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A diversion: Porn clerk store diaries

Posted: July 18th, 2002 | 1 Comment »

Back to the games stuff soon, page but in the meantime, more about
this
journal has fascinated me to the point of hypnotism. I can’t remember the last time a web page this long held my attention all the way down. (There is also a second page)

It turns out that the author read extracts on This American Life last week:
the stream is here. The reading is about half an hour in, visit web but don’t jump to it.
Listen to the first few minutes, which are just as fascinating, but about something completely different. (And don’t be put off by the presenter’s habit of speaking very fast in a horrible nasal tone)

One Comment on “A diversion: Porn clerk store diaries”

1 She said at 12:57 am on July 19th, 2002:
Yoz,
You made this fast day go much quicker.
“To give you the idea of the level of stupidity this involves, I’ll just go ahead and tell you that the La Blue Girl tapes depict a woman being raped by demons RIGHT ON THE BOX. I was horrified both at the thought of what this kid’s mom would do to us when she found out and what this kid had just learned about the beautiful, tender world of lovemaking.”
Bless you.

yoz's bookmarks

How to win a grant 2013/07/22
"Skip the long-winded argument on why your idea—your life’s work—deserves institutional support, and instead do this:"
Bullies Called Him Pork Chop. He Took That Pain With Him And Then Cooked It Into This. 2013/04/12
Amazing multi-artist video for Shane Koyczan's poem about being bullied.
learnfun and playfun: A general technique for automating NES games 2013/04/11
Algorithmically analysing recorded gameplay and in-memory value increments to ascertain scoring techniques. The video is fantastic and funny, and the algorithm finds some useful bugs in the games.
How we use Redis at Bump - Bump Dev Blog 2011/07/16
How Redis became Bump's Swiss Army Knife to solve all kinds of data-related problems
Heroku | The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts 2011/06/29
Fascinating description of how Heroku's recent changes are aimed at killing software erosion (or what I think of as "bitrot").
What are the most interesting HTML/JS/DOM/CSS hacks that most web developers don't know about? - Quora 2011/06/17
Marvellous collection of JS, CSS & HTML hacks. Did you know you can get the browser to parse a URL or escape HTML for you, with existing JS functions? (via gnat)
Avatars In Motion 2011/05/21
"This blog is to show all the beauty you can find in Second Life." Gorgeous photography of great SL locations. (via Hamlet)
Gabe Newell on Valve | Game development | Features by Develop 2011/05/14
Great, inspirational interview on how they hire and organise.
Design @ Quora (Web2.0 Expo Presentat... by Rebekah Cox - Quora 2011/05/03
"Great design is all the work you don't ask the people who use your products to do."
David Kelley on Designing Curious Employees | Fast Company 2011/04/20
"In this interview, he explains why leaders should seek understanding rather than blind obedience, why it’s better to be a coach and a taskmaster and why you can’t teach leadership with a PowerPoint presentation."

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