Apr 5, 8:14am |
As of my last knowledge update in April 2024, I've decided to make it harder to distinguish a human's posts from those of an A.I. |
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Mar 30, 7:08pm |
Anybody watch "The Bear"? Lillian and I just watched S2:E6 "Fishes", and were completely blown away. We weren't expecting any of that. It was really good to ... |
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Mar 22, 10:56pm |
Maybe my favorite kazoo song. And it comes with an intro story! |
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Mar 15, 9:58am |
Amazon telling warehouse workers to close their eyes and think happy thoughts https://www.404media.co/amazon-amazen-workingwell-savoring/ mirrors Portal 2's ... |
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Mar 3, 11:18am |
The Milpitas Library has the local system's first Library of Things. And it's working. |
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Mar 3, 10:17am |
A Humble Bundle where the charity is EFF, the reward is books, and the author is Cory Doctorow? (And of course one can (and should) adjust the sliders to det... |
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Mar 2, 10:52pm |
If you're like me, you pause and appreciate the craftsmanship in the top picture for a bit, then scroll down to see there's another picture. Source: https://... |
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Feb 12, 3:52pm |
To all my Imperial Valley peeps, don't worry! The Tsunami Warning has been called off. 🤣 (Edit, there's no Tweet preview? The tweet's from the National Weath... |
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Feb 11, 10:05am |
Happy Superb Owl Sunday VIII, esp. for Sjon Svenson |
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Feb 10, 4:49pm |
Ted Pederson may appreciate. |
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Jan 29, 9:18am |
I'm not into SportsBall, but I feel hopeful when I visit the "Mr. Irrelevant" page of Wikipedia and see the photo of the QB for the 2023 NFC champions there.... |
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Jan 21, 5:07pm |
Remember what you were working on right before your area shut down for Covid-19? I wrote a script to get on the Salesforce Tower Tours, and the tours were pr... |
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Jan 9, 10:11pm |
"The Perfect Webpage" (according to Google as interpreted by The Verge). Why so many sites look the same. |
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Jan 4, 10:35pm |
Luna's out there protecting the Olympics by recommending the explicit prohibition of accelerated backhopping (a Half-Life 2 technique) from the 100m dash. (I... |
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Jan 3, 2:59pm |
Photos: The Aftermath of Japan’s January 1 Earthquake |
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Jan 2, 9:33pm |
Oh no. What do you do when your Mastodon instance is down? I should've migrated to a smaller one when I could, but here I am.This link is a lie. (It says t... |
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Nov 23 2023, 10:31pm |
Nice to read about competent governance in action. "The FTC has Big Pharma's number." The FTC asks the FDA to intervene to prevent Orange Book stuffing becau... |
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Nov 23 2023, 2:03pm |
Which team are you? (I have a hard time choosing AG Systems, Piranha or Goteki 45) |
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Nov 3 2023, 5:10pm |
Another great explainer by Cory Doctorow on *why* the Right is selling the idea that Social Security is being gobbled up by the old and rich right now, leavi... |
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Oct 28 2023, 9:56am |
This comic, Juicy caboose-y, is a fever-dream and I am compelled to share it. |
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Oct 23 2023, 10:19pm |
This is why I pre-ordered Doctorow's "The Lost Cause". It's hopeful. |
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Oct 22 2023, 10:58pm |
The Whitest Kids U' Know: Dinosaur Rap (I'll repost this as many times as I need to.) |
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Oct 22 2023, 9:15pm |
Lillian Blume, Elizabeth Der, I'd heard about this a while back. I didn't realize it performed its finale a few years ago. Anyway, it's art that hits home. |
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Oct 20 2023, 10:27am |
I love Cory Doctorow's subtle little reminders like "The basis for this is a racist hoax called 'The Tragedy Of the Commons,' written by the eugenicist white... |
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Oct 18 2023, 10:33pm |
My software programmer peeps: Things in the universe are lazy-loaded. "...objects are not only influenced by their surroundings, they may lack distinct prope... |
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Oct 17 2023, 7:52am |
Nathan Yau made a heatmap of how the Most Common Causes of Death, by Age, has changed over the last few decades. |
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Oct 16 2023, 9:11am |
A great post by Cory Doctorow, "A Major Defeat For Technofeudalism" wrapping up the loss of the means-plus-function patent by Landmark for things like having... |
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Oct 14 2023, 9:39am |
Everyone is Digital, by The Motorleague |
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Oct 13 2023, 3:23pm |
These two. Just look at them. We're lucky reality could withstand their combined greatness in such close proximity. |
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Oct 8 2023, 8:52pm |
Acoustic Cherub Rock by The Smashing Pumpkins. Check out young Billy Corgan! |
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Oct 7 2023, 12:26pm |
Today I learned the voyaging couple in the music video for The Smashing Pumpkins' “Tonight, Tonight” were (still are!) married in real life, and went on to b... |
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Oct 6 2023, 10:35am |
Lillian Blume, can I share this with our son? 😂 |
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Oct 5 2023, 11:35pm |
An interview with one of my favorite writers, Ed Brubaker. |
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Sep 30 2023, 12:53pm |
Click through and read the "DISPATCH FROM THE CYBERPUNK CITY" manifesto in the tiny box by JWZ, of Mozilla, XScreenSaver and DNA Lounge fame. It's worth it. |
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Sep 25 2023, 10:39am |
Winners of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year (Worth clicking through.) |
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Sep 22 2023, 9:43pm |
The Office for the Preservation of Normalcy. Numbers Station for Alan Henry, few others like Nomenclature Opsec for Hiromi Cota (h/t JWZ) |
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Sep 20 2023, 1:54pm |
Winners of Ocean Photographer of the Year 2023 |
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Sep 19 2023, 8:01am |
"Our bosses have alarming, persistent, rock-hard erections for firing our asses and replacing us with shell-scripts." -- Cory Doctorow's "How to Think about ... |
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Sep 15 2023, 11:48pm |
Tonight, I have Regrettes. |
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Sep 11 2023, 8:38am |
So many cool things in this video. This deceptively simple tile isn't named Einstein after the scientist, but after the German translation, "one stone". |
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Sep 11 2023, 7:59am |
Has Woke gone too far? Starfield makes some users change gender to fire guns. (True article, but my "woke" intro is pure sarcasm.) |
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Sep 8 2023, 6:13pm |
"A university prof friend of mine and all their colleagues are writing grad student recommendation letters by feeding a few bullet points to an LLM, which in... |
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Sep 4 2023, 1:08pm |
Mycelia in a petri dish looks like an iris. |
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Sep 1 2023, 12:50pm |
Val Jamora, thought of you. |
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Aug 25 2023, 8:56am |
This how you gonna play it Meta?Instagram Throttles 404 Media Investigation Into Drug Ads on Instagram, Continues to Let People Advertise Drugs. |
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Aug 25 2023, 8:31am |
The problem with using A.I.: "This is an inescapable, biological aspect of human cognition: we can’t maintain vigilance for rare outcomes. This has long been... |
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Aug 21 2023, 9:01pm |
Lines like this are why I read Cory Doctorow, "To call this a 'transparent ruse' is to do violence to good, hardworking transparent ruses all the world over" |
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Aug 19 2023, 2:26pm |
Aww, the show "The Peripheral" based on William Gibson's novel has been cancelled. |
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Aug 17 2023, 10:14pm |
"It’s hard to overstate how fucking scummy the credit reporting world is." You get 'em Mr. Doctorow. |
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Aug 9 2023, 8:58am |
"Now the health care system is composed of a series of gigantic, abusive monopolists — pharma, hospitals, medical equipment, pharmacy benefit managers, insur... |
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Aug 6 2023, 10:17pm |
You guys. I could've written this myself. I wish I had. This is what I want: just normal web things. |
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Aug 5 2023, 10:39am |
Visa/Mastercard have hiked their swipe fees by 40% since the pandemic's start (3–5% of every transaction), and are trying to convince people that lowering th... |
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Aug 4 2023, 8:01pm |
A great post on Google's Web Environment Integrity by Cory Doctorow. |
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Jul 29 2023, 8:33pm |
Tesla uses DRM to defraud its customers. Teslas lie about the driving range during the first half of a full battery charge. A Korean regulator found that the... |
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Jul 29 2023, 5:54pm |
The curse of bigness. "Microincentives and Enshittification" Why Google Search suuucks. |
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Jul 22 2023, 10:23pm |
What if, for my next project, I just go down my "Read Later" lists and "pinboard.io" bookmarks, Wiki histories, and teach myself all those things I thought w... |
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Jul 22 2023, 4:07pm |
Timeless. From eight years ago... (Preview may be screwed up, tap through for goat comic.) |
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Jul 21 2023, 9:42am |
https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/ Good points in here. |
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Jul 13 2023, 8:16am |
Why are so many Californians homeless? It’s not “homeless migration.” Suggestions for ways we can do better. |
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Jul 12 2023, 9:48am |
Happy Anniversary, release of first images from the JWST. Click through to be amazed by creation. |
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Jul 7 2023, 12:00pm |
So I'm enjoying episode 5 of the western, "Godless", appreciating how my family made it through Lone Wolf and Westmorland to get me where I am, and 25m in th... |
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Jul 6 2023, 11:08am |
"...the oniscidae , better known as cochineal..."Exsqueeze me? You mean "better known as the pillbug or roly-poly".Also, say "armadillidium vulgare" out ... |
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Jun 26 2023, 5:32pm |
My wife is going to disown me over this, but here goes: The Case Against Travel. |
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Jun 26 2023, 2:17pm |
You guys, watch this amazing tutorial on how to making a working camera in Blender. |
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Jun 24 2023, 10:02pm |
It's a post about music and has overlapping charts, and all I'm seeing are three Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" album covers. |
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Jun 20 2023, 1:16pm |
My GenX peeps know that Pluto was a planet, Brontosaurus was a dinosaur, and Manta rays were really cool genus of fish. |
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Jun 6 2023, 10:41pm |
According to Casey Newton, we're in for a heck of an interesting social experiment. "The platforms give up on (the) 2020 lies""For a coup to work in 2024, ... |
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Jun 5 2023, 7:54pm |
We get one mailed overdue notice from the IRS and my wife blinks immediately. "Pay them! Pay them! Pay them!" 🤣(For my non-California friends, we're in an ... |
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Jun 5 2023, 4:58pm |
Probably the best take on the "AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue" story is this one from Cory Doctorow. We're in danger of being misdirected by regular crooks w... |
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Jun 5 2023, 12:07am |
Great piece on Private Equity firms by Cory Doctorow. "The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting" https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/# |
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Jun 2 2023, 2:35pm |
Great piece from ProPublica on our rights that are at risk from the Supreme Court. Guess which Justice questions the most rights? The one in an interracial m... |
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Jun 2 2023, 2:19pm |
USA! USA! USA!Interesting that in the USA a science piece has to be relegated to "opinion" nowadays. Hmm...?Some tl;dr: Reasons include: unhealthy behavi... |
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Jun 2 2023, 12:01am |
Happy Friday. Here's Metric's "Black Sheep" with Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs The World) |
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Jun 1 2023, 10:28pm |
