modern_times

Posts from modern_times

July

February
April
May
August

March
April
May
June
September
October

January
February
April
July
November
December

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
September
October
December

January
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

January
March
April
August
September
October
November
December

January
February
March
May
June
September
October
November
December

January
March
May
June
July
August
October
November
December

January
February
August
September
October
December

January
April
August
November
December

January
February
March
April
September
October

February
March
April
June
August
September
October
December

January
February
March
June
September

February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

February
July
August
October
November
December

February
May
July
August
September

January
February
March
April
May
June
August
December

March
June

September

2022

July

COVID-19 Omicron Preparation List and Advice | July 14 | Tagged: covid19 modern_times

The Globalized Death of Class; or, Why I Disliked Monte Carlo | July 16 | Tagged: modern_times income_inequality monaco vacation

The Good Samaritan, a Warrior | July 20 | Tagged: christianity modern_times

2021

August

Against Domination-Based Masculinity | August 3 | Tagged: masculinity toxic_masculinity modern_times culture

May

Resisting Fast Fashion | May 18 | Tagged: modern_times environmentalism fast_fashion sustainability

April

Marie Kondo and the De-Stuffing of America | April 12 | Tagged: modern_times tidying capitalism

February

Quitting Facebook Properties | February 2 | Tagged: modern_times programming

The Social Media That Should Have Been | February 5 | Tagged: social_media programming modern_times

Pandemic Burqa Style | February 7 | Tagged: modern_times covid

2020

October

Social Collapse | October 1 | Tagged: modern_times coronavirus anti_trump

SF's Coca-Cola Sign Goes Away | October 27 | Tagged: modern_times programming austin san_francisco

September

"Dune" trailer | September 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

June

Racial Reckoning...Someday? | June 3 | Tagged: modern_times blm

Take a Minute, My White Brethren Before We Speak | June 4 | Tagged: modern_times blm

Black Lives Matter in Vidor, TX | June 8 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Texas Hospitalizations Surge | June 9 | Tagged: modern_times coronavirus

Trickle-Down Economics Never Works | June 18 | Tagged: modern_times economics

Texas: 5000 New Cases in a Day | June 24 | Tagged: modern_times programming texas coronavirus

May

Disinformation Testing: "Plandemic" | May 10 | Tagged: modern_times coronavirus disinformation

Shady Grove on Barton Spring to Close | May 12 | Tagged: modern_times austin

Bless Shai-Hulud! | May 12 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Armed Citizens Defy Pandemic Protocol | May 13 | Tagged: modern_times programming

...man skeptical of coronavirus gets infected, changes opinion | May 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming coronavirus maskholes

Specialty's Bakery of the Silicon Valley to Close | May 17 | Tagged: modern_times bay_area

April

Passing the Buck All Around | April 23 | Tagged: modern_times coronavirus

Mobile Upload: After all this finishes - or if it goes on for 6 months more - we all might need this referendum. | April 23 | Tagged: modern_times drug_war politics

2019

December

Are Finns Better at Dealing With a Disninformation Society? | December 18 | Tagged: modern_times politics

November

Confronting Whiteness in Mountain Music | November 20 | Tagged: music modern_times

July

The Oxycontin Epidemic | July 4 | Tagged: modern_times art

External Link: https://youtu.be/n12lyKTAa50 | July 10 | Tagged: modern_times programming capitalism politics

April

The Mueller Report Has Two Spaces After Every Sentence/ | April 20 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Mobile Upload: The Gender Gap, Illustrated | April 27 | Tagged: mobile photography feminism modern_times

February

Measles. In the 21st Century | February 10 | Tagged: modern_times vaccines science

Collapse | February 23 | Tagged: modern_times collapse

January

The Lore of Gritty | January 5 | Tagged: modern_times

2018

December

Facebook is a Curse | December 20 | Tagged: modern_times

Grandfather's House in Queens; 1940 | December 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming new_york genealogy

October

Lauren Scissorhands | October 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming film halloween

