David Milch on the Hayes Code, the laconic cowboy, the anarchy of the American West, the celebrity of Wild Bill Hickock, and the importance of sacrament to community. Watch it immediately. Also: everyone should watch Deadwood. All the time.
Did your Chromecast stop working?
Mine, too. I have two Airport routers. Things were working great for a little over a month. Then the Chromecast disappeared. After a thousand reboots and reconfigurations, here's what fixed it: set the channel on the 2.4GHz network. It instantly reappeared on all my devices. Chromecast engineers: die in a fire.
WordPress Page Titles, Filters, and Child Themes
How a WordPress child theme can override and replace its parent's wp_title() filter. Riveting stuff.
Cardboard is out.
More here. [via Nathan]
For the Lady
…who deserves a proper greenhouse.
Quadcopter NYC
https://player.vimeo.com/video/91962736 Randy Scott Slavin flies a quadcopter, blows minds. You may want to mute this, the music is unlistenable. [via co.design.]
Lavén apartment.
Joanna Lavén's apartment in Stockholm is ingenious. [via design milk.]
Steam tractor.
…and it’s for sale.
Broadband CAPEX means broadband quality.
The folks over at AEI didn't care for the recent Planet Money episode on US broadband policy. Specifically, the notion that US retail Internet service is abysmal. They did not convince me.
Facebook and Newspeak
Don’t you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expresses in exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and … Continue reading Facebook and Newspeak
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