alexch's almanac

“I like it,” agreed Marianne Burke. “I think it...”
— Steady Turnout in Burlington;...

Mar 4th

New York Said to Plan Closing Broadway in...

Mar 2nd

“For Bernanke and Geithner, there are no bad assets. Only...”
— Tim Duy, via Failing the test...

Mar 2nd

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Head spin trick (via oulearn)

Mar 2nd

Sita Sings the Blues - Sita is a goddess separated from her...

Mar 2nd

“Dear Audience, I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you....”
— Sita Sings the Blues

Mar 2nd

MvixBOX (WDN-2000) 2-Bay Ultra-Performance...

Mar 2nd

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The Nano Song (via nanomonster1) Not quite as good as the LHC rap, but a good effort.

Mar 2nd

“In the ’90s, the vogue was very much for action...”
— Artist Dave Gibbons’ Gut...

Mar 2nd

“Where is the compromise between good and evil? Should Jesus...”
— Rush Limbaugh on...

Mar 2nd

New before_filter semantics [Article] « elc...

Mar 1st

Does this item have any personal significance to you? It...

Mar 1st

sconover: Photo du Jour 352 - SFist: San Francisco

Mar 1st

sconover: Music (& film) posters by Tadanori Yokoo :::...

Mar 1st

Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on...

Mar 1st

Gary Westfahl on SF's Predictions

Mar 1st

“At the time I thought that a book like Watchmen would...”
— Legendary Comics Writer Alan...

Mar 1st

“They were the worst of them all,” said Frank Partnoy, a law...”
— Talking Business - Desperately...

Mar 1st

Japan once again proves it can take any cool technology and make it creepy: http://is.gd/4401 (via...

Feb 28th

Zappa Plays Zappa > Videos

Feb 28th

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Dennoh Figure ARis (via GeishaTokyo1019) Japan once again proves it can take any cool technology...

Feb 28th

“A Time poll in 2000 found that 19 percent of Americans...”
— Media Matters - Media Matters:...

Feb 28th

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Reggie Watts: Lost in the Options on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Feb 28th

“In a remarkable scene, Gibbs patiently and repeatedly...”
— FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics...

Feb 27th

10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At...

Feb 27th

Safari 4 is great: fast JS, top tabs, etc. Why was I looking forward to Chrome again? And FF still...

Feb 27th

So sad Michele Bachmann can’t tell the difference between a habitual action marker and a...

Feb 27th

List of Words it is NOT ok to ever say.

Feb 27th

The Technium: Open-Source DNA

Feb 27th

“Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!”
— Michele Bachmann (R-MN),...

Feb 27th

Penny Arcade! - The Whedonite’s Dilemma

Feb 27th

“Change - Into A Truck” Art Print by Tim Doyle

Feb 27th

“For example, knowing when a volcano is likely to erupt can...”
— What should government do? A...

Feb 26th

iPhoneUnitTesting - google-toolbox-for-mac...

Feb 26th

“If it sounds like Jindal is targeting his speech to a room...”
— Nate Silver

Feb 26th

clicktoflash - GitHub

Feb 26th

my broken leg is now like Quato: occasionally it mutters or loudly recites a prophecy, but mostly it...

Feb 25th

getting the sneaking suspicion that some of my new followers really aren’t going to be paying...

Feb 25th

RT @Halcyon when I hear “social media expert” I get the same feeling as when someone...

Feb 25th

thinking of writing a script that autoblocks anyone with a following:followers ratio > 4, or who...

Feb 25th

The Atheist Apocalypse

Feb 25th

NoFunc · DHTML Color Sphere (Javascript, CSS & HTML)

Feb 25th

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Um, eeh, um, I’m, uh, bah bah. Beh bah bah. Honestly, the Republican response to Barack...

Feb 25th

RT @j_ro love that a volcano erupts in AK the day after Bobby Jindal pans volcano preparedness in...

Feb 25th

ColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)

Feb 25th

Design News @ ColorJack

Feb 25th

Stripe Generator - ajax diagonal stripes...

Feb 25th

Two important notices (via Deadpan Ireland)

Feb 25th

The Horror...The...uh...horror..?

Feb 25th

Whoops!

