http://simianuprising.com Tue, 13 May 2008 15:07:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great essay about understanding and wrangling your pet nerd by Rands In Repose: A majority of the folks on the planet either have no idea how a computer works or they look at it and think “it’s magic”. Nerds know how a computer works. They intimately know how a computer ... http://simianuprising.com/2008/05/13/the-nerd-handbook/ (hit the banner to see their site, which tries to explain RSS for normal people) RSS is what happens to the web after we stop wasting our time and get down to business. It's like if we all got our news on differently shaped cue cards and someone offered us a ... http://simianuprising.com/2008/05/01/rss-awareness-day-you-fool-are-you-reading-this-on-a-website/ This is so good, but completely meaningless unless you're in on so many nerdy internet things. For reference see Fail Blog, an example of Epic Fail (which is originally a D&D joke) and Unix Time, which sets it's zero moment as Jan1 1970 (a.k.a. the Unix Epoch). Is XKCD the best ... http://simianuprising.com/2008/04/17/catching-up-on-xkcd-makes-me-happy/ I hate to post things that are already on the front page of YouTube, but this is just too sweet, thoughtful and funny. I'm also a sucker for acoustic guitar and immaculately performed lo-fi camera tricks, both of which are excellently executed in this one. Dan and Dan in "Requiem ... http://simianuprising.com/2008/04/16/old-clothes-make-me-sad-when-i-have-to-get-rid-of-them/ Candy Chang points out how the urban grind can make people lose sight of the bigger questions in their lives, and puts those questions on the sidewalk for people looking down: (more photos at the link above) This is an amazing idea. Artistic graffiti is beautiful and wonderful, but simple questions ... http://simianuprising.com/2008/04/13/sidewalk-psychiatry/ I had to. Via lolbots. Also on the subject of unnecessary electrical violence, this amazing techno/video remix of the original 'Dont' Tase me Bro' student situation. The mix is just so catchy, I saw it a few months ago but still randomly get it stuck in my head. YouTube Link. http://simianuprising.com/2008/04/10/ooooow-what-did-i-do/ A friend of mine pointed out to me that today is the anniversary of the end of prohibition of beer so many decades ago (In the U.S.) Obviously, this is something we should all be happy about, only bad things happened during the prohibition of alcohol and people had access ... http://simianuprising.com/2008/04/07/end-prohibition/ When I tell people about my job at Global Voices they tend to get confused, sometimes even after they've seen the site. Admittedly it's a pretty complex piece of journalism, research and community all mixed up together. For those people I recommend this podcast from Open Source Radio, ... http://simianuprising.com/2008/04/05/global-voices-summarized-in-podcast/ Cool Robot + Cute Dog + Laughing Baby = Ultimate Internet Video YouTube link. (via. Tim) http://simianuprising.com/2008/03/18/perfect-internet-video/ http://simianuprising.com/2008/03/13/no-comment/