Hiveless Mind

"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:36:00 -0500

“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.”

- Neil Gaiman

"Color styles are preserved exactly as they are on the source web page, because that’s what..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:55:44 -0500

“Color styles are preserved exactly as they are on the source web page, because that’s what adds the weight of credibility to his words.”

- Pharyngula on this.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ Come Saturday

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:09:57 -0500

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ~ Come Saturday

heather-rivers: “It’s like there’s a gap. For the first couple...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:04:51 -0500

heather-rivers:

“It’s like there’s a gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good, okay … it’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s … it’s trying to be good, it has some ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game — your taste is still killer.”

Watch this, okay? Especially you creative types. It’s important.

I don’t know who this fellow is, but he’s speaking the truth.

roomthily: macmankev: buddhabrot: this is so adorable.“one...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:22:53 -0500

roomthily:

macmankev:

buddhabrot:

this is so adorable.
“one bad ass fucking fractal”

Totally awesome! I love math.

“And if the series of zs should always stay / close to z and never trend away / that point is in the Mandelbrot set!”

On nautical matters; or, in which it is determined that the centerboard is indeed located near the center

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:14:42 -0500

Kati: actually I don't know where the centerboard is on the ship...
Hawk: I'd assume it's near the center.
Kati: *looks up on Wikipedia*
Kati: You're right 8D;
Hawk: Why am I not surprised?

George Orwell tells us how to make a Nice Cup of Tea

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:22:19 -0500

George Orwell tells us how to make a Nice Cup of Tea

The Decemberists ~ Of Angels and Angles

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:53:08 -0500

The Decemberists ~ Of Angels and Angles

And lo there was A Logic Named Joe

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:06:47 -0500

mjhoy:

The Guardian:

And in 1946, an astonishingly complete vision of the future appeared in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction. In a story entitled A Logic Named Joe, the author Murray Leinster envisioned a world in which every home was equipped with a tabletop box that he called a “logic”:

“You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it’s got keys instead of dials and you punch the keys for what you wanna get … you punch ‘Sally Hancock’s Phone’ an’ the screen blinks an’ sputters an’ you’re hooked up with the logic in her house an’ if somebody answers you got a vision-phone connection. But besides that, if you punch for the weather forecast [or] who was mistress of the White House durin’ Garfield’s administration … that comes on the screen too. The relays in the tank do it. The tank is a big buildin’ full of all the facts in creation … hooked in with all the other tanks all over the country … The only thing it won’t do is tell you exactly what your wife meant when she said, ‘Oh, you think so, do you?’ in that peculiar kinda voice “

On Plots; Or, in which the application of cornstarch is recommended.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:32:21 -0500

Hawk: The plot thickens!
Hawk: But not, you know, a lot.
Hawk: Because the plot is pretty watery at the moment.
Mary: Add some cornstarch.
Mary: I mean words.

"What we know about eating animals is that we don’t want to know."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:09:45 -0500

“What we know about eating animals is that we don’t want to know.”

- The New Yorker: Should you eat meat? (via marco)

One of the many reasons I’m vegetarian. (Good article is good)

(via mentalchunks)

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:58:56 -0500

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:39:00 -0500

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:32:33 -0500

Internet Hate Machine part II

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:17:06 -0500

[9:14:34 PM] Mary changed name to 'Anonymous'.
Anonymous: Mary will not be returning.
Hawk: I see.
Anonymous: She requested that we relay her final words.
Hawk: But, hypothetically, if she was, does she feel any better?
Anonymous: She says, "This is all you fault."
Hawk: I suppose not, then.

On Nightmares; or 'Internet Hate Machine'

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:44:57 -0500

Mary: I just remebered, I had a horrible nightmare last night!
Hawk: What?
Mary: /b/ was this evil mass of black... something. Shadows, I guess. And it was chasing us. And we were using firewalls to keep it trapped in one room of the house (yeah) but it kept breaking out and spreading...
Mary: it was horrible.
Hawk: You had a nightmare about /b/?
Mary: Yeah.
Hawk: That's special.
Hawk: I mean, I'm sorry.
Mary: And it took the form of this really tall shadow guy with long limbs and a bow tie.
Mary: And it was terrifying.

"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July,..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:27:37 -0500

“October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.”

- Mark Twain

I was sick today..

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:02:05 -0500

moosecakes:

hivelessmind:

moosecakes:

..so I made a new theme.

It’s dark.

This is fantastic. Though I think the gradient should be a bit less obvious.

Done. And added a title as well.

Much better. I don’t see the title though.

I was sick today..

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:08:51 -0500

moosecakes:

..so I made a new theme.

It’s dark.

This is fantastic. Though I think the gradient should be a bit less obvious.

Wired Science: "Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space"

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:57:13 -0500

Wired Science: "Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space":