September 2009
111 posts
August 2009
120 posts
I love smell of India Ink. If someone were to make a colgne out of India Ink, I’d wear it every day. Well maybe not, but sometimes at least.
In Family Guy’s Black to the Future parody, the mother of Marty McSuperfly is white. If he were his own father, what part black would he be?
WatchRegina Spektor - Fidelity
Via Lewis
WatchMac OS X Automation - Services
I mentioned earlier that the main effect of OS X Snow Leopard is to brighten the screen and free some HD space, but actually so far my favorite feature has been the revamped Services menu. Services were, apparently, very useful back in the NeXTSTEP days, but in OS X, they’ve always just been a series of cluttered menus up until now. With OS X Snow Leopard,...
“Let us therefore honor Eric H. Holder, Jr. – the only responsible official in...”
– William Pffaf - Torturing Morality
Growthology - The Distinct Dystopian Possibility →
Here’s a depressing thought:
Onto the larger point: is the United States now entering a Dystopian period of slow or stagnant growth, marred by class conflict, a dysfunctional national legislature (oh, wait, we already have that), and a “new normal” of diminished living standards? Again, this is a subject for a much longer disquisition, but for what it’s worth, some...
I installed OS X Snow Leopard, and the main effect was to free a couple gigs and up the gamma. I guess those darker pixels use up more disk.
“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly...”
– Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
People act like just being able to say “cargo cult” makes you equally as insightful as Richard Feynman. It’s like a kind of meta cargo cult.
Watch Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?
I believe that a wiseman once said, “sevlesruo fo etisoppo eht ees ot srorrim otni kool ew sseug I.” Or was it a namesiw? Either way, maybe.
WatchVia Kotaku, here are some Legos.
Call Me Fishmeal - On Heuristics and Human Factors →
Wil Shipley’s blog is back, yay! Here’s a bit from the latest entry:
Heuristics are the key to designing programs that work well with humans, that make humans smile. In college computer science classes, we learn all about b*trees and linked lists and sorting algorithms and a ton of crap that I honestly have never, ever used, in 25 years of professional programming. (Except hash...
『BEHOLD MY SWARTHY FACE。』 - Notes on “On the... →
A 2008 article explaining the contention that Japanese literature is all a translation of foreign models into the local idiom. It also contends that making a translation of a translation is impossible, and therefore translating Japanese literature is doomed to failure.
There’s something to be said for the idea that you can’t make a translation of a translation—except for the...
Newsless.org - The 3 key parts of news stories you... →
News stories focus on the news part of a story, but usually this is much less interesting or relevant than the longstanding facts of the situation, how the story came to be, or what we don’t really know.
Aaron Swartz - What Kind of a Thing is Twitter? →
Basically, it’s the same sort of thing as monkeys grooming each other or housewives watching Oprah.