January 2010
55 posts
the future.
timocratic: there are like 5 eccentric rich people who can go "neaner neaner, what do you mean the future isn't here?"
evan: course, those predictions never included a DOD capable computer in everyones pocket
evan: and we alread got that.
tenderlove: 10 years ago we couldn't browse porn on our cell phones
tenderlove: there is your miracle
tenderlove: miracle of technology
timocratic: I still think it's fucking cool to see someone watching a movie in their hand on the subway
evan: i think we spent our time on the right things anyway
mattly: i guess between flying cars and the iphone, i'll take the iphone any day of the week
evan: internet > jetpacks
mattly: because the way all these morons drive, nobody would be safe with flying cars
evan: pocket computer > flying car
tenderlove: if flying cars somehow made more people see porn, we would have flying cars by now
December 2009
36 posts
“Say there is a bag with play-doh in it and two pens stuck in the play-doh. That...”
– thestar.com iPhone : The ‘Israelification’ of airports: High security, little bother
“That’s their list. It hasn’t been changed since then. Maybe the problem is that...”
– Rachel Maddow rips apart Cheney, GOP attack machine - Daily Kos TV (beta)
“Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, the risks to its future...”
– Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com (Can we make Bruce Schneier our security czar already?)
“Our police don’t need any new laws to deal with terrorism; rather, they...”
– Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com
“forgive us when our city shuts down after so little snow. Cut us some slack if...”
– Portland and the Angry Inch « Thoughts & Deeds // ideas + interactive design + collaboration = awesome
“It’s been nearly a decade since terrorists used airplanes to attack our...”
– President Obama, It’s Time To Fire the TSA - Travel - Gizmodo
“This is the real danger of the overdiagnosis of mental illness: it prevents any...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: “She Said She Had Breast Cancer— But She Lied”
“May he now enjoy the same high standard of accountability that he seemed so...”
– Streetsblog New York City » What the Heck Was CommuterOutrage.com? (if you’ve ever been enraged by something your read that was posted pseudonymously on the internets, read this)
“Just in case you’re not clear on that: speed limits were never intended to...”
– Do cyclists need restricting? | guardian.co.uk
“the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist...”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror
“Watch out though… if you get slowed down/ farted on enough times, the left side...”
– Tomena Sanner – Games, Reviews – 148Apps – iPhone App and Game Reviews and News
“Actually the majority of all car/house accidents are the fault of the house for...”
– BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » From the Shift email list: When cars attack (homes, not bikes)
“TO A MAN WITH AN ORM, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE A MODEL”
– The Real Adam · Give attribute_mapper a try (thank you Adam)
“This is the essence of the white guilt fantasy, laid bare… It’s a...”
– When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like “Avatar”? - Avatar - io9
“Sometime in the next twenty years or so, the technology that enabled Avatar will...”
– Avatar Review
“Object-oriented languages, Liskov said, tend to conflate the concrete...”
– Objects Are Not Abstract Data Types - Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra
BINGO! This is why I don’t like ORM-style abstraction layers, they encourage this style of conceptual leakage.
“if DAWs were girlfriends, think of 64-bit DAWs as vegetarian girlfriends, and...”
– blog | analogindustries.com
“an expert on literature need not himself be a good writer, any more than an art...”
– The Age of the Essay
“For the judge to find that bike lanes don’t continue through the intersection,...”
– BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Judge: Woman hit in unpainted bike lane is not protected by law
“If you’re selling anything and use PayPal as your only payment option, I urge...”
– Apparent Software blog » Blog Archive » “Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
“We’re just copying Copenhagen so it’s really us who should be giving...”
– Copenhagenize.com - The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog: Mayors Mayors Mayors
best of: music i discovered in 2009
if you use itunes, and dump the contents of this ruby script into a file (say, ‘itunes.rb’) and run it: ruby itunes 25 52 (in the terminal), it will tell you approximately what 25 albums you added to your itunes library over the last 52 weeks that you listened to the most. It adjusts logarithmically for age, so that if you listen to something a bunch that you just added a week ago...
“I think maybe it’s time to stop, or more reasonably, curtail somewhat, state...”
– David Byrne’s Journal: 12.12.09: Art Funding or Arts Funding
“somehow, if a device connects to a computer then we’re living under Highlander...”
– I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Belive… « The Angry Drunk
“Instead of being the kind of person who doesn’t do something, become the...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Tiger Woods, Part 2 (fwiw: this has been the “secret” behind the success I’ve had so far with my fitness goals)
“what the fuck has gone wrong with our country? Used to be, we were innovators....”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T (yes, this rant is that good)
“Dude, if you ever use the word incentivize around me again I swear I will get in...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
“Prof Martin reveals that it may now be possible to come up with treatments to...”
– ‘Curly hair gene’ discovered by scientists - Telegraph
THANK SCIENCE!
“Your users are your customers. Your customers are your users. And your...”
– Jason Fried (via friedisms)
“It was like winning gold in the Olympic Nose Picking event, and all my opponents...”
– Zero Punctuation : Assassin’s Creed 2
“If you like the taste of horse manure on your bologna sandwiches, you’re...”
– How Twilight Works - The Oatmeal -