February 2012
4 posts
http://www.theonion.com/articles/eli-manning,27109/... →
Eli Manning: Easily a top three Manning
January 2012
11 posts
The next SOPA
Via Marco:
Every few years, the MPAA’s lobbying power, rhetoric, and immense campaign contributions succeed in purchasing a bill in Congress to advance their agenda in a way that’s hostile to the technology industry and consumers.
Their bills have had mixed success and usually die before being brought to a vote, but SOPA and PIPA came frighteningly close to becoming law. The internet-wide...
http://inessential.com/2012/01/12/the_clutter_didnt... →
Brent Simmons writes exactly what I’ve been thinking. Great minds must think alike, or at least I’m thinking along the same lines. I switched to Bing yesterday, but didn’t want to admit it to anyone.
Seattlites subsist entirely on Smoked Salmon and... →
Regarding Santorum: Jimmy Kimmel nailed it. How can you be both anti-gay and pro-sweater-vest?
Happy New Year Central Time bitches.
December 2011
7 posts
Everyone have a safe and fun NYE!
Many Pythons on OSX (including Python 2.4)
If you need to install many pythons on OSX, this is the definitive resource:
http://jeetworks.org/node/101
The problem is that for Pythons <=2.6, you can’t easily build them from scratch with Apple’s SDK on 64bit machines. This process is an easy alternative to getting several self-contained Python installations on your machine including Python 2.4 (which probably isn’t...
Take it easy Col. Potter. →
November 2011
2 posts
Friendly Officer Pepper Spray Has Been Placed on... →
October 2011
5 posts
http://thewirecutter.com →
The Wirecutter it Brian Lam’s new gadget weblog. It’ actually quite good and worth checking out.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap...
– Steve Jobs. (Rest in Peace, Steve)
September 2011
5 posts
Vladamir Putin: The Most Interesting Man in the... →
Go ahead, Ask. →
Not everything since 2008 has been great, but this is welcomed and long overdue. Good work.
1 tag
August 2011
5 posts
So only 2% of the Florida welfare recipients fail the now mandated drug test (http://www2.tbo.com/news/politics/2011/aug/24/welfare-drug-testing-yields-2-percent-positive-res-ar-252458/), showing welfare recipients as a group to have a significantly lower rate of drug use than the general population of Florida. Cue Nelson: http://nelsonhaha.com/
Thome back to Philly? →
I love Jim Thome, he’s one of Baseball’s heroes. I’d love him even more if he were out of the AL Central!
Aeropress, I love you more than Michelle Bachmann hates the gays.
Myhrvold and Boehner →
Where is our Man of Steel indeed.
July 2011
8 posts
Pentagon set to certify repeal of DADT →
8 tags
Required Reading for Space Nuts: Chazzbot II: Last... →
chazzbot:
In 1993—seven years after the Challenger explosion, ten years before the destruction of Columbia—a short story of mine was published in my university’s literary magazine. The story, romantically titled “The Remains of the Sky,” imagined a world in which a second fatal space shuttle…
Better to regret the things you’ve done, than those you haven’t.
– Anon.
Double Entendre via Noun Transfer (That's what she... →
US Women headed to World Cup Final →
http://twitter.com/gapersblock/statuses/90561012671... →
Apparently Q101 is over after this Thursday. I hope you all like Classic Rock, Talk and Sports, because that’s all that will be left. “@gapersblock: For Our Next Trick… The Vanishing Q101: Reports are spreading that Merlin Media will flip Q101’s format as early… http://dlvr.it/ZpcH9”
June 2011
9 posts