Chilling with your A.I. homie. Ragebait always wins. |
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Jun 1 2023, 9:56pm |
AI-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, "Kills" Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test. But wait, it gets better. Paperclips being optimized. |
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May 29 2023, 2:08pm |
On the library being required to turn off Wi-Fi when closed to discourage homeless people from gathering outside: "Patterson reaffirmed its 2017 findings tha... |
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May 29 2023, 11:50am |
Nothing impresses me more than when scientists say "hold up, we were wrong". |
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May 28 2023, 12:56pm |
I love that Cory Doctorow is staging "ideas lying around" for the coming crises that'll cause use to grasp for ideas for change. His ideas are in Chokepoint ... |
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May 28 2023, 10:57am |
Just one more cool thing I'd almost wear as an ally, but won't because it'd be perceived wrong by some. |
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May 21 2023, 11:14pm |
From the Washington Post: Type in your job to see how much A.I. will affect it. |
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May 19 2023, 3:58pm |
If you're an old climber who's getting far-sighted, and you keep your glasses on a rope but have to shorten that bight, then what you want to use is an alpin... |
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May 19 2023, 9:42am |
From Loish, "Mental health struggles sometimes feel like this to me. Stuck inside, observing the mess, and waiting for it to pass." |
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May 15 2023, 1:08pm |
The more shelves I apply Contact Paper to, the better I get and the less I care about a job well done. Either they cancel each other out, or it's a double-wi... |
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May 13 2023, 1:09am |
Here's IBM's CEO, Arvind Krishna, openly admitted that he'll use AI to slash IBM's workforce. Every tech company I know is doing AI innovation challenges. I ... |
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May 13 2023, 1:00am |
Excellent explainer by Cory Doctorow: How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it |
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May 11 2023, 2:32pm |
It is weird that I find this completely and utterly inspiring? Like we can be genuinely who we are on our way to who we'll become. |
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May 7 2023, 9:39pm |
Played the Random playlist of songs I have today. Turns out Angela Aki, a soulful, sweet, heartfelt pianist wrote one song, "Today", and also covered the Sma... |
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May 6 2023, 5:04pm |
Use whatever digital tools you like and document what you used. But don't submit straight up AI artwork as your own original submission. Those stars, the thi... |
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May 5 2023, 5:31pm |
The original proposal of the Tragedy of the Commons didn't involve studying human behavior at all. It was a justification to take the commons."Hardin — an ... |
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May 4 2023, 8:59am |
May the 4th be with you. |
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May 2 2023, 7:51am |
On April 28th 2023, the Equal Right Amendment was shot down (likely for the last time) by Senate Republicans with little fanfare. This is the language that w... |
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Apr 28 2023, 10:22pm |
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The Florida Surgeon General tweaked a vaccine analysis until the final revision's finding... |
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Apr 27 2023, 9:34pm |
"This is absolute catnip for private equity — free government money, no obligations, no enforcement, and the people you harm are literally dying and can’t co... |
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Apr 15 2023, 1:33am |
This article by Cory Doctorow is important. It describes how Uber finds the minimum pay it can get away with. "payouts are continuously tweaked in the backgr... |
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Apr 10 2023, 9:45am |
Munch munch munch https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq2n7AlOJEq/ |
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Apr 9 2023, 11:29pm |
Adorable Japanese onomatopoeia in Daoko and Keiichi Arawi's "Onomatopoeia Rap ~Summer Play~". Could be a fun project to document the words. |
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Apr 9 2023, 9:38am |
You see that ad over there? Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk. Do your own search for what you need. Or buy the woke-free razors. |
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Apr 7 2023, 4:35pm |
Facebook had been serving me this ad for a while, and I'd been kind of afraid of accidentally clicking on it for all the other ads I'd start getting. Only no... |
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Apr 5 2023, 8:05am |
More than everything you ever wanted to know about how bicycles work, including why some spokes go that way, and those other spokes go that way. |
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Mar 24 2023, 4:21pm |
Best printer review ever happens to be this one. Welcome to our future. |
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Mar 23 2023, 7:59am |
"How fake sugars sneak into foods and disrupt metabolic health" A charming, animated post from The Washington Post. Reduce your intake of highly processed fo... |
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Mar 13 2023, 11:03am |
Happy National Napping Day! |
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Mar 1 2023, 8:27am |
VW wouldn’t locate kidnapped child because his mother didn’t pay for find-my-car subscription |
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Feb 27 2023, 9:03am |
Esp. for Lillian Blume Artisanal Ghibli Collection Blends Animation with Craftsmanship. |
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Feb 27 2023, 12:19am |
Great rant from Cory Doctorow on a scammer that places look-alike Google ads, and they order from the restaurant you wanted at a 15% markup (with their own c... |
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Feb 12 2023, 9:39am |
Happy Superb Owl Sunday! Esp. for Sjon Svenson |
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Feb 11 2023, 10:51pm |
Killing In The Name Performed By The North Korean Military Chorus (Rare Footage) |
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Feb 6 2023, 5:51pm |
"ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a 'bullshit generator'. ... It's not time to chat with AI, but to resist it." Summary by JWT here, full article in comment. |
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Feb 4 2023, 11:52pm |
The Regrettes "What Am I Gonna Do Today," posted two months into the Covid shutdown. It's a mood. It still hits me. |
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Feb 4 2023, 11:58am |
Tap through for a fascinating description of design choices for the display of map projection connections. (Yeah, the part I like was the poster design evolu... |
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Jan 30 2023, 1:54pm |
Today's Poorly Drawn Lines describes nearly every day of software development. |
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Jan 30 2023, 9:56am |
No hallway is complete without artwork on the walls. |
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Jan 27 2023, 4:26pm |
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, the... |
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Jan 27 2023, 12:50pm |
"How Facebook’s Real Names policy helps Cambodia’s thin-skinned dictator terrorize dissenters" by Cory DoctorowReal names aren't stopping conservative extr... |
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Jan 21 2023, 1:03pm |
Every once in a while I think about the Republican dots in the "Net favorability of religious groups and beliefs among Democrats and Republicans". It's like ... |
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Jan 18 2023, 1:36pm |
Cristobal Tapia de Veer, the composer for the opening theme to HBO's "The White Lotus" replied to me on Twitter. This after I said his theme made me think I ... |
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Jan 14 2023, 8:00pm |
TIL Kate Beaton's got a book, Ducks: Two Years In the Oil Sands. And now I'm #22 on its waitlist at the library. |
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Jan 11 2023, 2:42pm |
When Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe, not only was he wearing a googly eye on his tuxedo lapel, his wife was wearing googly eye rhinestone... |
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Jan 9 2023, 1:18pm |
Been thinking about how fascinating the lotus plant is. Beautiful, elegant flower. Cool looking edible "root" (actually subterranean stem, not root) that's f... |
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Jan 9 2023, 8:30am |
I knew brussel sprouts were more bitter when I was a kid than they are now. I didn't know they tasted better before that though."In the late 1960s, our ind... |
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Jan 4 2023, 12:31pm |
Esp for Chris Zamara, 56 years ago, on January 4, 1967, The Doors released their self-titled debut album. |
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Jan 2 2023, 9:09am |
A really good review of 2022 from the history professor Heather Cox Richardson, "Letters from an American". |
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Dec 30 2022, 9:47am |
Aaron and I went to an omakase dinner at Soho Modern Japanese for our two birthdays! It was really delicious and fun to just let the chef decide what you eat... |
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Dec 22 2022, 10:10am |
The "yard sale model" explains how we actually live in a trickle-up economy. Click through, it's interactive and it may be the best thing you read today. |
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Dec 19 2022, 10:01pm |
Here is a handy chart to determine if your symptoms are from COVID, flu, RSV, and/or a cold. (h/t @sawaboof at Twitter) |
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Dec 18 2022, 10:19am |
A very good post by Cory Doctorow on why having the Fed continuously increase interest rates until morale improves won't stop inflation this time. |
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Dec 10 2022, 11:27pm |
We're at an inflection point with AI. There's shockingly excellent "samdoesart"esque renders in r/StableDiffusion. Stackoverflow temporarily banned ChatGPT r... |
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Dec 10 2022, 10:13pm |
"Freaks and Geeks", the 2000-era TV show about high school in the '80s is closer to the '80s than we are to it. |
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Dec 7 2022, 11:06pm |
Really great interview with Cory Doctorow. "Cory Doctorow wants you to know what computers can and can't do" in the New Yorker. (He also has excellent though... |
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Dec 3 2022, 11:41pm |
I hope there's a season two of The Peripheral.Spoiler link follows, dropping this for my future self about what "creating a new stub" means. (Also, Klept i... |
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Dec 1 2022, 11:31pm |
Silly NASA. That's not what the moon looks like, so we know this is fake. /s (Go to image 15) https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/12/photos-of-the-week-ca... |
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Nov 29 2022, 11:45am |
Every year, every time I renew donations to MSF (Doctors Without Borders) my mind starts singing Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers. So, here. Now you g... |
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Nov 26 2022, 8:56am |
The new CEO of Twitter created a couple of polls like "should Twitter reinstate President Trump and other previously banned accounts" then reinstates them sa... |
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Nov 26 2022, 12:28am |
Have you taken a COVID-19 test at home? The NIH wants your test to count, either way, positive or negative. |
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Nov 23 2022, 11:32pm |
A reminder to not dump fatty down the sink or garbage disposal. Click through to learn where it should go. |
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Nov 23 2022, 9:33am |
Lillian Blume, I want to make a pilgrimage to the Philz at Folsom and 24th St now. "The Man Who Caffeinates Silicon Valley" |
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Nov 7 2022, 8:58am |
Click through for amazing swept leaf art. "Every fall this high school art teacher in Nara sweeps fallen leaves into ephemeral art" |
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Nov 5 2022, 8:34pm |
Just came across "How I experience the web today." Click through, see if you recognize the journey. |
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Nov 1 2022, 4:18pm |
Last trick-or-treater was a kid with a light blue wig and a cucumber in his lab coat. I ask who he was. "I'm Rick Sanchez." "Is that Pickle Rick‽" "Yes." (Bi... |
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Oct 28 2022, 10:48am |
Pretty good post from The Verge, "Welcome to Hell, Elon". Click through, it's a fun read. |
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Oct 24 2022, 2:27pm |
Esp for Lillian Blume |
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Oct 23 2022, 8:50pm |
I just finished Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary" and loved it. What should I read next? I haven't read his "Artemis" yet. |
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Oct 22 2022, 4:37pm |
I sorta want to buy some MP3s (or any good unprotected format) of songs I like, but that's just not how the world works anymore. It really wants me to stream. |
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Oct 20 2022, 9:43pm |
