notes to self
The World’s First Digital Camera
kodak.com — Invented in 1975 by Steven J. Sasson. It weighed eight pounds, was the size of a toaster, and produced a 0.01 megapixel image that took 23 seconds to record onto a digital cassette tape.
Extensive interview with Orson Welles in Las Vegas 1982 with Leslie Megahey. Features contributions by Welles collaborators Jeanne Moreau, Peter Bogdonovich, John Huston and Charlton Heston.
in the air: who says big ideas are rare
amyd:
Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker
“ Pay attention, thats all…Notice things. Connect what you’ve noticed. Connect it into a picture. Think of how the picture might be changed; and act to change it. Some of your acts may turn out to be foolish, but others will reward you in surprising ways; and in the meantime, simply by being active instead of passive, you have a kind of immunity that’s hard to explain.
from The Confusion by Neal Stephenson
If anyone asks you why you spend so much time blogging or doing fun stuff on the web, tell them to watch this video.
via squandrous
PongOut
Play BreakOut and Pong at the same time.
(via good experience)
Idiocracy Intro
