July 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen… Senator Al Franken!
“By default, all your messages on Facebook will soon be naked visible to the...”
– The Day Facebook Changed - Messages to Become Public by Default - NYTimes.com
June 2009
“Alex Chaffee is right.”
– Jonathan Vos Post | June 30, 2009 2:07 PM
(comment on Crossword Guy just doesn’t get math : Good Math, Bad Math)
“Richard Jerram, a senior economist with Macquarie bank, told investors that “the...”
– To fight deflation, abolish cash. Could Japan make reality of ‘science fiction’? - Times Online
via Hacker Newspaper
“Out of the dozens of people who’ve heard about my stomach problem, and...”
– Mental Illness - a personal perspective. : Good Math, Bad Math
““Every evening there was this incredible display of fireflies,” Dr. Lewis said....”
– Seduction and Deceit in a Firefly’s Flashes - NYTimes.com
The biggest self of self is self →
The biggest self of self is self: A part that parts its part to be a whole, The screw that once held stud to shelf When loose, is held to have a sovereign soul (and, so far as shear-stress will permit, gov’rnance of the whole.) Rust to dust: but living flesh to coal, which in its value must give of itself, return to air what verdant Nature stole (this too in bondage, each atom volatile while...
Nothing like post-Transformers karaoke to wash the Bay away. Shorty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low.
Michael Bay made me queasy. Please, camera. Just stop.
“Search giant Google confirmed to the BBC that when the news [of Michael...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Web slows after Jackson’s death
Resource Expert Droid →
Git: Find duplicate blobs (files) in this tree →
Mourning MJ’s mummified remains, as I have been for 15 years.
“Meanwhile, it would be nice if David Herszenhorn, who wrote the article,...”
– Matthew Yglesias » Baucus Regrets Not Including Single-Payer in the Health Care Mix
“[Sen. Max Baucus] conceded that it was a mistake to rule out a fully...”
– Matthew Yglesias » Baucus Regrets Not Including Single-Payer in the Health Care Mix
It’s called the Overton Window, Max. Look it up.
“It would be one thing for the Obama administration to argue that there is no...”
– The “Neda video,” torture, and the truth-revealing power of images - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
New iPhone, new roommate: http://twitpic.com/87ni8
Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is... →
Seems you can just run a little command in terminal (Make sure you are on OS 3.0 on a 3G iPhone and iTunes 8.2):
defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE
After that, the steps become a lot more simple.
1. Download this file (for AT&T) and mount the disk image (thanks Gizmodo) for other carriers, try here.
2. Option-click on “restore” in your iTunes with your...
Review: iPhone 3GS lives up to its speedy claims -... →
“While I’ve long been for extending every benefit of marriage to same-sex...”
– Rights, Responsibilities and Love | U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd
The Tragic Face of the Iranian Revolution |... →
Disturbing video of a young Iranian woman shot and dying in the streets of Tehran has surfaced on the internet (extremely graphic, NSFW, requires youtube login). Known only as “Neda” in the video, she has been identified by subsequent reports as a 16-year-old student named Neda Soltani. Supporters of the Iranian opposition are saying that she is the face of the struggle, and that this...
Watch Buffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed) - #teambuffy
via Gerry
“I guarantee you that getting through Infinite Jest with a good understanding of...”
– Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Jason Kottke: Forward
Customers given too many choices are 10x less... →
“If you thought of organisms as computers with IP addresses, each functional...”
– On Influenza A « bunnie’s blog
“It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again,...”
– On Influenza A « bunnie’s blog
No time for a pet? How about sharing one? - TODAY... →
“Our first exposure to unvarnished Ewok behavior occurred at the victory...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Yub Jub Means “Devour The Weak”: An Authoritative Study of Ewoks, From the Field Notes of Davo Atten-Boru and Pladdo Cardigun, Exo-naturalists.
“During an era of scarcity - an era when the next meal depended on a successful...”
– Does the Truth Lie Within? - New York Times
“And the truth is, that the Washington press corps, and the people at the White...”
– Jay Rosen
Morning Daniel Froomkin News Roundup
“I found Lord Carlile’s discussion of his “soft power” fascinating, so I asked...”
– Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » Froomkin, Lord Carlile, and US Political Journalism
“As most people probably know by now, the Washington Post, completely...”
– Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » Froomkin, Lord Carlile, and US Political Journalism
Just had the best pizza ever and ZOMG I MADE IT
“Wish you could write your Ruby in XML? Has the fact that Ruby is not...”
– tenderlove’s enterprise at master - GitHub
“Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when...”
– Pete Hoekstra (petehoekstra) on Twitter (via sconover)
Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0 is... →
“curl http://github.com/defunkt/gist/raw/master/gist.rb > gist &&...”
– gist from the command line 