July 2008
57 posts
Preparing for Launch | The Balsamiq Blog →
“After a closer examination of the Antikythera Mechanism, a surviving marvel of...”
– Workings of Ancient ‘Computer’ Deciphered - NYTimes.com
W. - Oliver Stone’s Film About George W. Bush... →
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Paradise Unpaved | Franke James →
NERDCORE
“But, on the dark side, Scheme is a beautiful singing siren, resting on the white...”
– A Paean to Scheme
Things - task management on the Mac →
“None of them were car people or GM people, at least not before the Volt....”
– Electro-Shock Therapy
“Obama, it turns out, is a politician. In this respect, he resembles the...”
– Flip-Flop Flap: Comment: The New Yorker
“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
“In the café car, chugging along one of the country’s oldest routes, I counted...”
– GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - Train in Vain
“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.
WatchIf 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.
Support Vector Machines (SVM) in Ruby - igvita.com →
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
“To give an idea of the relative speed of AsmXml, the fastest open source XML...”
– AsmXml - A Fast XML Parser
“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.”
“Anywhere you will find a predominance of white businesses, such as advertising...”
– Salon conversations: “Stuff White People Like,” Christian Lander | Salon Life
“We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than...”
– The Value Of Science (via #mce_temp_url#)
“Protocol Buffers allow you to define simple data structures in a special...”
– Google Open Source Blog: Protocol Buffers: Google’s Data Interchange Format
“Mr. Bugliosi could be forgiven for perhaps thinking that a new book would...”
– Ex-Prosecutor’s Book Accuses Bush of Murder - NYTimes.com
Data Mining with R: learning by case studies →
CS 545: Machine Learning →
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...
“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.
“In the abstract, freedom of choice is desirable. But the arts, including the...”
– RESTAURANTS; With Such Scallops, Who Needs Free Will? - New York Times