September

I'm Quitting Twitter | September 5 | Tagged: twitter social_media modern_times

July

Abstractions for Education Writers | July 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming education

June

Lockdown | June 7 | Tagged: modern_times politics

Enjoying Food and Life in memoriam of Anthony Bourdain | June 14 | Tagged: modern_times rip

May

Vatican Museum | May 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming wedding travel italy rome

I Loathe Open-Plan Offices | May 24 | Tagged: modern_times work

Text Internet | May 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming text_internet

April

Flatiron School Expands to Houston | April 3 | Tagged: modern_times programming education

JavaScript and English | April 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming linguistics

March

The Algorithm | March 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Linux Stockholm Syndrome | March 24 | Tagged: modern_times humor programming

Thesis Sans Revision Control? Agony | March 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming

RSS Should Return! | March 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming

February

Eleanor | February 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel woodstock

Moving Efficiently on the Command Line | February 6 | Tagged: modern_times programming unix

Year of the Purdue Wonderpill | February 24 | Tagged: modern_times politics

January

California Legalizes Recreational Cannabis | January 2 | Tagged: modern_times drug_war

Teens Aren't Partying | January 8 | Tagged: modern_times society

Smart People: Point Blank in their Honesty | January 10 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Quantum Computer: Beautiful | January 11 | Tagged: modern_times programming art

Life-Changing Use of xargs | January 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming unix

2017

December

Changing Mores on Psychedelics | December 4 | Tagged: modern_times politics

How the Index Card Cataloged the World | December 5 | Tagged: modern_times programming

End of DBC | December 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming dbc

Fence-Hopping Byron | December 13 | Tagged: modern_times programming dog

November

Uma Thurman on Sexual Bullying | November 6 | Tagged: modern_times

Preview of American Fascism | November 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming politics

More Alan Kay | November 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

FCC Net Neutrality Policy Changes | November 21 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Screens and Teens | November 22 | Tagged: modern_times programming

GYRO | November 23 | Tagged: modern_times programming

What Etruscan Sounded Like | November 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming

October

Nine Rounds a Second | October 3 | Tagged: modern_times politics

Debugging JavaScript Power Tools | October 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming

September

Girl Finds Sword in Cornish Lake | September 5 | Tagged: modern_times humor

After Catastrophic Hurricane... | September 12 | Tagged: modern_times

The Buried Complexity of Software | September 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming

August

Bearing the Cross and Wrapped in a Flag | August 4 | Tagged: modern_times

The Ghastly Attack on Protesters | August 12 | Tagged: modern_times

Willpower Doesn't Work, Here's How to Actually Change | August 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming career

Strongbad Nostalgia | August 29 | Tagged: modern_times programming

July

Another Beautiful Thing We Ruined | July 10 | Tagged: modern_times

External Link: https://t.co/j2j8Tb1uYt | July 23 | Tagged: modern_times programming

June

Meeting Your Dog in Miniature | June 19 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel new_jersey dog

The Female Gaze | June 20 | Tagged: modern_times music television

May

Professional Burnout Resource | May 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming depression burnout

Dadaist Graffiti of New Jersey | May 28 | Tagged: modern_times programming

April

Performance Artist Marina Abramovic Social Experiment | April 3 | Tagged: modern_times art

Disappearance of a Giodarno Bruno Fan | April 4 | Tagged: modern_times

Satire: How Victims are Covered | April 13 | Tagged: modern_times journalism

Every Tech Q&A | April 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Sex Education is Poorly Handled by the Internet | April 20 | Tagged: modern_times

March

Dying Wife Extols Husband | March 4 | Tagged: modern_times relationships

Coding Is Not the New Literacy | March 17 | Tagged: modern_times programming

January

Translations | January 6 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Black Lives on TV | January 14 | Tagged: modern_times television

In Chicago with Lauren | January 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel chicago

2016

December

Keybase.io Against Authoritarians | December 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming politics

