Damian’s notes

Parody of corporate brands that end up becoming indistinguishable after enough rounds of compromise between stakeholders. Didn’t show this one round the office because it would have seemed too pointed.

Not to my taste but I know Thinkpad users who might be excited by this: a mechanical keyboard that carefully reproduces the Thinkpad layout, complete with red trackpoint in the middle and mouse keys under the spacebar. Available ready-made with Cherry keyswitches, or as a kit for people who want to specify fancier switches and don’t mind a bit of soldering.

‘As the primary net effect of software is to facilitate bureaucratic complexity it is therefore essential that software projects fail if society is to function effectively.’

I guess the null hypothesis here is, would the complexity of the tax code have grown at the same rate if automatic tax calculations were not permitted?

The PACK.PNG project was an attempt to discover the world seed and location of a landscape fragment used as an icon in Minecraft from the cropped, downscaled screen grab from an obsolete version of the game. This video describes the collaboration of 3,500 people to define and search what was in effect the cryptographic keyspace whose plaintext was that particular hill.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with running commentary for the benefit of people who can’t read the programme notes in the dark of the concert hall.

Eco housing has to be deisgned differently depending on the local climate. I am used to thinking of green houses as carefully sealed boxes with triple-glazed windows to retain heat during winter. This one, designed for Costa Rica, is the exact opposite.

TV series of How Buildings Learn (1997) by Stewart Brand

My brother has been taking his fanciest camera around some of our shared Minecraft realm

The Art of the Title discusse show the end titles for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse were designed and created.