alexch's almanac

2009

December 15
November 42
October 38
September 67
August 102
July 86
June 115
May 157
April 91
March 77
February 128
January 77

2008

December 80
November 183
October 231
September 284
August 103
July 34
June 65
May 35
April 20
March 8
February
January
I think I'm an agnostic...
May 2nd
Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia, the free...
May 2nd
David Chalmers - Wikipedia, the free...
May 2nd
Warch Watch
Obama Budget Cuts Visualization (via 10000Pennies)
May 2nd
“Chalmers’ book, The Conscious Mind (1996), is widely...”
— David Chalmers - Wikipedia,...
May 1st
Red Sarah (for Steve) Mike Sterling’s Progressive...
May 1st
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Environmental...
May 1st
Maira Kalman - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog -...
May 1st
“The paper, published by Cato in April, found that in the...”
— Drugs in Portugal: Did...
May 1st
RT @gerryblog The White House is… looking for the smartest, youngest constitutional scholar...
May 1st
“Cramdown faces fierce opposition from Wall Street....”
— Bank Lobby On Course To Gut...
Apr 30th
eat… sleep… code…
Apr 30th
“DAY 89: To make up for missing the Opening Day first pitch,...”
— First 100 Days | The Onion -...
Apr 30th
“Arlen Specter’s with us except when we need him.”
— Harry Reid, at last...
Apr 29th
has_many :through Self-referential Example...
Apr 28th
“Certainly, if you’re hiring Rails programmers, and a...”
— Giles Bowkett: I’m Proud...
Apr 28th
“An examination of Mr. Geithner’s five years as president of...”
— Geithner, as Member and...
Apr 27th
“The arguments at the CIA safe house were loud and intense in...”
— Ali Soufan Breaks His Silence...
Apr 27th
“McFadden says that in early 2002, Soufan flew to Guantánamo...”
— Ali Soufan Breaks His Silence...
Apr 27th
“was in the middle of this, and it’s not true that...”
— Ali Soufan Breaks His Silence...
Apr 27th
“Unlike the Beltway chatterboxes who fill our airwaves, most...”
— Straight to the Top—By Scott...
Apr 24th
RT @ceedub: You can measure Tweetie’s popularity by the number of retweets that are mislabeled...
Apr 24th
Leg update: Cast off, but doc said my leg still isn’t healed enough to start walking again...
Apr 24th
Warch Watch
jonathanmann: #109! For this song, I took language directly from the torture memos. Lyrics below. ...
Apr 24th
Too bad Twitter turned into del.icio.us. It was nice back when it told me what my friends were...
Apr 23rd
What would be your perfect, ultimate setup? _why the lucky...
Apr 23rd
Rachel @Maddow is such a clear, thoughtful communicator. Chris Matthews, otoh, is a sackful of bees.
Apr 23rd
“You should never hire anyone for something you haven’t first...”
— Mike Riley - Do it yourself...
Apr 23rd
“Have strong opinions, weakly held.”
— Paul Saffo, Director of Palo...
Apr 23rd
HotRuby - Ruby on JavaScript and Flash
Apr 22nd
RT @briandoll: Posted some notes on #gogaruco http://tinyurl.com/cyv5eu
Apr 21st
Ruby eyebrow raise: yield is 4x faster than block.call — see http://gist.github.com/99250...
Apr 21st
“You know what? I’m focused on looking forward too. And...”
— Hilzoy, The Washington Monthly
Apr 21st
dr.unkdial.me | the anonymous call-in podcast
Apr 21st
“Of Fox’s two bubble series, “Terminator: The...”
— :-( Crunch time for bubble...
Apr 21st
Just had a vision of me in 40 years, a dirty old man at a corner table, ogling all the cute girls...
Apr 20th
The Perry Bible Fellowship
Apr 20th
Good Will Hunting Redux - The Perry Bible Fellowship
Apr 20th
Touring the Michael Jackson auction collection is exactly...
Apr 20th
I stare at the stars and consider my insignificance
Apr 20th
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
Apr 20th
“Chris Mackey, the US Army interrogator, writes of “the...”
— The Red Cross Torture Report:...
Apr 20th
“We are having, in a ragged way, the debate about ethics and...”
— The Red Cross Torture Report:...
Apr 20th
Warch Watch
Zombie Bank (via KappaDespo)
Apr 20th
“And if the administration will not conduct a thorough...”
— Editorial - The Torturers’...
Apr 20th
RT @mikemccaffrey: OH regarding this especially sunny day in SF: “i didn’t move here for...
Apr 20th
#psfr: product placement, teabagging, and clam stamping. Intrigued? Come to http://is.gd/s3N5
Apr 20th