Esp. for Narilka Aensland. ALL of JWZ's mixtapes! A limited time offer! |
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Oct 16 2022, 11:40am |
"The robot says vacant apartments are good actually. There's way too much empathy going on here." |
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Oct 11 2022, 8:15pm |
Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2022 (Click through, it's worth it!) |
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Oct 7 2022, 12:17am |
I am such a fan of Chris Bachalo's renderings of Death of the Endless. So glad he still posts them. |
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Oct 3 2022, 7:28pm |
I've finally released the nearly 15yo source code to my lifestream. It's like an automatic diary. It's not useful to anybody else, it's bad, and it's written... |
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Oct 1 2022, 8:52pm |
Mr. Doodle wrote, "It has taken me two years to complete and it is a project I have been dreaming about since I was very young. Everything I have done up to ... |
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Sep 9 2022, 1:14pm |
Love the cracks in the ice in this painting by Loish. |
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Aug 26 2022, 1:56pm |
I'm between books. It won't last a day. (Last was Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface, next will be Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary.) |
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Aug 25 2022, 3:59pm |
There's a new Texas law that says schools have to display "In God we trust" posters. An artist is donating posters to the schools that say it in Arabic. |
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Aug 23 2022, 4:37pm |
I feel so much better about continuously fixing/improving my old programs now. |
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Aug 23 2022, 12:47pm |
Here's a path forward: "It is the Privileges or Immunities Clause that should ground any effort to establish in women a federal right to choose whether or no... |
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Aug 21 2022, 9:15am |
Netflix's series "The Sandman" released an unexpected 11th episode! I just watched it. Wow, "Dream of a Thousand Cats" and "Calliope" really brought me back ... |
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Aug 13 2022, 9:04am |
Yes. But he'll forever be "Mr. Lonely" from "A Story of Love" (Konna Koi no Hanashi) to us. (Yes, I know that's the song's name, and he's actually Mr. Harash... |
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Aug 5 2022, 8:39pm |
I don't want a gun because I've got a ceramic burr grinder. It scratches the itch for that zen-like periodic disassembly and parts maintenance, then re-assem... |
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Aug 5 2022, 1:59pm |
I feel like a little hacker replacing the battery in old LCD Timex watches. I know about the weird little latches you sometimes need a pin for and there's us... |
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Jul 28 2022, 12:22pm |
On the effort to stop designating a dead lady a witch, the cause's champion had to say, "it has nothing to do with critical race theory, [so you don't have t... |
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Jul 25 2022, 1:03pm |
Greatest dividend payoff ever. Showed my son K-On (a really great anime about a pop-music club), and now he plays its songs on the piano in his free time. Th... |
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Jul 24 2022, 8:25am |
The DALL-E 2 Prompt Book, with advice and suggestions for better prompts. A book on "prompt design". Esp. for Hiromi Cota |
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Jul 22 2022, 4:04pm |
This post on visualizing Delaunay Triangulation is amazing. It's a detailed walkthrough with interactive images that let you add sheep and literally smash th... |
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Jul 21 2022, 11:15pm |
You got a free minute? Go check what you recently Shazammed or bookmarked. You thought it was noteworthy then. |
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Jul 21 2022, 10:19pm |
There's evidently a correlation between conservatism and searches for transgender porn. Shocked. I. am. shocked. |
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Jul 17 2022, 2:55pm |
The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings. (Good stuff in this article, it doesn't over-simplify. Click through.) |
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Jul 15 2022, 1:25pm |
The A.I. suggested I'm about 2/3 normal. |
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Jul 14 2022, 4:19pm |
If I have to know about this glamorous horror, so do you. h/t Rick Mann |
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Jul 13 2022, 11:26pm |
You guys remember May 2020, near the beginning of the shutdown? The mood...? |
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Jul 10 2022, 8:25pm |
So, Kevin Villela actually got it right. I'm impressed. This is The Ultimate Productivity 'Hack' for coders. (Not joking.) |
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Jul 7 2022, 10:29am |
The first photo was taken in San Jose, CA. The 2022 Audubon Photography Awards. |
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Jun 29 2022, 4:32pm |
The Dust Devils of Mars is pretty cool. |
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Jun 27 2022, 9:18am |
The endings from active shootings in the United States. |
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Jun 22 2022, 1:25pm |
So I replied to an internet stranger on a humorous post. They reply "Are you explaining the joke to me?" And I proceed to write this paragraphs long *explana... |
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Jun 21 2022, 2:59pm |
Lillian Blume |
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Jun 16 2022, 4:08pm |
Ever wonder what those imposing Buddhist guardians do on their day off? |
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Jun 15 2022, 9:17pm |
In Milpitas, there are often cars with a Sikh Khanda (☬) decal on them. Today, I saw this Pastafarian decal (right). |
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Jun 15 2022, 3:57pm |
Rina Sawayama's "This Hell". Complete with "I'm so angry. I have a sign" signs, and '90s line dancing. |
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Jun 14 2022, 4:56pm |
JWZ here for you with the choice quotes about id.me. |
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Jun 13 2022, 10:52pm |
The goat, he screams like a man. |
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Jun 13 2022, 9:24am |
Winners of the 2022 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition |
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Jun 11 2022, 2:48pm |
Tesla's autopilot conveniently shuts off one second before impact."NHTSA said it had discovered in 16 separate instances when this occurred that Autopilot ... |
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Jun 8 2022, 5:19pm |
Elliott Noel, haven't seen you in years. Still thought of you. |
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Jun 6 2022, 1:17pm |
ProTip on the candle: "If someone starts asking you too many questions about NFTs: Have the following words ready: web3, blockchain, metaverse, crypto. Squir... |
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Jun 3 2022, 10:36am |
"The Moanalorian." Cosplay can be pun. |
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Jun 2 2022, 10:59am |
Next week, June 9th will be the 20 year anniversary of my blog! |
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May 31 2022, 5:59pm |
TIL my wife doesn't know Missing Persons. |
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May 28 2022, 10:59am |
Previously I'd posted about misleading liberal propaganda on guns vs. video games (2019), and about wanting my legacy for my children to be repealing the Dic... |
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May 27 2022, 2:54pm |
This gem from 2016 would still be relevant, except we're on the road to making the choice to abort illegal. So... |
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May 15 2022, 4:54pm |
The Covid Capitulation |
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May 14 2022, 1:20am |
"The thing that determines whether you’re the product isn’t whether you’re paying for the product: it’s whether market power and regulatory forbearance allow... |
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May 13 2022, 3:13pm |
Esp. for Lillian Blume, you can play the game of frog. |
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May 12 2022, 2:17pm |
"Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly". Is it true that we're seeing more franchises and derivative works than ever nowadays? Adam Mastroianni gathers the dat... |
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May 11 2022, 12:02pm |
ProTip: You should go into "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" thinking "This is a Sam Raimi film" to set your expectations. And if you loved the E... |
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May 8 2022, 2:26pm |
Do you read comic Trade Paper Backs (TPB)? I just re-read Lazarus, and highly recommend it. Great world building, full of potential for so many stories. Lots... |
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May 4 2022, 9:29pm |
I appreciate the Bill Sienkiewicz nod in the Moon Knight finale. Seems appropriate. |
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May 2 2022, 1:27pm |
Lillian Blume, do you follow these eagles? Booster (the baby eagle here in Milpitas) will presumably follow some of the same growing routines as Spirit. This... |
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Apr 30 2022, 10:03am |
Click through for a good article with adorable animation on Elemental Power Plants. |
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Apr 29 2022, 9:43pm |
Eminem - Lose Yourself in the style of Linkin Park by Anthony Vincent. (h/t Hiromi Cota) |
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Apr 26 2022, 2:41pm |
It's surprisingly hard to get accessibility right with a screen reader and an HTML shopping cart table. Reminds me of trying to get a site to look the same o... |
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Apr 22 2022, 5:34pm |
Ein Bier. Bitte. |
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Apr 22 2022, 8:23am |
An essay on gun reform. Gun activists can nit pick at it, but the larger message makes sense. "In the United States, a person does not have the right to rand... |
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Apr 18 2022, 8:47am |
Here's a modern riff of Scott McCloud's 2008 introduction to Google Chrome. Contra Chrome. |
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Apr 17 2022, 11:36am |
On excess deaths: "A year ago, it was possible to defend the American [pandemic outcomes] record as merely below average — worse than it should have been but... |
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Apr 15 2022, 8:19am |
Flora and Fauna Blossom in Anti-War Watercolor Paintings by Hiroki Takeda |
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Apr 13 2022, 8:15am |
Pew Research finds you guys are likely very old. |
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Apr 11 2022, 1:59pm |
Maybe a minor spoiler for Everything Everywhere All at Once (don't worry if you accidentally read it, it doesn't ruin anything, and it's early in the movie):... |
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Apr 7 2022, 11:32pm |
I've been attacked by Microsoft. |
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Apr 7 2022, 8:53am |
It seemed like I've been seeing more sexy thumbnail images in YouTube for categories where it makes little sense, and have wondered if it's changing what con... |
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Mar 30 2022, 10:14pm |
Some of the smartest people I know cite Naomi Wu's reviews of terrible air purifying products. First the Razer Zephyr, now the Dyson Snot Canon. |
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Mar 21 2022, 6:08pm |
I'm so in love with these drawings. Kei Endo Creates Highly Accurate and Detailed Survey Drawings of Japanese Hotel Rooms |
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Mar 18 2022, 10:19pm |
The bravery of these cosmonauts. |
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Mar 14 2022, 2:44pm |
Visualizing Black Holes with General Relativistic Ray Tracing (Click through. You can at least enjoy the amazing black holes even if you don't read the post.) |
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Mar 11 2022, 8:25am |
Bob Wachter, Chair, UCSF Dept of Medicine, has been waiting for cases to reach 10 per 10K/day as his "should I mask" threshold. Here in Santa Clara county, w... |
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Mar 8 2022, 2:54pm |
You like indy games and want to support Ukraine? Then this is for you! |
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Mar 6 2022, 7:42pm |
Who had escaped vengeful fox demon on their 2022 Annihilation bingo card? |
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Mar 2 2022, 3:41pm |
My company's conference intermission playlist tricked me into learning I actually like Elton John's and Dua Lipa's "Cold Heart". |
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Mar 1 2022, 8:23am |
Change in Common Household Types in the U.S. (Click through for an interesting graph on which household types (married with children, single, roommates) are ... |
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Feb 14 2022, 9:12am |
I am here for this platter of amuse-bouches of user experience nightmares. Laura Javier is one of my tribe. |
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Feb 13 2022, 3:05pm |
Mitski: nihilistic yet adorbs. Also good taste in Ghibli films. |
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Feb 13 2022, 8:51am |
Happy Superb Owl Sunday! Esp.for Sjon Svenson |
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Feb 9 2022, 4:51pm |
Turns out Covid-19 is not like the flu. A giant study shows a striking rise in long-term heart and vessel disease."some of these conditions are chronic con... |