Feb 25th

“Obama has consistently maintained that what I, in my...”
— George Lakoff on The Obama...

Feb 24th

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Streetfilms  » The Transformation of NYC’s Madison Square SFBC: “New York City’s...

Feb 24th

Ammiano wants to make marijuana legal in...

California would become the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use...

Feb 24th

Felicia Day » Blog Archive » Finding...

Feb 23rd

“Many business owners, like John, feel so threatened by...”
— East Bay Express | News | Yelp...

Feb 23rd

Geithner and the Zombie Banks - Zina Saunders There is a...

Feb 23rd

Top 10 Activities of the Product Owner |...

Feb 23rd

domo arigato mr roboto

Feb 23rd

about DIGITAL COMICS by ~Balak01 on...

Feb 23rd

“I know a lot of people want to know about Watchmen, so...”
— Wil Wheaton: Spoiler Alert:...

Feb 23rd

sconover: jar: Think Progress  » Historians...

Feb 23rd

mini oscar party chez chaffee tonight. guaranteed non-fabulous!

Feb 23rd

Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL...

Feb 23rd

Protesting #psfr cancellation by putting alligator clips on my eyes and watching Dollhouse again and...

Feb 23rd

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jar: Dubai threatens to become an instant ruin, an emblematic hybrid of the worst of both the West...

Feb 22nd

“That the Financial Times has a headline that reads...”
— The Washington Monthly (via...

Feb 22nd

change - mikero.com - blog

Feb 22nd

“No matter what threat you face, what weapons your enemy has...”
—  The top 12 sci-fi plot...

Feb 22nd

White House declares war on CNBC ranter - War...

Feb 21st

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Alma Salsera - Amazing! - ORIGINAL (via santo2010)

Feb 21st

Near misses 'encourage gambling' - Telegraph

Feb 19th

crutches + escalator = fun!

Feb 19th

crutching to adventure!

Feb 18th

jar: Where is Your Money Going? | Recovery.gov

Feb 18th

Marijuana As an Economic Stimulus

Feb 18th

P.S. Unit tests are awesome

Feb 17th

“He’s furious with Bush. He’s really angry about...”
— Anonymous source describing...

Feb 17th

gazing @ amazing rain from a safe cafe

Feb 17th

Amazon Tags for “Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the...

Feb 17th

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Bill O’Reilly’s Right to Privacy | The Daily Show | Comedy Central “You were just...

Feb 17th

“Vice presidential picks rarely but sometimes make an...”
— David Plouffe

Feb 17th

America Wants Single Payer Healthcare

Americans are more likely today to embrace the idea of the government providing health insurance...

Feb 17th

“I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave country. To...”
— Charles Darwin (via Sullivan)

Feb 16th

Rahm: Obama Lost Control Of Stimulus Debate

Feb 16th

“Their unrequited overtures to Republicans over the past...”
— Bipartisanship Isn’t So Easy,...

Feb 15th

The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of...

Feb 14th

sconover: jar: From the moment FDR began to enact the...

Feb 14th

“You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind,...”
— RNC Chairman Michael Steele ...

Feb 14th

sconover: jar: Think Progress  » On Darwin’s...

Feb 14th

#stimpak needs branding: a name and a logo on every check & document & embroidered on the...

Feb 14th

Thinking stimulus is missing branding. (Think “WPA”.) Otherwise people will just go back...

Feb 13th

Branding the Stimulus

I’ve been thinking for a while now… What this stimulus program is missing is branding....

Feb 13th

““I thought America had studied Japan’s failures,” said...”
— Lessons From Japan in Stemming...

Feb 13th

Only 5 hours, 14 minutes and 20 seconds till the unix epoch time reaches...

Feb 13th

A Luxury Problem: How Emerging Iterations Eat...

Feb 13th

“My most recent attempt at feeding my friends a...

Feb 13th

“Apple’s ITMS (iTunes Music Store) is perhaps the most...”
— Why Small Payments Won’t Save...

Feb 13th

“One strikingly counterintuitive conclusion of modern genetic...”
— The Truth About Dogs - 99.07...

Feb 13th

“In early January, when Obama unveiled his recovery plan,...”
—  Think Progress ...

Feb 13th

“What is so exploitable about human society? And how do dogs...”
— The Truth About Dogs - 99.07...

Feb 13th

“Wayne’s conclusion is that the earliest dogs...”
— The Truth About Dogs - 99.07...

Feb 13th

The Truth About Dogs

Feb 13th

“In the end, Mr. Geithner largely prevailed in opposing...”
— Geithner Said to Have...

Feb 12th

“The world’s leading experts on such problems are for...”
— TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo...

Feb 12th

“It’s inherently more difficult to conduct oversight and...”
—  Matthew Yglesias ...

Feb 12th

“I mean, I suppose what I could have done is started off with...”
— Transcript - Obama’s...

Feb 10th

“Last but not least, Age of Booty was one of Soulja...”
— Age of Booty

Feb 10th

“I love the tricks you can do with Ruby. method_missing,...”
— ChadFowler.com Writing APIs...

Feb 10th

“[M]any people expected Mr. Obama to come out with a really...”
— Paul Krugman - The Destructive...

Feb 9th

Watch

Hudson River Plane Landing (US Airways 1549) Animation with Audio (via SceneSystems)

Feb 9th

“[C]entrism is a pose rather than a philosophy. And to...”
— Appeasing the centrists - Paul...

Feb 9th

“Now the centrists have shaved off $86 billion in spending —...”
— What the centrists have...

Feb 8th

“An agreement has been reached on the stimulus legislation,...”
— IT’S A BAD DEAL - TAPPED...

Feb 8th

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Rachel Maddow video: Rejecting The Know Nothings

Feb 8th

Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking...

Feb 8th

“[Y]ou get the argument, ‘Well, this is not a stimulus bill,...”
— President Obama (via...

Feb 8th

La Princesse in Liverpool - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Feb 8th

“Moving forward, we need to be much more aggressive in...”
— Top Dems Acknowledging They’re...

Feb 7th

How Bad Is It? :: Swampland - TIME.com

Feb 7th

“We didn’t give it as much air cover last week as we...”
— E. J. Dionne Jr. - Rescue for...

Feb 6th

“In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this...”
— Barack Obama - The Action...

Feb 6th

“Our media is simply failing us. Why have they not asked the...”
— Balloon Juice  » Blog...

Feb 5th

If you were my valentine, this would be for you. Poet-Bot 6...

Feb 4th

biz+MALO+01-19-09WB.jpg (image)

Feb 4th

CSS should not be used for layout

Feb 4th

“[T]ables have the correct semantics for doing layout. CSS...”
— CSS should not be used for...

Feb 4th

Today my leg pain is less “punched in the face” and more “kicked in the...

Feb 4th

wondering whether Howard Dean is all paid up on his taxes

Feb 3rd

“But there also shouldn’t be much question why...”
— Talking Points Memo |...

Feb 3rd

Gerry Canavan: More

Feb 3rd

“Just to be perfectly clear here: I am not arguing that the...”
— The Virtues of Godlessness -...

Feb 3rd

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Ricky Gervais on his atheism (via tkubach)

Feb 3rd

I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com

Feb 3rd

“Petraeus was visibly unhappy when he left the Oval Office,...”
— Generals Seek To Reverse...

Feb 3rd

Stimulus/bailout confusion - Paul Krugman...

Feb 3rd

Unexpected result of today’s doctor visit: my entire half-cast was removed for good! Now...

Feb 3rd

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Barney Frank: Iraq was the biggest spending program ever. (via thinkprogress)

Feb 2nd

“The future having different opinions than the present is...”
— T-Rex - dinosaur comics -...

Feb 2nd

Gmail has been all “Bad Request Error 400” since last night.

Feb 2nd

OK, resetting Safari did the trick. How can cookies still be an unstable technology?

Feb 2nd

Yay, @SpineFine has been renditioned to Twitterstan. How extraordinary!

Feb 2nd

Mmmm football.

Feb 2nd

“In Washington there are whores and there are whores, and...”
— Matt Taibbi - The Whore...

Feb 2nd

“Super Bowl Sunday is really the last of America’s...”
—  Jamie Malanowski

Feb 1st

“We had hoped Vice President Cheney would be here tonight. I...”
— Joe Lieberman jokes about...

Feb 1st

http://popvssoda.com

Feb 1st