Hey folks. I’m going off the grid for a few days. Call it a spiritual retreat of sorts. I’ll be back soon; be well i ...

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This is so so cool and an arrow-splitting bullseye in the middle of my wheelhouse: a short Boards of Canada tune played on a DEC PDP-1, one of the most significant machines in the history of computing ...

Listening to Ethan Hawke talk about his career for 30 minutes is a treat. He starts with Explorers (which I loved as a kid) ...

The PDP-1 doesn’t have sound, but it does have front-panel light bulbs for debugging, so they rewired the light bulb lines into speakers to create 4 square wave channels. You can read more about The ...

If the point of a thing is experiencing it (e.g. stories, films, music), then I would never speed it up. With these things, mood, tone, pacing, and atmosphere are crucial. I want to be immersed and ...

It’s not often that a movie trailer makes you cry — but this one might. Come See Me in the Good Light is a documentary film about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing a cancer diagnosis that ...