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March 2011

RT @daksis: Holy shit this is comprehensive: the ultimate statistics cheat sheet: http://bit.ly/hFmViR #stats #geekgasm

Mar 31, 2011

RT @mfeathers: When internal DSLs attempt to be English and can’t make it far enough, it is like an ‘uncanny alley’ http://bit.ly/10KSfv

Mar 30, 2011
“Babe, in class today I learned that I am a variable and YOU are an object. Unlike you, I don’t always know what my type is.” —KharaCara • Losing My Programming Virginity To Ruby On Rails
Mar 30, 2011

Sun! Green! Butterflies! (@ Bernal Hill) [pic]: http://4sq.com/f6TWiO

Mar 30, 2011
“The thought suddenly crosses your mind that you might not be technically savvy enough to understand an interface that’s so simple it doesn’t need a manual!” —Best app store review ever [of Color] - mike’s posterous
Mar 28, 2011
“Here is one lesson we can draw from the mostly negative media commentary about the Obama administration’s actions in Libya: Presidents get more credit for stopping atrocities after they begin than for preventing them before they get out of hand.” —Malinowski: The Timeliness Paradox: Why Isn’t Obama Getting Credit For Stopping An Atrocity? | The New Republic
Mar 28, 20111 note

RT @SenJohnMcCain: Late evening with Col. Qadhafi at his “ranch” in Libya - interesting meeting with an interesting man.

Mar 26, 2011

RT @nickmote: Overheard at work: “AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony, there will be no reception”

Mar 24, 2011

Peet’s wasn’t Starbucks before not being Starbuck’s was cool http://sfist.com/2011/03/16/peets_coffee_and_starbucks_to_merge.php

Mar 24, 2011
“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” —

Senator Barack Obama, Peacenik (2007)

Boston.com - Special reports - News

Mar 22, 20111 note
“

While both men called for calm, behind the scenes there were signs of the government’s plummeting faith in the plant’s operators, the Tokyo Electric Power Company. [Japanese prime minister Naoto] Kan was overheard reading the riot act to executives for failing to inform him of the blast, Japanese media said.

“The TV reported an explosion, but nothing was said to the prime minister’s office for more than an hour,” the Kyodo agency quoted Kan as saying. “What the hell is going on?”

”
—Fukushima 50 battle radiation risks as Japan nuclear crisis deepens | World news | The Guardian
Mar 15, 2011
Mar 14, 2011

Whenever I hear someone mention “the pink elephant in the room” I wonder, is everyone in the room drunk?

Mar 11, 2011

Batman and The Joker team up to fight homelessness: http://t.co/JumV5Yf

Mar 5, 2011
Free Find My iPhone → support.apple.com

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