June 2009
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“At a first glance this may appear like a cool locking free operation that makes...”
–  CAS and why I don’t want to add it to Redis - Redis DB | Google Groups
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“To most of us it seems extraordinary that Silvio Berlusconi is still prime...”
– Silvio Berlusconi: how does he do it? - Telegraph
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“If you believe nothing can be done for the dumb except kindness, because it’s...”
– John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education (via jakelodwick)
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“That erroneous assumption is to the effort that the aim of public education is...”
– H. L. Mencken, The American Mercury, April, 1924 (via jakelodwick)
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Lip Dubbing: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Jun 29th
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Someone always asks the math teacher, “Am I going to use calculus in real life?” And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the digital age. Arthur Benjamin’s formula for changing math education | Video on TED.com I think I’m the only person I know that still used trig regularly, but...
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“Pathologically provincial   people who are unable to come to terms with other...”
–  Nagging Naggum - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups
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“About 1 in 20 people go _mental_ when criticized in an unexpected way.   (I have...”
–  Nagging Naggum - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups
Jun 29th
“Civility and politeness are extremely useful tools in communication with people...”
– Contra serpendem lapsum memoriae.: Erik Naggum, RIP.
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It’s a Mans World
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“Further damaging the credentials of the participants, Marc Cooper wrote[28] that...”
– Biosphere 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Infinite Vision - Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy
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“This promises to be the least expensive of the very light jets, but for a lot of...”
– Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » The new Cirrus Jet
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Massive Photography » Norah Jones performs for... →
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“Ten years ago, before I became Yet Another Software Engineer, I spent a year...”
–  Key Hero and the Pooping Turtle Story - The Gameshelf
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Werner Herzog In The Jungle - watch more funny videos
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Auto Tuning on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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Scenes from a rooftop on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Jun 9th
Scala for Java Refugees Part 1: main(String[]) -... →
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“In the 1920s he claimed to be working on a tower that could potentially have...”
– Badass of the Week: Nikola Tesla
Jun 9th
“He had an unyielding, steel-trap photographic memory and an insane ability to...”
– Badass of the Week: Nikola Tesla
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