July 2008
57 posts
Preparing for Launch | The Balsamiq Blog →
Jul 31st
Jul 31st
“After a closer examination of the Antikythera Mechanism, a surviving marvel of...”
– Workings of Ancient ‘Computer’ Deciphered - NYTimes.com
Jul 30th
W. - Oliver Stone’s Film About George W. Bush... →
Jul 29th
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Jul 28th
WatchWatch
Jul 28th
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Jul 23rd
Paradise Unpaved | Franke James →
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NERDCORE
Jul 16th
“But, on the dark side, Scheme is a beautiful singing siren, resting on the white...”
– A Paean to Scheme
Jul 16th
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Jul 15th
Things - task management on the Mac →
Jul 15th
Jul 14th
“None of them were car people or GM people, at least not before the Volt....”
– Electro-Shock Therapy
Jul 14th
“Obama, it turns out, is a politician. In this respect, he resembles the...”
– Flip-Flop Flap: Comment: The New Yorker
Jul 14th
Jul 14th
Jul 14th
“He talked — and talked and talked — about how there were going to be no more red...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Gail Collins - Obama’s Flip-Flopping - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Jul 11th
Jul 11th
“In the café car, chugging along one of the country’s oldest routes, I counted...”
– GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - Train in Vain
Jul 11th
“And how my mom came down to the kitchen when I was studying for my trig final,...”
– Patton Oswalt This is why our country is falling apart.  Funny guy, but what idiotic advice.
Jul 11th
Jul 10th
WatchWatch
If you’re going to watch one video about the soviet workers being saved from the zombified community party leaders by a ripped, physically robust Gorbachov, make it this one.
Jul 10th
Support Vector Machines (SVM) in Ruby - igvita.com →
Jul 10th
What a bunch of crooks
The Senate has approved a bill overhauling the rules on secret government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telecom companies that helped listen in on Americans after Sept. 11. — Associated Press
Jul 9th
Jul 9th
Jul 9th
“To give an idea of the relative speed of AsmXml, the fastest open source XML...”
– AsmXml - A Fast XML Parser
Jul 8th
“HE often talked about the dog he had had—going into detail about his...”
– How it turned out — Originally titled “Charles Schulz, R.I.P.”
Jul 8th
Jul 8th
“Anywhere you will find a predominance of white businesses, such as advertising...”
– Salon conversations: “Stuff White People Like,” Christian Lander | Salon Life
Jul 8th
“We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than...”
– The Value Of Science (via #mce_temp_url#)
Jul 8th
“Protocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special...”
– Google Open Source Blog: Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format
Jul 8th
“Mr. Bugliosi could be forgiven for perhaps thinking that a new book would...”
– Ex-Prosecutor’s Book Accuses Bush of Murder - NYTimes.com
Jul 8th
Data Mining with R: learning by case studies →
Jul 3rd
CS 545: Machine Learning →
Jul 3rd
Being stalked by Terry Gross
The Roku I ordered came today, and I’ve been poking around streaming stuff off of Netflix.  It works amazingly well; the quality is slightly worse than you’d find from DVDRip torrents, but it starts playing in only a minute or two. I’m watching Stone Reader which is ok but really not worth mentioning other than there’s a scene where he’s in the car listening to Fresh...
Jul 3rd
Jul 3rd
“The interrogators would hardly have had time to ask me any questions, and I knew...”
– Believe Me, It’s Torture: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com Christopher Hitchens talking about his experiences being waterboarded.
Jul 2nd
“In the abstract, freedom of choice is desirable. But the arts, including the...”
–  RESTAURANTS; With Such Scallops, Who Needs Free Will? - New York Times
Jul 2nd