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dzuc

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http://www.damonzucconi.com
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dzuc··on go to xkcd.com: The webcomic XKCD now has a command prompt

  find kitten
dzuc··on Sarcastic Font
"reverse italics (‘linkskursiv’ = ‘left cursive’ or ‘rückwärts liegend’ = ‘lying backwards’) are often used in cartography, traditionally to indicate waters"

http://www.linotype.com/1410/roemisch-family.html

dzuc··on No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")
Žižek's fourth type of knowledge: "What he forgot to add was the crucial fourth term: the 'unknown knowns', things we don't know that we know, which is precisely the Freudian unconscious, the 'knowledge which doesn't know itself', as Lacan used to say."
dzuc··on No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."—Donald Rumsfeld
dzuc··on 22 musical pieces written with 140 characters of code
please explain why this is using the word "music" loosely?
dzuc··on Ask HN: Who are the top UI designers on the web today?
STANDBY: INITIALIZING: DIGITAL ATMOSPHERE

...really?

dzuc··on Paul Graham On Two Kinds of Programmers and Painters
Cezanne was not in competition with photography.
dzuc··on Hacking Language: A New Past Tense
more interesting is david bohm's idea of the 'rheomode'

"One could say that nouns do not really exist, only verbs exist. A noun is just a “slow” verb; that is, it refers to a process that is progressing so slowly so as to appear static."

http://wik.inormous.net/index.php?title=Rheomode

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