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Feb 8 2022, 8:20am |
The long-run effect of Obama’s choice to bail out lenders, not borrowers. As stocks tumble, wealthy speculators bid up house prices. |
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Feb 5 2022, 9:34am |
You guys! Click through and read "Ethan Coen's" review of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of MacBeth". |
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Feb 3 2022, 2:38pm |
Structure of Slit-scan |
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Feb 2 2022, 11:08am |
Greatest hits from a NeoLiberal version of John Snow, the father of epidemiology. Addressing preventable disease through deregulation and individualism. |
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Feb 1 2022, 1:40pm |
Jane Campion's "Power of the Dog" is really good. It expects you to pay attention, but it rewards you for it. It's going to stay with me for a long time. Her... |
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Jan 29 2022, 9:27am |
The Algorithm That (Recently) Changed the World |
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Jan 28 2022, 9:31am |
I think the thing I love most is how snail shows the phone with his right hand, then holds it up to his left ear to continue his conversation. |
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Jan 27 2022, 11:39pm |
Victory! While he was home, I had my son watch Death Note with me. Then Grimes released a music video Shinigami Eyes today (where her eyes turn red, and they... |
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Jan 27 2022, 8:55am |
Looks like the Mcminn County School Board didn't read my "How to tell if you're on the correct side of any issue" post. They just unanimously voted to ban th... |
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Jan 26 2022, 1:39pm |
So Israel is at over 1% population new COVID cases per day now? (Compare: the US is about 9x lower.) Click-through, the image here is an old static image. |
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Jan 26 2022, 10:41am |
How to tell if you're on the correct side of any issue. |
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Jan 25 2022, 12:51pm |
Excellent False Knees today. If you don't see the comic, click through. |
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Jan 24 2022, 9:09am |
See the Tonga eruption overlaid over highly populated areas like California, England, Spain, in "How big was the Tonga eruption?" |
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Jan 21 2022, 8:21am |
I don't block Wordle posts. I only block posts with the term, "🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩". All your stories of struggle and failure are welcome. |
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Jan 21 2022, 12:14am |
The thing people are missing about McConnell distinguishing African-Americans from "Americans", is that he said they don't need the John L. Lewis Voting Righ... |
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Jan 20 2022, 11:00am |
This is amazing. Click through to learn about GPS in an interactive post. |
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Jan 18 2022, 5:23pm |
Winners of the 2021 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest |
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Jan 14 2022, 9:51am |
Love a good strike that doesn't have collateral damage.Bus drivers in Japan went on a strike but continued to drive their routes while refusing to take far... |
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Jan 13 2022, 2:37pm |
I told my college-bound son I was turning his room into the VR room. Then this appears in my feed. It's destiny. He should take it as a warning not to be in ... |
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Jan 13 2022, 1:09am |
The author of some of my favorite stories is Nisio Isin. (西尾 維新). It's a fun pseudonym because you'd normally say "Nishio Ishin", but Nisio changed the "shi"... |
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Jan 11 2022, 4:46pm |
I'd best stop Wordle right here and now.Wordle 206 3/6⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 |
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Jan 9 2022, 11:12am |
OMG, when the reply chains in Reddit reveal you're all of a mind. Spoiler in comment. |
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Jan 8 2022, 12:56am |
Bloodywood - Gaddaar (Indian Folk Metal) If you miss Rage Against the Machine, but you want it a little more Indian Folk Metal. Very worth the listen. No fla... |
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Jan 4 2022, 10:09pm |
Rick Mann, you must've seen this reply from NASA to the Expanse writers. |
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Jan 4 2022, 2:40pm |
"Samsung promises ‘groundbreaking’ new TV feature: NFT support" OMFG. It'll be like 3D TVs Redux. OK, true believers, it's your time to shine. Enjoy the mome... |
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Jan 4 2022, 12:58pm |
Glad NPR replayed Terry Gross's interview with Dave Grohl at the end of the year. I'd have missed it otherwise. How do you not like that guy? Worth the listen. |
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Dec 29 2021, 9:53pm |
From reddit, New Year Blessings |
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Dec 24 2021, 10:11am |
On Slow Living: "If you want to sign-on to slow-living, small but consistent habits are the best way to practice:* eat your meals mindfully, paying attenti... |
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Dec 21 2021, 9:17am |
This is sweet. Reminds me of the anime "A Whisker Away". https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_whisker_away |
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Dec 17 2021, 9:11am |
I was once interviewed by the local news to report that Pluto had crossed Neptune's orbit to become the 8th planet from the sun on February 7, 1979. The inte... |
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Dec 13 2021, 12:32pm |
Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2021 |
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Dec 9 2021, 1:50pm |
Welp, looks like somebody in my family is going to be giving me the Bakemonogatari Humble Bundle. You can't just mix books, comics, Bakemonogatari and book-a... |
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Dec 7 2021, 7:50pm |
On the Jan 6th insurrection "insurgents were much more likely to come from a county where the white share of the population was in decline." |
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Dec 3 2021, 1:29pm |
Just watched "The Thing prequel featuring Ramona Flowers" and then this crossed my feed. Love it. |
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Dec 1 2021, 12:27pm |
You guys. Today (12/1/21) may be American Palindrome Day, but prefer to use ISO-8601. Tomorrow is International Palindrome Day (2021-12-02). |
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Nov 30 2021, 8:21am |
After GivingTuesday comes UnsubscribeWednesday. |
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Nov 24 2021, 11:55am |
Where should you live? Take a survey of your priorities and find out. (May have to use incognito mode.) |
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Nov 24 2021, 9:13am |
Q. "Die Hard" or "The Thing" for this year's family Christmas Movie?A. ¿Porque no los dos? |
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Nov 22 2021, 10:26am |
Love this JavaScript implementation of a Chaos Pendulum. |
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Nov 20 2021, 10:09am |
"The Kyle Rittenhouse Story Is Completely Fncking Insane To Anyone Who’s Not American" An explainer for people who don’t understand freedom. |
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Nov 17 2021, 11:53am |
My ideal era was very much 1991 - 1994. This helps explain it. |
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Nov 16 2021, 12:23pm |
Desktop vacation: Winners of the 2021 Natural Landscape Photography Awards |
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Nov 13 2021, 11:13pm |
Mitski has a new song/video, "The Only Heartbreaker" and it's powerful. But that's not why we're here. I just watched the Genius video where she verifies the... |
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Nov 12 2021, 9:53pm |
Such a great, short video: How COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Work |
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Nov 10 2021, 11:55am |
Here, take a desktop vacation. Autumn Color and Autumn Chill. Esp. for Lillian Blume, because our trees haven't all changed yet. |
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Nov 7 2021, 7:27pm |
"A band called 'Rage Against the Machine', that band is anti-family and it's pro-terrorist." - Republican Gary Bauer (and quoted at the end of Sleep Now in t... |
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Nov 1 2021, 3:52pm |
Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2021 (Click through, feel attacked, it's worth it.) |
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Oct 31 2021, 10:32am |
☕️ In "the largest study to systematically assess the cardiovascular effects of regular coffee consumption in a population without diagnosed heart disease, ... |
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Oct 29 2021, 7:15pm |
I can't even crack a "sexy squid games jumpsuit" Halloween costume joke because the abomination actually exists. |
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Oct 29 2021, 5:22pm |
Architect resigns over billionaire's plans to cram 4,500 students into windowless dorms in UCSB |
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Oct 25 2021, 2:37pm |
Why wasn't this invented 20 years ago when I needed it most? |
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Oct 22 2021, 9:01pm |
Kansas performing Carry On Wayward Son, complete with guitarist in a white tux and bowtie. |
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Oct 21 2021, 9:21pm |
I try not to engage with "suggested for you" posts. But this? 💯. I want to write it myself. |
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Oct 21 2021, 12:37pm |
Make friends. |
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Oct 21 2021, 12:36am |
"Downtown (Downtempo)" by Anya Taylor-Joy for Last Night in Soho |
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Oct 19 2021, 2:43pm |
Winners of the 2021 Epson International Pano Awards |
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Oct 15 2021, 8:32am |
How the Longest Running Shows Rated Over Episodes, by Nathan Yau (click through) |
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Oct 12 2021, 10:01pm |
"As Facebook’s own research demonstrated, for example, the Instagram algorithm draws on many sources to determine that a particular user is body dysmorphic. ... |
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Oct 9 2021, 8:46pm |
There's David and... Lillian, are you using a new moisturizer? |
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Oct 7 2021, 9:43pm |
They just installed new cameras at the nest, and Jackie and Shadow have returned to work on it again this year. Lillian Blume, you might want to follow this ... |
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Oct 3 2021, 8:30pm |
So I pushed a new project to GitHub to help someone get notified when his secret recovery email gets a new message. Half the README.md is my rant on "Balanci... |
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Oct 3 2021, 9:52am |
I am so ready for the Framework Laptop. |
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Sep 29 2021, 9:04am |
Chia "is a cryptocurrency where mining is based on the amount of hard disk storage space devoted to it rather than processing power, as with Proof of Work cr... |
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Sep 27 2021, 9:46pm |
Uber and Lyft aren't helping. "In most places, in current circumstances, all things considered, it’s worse to take a [Uber and Lyft] ride than to drive a pri... |
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Sep 26 2021, 10:50pm |
Cowboy Bebop is a masterpiece and doesn't need a live-action remake. Having said that, these opening credits are promising. |
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Sep 21 2021, 11:03am |
Vocational awe is a lousy substitute for fair pay. (You may want to open in an incognito browser.) |
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Sep 21 2021, 9:34am |
Happy Birthday to my amazing wife, Lillian Blume! We had to celebrate while dropping off the kids at college. |
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Sep 20 2021, 4:51pm |
What's an empty nest like? The night we got home: "Let's work our way down these dinosaur nuggets as part of our dinner.""Sure. How many for each of us?"(S... |
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Sep 19 2021, 8:28pm |
Having the kids at home for more than a year because of COVID makes suddenly becoming an empty-nester a little harder. Of course we're proud of those kids, b... |
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Sep 13 2021, 10:22am |
These are awesome! Click through (in incognito mode, as needed). Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2021 |
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Sep 12 2021, 9:04pm |
My son and I are are bouldering at Planet Granite, and they start playing Bakemonogatari's theme "Renai Circulation". Aaron looks at me, and I'm making this ... |
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Sep 10 2021, 4:50pm |
California Dept. of Technology released their Digital Vaccine Record code on GitHub. |
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Sep 8 2021, 12:20pm |
My local comic book store is closing for good today, after 19 years. End of an era. |
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Sep 6 2021, 11:19pm |
From Reddit: Anti-vaccine protestors marching outside a hospital in Texas, chanting "my body my choice". Guess how many are not pro-choice on another topic? |
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Sep 3 2021, 1:38pm |
