http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins arcane, obscure nonsense Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:17:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This link is pretty old - maybe circa 2005 or so. http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/ It's Google - in leet. There's something beautiful about a company that gives developers license to spend time producing projects like this. At first glance it might seem frivolous - but I wonder how many developers out there ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=66 My son, Arthur, was born last week. After a hectic last week of the term teaching a beginning design class, followed by a flurry of visitors, graduation open houses, commencements, and family dinners, I am now OFF for the summer and able to just relax. I'm able to ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=64 THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CEDAR VALLEY is an exhibit of art, design, photography, video, original music, ephemera, and other cultural artifacts to celebrate the prolific creative output and rich cultural impact of the underground music scene in the Cedar Valley over the past 30 years.The gallery will showcase many ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=62 In addition to getting married, having a baby, and raising an eight year old, I have been busily working on curating a multimedia exhibit which documents and celebrates the punk music scene in my hometown, Cedar Falls, Iowa. The exhibit, called "The Secret History of the Cedar Valley" will ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=61 The most intelligent thing that has been said about the question of metaphysics was Ludwig Wittgenstein's 7th proposition in Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (condensed version here, full version here), which stated that "whereof one cannot speak, one must pass over in silence." The Tractatus was an attempt to logically outline the ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=60 Last month, a Mefi post about a virtual conflict in a popular video game somehow caught my attention and I spent at least an hour trying to figure out what it was all about. Somehow, it captured my imagination as a sociological dilemma that occurred entirely in virtual space--yet ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=54 My graduate thesis involved collecting English translations of the Tao Te Ching and using the various translations to concoct narratives. In those pre-Google days, I was translating the original text character by character using an old weighty character dictionary. Now, you can literally read the entire 500 word ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=59 Here are the first 34 measures of a new arrangement of The World Outside my 45's. I cleaned the cello part up, added a decent rhythm track (beats actually on time!), added the bitcrushed guitar part sooner in the song, and tempered the rhythm guitar to give more space ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=58 Steve and Steve in 1977Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on how he invented the Apple II computer: I took a lot of lucky, accidental directions, and they all converged... I stumbled into it so accidentally. Link to BusinessWeek InterviewI love this idea that great things can come about by accident. Or rather, ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=57 The Huygens probe landed on Titan on January 14, 2005. NASA funded a camera which recorded the descent onto the surface of Titan. They put together a time lapse video (11 MB, QT) which shows the 4 hour descent in 5 minutes. The most oddly surreal thing ... http://www.splitred.com/cecilkleakins/?p=56