http://modcult.org/comments 2013-05-08T08:39:42Z http://modcult.org/comment/show/1340 2013-05-08T08:39:42Z ry <p>I just saw a trailer for a <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659338/">new thriller</a> about numbers stations.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/GGvgvS4s188" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2013/5/7/the-buzzer http://modcult.org/comment/show/1339 2013-01-31T08:40:23Z ry <p>Riff Dev Kit.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/4u_EoS3Mzso" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2013/1/13/i-need-an-oculus-rift-dev-kit http://modcult.org/comment/show/1338 2013-01-15T16:54:26Z jeb <p>Man this is awesome. </p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/TlZLeVpdP68" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2013/1/14/wishing-the-mountains-madness http://modcult.org/comment/show/1337 2012-08-25T13:54:44Z jeb <p>Pretty sure this was on the cover of a trapper keeper I had in like fourth grade.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/hBJSWUAeqTc" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2012/8/22/construct-a-a http://modcult.org/comment/show/1336 2012-08-23T15:08:24Z finn <p><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/aug/17/larry-mcmurtry-last-book-sale/">McMurtry on the sale</a> in the NYRB.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/5aB_7r3VuH0" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2012/8/13/the-last-book-sale http://modcult.org/comment/show/1335 2012-06-18T20:12:59Z jeb <p>Pretty sure I saw the movie adaptation of this chart starring Paulie Shore.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/k6etX3KTcf8" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2012/6/17/closed-ecological-system http://modcult.org/comment/show/1334 2012-03-25T16:30:16Z jeb <p>&#8220;After the tractor finishes its circuit, two men stroll through the lot waving weed trimmers, the gasoline-powered machines used for residential lawn cutting. They resemble a fencing foil, only the tip culminates in a small mechanical spool that spins roughly a hundred times per second.&#8221; Ahh, the New York Times, the only place in the world where it is assumed more people are familiar with fencing foils than with weed whackers.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/1SQPNsGFVIE" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2012/3/25/catastrophe-studies-a-field-with-a-busy-future http://modcult.org/comment/show/1333 2012-03-11T11:35:18Z finn <p>Also worth a read: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel">Wild Weasel</a>. &#8220;A Wild Weasel is an aircraft (usually United States Air Force) specially equipped with radar seeking missiles, and tasked with destroying the radars and SAM installations of enemy air defence systems.&#8221;</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/irwVXNQl38A" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2012/3/11/characteristic-star-of-david-pattern http://modcult.org/comment/show/1332 2012-01-26T11:14:18Z jeb <p>&#8220;Until Mr. King died in 1988 of a heart attack while holding a winning poker hand, he loved to dance with every woman in attendance&#8221; </p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/LAbezVzN21U" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2012/1/26/reverse-sweeney-todd http://modcult.org/comment/show/1331 2011-12-02T11:50:10Z finn <p>cf <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/mathowie/status/142587030776446976">mathowie&#8217;s dream</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://twitter.com/mathowie"><strong>mathowie</strong></a><br/> Dreamt I was blogging. Sounds boring but was actually horrific — I was switching between ten browser tabs, filled with one nightmare each.</p> </blockquote> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/ISKNj7_rq7w" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/11/28/five-examples-of-people-dreaming-about-the http://modcult.org/comment/show/1327 2011-11-11T12:39:02Z ry <p>See also: <a href="http://frontiernerds.com/single-frame">Single frame animated GIF</a>.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/uYOQdJkYPaI" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/11/11/extrafile http://modcult.org/comment/show/1326 2011-11-04T13:37:53Z jeb <p>I was really just thinking of paging Mayur.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/BYUR74CRgKk" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/11/3/a-delicious-beverage-never-before-known-in-this-community http://modcult.org/comment/show/1325 2011-11-04T12:23:07Z finn <p>Paging David Wondrich.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/BYUR74CRgKk" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/11/3/a-delicious-beverage-never-before-known-in-this-community http://modcult.org/comment/show/1324 2011-10-23T23:22:32Z finn <p>Ummmm. <em>Pnin</em>? I haven’t read that, though.