twenty-five things tagged “lists”
A List of Patriot Groups
by Unknown
101st Chairborne 1st Methanized Infantile Division Al-Kabob Army National Lard Battle of The Bulging Stomach Bozo Haram Branch Covidians Buffet Brigade Bundesmeal Call of Foodie Chowed Boys Cosplaytriots Country Bombkins Coup Klutz Clan CroMAGAnons Cult 45 Delta Farce Delta Forks Fryatollahs G.I. J…
The Best Things of 2021
The Best Albums: Pitchfork, Rolling Stone The Best Graphic Novels: New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian The Best Movies: New York Times, Empire, The New Yorker I’ll cache and smush these soon.…
“Everyone has JavaScript, right?”
The key takeaways in no particular order. Use <noscript>. If you are using it, use it a lot more. There is no guarantee that chunks will load after the main one does; the user’s location and/or network access might have changed! Think CalTrain. ISPs, Corporate VPNs, and Browser Plugins1 can m…
What David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary
by Slate Magazine and the Harry Ransom Center
Ablative absolute Ablaut Abulia Acephalous ACTH Adit Adumbrate Agrapha Ailanthus Aleatory Alfresco Algolagnia Alpestrine Ament Anecdotage Androsterone Anemone fish Anneal Antiphon Antipode Apathetic Apercu aphagia Aphotic Apocarpous Appoggiatura Aquavit Arc-boutant Archimedean screw Archine Arcuate…
250 Bullshit Words
by Unknown
Here’s some Buzzword Bingo based on these words by the same company. accelerate accountability action items actionable aggregator agile algorithm alignment analytics at the end of the day B2B/B2C bandwidth below the fold best of breed best practices beta big data bleeding edge blueprint boil the oc…
We Are Mark Wood
Reddit user and evident Mark Wood fan @kanyay-west put together this list of England’s All-Time Cricketing Best when asked “What’s your country’s all time ODI XI?” I’ve reproduced it here and formatted it for clarity. I laughed a lot to this and am a rather silly person 🙏♥️ Mark Wood Mark Wood Ma…
Pages Full of Links to Cool Things
Terra, Gossip’s Web, and Marijn’s Linkroll remind my (oldass) self of a more innocent time when one would ‘surf the internet’, come by a list of links another human being liked, and discover all sorts of strange and wacky handmade things. I think I’m saying I really miss how fun something like Geoci…
Top 10 Things That Sound Creepy When They’re Said by John Malkovich
“I love you, Ted Danson.” /misc/t/top-ten-malkovich.mp4…
A Lovely Illustrated Guide to Home Architectural Styles and Structural Elements.
Here’s another list of 36 styles with real examples. (Cached: styles, elements one and two.)…
Latency Numbers “Every Programmer Should Know”
From a presentation by Jeff Dean. What about when technology evolves? Here’s a handy visualization. And here’s a way to think about these numbers. Nathan Hurst visualized the distances on Google Maps1. Operation Time (ns) Light Distance (m) Approximate Light Distance L1 cache reference 0.5 0.…
Guide to Book Conditions
Reproduced here via AbeBooks with this caveat: The definitions below are for reference only. Booksellers use these terms, as well as unique terms not included in this list, based on their own criteria. If you would like clarification on any term in a particular seller’s description, please contact…
A List of Ebert’s Favorite Films you can stream off Amazon Prime.
Here’s how the author made that list. Here’s a cached version.…
“TRUISMS (1978 - 1983)” by Jenny Holzer
Here are her website and Wikipedia page.…
TRUISMS (1978-1983)
by Jenny Holzer
JENNY HOLZER A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE CAN GO A LONG WAY A LOT OF PROFESSIONALS ARE CRACKPOTS A MAN CAN’T KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE A MOTHER A NAME MEANS A LOT JUST BY ITSELF A POSITIVE ATTITUDE MEANS ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD A RELAXED MAN IS NOT NECESSARILY A BETTER MAN A SENSE OF TIMING IS THE MARK OF…
“Genre Defining” Trip Hop
From a Reddit thread on the subject. With as diverse of a sound as trip hop can have, I wanted to know what everyone here thought would be the one song they would pick if someone asked them “What’s trip hop?” User submissions: “Glory Box” by Portishead “Teardrop” by Massive Attack “Roads” by Port…
A List of Hacker News ‘Classics’
When you’re following a bunch of feeds, it’s easy to forget that the web is the greatest library in the history of the world—and that a good library doesn’t just have a rack of newspapers, it has a vast collection of books and archives: the stacks. These are stories that get reposted a lot. Many o…
Naughty Letter Frequencies in English
Here’s a community-maintained "List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words" across various languages on Github. I was curious about a naïve frequency distribution of consonants across the English-language corpus (NSFW, obviously) and wrote a small script. Here are the results:…
The Best Suspense and Thriller Movies
Saved three lists of the best movies of the genre according to the British Film Institute, IMDb, and Rotten Tomatoes. Merged them into a giant list here and sorted by year here. Pretty version with all those lists here. #covidplanning…
Netflix’s “Secret” Genre List
A list of sub-genres you cannot view easily on Netflix. From a Reddit thread on the subject: This is ridiculous. What kind of hubris does Netflix have to think that their recommendation engine is better than browsing by category? Browsing by category has been the standard for browsing things since…
A 100 Indian Films
Cached a list of CNN-IBN’s list of “the 100 Greatest Indian Films of All Time” for later perusal because the source website is cancer.…
The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done
Not what you think they are.