alexch's almanac

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Jul 2nd

“This bill is not weak because its framers, Representatives...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - Just Do It -...

Jul 2nd

RT @chadfowlerThis could save our economy http://bit.ly/CYTLg #careersuccess

Jul 1st

Sick of hearing about Republican infighting. Where’s the MSNBC special on the spat between...

Jul 1st

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HowTo Install Radiant 0.8.0 in Heroku Screencast & Recipe !!! - Heroku | Google Groups

Jul 1st

Running RubyMine with jdk 1.6 (Apple Java for...

Jul 1st

“Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug to form a...”
— Shellac - Wikipedia, the free...

Jul 1st

The Cafes » Why Pair Programming Works

Jul 1st

Ladies and Gentlemen… Senator Al Franken!

Jul 1st

“By default, all your messages on Facebook will soon be naked...”
— The Day Facebook Changed - ...

Jul 1st

“Alex Chaffee is right.”
— Jonathan Vos Post | June 30,...

Jun 30th

At the heart of CouchDB is a B-Tree implementation...

Jun 30th

“Richard Jerram, a senior economist with Macquarie bank, told...”
—  To fight deflation, abolish...

Jun 30th

“Out of the dozens of people who’ve heard about my...”
— Mental Illness - a personal...

Jun 30th

““Every evening there was this incredible display of...”
— Seduction and Deceit in a...

Jun 30th

The biggest self of self is self

Jun 28th

Hemoglobin molecule Totally Looks Like Flying Spaghetti...

Jun 28th

Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion ...

Jun 28th

How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis

Jun 28th

Nothing like post-Transformers karaoke to wash the Bay away. Shorty got low, low, low, low, low,...

Jun 27th

Michael Bay made me queasy. Please, camera. Just stop.

Jun 27th

thedailywhat: pictures for sad children.

Jun 26th

Though it sounds paradoxical to try to improve traffic flow...

Jun 26th

“Search giant Google confirmed to the BBC that when the news...”
— BBC NEWS | Technology | Web...

Jun 26th

Resource Expert Droid

Jun 26th

Git: Find duplicate blobs (files) in this...

Jun 26th

Mourning MJ’s mummified remains, as I have been for 15 years.

Jun 26th

“Meanwhile, it would be nice if David Herszenhorn, who wrote...”
—  Matthew Yglesias ...

Jun 25th

“[Sen. Max Baucus] conceded that it was a mistake to rule out...”
—  Matthew Yglesias ...

Jun 25th

“It would be one thing for the Obama administration to argue...”
— The “Neda video,”...

Jun 24th

New iPhone, new roommate: http://twitpic.com/87ni8

Jun 24th

Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0...

Jun 23rd

Extravert / Introvert Cartoon | Savage Chickens - Cartoons...

Jun 23rd

Review: iPhone 3GS lives up to its speedy...

Jun 23rd

The Sims 3 makes a Scrum joke! “Agile grill!”...

Jun 23rd

Disturbing video of a young Iranian woman shot and dying in...

Jun 23rd

“While I’ve long been for extending every benefit of marriage...”
— Rights, Responsibilities and...

Jun 22nd

The Tragic Face of the Iranian Revolution |...

Jun 22nd

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Buffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed) - #teambuffy via Gerry

Jun 22nd

“I guarantee you that getting through Infinite Jest with a...”
— Infinite Summer  » Blog...

Jun 22nd

“There’s something there you’ve really got to see,” he said...

Jun 22nd

Customers given too many choices are 10x less...

Jun 22nd

“If you thought of organisms as computers with IP addresses,...”
— On Influenza A « ...

Jun 22nd

“It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic...”
— On Influenza A « ...

Jun 22nd

No time for a pet? How about sharing one? -...

Jun 22nd

“Our first exposure to unvarnished Ewok behavior occurred at...”
— McSweeney’s Internet...

Jun 21st

“During an era of scarcity - an era when the next meal...”
— Does the Truth Lie Within? -...

Jun 21st

“And the truth is, that the Washington press corps, and the...”
— Jay Rosen Morning Daniel...

Jun 21st

“I found Lord Carlile’s discussion of his “soft power”...”
— Opinio Juris  » Blog...

Jun 21st

“As most people probably know by now, the Washington Post,...”
— Opinio Juris  » Blog...

Jun 21st

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John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner (via CSPAN)

Jun 20th

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Auto-Tune the News #5: lettuce regulation. American blessings. (via schmoyoho)

Jun 20th

Just had the best pizza ever and ZOMG I MADE IT

Jun 20th

“Wish you could write your Ruby in XML? Has the fact that...”
— tenderlove’s enterprise...

Jun 18th

“Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House...”
— Pete Hoekstra (petehoekstra)...

Jun 18th

The police and the basij think they can shut down the...

Jun 18th

Enable tethering shortcut found - iPhone 3.0...

Jun 18th

“curl http://github.com/defunkt/gist/raw/master/gist.rb >...”
— gist from the command line

Jun 18th

LESS - Leaner CSS

Jun 18th

“one morning when he was applying sunscreen to his young...”
— An App, the GoodGuide, Aids in...

Jun 17th

“Hi, I’m Jeff Hertzberg, one of the co-authors of...”
— Red Ramekin: A Week in the...

