January 2008
100 posts
Universities with the Best Free Online Courses →
Wow, MIT alone has more than 1,800 free courses from which to choose. (via blackweb 2.0)
“This is exactly what makes Rails a ghetto. A bunch of half-trained former PHP...”
– Rails Is A Ghetto: Some (white) sociopathic-programmer-who-can’t-afford-his-medication describes the maintainers of a popular web framework as a bunch of lazy-yet-entitled stupid people — y’know, just like the folk who live in real ghettoes. (via foca)
December 2007
74 posts
“The most fearsome possibility raised by Asch’s experiments on conformity...”
– Overcoming Bias: On Expressing Your Concerns
The Seinfeld Lists - Serenity Now →
In the modern world, why bother reciting the entire serenity prayer?
Netscape is dead. →
urp. (via derek)
Cuba: Socialism in a “special period”? →
“The only reason we made the trade was because we got both players. When you add...”
– Isiah Thomas on acquiring Tim Thomas and Nazr Mohammed (Feb 15, 2004): The best of Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas
Rapture →
Did Blondie have it right? Is Jesus gonna come from Mars?
Pakistan's Bhutto assassinated →
And the Doomsday Clock ticks forward again. Do you know what time it is?
Long Bet Winner: Weblogs vs. The New York Times →
Winer vs Nisenholtz.
Why I'm Using Subversion for web development:... →
Basically: “It gives you the ability to branch off of your main install and try something new, merging it later if it works. It gives you the ability to have a local checkout, a testing server and a production server where you only have to edit locally and update the two servers as necessary.”
“I have what I call the minus 24 hour genie test.
Imagine a genie poofed up 24...”
– Warren Buffet, second richest man in the USA (via O’Reilly Radar)
JoS: The Law of Leaky Abstractions →
circa 2002. All models lie, some are useful; the map is not the territory.
Demographics of American Newspapers →
“The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.”
“Conversations are quite imperfect in ordering information and making it...”
– Franklin Paynter is not too impressed.
The incredible journey of Jamario Moon →
“Because what you ignore changes your job, but it doesn’t undermine your job. You...”
– How to figure out which tasks you can ignore
The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global... →
(via cryptic craig)
WoD: fabulist
1. A composer of fables. 2. A teller of tales; a liar.
WoD: Diceware
Diceware is a method for creating passphrases, passwords, and other cryptographic variables using ordinary dice as a hardware random number generator.
Baseball's Steroid Era - Info, Lists, Quotes,... →
(via Frank)
Players listed in the Mitchell Commission report →
Bonds finds company.
Movable Type is now open source →
Because the MT business model is well past its prime. (via wonderchicken)
Why there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics →
Because the “other man” sure knew how to divide? (via foca)
TonyFreakinRomo.com →
“The kid keeps coming up aces and then smirks like he knew it all along.” (via Grizz)
America has lost a generation of black boys: an... →
Maybe. Maybe not. I’m not sure what to make of this.
Rogers Communications inserting branded messages... →
Google’s pissed.
50 Top 10 Lists of 2007 - TIME →
“The mind is much more like a muscle than we’ve ever realized,” Flynn said. “It...”
– Malcolm Gladwell: None of the Above
“The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be...”
– Bertrand Russell
“I have no doubt that mothers in America use my name to frighten their children...”
– Black, Black, Black
“The destructive fixation of the envious English-Canadian mind requires that the...”
– More Black
“I have always felt it was the compulsive element in Napoleon that drew him into...”
– The world according to Conrad Black, jailbird
On Ass compounds →
There’s some formal-ass syntax to it.
Rails 2.0: It's here →
“For every long-lost chum who reaches out to me on Facebook, there’s a guy...”
– Facebook will sink under the weight of socially obligated “friendships” (via Kottke)
An advice to beginning programmers →
“…pick an idea that has challenge, but once implemented is something that you don’t plan to use…” hmm. (via foca)
“Mulroney was still the prime minister when Schreiber alleges the discussion...”
– Schreiber makes Airbus link
Dissecting the I.Q. Debate →
A response to William Saletan’s (Slate) series on race and I.Q. (via subrealism)