Totalitarianism | December 19 | Tagged: modern_times politics

November

Empathy Vacuum in Silicon Valley | November 29 | Tagged: modern_times programming

October

Being Effective Advice From Tim Ferriss | October 1 | Tagged: modern_times work

Teaching Mindfulness to Kids | October 14 | Tagged: modern_times

Pro-Bidet | October 18 | Tagged: modern_times

September

Young Men: Idle and Idling | September 19 | Tagged: modern_times

August

Emboldened to Hate | August 22 | Tagged: antiracism modern_times

Communicating Across Uncrossable Expanses | August 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming scifi linguistics

April

Flooded Houston | April 20 | Tagged: modern_times

March

Is California Oversubscribed? | March 15 | Tagged: modern_times california

January

SF Loss: Art Stores | January 8 | Tagged: modern_times economics

Tippi Hedren: Helper of Vietnamese Immigrants | January 12 | Tagged: modern_times philanthropy

Evolution of Religions vs Programming Languages | January 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2015

December

MTV Releases "Liquid Television" Archive | December 9 | Tagged: modern_times entertainment

Computer as Household Bliss Umpire | December 27 | Tagged: modern_times programming relationships

November

A father's command to his gay son in the 1950s | November 7 | Tagged: modern_times writing

Dangerous Literature | November 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming new_york

Onion: Tech Gentrification | November 11 | Tagged: modern_times programming

October

Transhumanism via "disability" | October 18 | Tagged: modern_times

September

Losing Women in our Workplaces Due to Toxicity | September 20 | Tagged: modern_times feminism economics

June

Praise the Average Programmer | June 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Sizzler | June 5 | Tagged: modern_times

May

Post-Bootcamp Life | May 27 | Tagged: modern_times programming dbc

The Default Care Provider | May 29 | Tagged: modern_times feminism

March

Touch Isolation | March 21 | Tagged: society modern_times

February

Miessler Supports the Liberal Arts | February 1 | Tagged: modern_times education

January

To Fall in Love With Anyone Do This | January 16 | Tagged: modern_times relationships

Non-Hierarchical Management | January 22 | Tagged: modern_times dbc

Eating the Big Texan Challenge | January 27 | Tagged: modern_times texas

2014

December

Dogs and the Words We Say | December 1 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Divorce on the Decline | December 15 | Tagged: modern_times society

November

In Case You Didn't Know about Hedy Lamarr | November 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

First Day Working in NYC | November 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming new_york dbc

October

NYT: Web-Era Trade Schools | October 15 | Tagged: modern_times programming

August

Code Education is Rebellion | August 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming culture capitalism

July

Reading Hacker News: It might upset you | July 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Quantity Trumps Quality | July 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming

June

The Onion on Adulting | June 7 | Tagged: modern_times humor

9 Signs You've Found Your Soulmate | June 28 | Tagged: modern_times programming

May

Central Subway Project | May 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming

March

Frank Frazetta Museum | March 7 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Elation at Learning He Was Right | March 23 | Tagged: modern_times programming

January

Interviews are Auditions, not Quizzes, Right? | January 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2013

December

The Values of Respect and Liberal Arts | December 1 | Tagged: modern_times

Mobile Upload: Deep Lyrics | December 11 | Tagged: mobile photography modern_times music

October

External Link: The Internet is Insufferable | October 20 | Tagged: modern_times

September

What Does the Fox Say? | September 6 | Tagged: modern_times music memes

Sadvertising: The Personal, Moving Ads from Thailand | September 17 | Tagged: modern_times memes

August

Jesus take the starboard | August 11 | Tagged: modern_times idiocracy

Talking to Friends with Children | August 18 | Tagged: modern_times personal

February

Saying "I love you" with Typesetting | February 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming

January

Fart Patio | January 16 | Tagged: modern_times entertainment

On Zero Dark Thirty | January 27 | Tagged: film warfare modern_times

2012

December

Harsh Truths From Cracked | December 21 | Tagged: modern_times programming

November

Colleges include Hot Girl Factor ::eyeroll:: | November 12 | Tagged: modern_times

