October 2011
I was borrowing a mac display adapter from a student and just used @square to buy it from him so he can go pick up his kids /cc @sconover
September 2011
“I make too much money,” he said. “I need to pay more taxes.” Anyone in his...”
– Bricks will be thrown, warns David Simon, creator of The Wire | Artery
“My father said you don’t need to use profanity if you have a good enough...”
– David Simon
Bricks will be thrown, warns David Simon, creator of The Wire | Artery
buy ALL the hackerthings! http://t.co/IwBYIhjt
Now I want an iPad just so I can get a LilyPad! (indoor/outdoor solar iPad case with USB and HDMI out) http://t.co/Qmy4gQ1x via @Jason
Actual men at work in the playground sandpit! (Must be Wednesday.) (@ Mission Dolores Park w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/wbCYUFaF
“Obama, he said, “once talked about the courage of his convictions, but...”
– Chris Christie, channeling Gerry Canavan
VIDEO: Chris Christie: Obama a Bystander in Oval Office
RT @ntoddpax: You go, my friends! “Veterans Attempt Citizens Arrest of Rumsfeld in Boston.” http://t.co/EAd0MLg2
RT @jonathanpenn: Hacker Mother to rebellious child: “If your friends told you to type `sudo rm -rf /` would you do that, too?”
“Do you consider one of Ruby’s advantages its brevity compared to other languages...”
– Why Bother With Cucumber Testing? | Jack Kinsella - Rails Developer London
“BDD expert Elizabeth Keogh tells us:
“If your scenario starts with ‘When the...”
– Why Bother With Cucumber Testing? | Jack Kinsella - Rails Developer London
It’s Time to End the War on Salt (and hence the War On Spam (Spiced Ham, not UCE)) #psfr @billsimmon http://t.co/r75EKrgT thx @bramcohen
“This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects...”
– It’s Time to End the War on Salt: Scientific American
Unix Permissions Calculator by Project Fondue →
“Obama’s true failing is in communication. He simply doesn’t know how to — or...”
– The End of the Obama Era | The Contrarian
“JavaScript would have been the ideal name because that’s what everyone called it...”
– Brendan Eich JavaScript creator ponders past, future | Developer World - InfoWorld
“This means that if you write a JavaScript implementation that does not...”
– Every day I learn something new… and stupid. | jwz
“Food is one of the worst contaminants in the paper recycling process. Grease and...”
– The Pizza Box Mystery - Earth911.com
see also
http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-unrecyclable-items-that-are-commonly-mistakenly-put-in-recycling-bins
On Up w/@chrislhayes, @KarenHunter seems to conflate “code switching” (a linguistic term) with “code for” (a political/journalistic term).
freezing - Crysis 2 Message Board for Xbox 360 -... →
Video games are so unprofessional, especially compared to open source libraries (FREE!) and mobile apps (99c!). Here’s a bug that’s still affecting me, six months after this initial report.
For me, it just goes to a black screen and stays there. It once did this just as I was trying to quit to the main menu! But it also (and consistently) does this when I finish the level where you...
RT @mikemccaffrey: An Inspector Spacetime poster! http://t.co/XTDmlfZv Too bad it lacks the official logo, the Inspector’s bowler hat, a …
““The purpose of life,” meeting co-organizer and Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll...”
– Scientific American Blog Network
“And the problem is that when I look at these women, I would very much like to...”
– The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their ‘Liberated Sexuality’ - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
“In interviews with dozens of low-dollar contributors in the past two weeks, some...”
– Small Donors Are Slow to Return to the Obama Fold - NYTimes.com
Dog Yoga (@ Mission Dolores Park w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/l0Qldd6m
“What would I do if I were Obama? Other than resigning and spending the rest of...”
– Balloon Juice » Tonight’s Speech
“Finally, he comes loping to an ambivalent conclusion in modern times, when...”
– ‘American Dreamers’ by Michael Kazin: Book review - latimes.com
“If Republicans keep saying [Keynesianism] doesn’t work, and in response...”
– Kevin Drum - Quote of the Day: We Are All Non-Keynesians Now | Mother Jones
“None of this *had* to happen, of course — the Obama who was elected in 2008...”
– Gerry, commenting on Defending the President (from my liberal friends) | Candleblog
a clear, cogent, statement of the case for taxes and positive government, from a calm conservative. Up w/ @reihansalam & @chrislhayes!
“Why the huge disparity in revenue? Simple: on the iPad folks will pay $0.99 for...”
– Jason Calacanis, What’s Your Primary Consumption Device?
“Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is a real problem for liberals....”
– The Power of Flat Out Lies | Kevin Drum | Mother Jones
RT @BadAstronomer: Happy autumnal equinox! Celebrate by watching this trippy video of a year of sunrises seen from space. http://t.co/93 …
The time it takes you to install and set up a tool should not be greater than the time the tool eventually saves you. #spork #autotest
“Unless you already have a substantial programming background, there is no...”
– Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example | Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book and screencasts | Rails Flavored Ruby
“They also compensated for the timing of the kicker magnet that pushes the bunch...”
– More details on the “faster than the speed of light” neutrinos
RT @ramit: Better photos=100% increase in dog adoption. I don’t even like animals & this warms my heart. CL Penis Effect in action http: …
“My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing -...”
– BBC News - Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
“The team prepares a beam of just one type, muon neutrinos, sending them from...”
– BBC News - Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
“The difficulty of these courses is astonishing. In the first lecture...”
– The Perils of JavaSchools - Joel on Software
“While the Pascal family use of := seems like the best choice to me, the simple =...”
– Assignment: programming language history
“In those days, I tagged people stuck in stress-induced focussed awareness as...”
– The Programmers’ Stone » What To Do Per Individual
ruby 1.9 regexp named capture WTF:
/(?<x>foo)/ =~ “foo”
sets local variable x to “foo” but
”foo” =~ /(?<x>foo)/
doesn’t
“I’d like to address the MacPhail family,” Davis said, according to...”
– Troy Davis Executed After Stay Denied by Supreme Court - ABC News
RT @davewiner: The Internet is, in fact, a series of tubes. http://r2.ly/utsn