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/XsdXZ9rjHTI" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/10/21/he-felt-bad http://modcult.org/comment/show/1322 2011-10-21T16:16:58Z jeb <p>no way, what about that one&#8230;with the really short name.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/XsdXZ9rjHTI" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/10/21/he-felt-bad http://modcult.org/comment/show/1321 2011-10-21T15:01:01Z finn <p>This passage in particular is genius, but so is what comes right before and right after it.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/XsdXZ9rjHTI" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/10/21/he-felt-bad http://modcult.org/comment/show/1320 2011-10-21T14:59:58Z finn <p>This is the only one I&#8217;ve read this year! It just took me a couple of months to post the quote.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/XsdXZ9rjHTI" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/10/21/he-felt-bad http://modcult.org/comment/show/1319 2011-10-21T14:32:36Z jeb <p>Dude, how many campus novels can one man read in a twelve-month period?</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/XsdXZ9rjHTI" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/10/21/he-felt-bad http://modcult.org/comment/show/1318 2011-10-17T21:42:23Z jeb <p>How sick is that whole keyboard rig?</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/OO1qzZT4Cv4" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/10/16/far-in-the-sky http://modcult.org/comment/show/1317 2011-10-04T23:57:53Z finn <p>(and transclusible)</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/oMpa3qicz3c" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/10/3/profusely-linkable http://modcult.org/comment/show/1316 2011-09-28T21:10:01Z ry <p>Good point.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/G_U4ln5ue2k" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/9/25/brookstone-origins http://modcult.org/comment/show/1315 2011-09-28T15:26:00Z jeb <p>There&#8217;s a certain symmetry to the fact that distant &#8216;Whole Earth Catalog&#8217; descendent &#8216;Cool Tools&#8217; is basically the Skymall catalog.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/G_U4ln5ue2k" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/9/25/brookstone-origins http://modcult.org/comment/show/1314 2011-09-14T10:51:13Z finn <p>this book—besides being a modcult trap—sure makes you pay more attention to the pants people are wearing on the subway.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/DxqR3dqOEwU" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/8/29/zero-history-on-paper http://modcult.org/comment/show/1313 2011-09-14T10:50:22Z finn <p>wouldn&#8217;t molly end up with this phenomenon doubled by the combination of eigengrau and johnson noise? iirc she has her original eyes, but they are sealed in behind her mirrorshades.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/ovSHGZFk7yA" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/9/8/the-sky-over-the-port-was-eigengrau http://modcult.org/comment/show/1312 2011-08-24T22:11:16Z ry <p>Also, I should mention that I came across <a href="http://whitelines.se/products/">Whitelines</a> while looking for isometric paper. </p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/6HBbdlwq0zQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/8/21/hand-drawn-graph-paper http://modcult.org/comment/show/1311 2011-08-23T14:25:48Z ry <p>Yep, found some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Foray-Sheet-Engineering-Cross-Section/dp/B004U80QAC/ref=sr_1_4?s=office-products&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1314123913&amp;sr=1-4">22&#8221; x 17&#8221; squared pads</a>.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/6HBbdlwq0zQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/8/21/hand-drawn-graph-paper http://modcult.org/comment/show/1310 2011-08-21T16:30:24Z jeb <p>Did you find this while looking for huge graph paper?</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/6HBbdlwq0zQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/8/21/hand-drawn-graph-paper http://modcult.org/comment/show/1309 2011-08-16T20:39:05Z jeb <p>Also, I really hope this thing has like, a keyhole aligned to the setting sun during the vernal equinox or something. If they miss this opportunity to create Applehenge, well, fie on them! That&#8217;s for sure.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/pc43YBuEH_I" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/8/16/that-s-where-the-money-is http://modcult.org/comment/show/1308 2011-08-10T15:28:52Z jeb <p>PS bonus points for the Le Corbusier chair in the press photo</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/1ks_G1CuYlo" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/8/10/the-artificial-part-of-my-body-is-in-some-sense-immortal http://modcult.org/comment/show/1307 2011-07-29T14:21:42Z jeb <p>coover story in a week ago&#8217;s New Yorker. Haven&#8217;t read it yet.</p> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/modcult-comment/~4/6-qgTptpw-Y" height="1" width="1"/> http://modcult.org/read/2011/7/27/so-much-ultimate-mystery