Jun 17th

New York Anti-Letterman Rally Draws Dozens

Jun 17th

“The American presidency is a weird institution. If Barack...”
—  Matthew Yglesias ...

Jun 17th

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Magnum v. Solo, sequence comparison (via TheCBVee)

Jun 17th

“The distance from Stanford to Boston is 4320km. The speed...”
— It’s the Latency, Stupid

Jun 17th

i <3 yeast

Jun 16th

How do I tweet from the Quick Search Box? -...

Jun 16th

now start a band (via 9 0 0 0)

Jun 16th

“Believe it: the humble hyperlink, thanks to pervasive URL...”
— Coding Horror: Url Shorteners:...

Jun 16th

IE6 denial message for Momentile.com (via John Martz)

Jun 16th

A backer of Mir Hossein Mousavi helps evacuate an injured...

Jun 16th

Defying an official ban, hundreds of thousands of Iranian...

Jun 16th

A supporter of defeated presidential candidate Mousavi is...

Jun 16th

Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3...

Jun 16th

Here's how to get tethering on any iPhone...

Jun 15th

“We will continue with our green wave of rationality that is...”
— Mousavi Letter – tehranbureau

Jun 14th

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Protests in Tehran after election - Riot police caught by crowd (via Mousavi1388)

Jun 14th

“By 2005, the hard liners had rolled back all the reforms and...”
— Informed Comment: Class v....

Jun 14th

TextMate Blog » Working on It

Jun 14th

“[T]here has been a campaign of falsehood about this whole...”
— Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Major...

Jun 13th

Boy discovers microbe that eats plastic | MNN...

Jun 13th

“In the essay, Frankfurt sketches a theory of bullshit,...”
— a review of “On...

Jun 13th

Gogaruco Talks (video)

Jun 12th

5 Whys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jun 12th

Lucky 13 patio would be great if only everyone were smoking pot instead of tobacco.

Jun 12th

Figure 6: Progression of feelings about meta-programming ...

Jun 12th

“But what happens when the silicon co-pilot gives up the...”
— Miles O’Brien - Uplinks ...

Jun 10th

Oliver's simple fluid dynamics simulator in...

Jun 10th

Wireshark: Go deep.

Jun 10th

YUI: CSS Grid Builder

Jun 10th

“I believe that computers are meant to serve people and not...”
— Rondam Ramblings: CSS and the...

Jun 10th

“One of the many problems with idiocy is that it does not...”
— Rondam Ramblings: CSS and the...

Jun 10th

$ cheat git

Jun 9th

New rule: unsubscribing from any blog which posts about how to save journalism.

Jun 9th

Oh yeah, and likewise about how to save the Republican party. Next!

Jun 9th

“In a small, focussed market, you can delight customers one...”
— Too small to fail: How...

Jun 8th

“With final results from 98% of the election districts it...”
—  Stockholm News: Pirate Party...

Jun 8th

tap tap tap ~ 10 useful iPhone tips & tricks

Jun 8th

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Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else (via MrsBettyBowers)

Jun 8th

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Earthrise from Japanese lunar orbiter 「かぐや」HDTVによる地球の出（2007年11月7日 ‰ [HD] (via jaxachannel) Make...

Jun 8th

99designs » Leading Designer Marketplace for...

Jun 8th

OMG the status update I just did about G-d was my 666th!

Jun 8th

Tintin Versus Predator.

Jun 8th

Tintin Movie  » Travels of a Boy Reporter

Jun 8th

Baking bread and gardening. Yeah, really.

Jun 8th

webAviary

Jun 7th

Made kneadless bread today. First boule was an unmitigated disaster. Nowhere to go but up!

Jun 7th

“The range of acceptable opinion runs from the moderate left...”
— EJ Dionne, via Matthew...

Jun 4th

“In 2002 I found out I was carrying triplets. My husband did...”
— Patients Pay Tribute to a...

Jun 4th

git config push.default matching

Jun 4th

I like blogging about stupid config stuff I figured out cause then in 2 years I’ll get a...

Jun 4th

“Accumulated technical debt has a three-pronged attack on...”
— Pervasive Code  » Extreme...

Jun 3rd

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Libertyville Abortion Demonstration (via AtCenterNetwork) What happens when you ask anti-abortion...

Jun 2nd

“The reason these pro-life groups have held their fire, both...”
— Is it wrong to murder an...

Jun 2nd

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Sex With Ducks: the Music Video by Garfunkel and Oates (via rikilind)

Jun 2nd

http://bit.ly/GJ7Hu Crackdown 2 trailer

Jun 2nd

…and, right on time, Microsoft teases Crackdown 2 at E3.

Jun 2nd

“Consciousness is a very tough thing to explain away, because...”
— Edge: CHIMERAS OF EXPERIENCE:...

Jun 2nd

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A-Ha - Take on Me (Literal Version) (via yerboogieman)

Jun 1st

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Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video Version (via dascottjr)

Jun 1st

“Furthermore, I’m willing to bet that Krikorian isn’t always...”
— What an unnatural stress...

Jun 1st

“Pronouncing a proper noun in its natural Spanish way “is...”
—  Wonkette : National...

Jun 1st

qcjeph: If Scientific American says it, it must be true

Jun 1st