October 2008
117 posts
http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm If I add text, twitter will not tinyurl it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/poletti/sets/72157602965392887/ Captain Kirk sure knew how to pick’em.
http://tinyurl.com/63z5bz Huh.
I have been to a NUMBER of indie concerts in DIFFERENT venues, too, I will have you know.
You know whats sad? Justice, in a *club*, was way less loud than any indie concert I’ve ever been to. Also, they took my swiss army knife :(
http://tinyurl.com/5sykcr Best conference evar: “4th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms, Castiglioncello, Italy, 2007”
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and NAND gates.
http://tinyurl.com/5eclnz Man, obama’s just going to be so disappointing when it turns out he’s only a human being.
Fuck snow so hard.
http://tinyurl.com/5mylgs
Watching my father’s wine ferment is almost magical. The glass casks are a nice touch. Man, growing up I sure disliked picking them grapes.
What NEWS will there be once the american election is over? It feels like I’ve been reading about that election all my life.
http://tinyurl.com/6cs97q what a awesome piece of terminology.
http://tinyurl.com/5bvajy
Sigh. Best thing I’ve seen all day http://tinyurl.com/6qdy2t
I much prefer parliamentary systems where you talk public with your opponent at only a little bit more than arms length http://bit.ly/4RL1R
Stock brokers in India http://s.wsj.net/media/1020pod04.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/yq9cab
You know, I could probably watch pigeons and sparrows fight each other over my hotdog bun crumbs forever. Unconvinced this is a good thing.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4996937.ece Right wing politics in Austria is so much more interesting (& scary).
http://tinyurl.com/5w4jd4
Similarly, http://www.economist.com/vote2008/
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/gallup/ hah. There aren’t ten countries whose residents are pro McCain.
I can’t believe I’m listening to a serious, non nerdcore hip hop album that has a song addressing the digital divide.
Creating private repositories in git is so hilariously easy, I am stunned. I have not been this pleased with dev tools in a while.
Oh man, yes http://www.fuckthenewyorktimes.com/ the voice in my head only recently stopped screaming about this. via @heycarsten
Okay, so the part where Antonio Carlos Jobim makes Elis Regina giggle in “Waters of March” is totally one of the best moments in music.
http://tinyurl.com/4jaue8
“All at once I’m at an audition, on a first date, meeting a long-lost relative, and flashing myself in public.” http://tinyurl.com/6xdw9h
I need a word to describe beating an arcade game and scoring poorly but then realizing that you set the current 1st place six months ago.
Firefox takes a while to start up when you have 100 tabs in your saved session.
I confess I only bought the Atlantic ‘cos of the redesign hubbub. Oh, and possibly the Jill Greenberg outtakes shootout from last month.
http://bit.ly/1keqVw