retro theme, and Christina Martin's collection of contestant images grabbed from re-runs of Bullseye: "The hair had to be either big or a weird shape, ideally both; beards were to be worn in the style of serial killers; moustaches in the style of porn stars; and the glasses had to be BIG. I’m talking almost touching the jowls big, with lenses that magnified the eyes to frightening proportions." People like these cheery chaps:
Happy invoicing!
Comment