January 2012
20 posts
“Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each...”
– Adam Gopnik, via Hidden Foundation, Moral Scandal « Gerry Canavan
“By any fair estimate, over $42 million in income over two years isn’t bad for a...”
– Political Animal - What we’ve learned from Romney’s returns
The age of Citizens United by digby [excerpt]
So why the big change? I think it has to do with two things, one cultural and one economic. The first is simply that wealthy benefactors are willing to put their names on their politics. The overt lobbying for Randroid values among the super wealthy has been well documented. They are shameless.
[I was thinking about shame earlier today and realized, shame is never spontaneous. Part of the reason...
“Instead, I would talk about strings (not “string objects”), and...”
– Learn to Program, by Chris Pine
“And really, it is because of the popularity of Prozac that the low-serotonin...”
– When It Comes To Depression, Serotonin Isn’t The Whole Story : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
“It turned out that Parkinson’s — a brain disorder — was caused by a...”
– When It Comes To Depression, Serotonin Isn’t The Whole Story : Shots - Health Blog : NPR
Dear Andrea Seabrook
Dear Andrea Seabrook,
When you air John Boehner saying “Obama’s economic policies have not helped the country; they have hurt the country” and then say in your own authoritative voice “Republicans worry that the payroll tax cut increases the deficit without stimulating the economy,” don’t you think you have an obligation to point out that both premises are...
“OK, I know you really want to know about those swear words. The one that comes...”
– Language Log » Language and emotion on the Costa Concordia
“One aspect of this that escapes anyone who relies only on the English...”
– Language Log » Language and emotion on the Costa Concordia
“JW: Making the FX show, do you see yourself as a benevolent dictator?
I’m not...”
– Louis CK Q&A
“I think it goes in waves. For a while people really got off on comedy writing,...”
– Louis CK Q&A
“Dragon Age II
Even as we marveled at the advancements in the Mass Effect...”
– Game Informer magazine, Top 10 Disappointments of 2011
“Stewart also recalled that Colbert worried at first that the “Report” might not...”
– How Many Stephen Colberts Are There? - NYTimes.com
“Google Plus is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated...”
– Steve Yegge - Whoops. Google Engineer Accidentally Makes His ‘Plus Sucks’ Rant Public. - Forbes
“All of this is even more interesting when one considers the public testimony...”
– Google Search Is Dead (As We Know It) | TPM Idea Lab
“And no doubt, many will seize on this as socialism or worse. Many will object to...”
– The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week - Yahoo! Finance
“Corporations are not persons. Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to...”
– The Montana Supreme Court (Montana Supreme Court takes on the US Supreme Court | MetaFilter)
“I’m glad to see Paul spreading a few profoundly important ideas about foreign...”
– Will Wilkinson - Why I’m Not a Bleeding-Heart Libertarian
That’s Jupiter hanging out with the moon tonight, and Venus about to hit the sack on the horizon.
70 degrees and sunny. Happy New Year indeed! (@ Mission Dolores Park w/ 3 others) http://t.co/J7okAItV
They finally put a tarp over the stinky mulch — after spreading half of it around, so it still smells. http://t.co/4ZDt8WcM
December 2011
16 posts
“It’s pretty much impossible to imagine how the world can reduce the risks of...”
– Comment: Obama’s Climate Betrayal : The New Yorker
“The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.” So...”
– Keynes Was Right - NYTimes.com
“For years, the advice to the overweight and obese has been that we simply need...”
– The Fat Trap - NYTimes.com
Horrible smelling fertilizer pile is steaming as they bulldoze it. It’s alive! (@ Mission Dolores Park) [pic]: http://t.co/ee7tTajH
Ho ho ho (@ Mission Dolores Park w/ 3 others) http://t.co/ha42rUbe
Watch(via Louis C.K. Tells Fallon: $1 Million In Sales From Beacon Theater Special Going To Charities, Staff, Stomach (VIDEO))
“While emphasizing that he was definitely completely insane and would likely...”
– Kim Jong-Un Privately Doubting He’s Crazy Enough To Run North Korea | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“Maybe the bigger dilemma is that, too much of the time, our cities aren’t going...”
– In the future, urban bikers go faster than cars - Salon.com
“A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian...”
– Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
RT @sconover: Compose is this huge red button. I assume that if I click it something really bad will happen. / @google
RT @skilldrick: *THIS* is why you should read #SICP: http://t.co/lfxhpwir (or something else equally impractical)
Code Retreat was fun! I finally started getting working code after I started drinking beer. @sfcoderetreat @coreyhaines
.@mperham This Saturday, you can practice throwing away all your code every 45 minutes at http://t.co/BWY1X61h @sfcoderetreat
“But one particular reason all of this matters so much is that the greatest loss...”
– The Regency « zunguzungu
Why We Threw out All Our Code (And Why You Should... →
“This past week, we proudly released NowJS v0.7. This version is the most stable and performant version of NowJS to date. It’s managed to survive our vicious benchmarking tools and our ridiculously comprehensive test cases. But our greatest accomplishment with this release is that every single line of code is brand new.
In a matter of minutes, we decided to scrap 3 months of work and...
November 2011
53 posts
RT @m_hardwick: @assassinscreed AC:R servers have been down for over 24 hours? :( UK support page is a parked domain - so no help from @ …
“Go to your local hardware store and buy a 1/4 inch sized Allen wrench also...”
– Fixing a Broken Badger 5 Plus Insinkerator Garbage Disposal - rob’s blog
“Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just...”
– Fairleigh Dickinson PublicMind Poll Shows Fox News Viewers Less Informed on Major News Stories
“Up to now, I haven’t felt the need to “share” with the world...”
– Facebook, “Sharing,” and the Freedom to Opt Out
“AVC: Did you end up researching the X-Men and Kraven The Hunter like you’d...”
– Kate Beaton | Books | Interview | The A.V. Club
Just heard about the death of Diaspora’s Ilya Z. My heart goes out to you who knew him well. http://t.co/vT0zzZuE
It’s not too late to sign up for four Ruby Nights with me starting next Tuesday 11/22 to 12/13 http://t.co/MjG5Yr6p Scholarships available.
I’m sad and I can’t tell moodlog about it since AT&T broke their email-SMS gateway 10 days ago which is making me sad!
Dangit. Just spent another 2 precious hours reading sharebro email instead of coding on sharebro!
RT @avdi: Dev blog: Early Access Beta of “Objects on Rails” Now Available http://t.co/Emd5D7NV
Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot at Berkeley: If... →
“Social media is all the rage, but does it actually help create real change in...”
– How One Company Saved Thousands of Dogs Using Social Media
Hone your code fu: Write the Game of Life from scratch every 45 minutes all day long. Sign up for SF @CodeRetreat: http://t.co/WvOaPtH8 12/3
“We’re a nation that was built on a thousand different utopian ideas, from...”
– How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests | Politics News | Rolling Stone