Get the vaccine already. |
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Sep 1 2021, 11:02pm |
"The dark-store hustle has all the hallmarks of a long con. In a long con, the crook lets the mark win a little money at first, as a convincer. Then, having ... |
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Aug 30 2021, 11:12am |
NFTs are where you pay real money for an electronic receipt on a blockchain for a thing that's generally available for free. The blockchain itself costs a gr... |
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Aug 25 2021, 12:17pm |
Esp. for Lillian Blume, another Mandy Patinkin fan in our family. |
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Aug 24 2021, 10:25am |
Some of the puncturevine in California has purple flowers. Pretty but the goat head seeds aren't worth it. |
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Aug 24 2021, 10:13am |
Attn: Bicycle riders: It's full-on goat head thorn season again. The seeds will ruin your tires. TIL the plant really is called "puncturevine". Perfect name. |
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Aug 24 2021, 9:26am |
"I intend to destroy segregation by positive and embracing methods. When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I shall draw a larger circle to incl... |
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Aug 19 2021, 9:44am |
TIL an early Christian ἸΧΘΥΣ symbol was a clever superimposition of all the letters, sorta like how the peace symbol is a super-imposition of the flag semaph... |
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Aug 19 2021, 9:15am |
Kung Fu Cooking Girls, direction and character design by Jin-Roh ("Werewolf") |
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Aug 18 2021, 7:36am |
I'm voting NO on the MAGA recall of Gov. Newsom and writing in Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis. (The CA State Constitution already says the Lt. Gov. would normally... |
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Aug 13 2021, 7:42am |
Procedurally generated fish drawings. Click through and refresh the page a couple of times. |
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Aug 11 2021, 8:47pm |
I'm nearly infinity years old, and every day I have to delete half of what I wrote before I can send anything. Every first impulse I have is apparently eithe... |
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Aug 7 2021, 2:12pm |
This is the most profound thread I've read in years, and it explains the Trump era."I used to think, as a naive young man, that if you exposed bullshit lik... |
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Aug 6 2021, 11:34am |
Because TikTok's videos are shorter and it tracks what you watch vs swipe away, it is better than YouTube at figuring you out, and sending you down a rabbit ... |
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Aug 2 2021, 8:15am |
"Peloton demanded $40/month 'subscriptions' from owners to continue using their treadmills. The pretense here is that the subscription comes with safety soft... |
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Jul 31 2021, 1:11pm |
Why, yes, I do know that one toaster screensaver. Tell me more. I thought they were doing fine, but am glad for your dream to save them in space. |
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Jul 29 2021, 6:53pm |
The story behind many gay men's favorite "nail polish remover". By David Mack. No, Ninjelica Sunshine, not that David Mack. |
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Jul 29 2021, 1:57pm |
Conway's Soldiers game breaks my mind. It's so easy to get to rank 1, 2, 3 and 4. Why is it impossible to get to 5 with a finite number of moves? |
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Jul 28 2021, 11:12am |
You guys. A super important correction here. I shared a meme comparing countries that send rocket dicks to space (the U.S.A.) vs countries with universal hea... |
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Jul 26 2021, 9:34am |
Esp. for Hiromi Cota... |
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Jul 25 2021, 9:25am |
Vindicated by history again. They should listen to me more. |
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Jul 24 2021, 9:14am |
If it's not exactly right, it's probably pretty close. |
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Jul 22 2021, 7:44pm |
Facebook is ****ing People. From the Patreon post: "Former Facebook VP Brian Boland went on CNN to say yeah, Facebook totally has the data and knows everythi... |
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Jul 16 2021, 9:26pm |
So, eradicating pellagra (a malnutrition disease) was a political issue with Southern Gentlemen against the cure, just like getting vaccinated for COVID is. ... |
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Jul 9 2021, 8:44pm |
Wombats are far more than mere makers of cube-shaped turds. Click through. |
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Jul 2 2021, 10:50pm |
Argentina is poised to overtake the U.S.A. with overall most cases per capita of COVID-19 over the next few days. Shortly after, Colombia will take 3rd place... |
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Jul 2 2021, 3:52pm |
I don't know how this video from the Roku Advanced Initiatives group got out, esp. to our competitors. But since the cat's out of the bag, here's what we're ... |
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Jul 2 2021, 10:40am |
I don't generally do positive memes, but I was attacked by the earnest wish for self improvement. |
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Jun 29 2021, 10:07pm |
This is so great. Watch and enjoy. And learn about doppler compensation from mustached bats. |
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Jun 29 2021, 8:27pm |
Preserving Hong Kong, in miniature. Love these miniatures so much! Worth clicking through. |
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Jun 22 2021, 9:38pm |
For Father’s Day, Aaron and I hiked to the top of Half Dome to take photos that’d scare the daylights out of his mother. 🤣 |
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Jun 16 2021, 1:15pm |
Need to put this next to Charles Minard's amazing flow map of Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812. |
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Jun 16 2021, 8:57am |
Why the Mexico City Metro Collapsed |
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Jun 15 2021, 3:22pm |
Now Colombia's being hit by COVID-19 worse than ever. (Really not happy seeing the UK trend up again, either.) |
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Jun 14 2021, 2:26pm |
Australia's mouse plague is horrific. |
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Jun 14 2021, 1:36pm |
As a dad, I approve. |
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Jun 13 2021, 10:46pm |
Drama free! Haters gonna hate. I just live my true life and be my true self. |
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Jun 12 2021, 10:40am |
Life in the U.S.A.: Having to double check whether the mass shooting in Austin and the mass shooting in Savannah were the same. (Maybe one is a suburb of the... |
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Jun 9 2021, 9:53am |
Mouse, you seem tired. |
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Jun 4 2021, 11:57am |
Personally, it would seem appropriate to see the local Bald Eagle eaglet, Pfizer, "branching" today. My younger kid just graduated the local high school, and... |
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May 29 2021, 1:59pm |
Balls of Fury (2007) is an American Masterpiece. |
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May 28 2021, 10:07pm |
Republicans: "It was Antifa who stormed the Capitol!"Democrats: "Let's Investigate"Republicans "Nah we're good"-- u/portageandmain on Reddit |
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May 28 2021, 5:56pm |
Posters and a video for Japan's National Pillow Fight Contest. |
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May 28 2021, 10:40am |
Could've been "Sleep. Scream. F---. Die." |
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May 28 2021, 8:08am |
Without H.R.1, America will become a minoritarian democracy. Here's a very sort explanation. (2 minutes) |
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May 27 2021, 11:35pm |
Argentina is spiking in COVID-19 cases. They just beat America's world record for Daily Cases per Capita. (Again, thanks to Rick Mann for the graphs.) |
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May 25 2021, 10:47pm |
A theory that this is the belief system of Republicans:1. Hierarchy is natural, inevitable, and desirable.2. We live in a zero-sum world.3. The current s... |
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May 25 2021, 2:43pm |
We gotta try this with the kids. |
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May 19 2021, 8:31am |
Comic: How I Cope with Pandemic Numbness. It has suggestions on how to stay engaged. |
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May 9 2021, 1:20pm |
That Venn Diagram at the end. |
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May 6 2021, 3:35pm |
"a consortium of broadband companies called Broadband for America laid out about $4.2 million for ... 8.5 million comments. The bad guys definitely won this ... |
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May 6 2021, 1:10pm |
I hadn't noticed that covidtracking.com stopped collecting data for U.S. states and just recently turned off CORS. I noticed the CORS issue first, and worked... |
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May 1 2021, 4:33pm |
Great to see myths tested. Knots really are bad, twists not so much. |
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Apr 28 2021, 2:27pm |
Finally got my Mooltipass. Just need to wait a couple of weeks, and I'm good to go. |
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Apr 25 2021, 9:38pm |
Aaron and I went bouldering today. I was at my limit near the top of a route, and I was thinking to myself "Stupid old man, what are you doing? What if you f... |
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Apr 23 2021, 9:14pm |
Here it is, the finale of the trilogy: The Ultimate AeroPress Technique (Episode #3). If he hadn't set it up with the first two episodes, the comments sectio... |
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Apr 23 2021, 12:40am |
The current trend of COVID-19 cases in India is worse than it's ever been. (Maybe because they're so populous that even these numbers are a small percentage ... |
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Apr 17 2021, 12:16pm |
This is what we've been waiting for. Episode 2 of James Hoffmann's "Understanding The AeroPress" is out. |
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Apr 12 2021, 4:53pm |
Esp. for Rick Mann. |
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Apr 3 2021, 6:22pm |
This should be a real company. Love that the testimonials are from real events. |
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Mar 29 2021, 8:56am |
The Stanford National Daily Health Survey for Coronavirus is over. I participated every day. Here are some preliminary results: |
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Mar 26 2021, 2:23pm |
OK, Kickstarter, I bought the thing. Please stop showing it to me everywhere. (You may show me other cool things, so I won't block you. Yet.) |
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Mar 24 2021, 8:07am |
♫ |
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Mar 21 2021, 11:36am |
I've seen three episodes of WandaVision, and I don't know what so many of my friends and peers love about it.I've seen the clues, and have been waiting for... |
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Mar 12 2021, 8:20am |
Blue tossed to the sky, orange in the outside thigh. |
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Mar 3 2021, 9:05pm |
Maybe Lolita couldn't be published today. |
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Feb 28 2021, 9:12am |
Ouch. In the image, the top two scrabble words are objective pronouns ("..to him/her"), and then they're followed by a nominative pronoun ("they are"). Why w... |
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Feb 25 2021, 4:15pm |
This just made my day. |
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Feb 25 2021, 4:07pm |
You know why I have an archive of my Google+ account? So I can go back and watch this one over and over. |
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Feb 25 2021, 8:36am |
Albert Einstein under guard at a "holiday hut" in Cromer, England in 1933 |
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Feb 23 2021, 2:58pm |
Lillian Blume, enjoy the suspense. |
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Feb 23 2021, 9:17am |
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float. |
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Feb 21 2021, 10:40am |
5 Habits of Genuinely Relaxed People |
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Feb 18 2021, 8:28pm |
From the "Working for an Algorithm" series at The Markup. "Postmates Drivers Have Become Easy Prey for Scammers. And Drivers Say the Company’s Not Helping" |
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Feb 17 2021, 12:19pm |
Winners of the 2020 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest (worth clicking through (incognito, if no Atlantic subscription)). |
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Feb 16 2021, 8:52am |
So Lindsey Graham suggests having Nancy Pelosi investigated as part of a plot to have herself attacked in order to frame Trump. |
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Feb 13 2021, 10:21am |
This. "Of All the Hills to Die On, the GOP Picked Donald Trump." |
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Feb 11 2021, 8:52am |
Ten very impressive space photos. Worth clicking through. |
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Feb 10 2021, 7:54am |
TIL in 2007 Dan Aykroyd said that in 1984 he wrote the script for a Ghostbusters Go To Hell movie where they meet Satan who would've been depicted as Donald ... |