RT @laughingsquid: last minute Drinkup tonight at Lucky 13 starting 8pm — down the block from...
Apr 19th
#gogaruco was possibly the best technical conference I’ve ever been to. And I wasn’t...
Apr 19th
#gogaruco Greg changed definition of MIDI to “Musical Instrument Analog Interface” -...
Apr 19th
#gogaruco Speaker just referenced my “make it green then make it clean” poster...
Apr 19th
“The court said we were organised. I can’t get Gottfrid out...”
— Pirate Bay Team Sentenced to...
Apr 18th
“[I]f Trotsky is right about the history, we do not determine...”
— Trotsky’s ashes stolen...
Apr 18th
#gogaruco Time-killing joke: Q: Why did the Ruby programmer have skinny fingers? A: Because Ruby is...
Apr 18th
RT @ultrasaurus: [blog] inspiring talk about scalability by @nk yesterday #gogaruco...
Apr 18th
#gogaruco is pronounced “Go GAY, Rue Cow”
Apr 17th
#gogaruco Aaron Quint sez all apps should come packaged with web interfaces. Old idea but Sinatra is...
Apr 17th
#gogaruco suggestion: make the projected screen smaller and higher so we can read the bottom of each...
Apr 17th
“In 1983 the San Francisco’s famed Court of Historical Review...”
— FogBay: 969 - ‘Re-Righting’...
Apr 17th
“WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency intercepted...”
— Officials Say U.S. Wiretaps...
Apr 17th
“The more one reads of this, the harder it is to credit...”
— Obama to release OLC torture...
Apr 17th
“Attorney General Eric Holder has “informed CIA...”
— Obama to release OLC torture...
Apr 17th
“People Who Don’t Believe in Evolution but Love...”
— The Different Kinds of People...
Apr 15th
“Old People Who Think Pigeons Are Their Best Friends ...”
— The Different Kinds of People...
Apr 15th
“People Who Don’t Watch TV Symbolically not doing...”
— The Different Kinds of People...
Apr 15th
“And in Cavuto’s defense, if you are planning simultaneous...”
— David Shuster
Apr 15th
Peter Funch - V1 GALLERY artist
Apr 14th
PETA event in WoW: Seals got clubbed, pigs got eaten
Apr 14th
“What Weev says he figured out was a way to trick Internet...”
— Gawker - Why It Makes Sense...
Apr 14th
tweenbots | kacie kinzer Tweenbots are human-dependent...
Apr 14th
Hoax creates reality: Bert (from Bert Is Evil!) appears with...
Apr 13th
“Across generations and cultures, women have reached...”
— Women and Math, the Gender Gap...
Apr 13th
Green M&Ms
Apr 13th
The White House - Blog Post - Meet Bo, the First Dog
Apr 12th
Bunnies, popes, nuns and Jesuses in Dolores Park
Apr 12th
Hoping today’s #psfr will explain the physics behind Schroedinger’s Dollhouse (a...
Apr 12th
3-D Map Of The Universe - This three-dimensional map,...
Apr 12th
Warch Watch
TED Blog: Warp your room (not your mind) with this awesome illusion
Apr 12th
jar: TopatoCo: I’m Made of Meat T-Shirt
Apr 12th
“it’s been horrifying to watch Twitter evolve into a medium...”
— Manifest Density - have you...
Apr 12th
“English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much...”
— Geoffrey K. Pullum - 50 Years...
Apr 12th
“The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem...”
— 50 Years of Stupid Grammar...
Apr 12th
Woody Harrelson claims he mistook...
Apr 12th
Warch Watch
The Rachel Maddow Show: Insani-Tea: Conservatives Rally Around “Teabagging” (via...
Apr 11th
“Until recently, you’d have to have been an obsessive,...”
—  This column will change your...
Apr 10th
Crap. Back in a cast for another 2 weeks. Heal, damn you, heal!
Apr 9th
YouTube - QualiaSoup's Channel
Apr 9th
Very psyched about VT WIN following CA FAIL
Apr 8th
FARK.com: (4291765) House GOP unveils its budget of...
Apr 7th
FARK.com: (4291765) House GOP unveils its budget of...
Apr 7th
CSS IS AWESOME Mug from Zazzle.com
Apr 7th
“He actually answered the questions he was asked”
— startled Asian reporter, on...
Apr 7th
thedailywhat: T-Shirt of the Day: “The Ultimate Combo” by...
Apr 6th
about to miss #psfr again… and right when Dollhouse has started to get nearly tolerable too
Apr 6th
Warch Watch
Christopher Hitchens Gets Waterboarded (video)
Apr 4th
Capitalism Rocks
Apr 3rd
Profile Manager and Synchronizer :: Firefox...
Apr 2nd
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Apr 2nd
Burritoeater
Apr 2nd
California Academy of Science (Golden Gate Park) is amazing. It’s got a walkthru aquarium and...
Apr 2nd