Jason Scott's Weblog
Actually, it’s probably not entirely a secret, but here you go. Wikipedia database dumps fail constantly. They fail in great numbers, and are then not re-attempted for weeks. As a result, many changes go on for months with no backup. The databases sometimes scroll off, meaning you lose the older ones while not having new […]
I was recently sent mail about a payphone textfile that has found new life on Google Maps. Here it is, along with some background history from the author, which I’ll reprint below: “A collection of payphones in Santa Barbara that I compiled in 1982 when I was 14 years old. I still have the address […]
At some point last year or so, I discovered my box was sending out spam. Lots of spam. Thousands of pieces. I felt very bad. It took me a while to figure out where and how. Basically, I had a somewhat old methodology for allowing people to submit to the BBS List and so you […]
Three boxes arrived from ULINE to my house. The three boxes contained five hundred more boxes. Why did I order three boxes containing five hundred boxes? Because so many people have ordered my documentary that I ran out of boxes to ship them in. Roughly three thousand of you have ordered copies of my little […]
The talk I gave at ROFLcon, “Before the LOL”, was captured by several entities. There were some internal videographers streaming me to the net at large via the Ustream service, and there was also Rocketboom, a weekday video weblog that puts up little hacked up films about people, places, things. Here is the remix of […]
As promised, I dumped a bunch of stuff on Flickr. And by bunch of stuff, I mean a lot of stuff. Something like 1,200 photos so far, with another thousand likely to make it on there. Like I mentioned previously, I think this is way too much for anyone to get much out of it […]
OK, in a word: ROFLcon was fantastic. Many other words come to mind: Perfection. Delight. Surprise. Thrills. Variety. Triumph. Every positive adjective I can think of, superlative words on the bottom of my bag that have not seen the light of day in many months, come out with fervor and stick to ROFLcon’s side with […]
OK, here’s your homework. Suffer, if you have the inclination, through this episode of “Boing Boing TV”, a regular feature of the Boing Boing weblog, which discusses the upcoming film Speed Racer, a special-effects laden summer blockbuster from the makers of the Matrix Trilogy. (The episode is entitled “Speed Racer is “poptimistic”: interview with John […]
Editing clips of video means a lot of time rendering them out. While this goes on, I have time to make a few other things happen. One of them is clearing out some of my junk drawers and putting it up to a more accessible position. Among the stuff I grabbed a long time ago […]
I’m putting something like a thousand images and scans up on Flickr. I guess that’s interesting. The concept, of course, is interesting to a certain segment of people. Oh wow, a thousand images, and Jason tends to collect neat historical stuff, so it’ll be a thousand images of neat historical stuff. Oh wow, they will […]