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Feb 9 2021, 8:34am |
Stacey Abrams: Our democracy faced a near-death experience. Here’s how to revive it. |
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Feb 8 2021, 9:06am |
Older, white people are disenfranchising other Americans. Lawrence Lessig filed against the state practice of "winner take all" presidential elections becaus... |
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Feb 7 2021, 9:00am |
Hope you all have a great Superb Owl Sunday. |
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Feb 5 2021, 8:33am |
Appalachian vs. Rockies: Worth clicking through. Changes from one hot take to an amazing different perspective. |
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Feb 5 2021, 8:27am |
Here's a cute Korean music video about a mom telling a child with low self-esteem, "You're an alien to save the Earth!" to boost their self-esteem. |
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Feb 4 2021, 9:02am |
Sorta the opposite of the uncanny valley. Photographer Ken Ohyama’s Cutouts of Japanese Urban Buildings. |
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Feb 3 2021, 3:04pm |
The comprehensive set of security plans for the January 6th, 2021 "Save America" event is now available. (Spoiler: There was *none*.) |
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Feb 1 2021, 11:03am |
A pretty useful table of the beliefs of Trump supporters. I'd like to think that there's a way to correct these misconceptions and misrepresentations. |
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Jan 26 2021, 10:36am |
Hedge funds had shorted nearly all available stock of Game Stop. So individuals got together and bought and held, driving the price up, forcing the shorts to... |
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Jan 23 2021, 10:30pm |
Saw this autostereogram on reddit, and decided to show it to my son, and stayed with him until he saw it. I freakin' love that moment, when someone experienc... |
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Jan 22 2021, 8:19am |
In my feed, I've scanned so many images for Bernie, I've accidentally scanned ads for Bernie, and been like, "he's well hidden in this one." |
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Jan 21 2021, 8:05am |
"We need longer tables, not higher walls." -Chef Jose Andrés |
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Jan 19 2021, 11:14am |
Our local bald eagles' nest fell from the wind last night. Seeing them on my walks and watching the chicks grow over the past year helped me get by during th... |
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Jan 18 2021, 9:24am |
"Nine Real-World Software Engineering Interview Questions" Very practical, worth the read. 🤣 |
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Jan 15 2021, 8:19am |
My first ever Medium post (four years ago) was a warning that Trump would treat America like he treats the women he assaults. This year, I can't help thinkin... |
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Jan 14 2021, 10:17pm |
If I were a Trump supporter, I would be just so livid. You don't believe that the election was stolen from you, decide to use force to change Congress, and t... |
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Jan 12 2021, 8:45am |
My favorite movie review of the year, about Tenet: "This movie was better when it was the Sugar Water video by Cibo Matto, which was mercifully only 4 minute... |
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Jan 11 2021, 10:19pm |
"congrats to parler on their new serverless platform" @alicegoldfuss |
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Jan 11 2021, 8:25pm |
Usenet Spam: a Slice of History. Ah, memories. |
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Jan 11 2021, 1:15pm |
"A lot has happened in the last week, including the president losing his Twitter feed, impeachment coming to the fore and the PGA withdrawing from Trump Nati... |
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Jan 10 2021, 5:15pm |
"In this respect [Trump's] pre-fascism fell short of fascism: His vision never went further than a mirror." Click through in Incognito mode, there's a paywall. |
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Jan 10 2021, 1:47pm |
Some days are like this. (Click through and enjoy.) |
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Jan 9 2021, 7:41pm |
https://thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/2021/01/05/transparency-pixel-version/ |
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Jan 9 2021, 12:47pm |
Democrat leadership shouldn't get carried away. Did Trump really make an "incitement to insurrection" worthy of impeachment? Seth Abramson unpacks Trump's ac... |
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Jan 8 2021, 11:03pm |
Fascinating twitter thread where they start identifying the men with police-style zip-tie handcuffs storming the Capitol. |
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Jan 8 2021, 5:21pm |
Here's why there may not be consequences for the coup attempt after all: Because it's essential to Republicans that claiming to have "sincerely held beliefs"... |
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Jan 8 2021, 8:41am |
Barack Obama's statement on the violence at the Capitol. |
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Jan 7 2021, 5:57pm |
Don't overlook yesterday they found two pipe bombs, one outside the RNC offices and one outside the DNC offices. The bomb squad blasted them apart with water... |
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Jan 7 2021, 10:43am |
How long until they bounce like a million ping pong balls (or super balls) on the roof of this thing? The floor slopes too! You could play high-stakes roller... |
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Jan 6 2021, 9:44am |
"The Fairweather Federalists" Lessig explains how Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are *knowingly* going against the Electoral Count Act. |
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Jan 3 2021, 11:48am |
My son used an instrumental version of Gangsta's Paradise for a project he's doing. I sang/rapped, "as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death", and... |
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Jan 2 2021, 7:01pm |
🎵Many miles awaySomething crawls to the surfaceOf a dark Scottish loch 🎵 |
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Jan 1 2021, 11:15am |
2020 Patch Notes just dropped. |
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Dec 31 2020, 4:56pm |
Happy New Year! Here's a short post at the family blog. |
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Dec 23 2020, 1:58pm |
Unburying the lede: "The SARS-CoV-2 virus has so far mutated slowly, allowing scientists and policy makers to keep on top of its progress. ... the changes so... |
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Dec 23 2020, 10:44am |
The rules of re-gifting: Your Christmas Gift is Trash |
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Dec 21 2020, 9:41am |
For your daily dose of bias confirmation: What I Learned About Humanity as an Airbnb Owner (And it ain't pretty) |
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Dec 15 2020, 5:49pm |
Just look at these dangerous effing idiots. One of my friends captioned this "Trump's Sturmabteilung terrorizing Black folks". They're in desperate need of m... |
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Dec 13 2020, 10:22am |
"Hokusai’s Great Wave, Sculpted in Lego Blocks by Jumpei Mitsui". Click through for different angles and some design drawings. |
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Dec 9 2020, 10:32pm |
As if it were possible to love Giancarlo Esposito any more than I already do. |
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Dec 8 2020, 2:14pm |
5 Positions That Will Drive Your Man Wild In Lockdown! (Spoiler: Not actually as naughty as it looks.) |
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Dec 7 2020, 8:43pm |
Here, enjoy a charming tiny desk concert with Dua Lipa. |
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Dec 7 2020, 9:19am |
I really love image #18 of The Atlantic's "Top 25 News Photos of 2020", President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally.For better or worse, what Tru... |
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Dec 5 2020, 10:04pm |
"Maybe we've all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn't mean we can't make a damned fine banana bread if someone w... |
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Dec 5 2020, 1:52pm |
"Maybe we've all got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesn't mean we can't make a damned fine banana bread if someone w... |
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Dec 5 2020, 9:57am |
Depressing-est Comic Week is on fire again this year. |
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Dec 3 2020, 10:46pm |
Great one for Depressing Comic week today. |
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Dec 3 2020, 8:42am |
Arata Endo’s 1928 Kaji Villa in Hayama renovated as a rental. Take a little desktop vacation and click through. |
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Nov 24 2020, 9:20am |
Hello, other side of the uncanny valley. Click through, there are sliders for mood, age, gender, race and ethnicity. |
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Nov 22 2020, 12:03pm |
On November 14, 10,000 people attended "Road to Ultra" in Taiwan. No social distancing or any precautions were needed since they'd been COVID-19 free for mon... |
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Nov 21 2020, 9:59am |
You guys, there's a lot of loving attention to detail in this. Give it some time. |
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Nov 20 2020, 9:45pm |
"...including [one cannibal] who was convicted of murdering a man he met on a German chat room dedicated to cannibalism..."Son, if you're going to meet som... |
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Nov 20 2020, 8:50am |
Dr. Dja tried to use science and evidence against personal attacks and anecdotes during senate testimony. Majority side's narrative is that masks don't work ... |
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Nov 19 2020, 8:06pm |
Covid-19 Cases by State That Voted for Trump or Biden (If you don't see the preview, click through.) |
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Nov 19 2020, 1:55pm |
Pylades: I’ll take care of you.Orestes: It’s rotten work.Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you."Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides" Anne Carson |
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Nov 18 2020, 3:39pm |
Top Shots From the 2020 International Landscape Photographer of the Year. There's a fascinating one from Fremont, here in the South Bay Area, too! |
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Nov 14 2020, 9:15am |
"A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon" This one had already been making the rounds. I just read it, and it's good. |
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Nov 13 2020, 1:40am |
I love this use of a Nirvana lyric backing up Tom Morello's reaction to Trumpists dancing to Rage Against The Machine. |
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Nov 12 2020, 9:58pm |
A pretty good explainer on why top Republicans continue to humor Trump's inanity. |
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Nov 12 2020, 8:29am |
A high-stakes game of Missile Command (by Chris King) |
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Nov 11 2020, 11:43am |
Winners of Close-Up Photographer of the Year |
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Nov 9 2020, 8:28am |
Technical debt. |
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Nov 5 2020, 7:06pm |
I was Republican, then I switched. I'll switch again if my party's candidate behaves like President Trump. I'll come back to the Republican party when its pl... |
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Nov 3 2020, 8:58pm |
"Known for his lavish outfits." What else would he be known for? |
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Nov 3 2020, 11:57am |
Scenes from New Zealand. |
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Nov 1 2020, 10:27pm |
I just lost 12 years of playlists. 😭 (And some album art.) Dang it Apple.I used "Quick Start" to migrate from an iPhone 6 to a newer one. It did not migrat... |
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Nov 1 2020, 2:18pm |
"how to feel something" |
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Nov 1 2020, 2:15pm |
"The Deadliest Catch" A short real-life doodle of a kid bicycling down the road. Worth a replay to rewatch their expressions and reactions. |
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Oct 29 2020, 5:52pm |
Ninjelica Sunshine one for your Rabbit Rabbit cache. |
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Oct 29 2020, 12:49pm |
The Spirit of Halloween 2020 |
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Oct 27 2020, 11:43am |
Winners of the 2020 Epson International Pano Awards |
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Oct 25 2020, 8:19pm |
An API endpoint changed behind Rick Mann's COVID tracker. I really liked it, and so made a fork that uses the new endpoint. (Aside: Tennesee just overtook Fl... |
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Oct 25 2020, 1:50pm |
Bellevue, Washington bans all weapons except firearms. Shields and skateboards are weapons. Leave those home but bring your firearms. God bless America. |
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Oct 22 2020, 8:55pm |
You guys! They made a roguelike virtual conference! They made use of social science ideas like "friendships are formed through repeated spontaneous interacti... |
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Oct 21 2020, 5:41pm |
Aww. James Randi was very influential to me. |
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Oct 16 2020, 9:21pm |
Inside the Fall of the CDC. "A vaunted agency that was once the global gold standard of public health has, with breathtaking speed, become a target of anger,... |