Our Product Release | November 12 | Tagged: modern_times programming

What Happened to Videos? | November 13 | Tagged: modern_times art

August

Urban Planning and 50 Shades of Gray | August 16 | Tagged: modern_times personal philosophy_proper politics

April

More Astounding Videos By OK! Go | April 7 | Tagged: modern_times programming

January

It Ain't Easy Being... | January 16 | Tagged: modern_times racism

2011

October

The Punishment of The Single Ladies | October 18 | Tagged: modern_times

September

Anti-Science as Political Virtue | September 8 | Tagged: modern_times idiocracy

April

The Visual Effects of Tron: Legacy | April 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming film

I, too, am glad I did not come of age in the age of the internets | April 22 | Tagged: critique culture general life_and_death modern_times internet_culture

March

My Charlie Sheen Mad-Lib | March 4 | Tagged: modern_times

February

MAC, what are you doing to Wonder Woman? | February 20 | Tagged: modern_times

The Big Bang | February 27 | Tagged: modern_times idiocracy

January

Monkeying with Ruby Metaprogramming | January 19 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2010

December

The Existential Beauty of Life Wand'ring Lonely as a Cloud | December 11 | Tagged: modern_times ruminations

The Beautiful Nobel Acceptance Speech of Liu Xiaobo: | December 12 | Tagged: modern_times politics

October

Reading "The Shallows:" Virality | October 6 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

The Shallows: Conspiracy and Nicotine | October 8 | Tagged: books modern_times

What’s Wrong with Me (Us?): The Shallows | October 8 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

Recommendations I’m Pondering: "The Shallows" Cont’d | October 8 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

Notes from "The Shallows" | October 8 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

SNL: Moms on Facebook | October 13 | Tagged: modern_times social_media

Link: Legos Making Legos | October 20 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Middle Age and Hair Length | October 25 | Tagged: modern_times feminism

September

Polish Notation T-Shirt | September 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Are Programmers a Cruel Caste | September 19 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | September 29 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

The Personal Side of "The Shallows" | September 29 | Tagged: books modern_times internet_culture

August

Owls that Look Hung Over | August 25 | Tagged: modern_times

June

The Pillory of "Sex and the City 2" | June 1 | Tagged: modern_times movies

April

Tea Party Activists call for Militia | April 13 | Tagged: militancy modern_times

March

Cisco CRS 3 Router | March 10 | Tagged: modern_times programming

February

Honking in San Francisco | February 21 | Tagged: modern_times personal san_francisco

2009

September

Not Listening | September 4 | Tagged: modern_times politics

June

Changes in media, or "When is the Running Man on?" | June 25 | Tagged: modern_times

March

Dear Huffington Post | March 4 | Tagged: modern_times

Follies of Tom Friedman, columnist | March 4 | Tagged: modern_times economics politics

Supply-Side Drugs | March 10 | Tagged: modern_times economics

February

Matsumoto: Uh, not what I expected | February 8 | Tagged: modern_times

January

We have the coolest world leader | January 22 | Tagged: president obama inauguration culture modern_times politics

2008

December

The Public Debate | December 16 | Tagged: modern_times

Hollywood vs. Suburbia | December 29 | Tagged: modern_times

November

My Kennedy Moment: Obama is President | November 5 | Tagged: modern_times politics

Missionary Converted | November 17 | Tagged: modern_times linguistics

What Happy People Don’t Do | November 24 | Tagged: modern_times

October

Scenes from a cohabitation | October 1 | Tagged: modern_times

West St. Paul | October 15 | Tagged: modern_times funny

September

Do you know who could write? Ralph "Invisible Man" Ellison | September 6 | Tagged: modern_times personal

Minnesota is full of win | September 10 | Tagged: modern_times internet_culture memes

August

Thinking about China | August 8 | Tagged: modern_times

"I Kissed a Girl" is a very evil song...and it's bad too | August 20 | Tagged: modern_times music

