February 2012
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Nullege →
Nullege is a search engine for Python source code. [via Kevin Veroneau]
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“Voyager, in case it’s ever encountered by extra-terrestrials, is carrying...”
– Josh Lyman, in the 2004 episode “The Warfare of Ghengis Khan” of “The West Wing”
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Red Sex, Blue Sex →
Margaret Talbot looks at statistics gathered from religiopolitical studies and briefly tries to answer the question “Why do so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant?”
Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age...
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A successful Git branching model →
This looks like a great, rigorous approach to software management.
January 2012
4 posts
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What Percent Are You? →
Enter your household income and see how you rank in 344 zones across the country. [via Aaron]
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“The declarative programming model is very appealing. In general, if you can...”
– Brian Tarbox, Dolphin Researcher, as quoted by Bruce A. Tate in his book “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks”
December 2011
1 post
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How I can parse HTML using regexps? →
People are constantly asking “how do I parse HTML with a regular expression, durp?”. This is probably the best, angriest answer to that question that I’ll ever see.
November 2011
2 posts
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October 2011
3 posts
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Danger Everywhere →
My brother was recently put through a training course by the military; here he relates the safety briefing delivered by his instructor.
September 2011
1 post
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May 2011
1 post
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March 2011
6 posts
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WatchLovedrug has released EP Part III!
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WatchIncepción by Take180.com
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“I first saw Philip Glass playing with his ensemble at the Royal College of Art...”
– Brian Eno, as quoted in the liner notes of the 1993 recording of Philip Glass’ “Einstein on the Beach”
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The difference
A woman’s poem
Before I lay me down to sleep,
I pray for a man who’s not a creep:
One who’s handsome, smart and strong,
One who loves to listen long,
One who thinks before he speaks,
One who’ll call, not wait for weeks.
I pray he’s rich and self-employed,
And when I spend, won’t be annoyed.
Pull out my chair and hold my hand,
Massage my feet and help...
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February 2011
3 posts
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“Until we choose to develop such alternative networks, our insistence on seeing...”
– “Internet is easy prey for governments”, Douglas Rushkoff, 5 February 2011
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Watch“The King’s Speech” - Escape to the Movies
January 2011
7 posts
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Understanding Git Conceptually →
This tutorial, then, will take a conceptual approach to Git. My goal will be, first and foremost, to explain the Git universe and its objectives, and secondarily to illustrate how to use Git commands to manipulate that universe.
I will begin by describing the Git data model, the repository.
From there I will describe the various operations Git provides for manipulating the repository,...
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Git SVN Workflow →
Of all the tutorials and guides I read, this is the one that clicked with me. In particular, the notes regarding rebase and dcommit were just what I needed.
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“Weak. Made it 15 mins in and had to give up. Tons of horrible CGI. Looked like a...”
– The text of a one-star review of “G.I. Joe” on Netflix by imx 1229709
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“Below a certain age, and in some lower animals, “object permanence”...”
– fuzzyfuzzyfungus (1223518) on Slashdot’s Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him post
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When Can I Reuse This Calendar? →
That old 2010 calendar will next be usable in 2021. The latest old calendar usable in 2011? …2005.
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objurgate
To scold or rebuke sharply; berate. (Definition from American Heritage Dictionary at answers.com, found via the Jargon File
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“XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not...”
– Author unknown, found at nokogiri.org
December 2010
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Humble Bundle →
Guys, I’m serious. Go pay whatever you want for five games that work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. DRM free. Seriously. They’re offering up Braid in that mix. Get after it now.
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“A production company was put together and there was US and Scandinavian...”
– Terry Pratchett, regarding a film adaptation of his book “Mort”
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“I think ‘hack’ now means ‘use a computer in a way that the...”
– TheRaven64 (641858) on slashdot.org
November 2010
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“There’s all sorts of new and shiny evil possible thanks to this little...”
– The Python 2.4 highlights, regarding changes to the eval() function.
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Straw Vulcan →
A straw man used to show that emotion is better than logic.
It starts by having characters who think “logically” try to solve a problem. And they can’t. Either they can’t find any answer, or they’re caught in some kind of standoff, or they’re even stuck in a Logic Bomb-type loop. Once this is established, someone who uses good old human emotion comes up...
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Sikuli →
Create macros and automation scripts using screenshots. Seriously, you take screenshots of objects you want clicked on, or typed into, or waited on to appear on the screen before continuing script execution.
October 2010
5 posts
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The Rasterbator →
Turn images into enormous decorative wallpapers printed entirely using sheets of paper. [via David Malki]
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"Wikihistory" by Desmond Warzel →
Published in “Abyss and Apex”, 4th Quarter 2007.
It reads like an IRC chat log, except it’s about time travelers documenting changes they’ve made to the timeline. Brilliant. [via Slashdot]
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Green Batteries →
I spent an hour reading about the differences between NiMH, NiCd, Li-ion, and alkaline batteries. I think it’s time I invest in rechargeable batteries, having thrown a lot of money at alkaline AAA batteries over the past year for my music player alone.
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WatchMechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place, September 2010
At TEDxChange, Thailand’s “Mr. Condom,” Mechai Viravaidya, walks us through the country’s bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step: population control. And that means a lot of frank, funny — and very effective — talk about condoms.
September 2010
7 posts
“So this is ‘guilt’, huh? In the past I’ve always just...”
– Veronica Palmer, “Better Off Ted”, S2E08 “The Impertence of Communicationizing”
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evercookie →
evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. Its goal is to identify a client even after they’ve removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others.
evercookie accomplishes this by storing the cookie data in several types of storage mechanisms that are available on the local browser. Additionally, if...
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CacheViewer →
With this extension you can browse both the Firefox on-disk cache, as well as the in-memory cache. It provides header information, and you’re able to save cached data to disk.
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