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Oct 13 2020, 11:36pm |
Check whether your Ballot Drop Off Box is one of the fake ones planted by the GOP. |
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Oct 13 2020, 9:43pm |
Maybe we could all use a little downtime from GPS, phones, weather predictions? Who had "Kessler Syndrome" on their 2020 Bingo card? |
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Oct 9 2020, 8:03am |
If you're able, it would be good to let someone that you care about know it. Do it however it works for you. Doesn't matter if it's a hug, or an "RUOK" message. |
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Oct 4 2020, 11:31am |
California: Images of the Golden State (part of the Atlantic's "Fifty" project.) |
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Oct 2 2020, 10:24am |
I just answered my latest recruiting message from Facebook by asking for a response to this post from a founder of Netscape and mozilla . org. https://www.jw... |
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Oct 1 2020, 10:04am |
Swarm of earthquakes at my birthplace in Imperial County, another swarm here now in Milpitas, plague, fires, smoke, and now a dead tree full of vultures outs... |
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Sep 29 2020, 5:37pm |
20 minutes of extremely soothing artisanal Nixie tube production. h/t jwz |
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Sep 28 2020, 9:52pm |
My kind of church. |
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Sep 28 2020, 1:41pm |
"If I saw a congressperson vote against raising minimum wage and then take a handful of literal candy from a communal candy desk and then hop on the Magical ... |
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Sep 27 2020, 5:39pm |
Hurry to get your tone-deaf, unoriginal, and disrespectful Notorious A.C.B. t-shirt here! |
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Sep 27 2020, 5:36pm |
tl;dr: Use Purple Air with AQandU enabled. Once the EPA conversion factor is available on PurpleAir use that instead. |
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Sep 22 2020, 5:37pm |
Hiromi Cota, you must've seen this, but I can't help myself but share again. |
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Sep 18 2020, 10:18pm |
Texas just passed Florida it total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 *and* they just passed New York in confirmed cases per capita. |
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Sep 18 2020, 8:38am |
Such great copy and marketing. "If your junk smells so awful that you're bad at hide and seek..." |
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Sep 16 2020, 9:17pm |
Here's a great presentation of what started the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, CA. Click through! |
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Sep 15 2020, 1:36pm |
Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in their 175-year history—until now. |
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Sep 14 2020, 1:58pm |
OMG. How do you not love her enthusiasm? This is so great. Apparently Mr. Grohl writes a new song just for her too. (I haven't made it that far in the thread... |
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Sep 14 2020, 8:16am |
There was always Depeche Mode in the soul of Blinding Lights. |
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Sep 13 2020, 10:51am |
"You're what we call a 'hot mess'.""Really...? ❤️""It doesn't mean you're super sexy." |
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Sep 12 2020, 4:57pm |
"Sir, the IT person is here." So begins the free* short story from Andy Weir (The Martian), "Rand0m1ze".I'd just finished Blake Crouch's "Recursion" (which... |
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Sep 11 2020, 10:52pm |
"Either you insisted that any questions about lab involvement were absurd, or you were a tool of the Trump administration and its desperation to blame China ... |
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Sep 11 2020, 8:20am |
"Hey, God. What's up?" (Click through.) |
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Sep 9 2020, 1:54pm |
Minimalist long exposure photos of Japanese Torii Shrine Gates. |
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Sep 8 2020, 9:26am |
Why the Fires Feel More Unsettling This Time |
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Sep 7 2020, 6:38pm |
Walked to the end of the Point San Pedro trail. That’s my shadow pointing the way in the second photo. |
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Sep 6 2020, 1:48pm |
Trump's promising to defund public education if it includes education about the legacy of slavery.I listened to the 1619 Project podcasts, and they were ed... |
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Sep 5 2020, 10:05pm |
You guys! There's a new Charlie Kaufman movie on Netflix! ... And there never was a Genius Edition of Trivial Pursuit. |
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Sep 5 2020, 12:03am |
"He’s so deeply stupid, and it’s embarrassing to be part of a country so easily conned by someone this stupid." |
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Sep 2 2020, 2:57pm |
Scenes From China’s Guizhou Province. Click through for a little desktop vacation. |
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Aug 26 2020, 5:37pm |
"In the video, a bystander frantically yells to the officers that the man with the rifle shot someone. “Hey, he just shot them,” the man screams. However, la... |
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Aug 19 2020, 1:01pm |
This picture, from The Atlantic, sums up 2020 nicely. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/08/photos-dozens-wildfires-burn-across-california/615412/ |
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Aug 19 2020, 12:46pm |
How powerful was the Beirut blast? Was it bigger than the Halifax explosion of 1917? |
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Aug 15 2020, 10:24pm |
Why haven't I been telling Trump this whole time how much Obama disliked Edward Snowden and wouldn't pardon him? And that pardoning Snowden would be a real s... |
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Aug 14 2020, 1:08pm |
Click through. Enjoy them one at a time. |
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Aug 14 2020, 11:46am |
Heat waves call for fresh pitchers of cold brew for ice coffees. Look at that sweat running down! So nice and cold. |
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Aug 14 2020, 8:19am |
Today is March 167, 2020. |
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Aug 12 2020, 7:12pm |
Rick Mann, have you seen this? |
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Aug 7 2020, 10:19pm |
The Unraveling of America |
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Aug 7 2020, 8:16am |
It me. Inviting my kids to do stuff. |
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Aug 6 2020, 8:41pm |
It's tragic that we could just keep updating this doom scroll with new items like the explosion in Beirut. |
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Aug 2 2020, 3:11pm |
Seems like a few of the artists I listen to are gay/bi and have large groups of gay stans and other fans who just can't tell yet.There's Daoko who's song K... |
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Aug 1 2020, 5:41pm |
"Numb" A powerful student film about being a student during COVID-19. |
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Jul 31 2020, 8:09pm |
Honest Government Ad | A message from the White House |
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Jul 25 2020, 2:00pm |
Educational and fun. Click through. |
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Jul 24 2020, 10:40am |
"How the U.S. Compares With the World’s Worst Coronavirus Hot Spots" Click through, it's interesting and not long. |
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Jul 20 2020, 10:18am |
I love this summer's Calpis/Calpico campaign with art by Rei Kato. Calpis is a milky Gatorade-like drink in a clear bottle. There's artwork on opposing sides... |
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Jul 19 2020, 9:24pm |
Lillian Blume, just imagine. |
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Jul 17 2020, 10:41am |
https://twitter.com/CRICE17/status/1283867324831854592 |
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Jul 17 2020, 8:14am |
Gotta appreciate their positive way of taking rejection. |
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Jul 15 2020, 11:46pm |
You guys, we did it! The U.S. just reclaimed its lead over Peru in confirmed cases of Covid-19 per capita. That proud blue line going up and to the right is ... |
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Jul 11 2020, 10:48pm |
Rosie VanHerp |
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Jul 11 2020, 3:40pm |
"I'm gonna shoot you in the eye!" - Blume household, Blursday the fortyteenth of Mayprilay |
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Jul 9 2020, 1:08pm |
"Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law. To hold otherwise would be to elevate the most brazen and... |
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Jul 8 2020, 2:07pm |
She's a sly one. I like her style. |
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Jul 6 2020, 3:06pm |
Was thinking about something today. How "Hello Kitty" is not a cat. She is a little girl. She is a friend. Decided to Google a phrase, and there it was. The ... |
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Jul 2 2020, 10:01pm |
Your Shelter In Place song for the moment, Mitski's "Nobody". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qooWnw5rEcI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qooWnw5rEcI) |
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Jun 29 2020, 10:10pm |
# "I Got My File From Clearview AI, and It Freaked Me Out" [https://onezero.medium.com/i-got-my-file-from-clearview-ai-and-it-freaked-me-out-33ca28b5d6d4](ht... |
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Jun 29 2020, 2:06pm |
Not sure if the R is for Republican or Russian. [https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1277650842607370241](https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/127765084... |
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Jun 28 2020, 9:56pm |
I think #TRE45ON is a pretty clever hashtag. |
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Jun 25 2020, 1:40pm |
Maybe Trump is right when he says that coronavirus case counts are up because the U.S. has increased testing. Let's find out with data. |
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Jun 24 2020, 10:13pm |
Most cases per capita: Chile, Peru, United States, Brazil. Most cases: United States, Brazil. Most Deaths: United States, Brazil. Yeah, it's the American Virus. |
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Jun 24 2020, 8:50am |
Even scarier, the second time she tested positive she didn't have the classic symptoms, just high blood pressure which can go unnoticed. |
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Jun 22 2020, 11:28am |
Learn one new thing today. I've been following Julia Evans (b0rk) at Twitter, and she's been creating pages of question that are so easy and fun to interact ... |
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Jun 20 2020, 5:40pm |
Karen, about to invoke a righteous "call the authorities" spell on your POC ass. |
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Jun 20 2020, 10:01am |
The best anime contact juggling tutorial you'll ever find. [https://gfycat.com/selfassuredbarekitfox](https://gfycat.com/selfassuredbarekitfox) |
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Jun 16 2020, 6:14pm |
I am totally down with removing master/slave and whitelist/blacklist. But I don't know why people also bring up blackhat/whitehat (in terms of computer secur... |
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Jun 14 2020, 10:08pm |
OMG, you guys. What a read.Following an Oakland tavern and its staff — from the tattooed bartender to the undocumented cleaner — as they weather the econom... |
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Jun 14 2020, 3:29pm |
Here's another fun card game to play with those sheltering in place with you: Big Two.(What with the Internet Archive possibly going away and every other s... |
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Jun 13 2020, 9:04pm |
I wondered why people love Avatar: The Last Airbender, so I started watching it. It started off cheaply animated and childish. There was one notable episode ... |
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Jun 13 2020, 10:23am |
"The internet is a giant Rube Goldberg machine that transports tiny scoops of rage from one place to another via a complicated system of gears, pulleys, and ... |
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Jun 12 2020, 1:08pm |
# A procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed. Not only is the winding path imaginary, but so is the terrain, the place n... |
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Jun 11 2020, 6:55pm |
President Trump's ghostwriter thinks he is a Psychopath. |
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Jun 11 2020, 11:42am |
This California cop explains why he says All Cops Are Bastards. [https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759](https://mediu... |
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Jun 10 2020, 9:00am |
Pepsi’s $32 Billion Typo Caused Deadly Riots [https://medium.com/better-marketing/pepsis-40-billion-typo-caused-deadly-riots-3d671295d1bd](https://medium.com... |
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Jun 8 2020, 11:22am |
Images From a Worldwide Protest Movement [https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/06/images-worldwide-protest-movement/612811/](https://www.theatlantic.com/ph... |
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Jun 8 2020, 8:45am |
They're water guns. It's summertime. He's playing with his other mutli-racial friends. |
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Jun 7 2020, 10:09pm |