The Wisdom of Adam Savage | August 24 | Tagged: modern_times

July

Reiser story coverage made worse by Gawker Media ads | July 10 | Tagged: critique culture modern_times software

June

The Washing your Hands in the Bathroom Gross Scale | June 17 | Tagged: modern_times

Steven's "History of New Wave" movie | June 18 | Tagged: entertainment modern_times movies nostalgia

Mediterranean Misnomers | June 24 | Tagged: culture modern_times

May

Less or Fewer | May 13 | Tagged: modern_times

April

Is _whytheluckystiff this generation's Ted Nelson: A graphic consideration | April 1 | Tagged: modern_times sxsw2008

March

Why? | March 5 | Tagged: entertainment modern_times

[SXSW2008]: Let me teach you some manners | March 9 | Tagged: modern_times sxsw2008

February

My friends speaking in secret codes | February 7 | Tagged: art_and_design modern_times

2007

December

Non, je ne fume pas | December 21 | Tagged: modern_times

Time for a startup: The Writers Strike | December 22 | Tagged: entertainment modern_times

November

Superman needs no foot-tapping, he has X-ray vision | November 10 | Tagged: modern_times movies

Quirky movies that don’t suck: "Lars and the Real Girl" | November 14 | Tagged: modern_times movies

October

How will you be celebrating National Cosplay Day? | October 25 | Tagged: modern_times

Scenes from the Leopard Release Party | October 30 | Tagged: modern_times

August

Quotes from Hayek | August 21 | Tagged: modern_times philosophy_proper

July

Begging the question | July 25 | Tagged: critique culture modern_times

February

I feel like there should be a German word for this II | February 20 | Tagged: humor modern_times ruminations

2006

September

Oh the difference a percent makes | September 5 | Tagged: modern_times politics warfare

August

Wet...hot...shaving action | August 10 | Tagged: modern_times personal toys

Shutter the Pentagon, close Westpoint: The War Nerd rules | August 24 | Tagged: culture entertainment modern_times

Good WikiQuote Weekend | August 28 | Tagged: modern_times philosophy_proper

July

Why I hate Kim Jong-Il | July 5 | Tagged: modern_times politics

May

Freedom is on the move in Iraq | May 7 | Tagged: modern_times politics bush

Nietzsche would be proud | May 8 | Tagged: modern_times philosophy_proper politics

February

This whole Danish cartoon thing... | February 14 | Tagged: modern_times philosophy_proper

2005

December

Reviewers without reviews | December 18 | Tagged: critique culture meta modern_times movies

August

Intelligent Falling | August 19 | Tagged: modern_times politics

Lauren Bacall... | August 26 | Tagged: modern_times

June

I’m secretly paranoid | June 4 | Tagged: culture modern_times personal

Paris Hilton porn-burger | June 4 | Tagged: critique culture modern_times

Emailing Corporate Overlords: McDonald’s | June 12 | Tagged: critique culture modern_times

McDonalds wrote back | June 13 | Tagged: critique culture modern_times

Tom Cruise, Idiot. | June 28 | Tagged: culture entertainment modern_times

May

Neither edgy, nor timely, but still insanely funny | May 1 | Tagged: modern_times

April

The FCC and ‘decency’ | April 3 | Tagged: modern_times politics

On broadcast propriety | April 4 | Tagged: entertainment modern_times

Quiz Time: What is this? | April 12 | Tagged: modern_times

Another funny conversation with the Social Bobcat | April 12 | Tagged: modern_times

March

I hate those bastards in traffic | March 18 | Tagged: modern_times

February

The evolution of meaning | February 22 | Tagged: education modern_times

January

Grape Gummy | January 23 | Tagged: modern_times

2004

June

Some people feel self-conscious at the check-out stand | June 21 | Tagged: modern_times media anxiety

Entry for the Mellies | June 27 | Tagged: modern_times media

March

Running low on bathroom supplies? | March 22 | Tagged: modern_times politics

2003

September

happy september | September 2 | Tagged: modern_times