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Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! (src:...

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:28:13 -0600

Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! (src: http://chadat.tumblr.com/)

I am a Tree!

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:05:32 -0600

I am a Tree!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/eli-manning,27109/

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:01:14 -0600

http://www.theonion.com/articles/eli-manning,27109/:

Eli Manning: Easily a top three Manning

Mr. Carson rides a bike.

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:19:41 -0600

Mr. Carson rides a bike.

Seven Deadly… Whatever

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:22:59 -0600

Seven Deadly… Whatever

The most adorable performance of a song about S&M...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:36:35 -0600

The most adorable performance of a song about S&M you’ll see today. Be sure to also check out his covers of “Everything Counts” and “Shake the Disease”. Src: http://www.metafilter.com/112168/Dicken-feat-Milah-and-Korben-performing-Depeche-Mode-covers

The best treatment of Bohemian Rhadsody you’ll see today. ...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:14:00 -0600

The best treatment of Bohemian Rhadsody you’ll see today. (Src: http://www.metafilter.com/112160/Yet-another-Bohemian-Rhapsody-cover)

Photo

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:40:15 -0600

The next SOPA

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:35:00 -0600

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 protest this week seems to have stalled their progress and probably killed them for now.

But what will happen when the MPAA buys the next SOPA? We can’t protest every similar bill with the same force. Eventually, our audiences will tire of calling their senators for whatever we’re asking them to protest this time.

Eventually, we will lose.

Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review, but we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.

We can attack this by aggressively supporting campaign finance reform to reduce the role of big money in U.S. policy. This is the goal of groups such as United Republic and Rootstrikers.

It’s also worth reconsidering our support of the MPAA. The MPAA is a hate-sink, a front to protect its members from negative PR. But unlike the similarly purposed Lodsys (and many others), it’s easy to see who the MPAA represents: Disney, Sony Pictures, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Warner Brothers. (Essentially, all of the major movie studios.)

The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as stupid eyeballs with wallets, and they are entitled to a constant stream of our money. They despise us, and they certainly don’t respect us.

Yet when we watch their movies, we support them.

Even if we don’t watch their movies in a theater or buy their plastic discs of hostility, we’re still supporting them. If we watch their movies on Netflix or other flat-rate streaming or rental services, the service effectively pays them on our behalf next time they negotiate the rights or buy another disc. And if we pirate their movies, we’re contributing to the statistics that help them convince Congress that these destructive laws are necessary.

They use our support to buy these laws.

So maybe, instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law and changing our Twitter avatars for a few days in protest, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform.

I can say this about the Ravens. I dig their secondary logo.

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:41:37 -0600

I can say this about the Ravens. I dig their secondary logo.

John Elway riding a Tim Tebow Centaur. Via: The Stranger

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:10:43 -0600

John Elway riding a Tim Tebow Centaur. Via: The Stranger

http://inessential.com/2012/01/12/the_clutter_didnt_kill_the_love

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:30:41 -0600

http://inessential.com/2012/01/12/the_clutter_didnt_kill_the_love:

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 Cougar Meat. True Story.

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:19:02 -0600

Seattlites subsist entirely on Smoked Salmon and Cougar Meat. True Story.

Regarding Santorum: Jimmy Kimmel nailed it. How can you be both anti-gay and pro-sweater-vest?

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:39:33 -0600

Regarding Santorum: Jimmy Kimmel nailed it. How can you be both anti-gay and pro-sweater-vest?

Happy New Year Central Time bitches.

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:02:13 -0600

Happy New Year Central Time bitches.

Everyone have a safe and fun NYE!

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:09:27 -0600

Everyone have a safe and fun NYE!

The Tree is a lie!

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:14:48 -0600

The Tree is a lie!

purple-lightsaber: One of my Christmas card designs this...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:15:44 -0600

purple-lightsaber:

One of my Christmas card designs this year.

May you find everything you’re looking for this holiday season!

This is why you don’t attack the goalkeeper. (Src:...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:07:33 -0600

This is why you don’t attack the goalkeeper. (Src: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/22/9630744-dutch-soccer-match-abandoned-after-goalie-retaliates-against-pitch-invader)

Many Pythons on OSX (including Python 2.4)

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:34:00 -0600

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 installed by default on your machine).

Basically:


$ cd /opt
$ svn export http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/buildout/python
$ cd python
$ /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

Then add the following to your .profile or whathaveyou and you can switch between them:


export ALT_PYTHON_24=/opt/python/python-2.4
export ALT_PYTHON_25=/opt/python/python-2.5
export ALT_PYTHON_26=/opt/python/python-2.6
export ALT_PYTHON_27=/opt/python/python-2.7
export ALT_PYTHON_32=/opt/python/python-3.2

strip_opt_python_from_path() {
    /usr/bin/python -c "
import os
import sys
path = os.environ['PATH']
paths = path.split(os.path.pathsep)
new_path = []
for p in paths:
    if not p.startswith('/opt/python') and p not in new_path:
        new_path.append(p)
sys.stdout.write(os.path.pathsep.join(new_path))
"
}

insert-opt-python-in-path() {
    if [[ -z $1 ]]
    then
        echo "Resetting to default native Python."
        export PATH="$(strip_opt_python_from_path)"
    else
        echo "Setting alternate Python: $1."
        export PATH="$1/bin:$(strip_opt_python_from_path)"
    fi
    echo "python is now: $(which python)."
    if ! type python3 >/dev/null 2>&1
    then
        echo "python3 is not on path."
    else
        echo "python3 is now: $(which python3)."
    fi
}

unimport-alt-python() {
    insert-opt-python-in-path
}

import-alt-python-24() {
    insert-opt-python-in-path $ALT_PYTHON_24
}

import-alt-python-25() {
    insert-opt-python-in-path $ALT_PYTHON_25
}

import-alt-python-26() {
    insert-opt-python-in-path $ALT_PYTHON_26
}

import-alt-python-27() {
    insert-opt-python-in-path $ALT_PYTHON_27
}

import-alt-python-32() {
    insert-opt-python-in-path $ALT_PYTHON_32
}