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Black Flag’s new bass player

Erick Lyle chronicles his adventure hitchhiking to Texas in order to play bass in Ginn’s new Black Flag lineup, being offered the job and ultimately turning it down. Hat tip to Ross for the recommendation.

Can I Get in the Van? | VICE United States

It dawned on me: Black Flag did not have a bass player. I could be that bass player! I decided right then and there to find out where Ginn was living, hitchhike across the country, and persuade him to let me try out—just as I had attempted to do at 16. I knew all the old songs, and I figured that thumbing it instead of flying or taking a bus would prove to Ginn that I had dedication.

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Unreal Engine 3 ported to javascript

They used emscripten, which compiles LLVM to Javascript. Demos and info at unrealengine.com.

Mozilla unveils browser-based Unreal Engine 3 using JavaScript | Joystiq

Firefox producer Mozilla teamed up with Epic Games to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the web, without the need for plugins such as Flash. Mozilla and Epic took only four days to port Epic’s engine to the web by using JavaScript code. The results, as demonstrated by this video unveiled at GDC, certainly look impressive.

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SLC Punk sequel

Update: Bad news. This movie was terrible. I couldn’t finish watching it.

Good news.

Sequel to ‘SLC Punk’ to begin shooting this summer

The sequel to the 1998 indie film, SLC Punk will be shooting this summer. The new film will look back at the lives of the original film’s main characters given the 18 years which have passed since the events of the film. It’s currently titled Punk’s Dead but no word on who will be returning for the film.

 

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News Psychology

Rethinking stress mindset

Here’s more information on distress versus eustress. It inspires to consider that simply changing your attitude can flip the experience over to helpful eustress.

Rethinking The Stress Mindset: Can You Find The Upside of Pressure? — PsyBlog

Is it true that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, or is stress always debilitating?

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Science

First sleep and second sleep

One of my goals this year is to improve my sleeping quality as a way of reducing stress and shedding some fat. This article popped up in Feedly–it’s a good reminder of an issue I read about from Mark Sisson a couple of years ago, what he called biphasic sleep. I have had this experience of waking up around midnight, especially when I’ve been giving myself more time to be in bed. When it happens, I will listen to a podcast in the dark for an hour. I have no reason to worry about it or label insomnia.

delanceyplace.com 12/18/12 – we used to sleep twice each night

For most of history people have had two periods of sleep each night, with the time in between being perhaps the most calm and relaxing part of their lives. Then came the lightbulb. This unexpected “two sleep” phenomenon was uncovered by historian Roger Ekirch when he began to do research for a history of the night:

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