britt.illtemper

Mar 11

Trying desperately to finish some code before boarding the sxswnerdbird

It’s not a question of entitlement. It’s a question of clear vision about the inevitability of painful, weird change, and whether we can each find the courage to face it without folding.

If anyone’s acting “entitled” right now, it’s the many publishing companies who are perfectly happy to leverage every conceivable economy of scale on the internet (free marketing, free distribution, free testimonials, orders-of-magnitude growth opportunities etc.) — but, then somehow find the monarch-sized stones to piss and moan about how they can’t make money off of it as fast as they’d prefer.

” — http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/439434786/entitled-to-care

Good morning Oakland. How are you?

Mar 10

Running the numbers on Toyota safety -

Robert Wright breaks down the numbers on Toyota’s safety record given all of the recent reports of uncontrolled acceleration:

My back-of-the-envelope calculations (explained in a footnote…

Protesting - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog

Protesting - Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog

Single Ladies -

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Using a ring to bind someone you covet into your dark and twisted world? Wow, just got the subtext there. Also, the apparently eager Beyoncé would've made one badass Nazgȗl.

Mar 09

My recipe for the Casablanca cocktail http://britt.illtemper.org/post/438429963/the-casablanca

The Casablanca

Ingredients:

natashavc:


reverendnathan:

Animals.

relax, guys.

natashavc:

reverendnathan:

Animals.

relax, guys.

Extreme Weirdness: Antarctica’s “Blood Falls” -

blood falls

“There is a glacier in Antarctica that seems to be weeping a river of blood. It’s one of the continent’s strangest features, and it’s located in one of the continent’s strangest places — the…

“Before we add “forty-three” to something else, we have to break it down into “four tens and a three.” By comparison, in Chinese the word for “forty-three” is already broken down: “four-tens-three.” —

That makes so much more sense than forty three.

Rebecca Zook - Math Tutoring Online » The Blog of Rebecca Zook

“I’m generally not one for overbearing government regulation in entertainment, but if someone were to introduce legislation requiring home entertainment companies to have a “just play the damn movie” button at the start of every DVD, Blu-Ray or any other future movie-playing technology, I would call my Senators and representative every fifteen minutes until they voted “yes” on that bill.” — A Quick Note to Universal Home Entertainment « Whatever

Mar 08

8-Bit NYC

Mar 07

Why is @github so often sad lately?

RT ROFL @chacon “Fly Phishing” - specifically targeting DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince