Friday, April 29, 2011

the reptile

what do you call the urges to eat,kill and mate ? do you call them primitive urges ?
what happens when you suppress them ?

readme !! take a hike, not a pill

hey Ken !! loooong time !! have you figured out R.E.M yet ? : P

Friday, April 22, 2011

Arthur Koestler

I came across Roots of coincidence in Alan Moore's V for Vendetta.
I looked up Lotus and the Robot and wangled a second hand copy from Amazon.
Great book.

For we live in a state of cultural osmosis....has become irresistible. What makes it irresistible are the new media of mass communication ;and what makes the emerging pattern so vulgar is the emergence of the under privileged classes with their undeveloped tastes as consumers of mass culture.The result is that inevitable levelling-down of standards to the lowest common denominator which accompanied every revolution in the past. The liquidation of slums entails a period of cultural slumming ,though only transitory one hopes.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

i did this a long time ago

a path-finding algo (a* implementation) finding, well, paths in a grid.
on openprocessing.org
needs java.

Friday, April 08, 2011

cool readings to change your life