catharsis

Oakland, CA

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NovemberNov 16 Monday Mon 09

Choose Your Own Adventure deconstructed by Christian Swineheart...

Choose Your Own Adventure deconstructed by Christian Swineheart (via GraphicHug)

Don’t miss the other beautiful visualizations and features at the top of the page! I missed them the first time around, and to my chagrin, discovered later that there was a Flash CYOA of Zork: The Cavern of Doom I could have been playing…

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Pacman can art from Canstruction 2008 (via Gizmodo) Om nom nom....

Pacman can art from Canstruction 2008 (via Gizmodo)

Om nom nom. Also love the rest of the pictures on sonson’s flickr.

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Refill Required t-shirt (via Hongkiat)

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I love string covers of almost anything (I adore the Section...

I love string covers of almost anything (I adore the Section Quartet), but this particular cover of SoaD’s “Toxicity” surprised and delighted me.

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Why guys don't want to be friends with a girl who breaks up with them...

I know a girl who broke up with a guy and she told him she wanted to “still be friends.” He said, “No thanks.” She wondered why he couldn’t fall back to being just friends after they had a romantic relationship. I came up with the “McDonalds Analogy” to try and explain it in a simple way that would help all women understand this tough question.

Imagine if you went to McDonalds a lot and ordered a Big Mac Combo meal. A Big Mac, Large Fries and a Coke. You really like this meal. One day, you pull up to the drivethrough and order the Big Mac Combo meal and the girl tells you, “I’m sorry - you can have the Big Mac and the Coke, but you can’t get fries with that anymore.” You think about this for a moment, and sure - the Big Mac is the centerpiece of the meal, but McDonalds has some really good fries and you like their fries with your meal. So you say, “I’ve been able to get fries with that before, why can’t I have fries with my Big Mac combo anymore?” The girls says, “Well, I just think it is better if you only have the Big Mac and the Coke from here on out.”

At this point, a lot of guys are going to go to Wendy’s or BK and see if they can get fries with their combo at that drivethrough window. But there are some guys who REALLY like McDonalds Big Macs and they might think, “If I keep coming here and ordering the Big Mac and Coke, maybe she’ll change her mind and give me some fries with that later.” So they will keep on getting the combo without the fries until the deal breaker happens: One day that guy is going to order the Big Mac and Coke and then he’s going to pull up a little bit to pay, and someone else is going to pull up to the drivethrough speaker and order the “Big Mac Combo” and he is going to hear the girl say, “Would you like fries with that?”

That’s why guys don’t like to be friends with a girl who breaks up with them.

Tom Steele, B93.7 (via reddit)

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NovemberNov 14 Saturday Sat 09

“escape” by Zach Blume

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Miyazaki coffee art

I’ve been drinking lots of coffee lately and, thanks to some very talented baristas, have become rather endeared with coffee art. I’m not quite as smitten by it as Jina — that is, not enough to create “ART IN MY COFFEE!” :) — but when Miyazaki characters are involved, my heart melts into fluffy susuwatari:

susuwatari plushy

If you’re not familiar with coffee art, or how it’s created, you’re missing out.

With that out of the way, I present to you the best of both worlds: Miyazaki coffee art.

Picture of Totoro art in a cappuccino

Totoro (from My Neighbor Totoro) coffee art at the Ghibli Museum café in Mitaka, Japan (via reddit)

Various Japanese coffee art from Café JoJo

Coffee art (Totoro is in the bottom-right) from Café JoJo in Osaka, Japan (via prettyprettyyumyum)

Picture of Kiki art in a cappuccino

Kiki (from Kiki’s Delivery Service) coffee art (via Coco&Me)

Picture of panda art in coffee

Panda coffee art from a café in Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan (via Woman’s Day). I claim this one for “Panda! Go, Panda!”.

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Inanimate character stickers: only $4.99 on ThinkGeek. A...

Inanimate character stickers: only $4.99 on ThinkGeek.

A small price to pay for nigh-limitless anthropomorphic potential. Look at the angry shark-teapot. Want the angry-shark teapot. Chomp.

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You have 3 days before you lose your internet connection for 6 months. What do you download?

You have 3 days before you lose your internet connection for 6 months. What do you download?:

Wikipedia (via WikiTaxi)
Firefly: The Complete Series (on Blu-Ray)
A LOT of e-books (here are some)
Dragon Age: Origins
Adobe CS4 and the Autodesk suite of 3D products. Practice, practice, practice.

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Links for 2009-11-13 [del.icio.us]

14 Ways People Use Twitter

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NovemberNov 13 Friday Fri 09

Water Drop @ 2000 FPS Bounces! (via reddit) The delayed,...

Water Drop @ 2000 FPS Bounces! (via reddit)

The delayed, tertiary subdroplets are breathtaking.

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Pop Culture Artifacts Seen in the window of the Toy Boat...

Pop Culture Artifacts

Seen in the window of the Toy Boat Dessert Café in the Richmond. Cracker Jacks, Coneheads, and Pokey in close proximity make for the most distractingly nostalgic window display known to man.

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Pop Culture Artifacts [Flickr]

Keith Chu posted a photo:

Seen in the window of the Toy Boat Dessert Café in the Richmond. Cracker Jacks, Coneheads, and Pokey in close proximity make for the most distractingly nostalgic window display known to man.

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SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP

SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP:

Not to be outdone by the W3C and its modernization of HTML, Google researchers go for the 1-up by proposing a better Web protocol. Instead of “HTTP://” which was optimized for serial file transfers (and, let’s face it, sounds slow), they are proposing “SPDY://”. As you might guess from the backronym, it gon’ be fast. How fast? SPDY Gonzales-fast.

Speedy Gonzales being all suave and ready to jump into your address bar

Technically, the protocol would be implemented via reliance on an SSL-encrypted session to multiplex both data and client/server interactions, making for extremely efficient loading of pages. This certainly sounds like Google-think: “if we run into optimization bottlenecks, let’s optimize the parent system instead!”. Literally out-of-the-box thinking.

The idea that the HTTP protocol can be improved to better reflect our evolved usage is sound. As explained in the white paper, however, SPDY doesn’t appear to be a robust alternative. In the Ars Technica article, Iljitsch van Beijnum lists numerous drawbacks to this approach that fail to be addressed. Being a bit of a techno-fetishist, I find it disturbing that SPDY will have an implicit, negative effect on mobile web browsing. In a time of pre-standardized, burgeoning mobile web design, this is both inappropriate and backward.

This “experiment” is still in its infancy, but it has the potential to be more than just a cool idea. I really hope they do their due diligence.

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Creative License #60 — a comic about web design by illustrator...

Creative License #60 — a comic about web design by illustrator N.C. Winters.

The first page of any new moleskine is so intimidating. Somehow it always ends up becoming the skeleton of a (not really used) table of contents. Or an icebreaker. A “Hi.” in the middle of the page, and business begins shortly thereafter.