November 2009
Watching the FSU/Florida game on fast forward, like pulling a bandaid off quickly.
RT @ReeseLloyd: I think I see the best Twilight movie of all time in the making… http://bit.ly/8CZAmK
If Google Visitors Are Worthless, It's Only... →
Once again, Danny Sullivan is ripping to shreds the arguments being made by newspaper execs who are talking about how Google is a “parasite” on their content, despite sending tons of traffic. In this…
Finding yet more gems I have to rebuild since upgrading to Snow Leopard…mreh
My current favorite blog http://cocktailhacker.com/
"You don’t charge the search engines to send... →
“ You don’t charge the search engines to send people to articles on your site, you pay them. If you can’t make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. Charging money for…
Jabbify →
RT @assaf: identity in the browser http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/identity-in-the-browser-firefox/ yes please.
It Doesn't Work for an Intermediary to Own the... →
That line, from a column excoriating Apple for the ongoing disaster that is their App Store, is by Paul Graham. Now it happens that he’s talking about software and the ways in which it is not…
KeyCastr: Easy Keystroke Visualizer... →
Apple Joins AT&T/Verizon Spat With New iPhone... →
Two new commercials from Apple tout the iPhone’s ability to access the AT&T data network while on a voice call — something Verizon’s CDMA network doesn’t allow. This is a much more effective…
Ten Albums That Defined the Dot Com Era →
So where were you 10 years ago?
Making more money than you were entitled to? Getting involved in a drug-fueled polyamorous relationship? Thinking about how after almost 20 years of…
I wonder if anyone ever really gets panned on speakerrate or is it like Yelp where most ratings are 4 or 5?
Anyone have recommendations for a netbook? It’ll be running Linux, probably Ubuntu so hardware support matters.
RT @ultrasaurus: RT @alexch: #rubyconf _why is gone: http://yfrog.com/4fegoyj (but his spirit is still here)
XBOX! Twitter cannot be escaped
Google voice transcription of the day: “I’m cliche, but from in Japan.”
What I’ve learned so far at RubyConf: the ruby world is full of beardos.
Off to Rubyconf in exotic Burlingame
The mystery of the rolling stones →
Amid the eerie silence and the intense 50C heat of California’s Death Valley these roaming rocks appear to patrol the desert. The rocks, some as heavy as 250lbs, move unaided in bizarre…
Men’s Journal » Print » Into the Zombie Underworld →
“Ayiti, se repiblik zonbi,” Delzor added. Haiti is the republic of zombies.
Google’s Clearwire Investment Gives It the Option... →
Dan Frommer: Recall that Google has the ability to buy Sprint 3G (and Clearwire 4G) services and re-sell them to consumers, via its $500 million investment in Clearwire. Google could play the…
Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization →
Last month, the American Booksellers Association published an open letter to the Justice Department, asking Justice to investigate Wal-Mart, Target, and Amazon after they lowered prices of…
“BTW, “hoge”, “fuga”, “piyo” is Japanese...”
– Three implicit contexts in Ruby - 世界線航跡蔵
“There may have been some Golden Age of Lobbying, where this kind of hysteria...”
– Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization « Clay Shirky
RT @cshirky: “Starting today, we’re enabling people to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. courts (cont) http://tl.gd/vlfr
WatchMotion Induced Blindness - Video (via Metacafe)
Feeding blood to your machines →
Best science headline of the day:
Yeast-powered fuel cell feeds on human blood One presumes the blood is contributed voluntarily.
A team at the University of British Columbia in…
An App for Crossing the Border: The Transborder... →
‘My Perfect Day Is Sitting in a Room With Some... →
Terrific WSJ interview with Cormac McCarthy: WSJ: How does that ticking clock affect your work? Does it make you want to write more shorter pieces, or to cap things with a large, all-encompassing…
First universal programmable quantum computer... →
The world’s first universal programmable quantum computer has been put through its paces. But the test program revealed significant hurdles that must be overcome before the device is ready…
US Judge Bans Christian Car Number Plates →
The southern state’s legislature had already approved the licence plate, but Cameron Currie, the district judge, said the plate was unconstitutional because it violated the First Amendment,…
Newspaper Industry Lawyers Attack Fair Use, Claim... →
Hmm. So, on Monday Rupert Murdoch suggests that the courts would reject fair use as a concept, and by Friday two newspaper industry lawyers just happen to have an op-ed piece in the Wall Street…
Cellphone contracts getting even better! →
Saul Hansell suggests that hated U.S. cellular carrier practices such as text message markups and fee-packed contracts ultimately give American consumers what they really want: predictable bills….
chriseats:
This is the kind of stuff that... →
chriseats:
This is the kind of stuff that American schoolchildren should be researching. I feel that there’s too much emphasis on baking soda/vinegar volcanoes, and not enough education on…
Better Ruby Idioms →
Shared by britt
This always confused me and impeded my understanding of modules and extend/include for a long time. I always thought the users of this idiom knew something I didn’t.
Carl and I…
Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps →
Tweeting from google wave because I can.
riotclitshave @ 2009-11-09T21:49:00 →
Justices Show Supreme Skepticism About Broad... →
You never know how they’ll actually rule, but in hearing the oral arguments in the Bilski case over the patentability of business models (and, most likely, software), one thing became quite clear:…
Buyers Who Purchased Modern Warfare 2 Via Steam... →
When talking about video games, we sometimes hear that Valve’s Steam is one of the few examples of “DRM that works,” but that’s hard to accept when you hear ridiculous stories like this one….
ideia.JPG (948×2654) →
Fatal Big Rig Crash on Bay Bridge This Morning →
A big rig driver lost control of his truck at 3:30 a.m. this morning while negotiating the infamous S-curve on the Bay Bridge. The vehicle plunged 200 feet onto Yerba Buena Island, killing…
Just got back from acquiring snacks and exotic boozes. Off to the store for a few last ingredients.