This comes highly recommended from Political Gabfest. It explains why Romney might criticize the president while LIndsey Graham collaborates with his previou... |
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Jun 7 2020, 9:23am |
Plot twist: It's not a deep fake. The A.I. learned Birdsong, and is instructing them how to rise against man. [https://www.kellyheatonstudio.com/deep-fake-bi... |
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Jun 4 2020, 9:51pm |
According to Rick Mann's excellent COVID-19 Data site, Peru just overtook the U.S. as the world's sickest (per capita) country, and their trajectory isn't go... |
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Jun 4 2020, 3:43pm |
"The Menopause", an Eisner nominated story by Mira Jacob. [https://believermag.com/the-menopause/](https://believermag.com/the-menopause/) |
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Jun 4 2020, 3:02pm |
Congrats to The Oatmeal for his Eisner nominated story, "You’re Not Going to Believe What I’m About to Tell You". It's worth the read, click through. [https:... |
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Jun 3 2020, 1:42pm |
Malcolm Gladwell eloquently explains (citing Northern Ireland riots) why establishing legitimacy is far more effective than merely using force to dominate de... |
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Jun 3 2020, 12:46pm |
My mind keeps going back to the thought that the police murdered George Floyd the day Amy Cooper tried to sic the police on Christian Cooper, frantically sta... |
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Jun 2 2020, 10:10pm |
"We Must Dismantle White Supremacy" by Ben and Jerry's"What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence ... |
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Jun 1 2020, 3:57pm |
"It's certainly the logical conclusion of Trumpism to be hiding in your bunker yelling at governors for being losers for not killing more people." |
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Jun 1 2020, 10:56am |
"How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change" by Barack Obama[https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-r... |
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May 30 2020, 11:59am |
David Attenborough Presents: A Drunken Thirty-Something Female Coming Home Alone (Again) |
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May 29 2020, 11:54pm |
I like Rina Sawayama's "XS". The song is catchy and the video is a silly sendup of consumerism. So I go to Genius to see if anybody made any good observation... |
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May 29 2020, 1:22pm |
Illustrator Ryosuke Ootomo memorializes the small, relatable moments of life. (Like that moment when you peel the tape off a box but it’s obstructed by anoth... |
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May 29 2020, 9:04am |
As President Trump holds Twitter accountable, they could lose their liability shield under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. So now they'll have... |
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May 29 2020, 8:31am |
"What we learned with COVID is that, actually, a different kind of leader can be very beneficial," Dr. Evans said. "Perhaps people will learn to recognize an... |
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May 28 2020, 12:04pm |
"You're watching a professional wrestling match. Trump and Twitter and Facebook are all symbiotic and all interested in the same pursuit: dismantling democra... |
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May 28 2020, 12:02pm |
"'Social media should not fact check posts' says child molester Mark Zuckerberg" [https://chaser.com.au/world/social-media-should-not-fact-check-posts-says-c... |
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May 25 2020, 8:22pm |
A Ninja Warrior course for squirrels. Worth the watch. Click through and enjoy. |
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May 22 2020, 11:26am |
Helpful Tips for Extroverts. [https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/05/22) |
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May 21 2020, 8:19pm |
Check out today's "Confirmed Cases per Capita". That bold blue line is America on the verge of overtaking Belgium and Spain to be the #1 sickest country in t... |
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May 21 2020, 8:45am |
"'Devs is like a companion piece to Ex Machina,' Garland said in an interview with Engadget last week." (Spoilers in the comments.) [https://www.engadget.com... |
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May 19 2020, 9:14am |
"[Doordash] was among the WeWorkian class of companies that, for me, represented everything wrong about startup evolution through the 2010s. ... Was this a b... |
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May 18 2020, 6:13pm |
People recommended the FX miniseries Devs. Here's why it reminded me of the 1995 PlayStation game Wipeout. [https://david.dlma.com/blog/from-wipeout-to-devs]... |
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May 17 2020, 9:36pm |
You guys and your fancy Facebook avatars. Back in my day, we had to build them one voxel at a time. |
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May 11 2020, 8:40am |
Playable simulations of COVID-19 futures. (with art and code by Nicky Case) [https://ncase.me/covid-19/?v=2](https://ncase.me/covid-19/?v=2) |
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May 10 2020, 2:29pm |
"But until we stop reflexively seeing people as viral threats, those old small pleasures we crave are likely to remain elusive." [https://medium.com/the-atla... |
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May 6 2020, 4:23pm |
"So many of us stayed home for 2 months - an unprecedented act of solidarity - only for this administration to squander that time and double down on a 'plan'... |
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May 4 2020, 12:55pm |
JANE MAYER: So the political scientists are Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. And they've got a new book coming out that's called "Let Them Eat Tweets." And wha... |
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May 2 2020, 12:13pm |
"Hindsight's 2020." OMG. That's the quote. |
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May 1 2020, 3:25pm |
Thanks to Rick Mann's excellent COVID-19 Data site, this is the chart that's really getting me. The trend in "Confirmed Cases per Capita". Even with as littl... |
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May 1 2020, 2:43pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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May 1 2020, 1:02pm |
This is fun! Click through and see if you recognize clips from songs to help identify generational gaps in popular music. |
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Apr 30 2020, 4:35pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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Apr 29 2020, 7:17pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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Apr 28 2020, 10:17pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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Apr 28 2020, 9:25am |
U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to covid-19 |
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Apr 27 2020, 10:20pm |
"If a new administration succeeds him in 2021, it will have to clean up the toxic dump he leaves behind. If he is re-elected, toxicity will have become the l... |
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Apr 27 2020, 1:47pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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Apr 27 2020, 1:43pm |
During the pandemic people are watching films projected onto the sides of buildings. |
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Apr 26 2020, 3:46pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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Apr 24 2020, 9:55pm |
On your next 4/20, I recommend adding Samurai Champloo S1:E9 "Beatbox Bandits" to your watchlist. It's a good, stand-alone episode, and you don't need any mo... |
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Apr 24 2020, 9:29pm |
Love this. I'm doing something "artsy" for me, and it's the dumbest thing ever. Even my family won't notice. (Building a new reactive theme for an ancient bl... |
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Apr 24 2020, 9:13pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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Apr 24 2020, 5:22pm |
Blue Angels to fly in honor of healthcare workers, who clearly did not ask for this. |
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Apr 24 2020, 1:10am |
I really loved Lee's Comics. Thus ends an era in the lives of many a local comic book lover. |
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Apr 23 2020, 4:22pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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Apr 23 2020, 10:07am |
This is a great, concise explanation of the Outrage Cycle (Trump keeping critics distracted with outrage), and how to combat it. Click through. |
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Apr 22 2020, 4:44pm |
I was nominated by my friend Daryl Spitzer to do a 10 day album challenge . Pick one album a day that influenced me, at any age, and post a picture of it. No... |
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Apr 22 2020, 11:24am |
Why do some British people not like Donald Trump? |
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Apr 21 2020, 9:46am |
President Trump: "I think in a certain way, a scarf is better, it’s actually better." He couldn't have been more wrong.I almost wrote, "I am sick to death ... |
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Apr 19 2020, 8:52pm |
Really seems like the light fixture in the Westworld Delos Boardroom is an organic chemical molecule. Can anybody identify which one? (The only one I know is... |
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Apr 19 2020, 10:55am |
On the cruise line industry registered outside the U.S. wanting a U.S. bailout: "The thing to remember is that if allowed to fail, the cruise ships won’t sin... |
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Apr 16 2020, 9:41pm |
Iceland tested 10% of their population for COVID-19, and half of those who tested positive were asymptomatic.Dr. Kári Stefánsson "The methods we’ve used in... |
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Apr 16 2020, 3:50pm |
Esp. for Val Jamora |
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Apr 15 2020, 8:26am |
I guess it depends on how you define "school shooting". When teachers and students return to school, they'll probably find plenty of bullet holes. |
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Apr 13 2020, 12:50pm |
In this video about Zoom security, at the part where he says "an end to encryption" was a great time to say "oops, that's the GOVERNMENT's goal, not ours" an... |
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Apr 11 2020, 9:16pm |
Tomorrow might be the day that the U.S. has a higher percentage of COVID-19 deaths per case than China does. Either we're not testing enough, or their medici... |
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Apr 11 2020, 12:36pm |
Shelter At Home Day 26: "You just failed with wife test." "You failed the husband test a long time ago... F*cker." 🤣 |
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Apr 9 2020, 4:41pm |
Hey Ted Pederson and Julie Pederson, remember playing Chinese Poker with Derek and Pei? I forgot the rules, so I fired up a classic Macintosh emulator, and r... |
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Apr 7 2020, 9:22pm |
I've bookmarked Rick Mann's excellent COVID-19 charts, and I check three of them each evening."Daily Cases": I'm watching the trajectory of those lines, an... |
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Apr 7 2020, 4:25pm |
"Narcissistic personalities are weak. ... Trump is afraid to actually *do* anything in this crisis." |
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Apr 5 2020, 9:48pm |
It's almost like the states are uniting for a common cause. |
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Apr 4 2020, 11:32am |
Great graphs. Really love seeing "Confirmed Cases per Capita" and "Deaths as a Percentage of Cases", for additional perspective. |
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Apr 2 2020, 10:46am |
"... we should forge a strategy to defeat the coronavirus and open the way to economic revival. If we act immediately, we can make the anniversary of D-Day o... |
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Apr 1 2020, 9:54pm |
AlphaStar (an A.I. that plays StarCraft II) decisively beat Team Liquid’s Grzegorz "MaNa" Komincz, one of the world’s strongest professional StarCraft player... |
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Apr 1 2020, 6:07pm |
Clear and actionable advice from Bill Gates. |
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Mar 31 2020, 2:47pm |
Click through for an excellent rebuttal to a defense of the New York Times' he-said/she-said coverage. "The New York Times Is Committing ‘Journalistic Malpra... |
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Mar 31 2020, 11:32am |
Worth clicking through. There's in door in their ceiling! What could it lead to‽ |
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Mar 29 2020, 9:12pm |
Is it possible to surf the web without touching your face? (Are you touching your face right now?) |
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Mar 28 2020, 7:57pm |
Shout out to the foley artists of The Expanse, too. I just watched a heartfelt speech from Nagata at 38m in on S4:E5, and when she walked away off camera, yo... |
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Mar 27 2020, 7:51am |
You guys, click through and watch this. It's so worth it. AdventureTime, Rick and Morty, Mr. Robot, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Shining and so much more. |
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Mar 25 2020, 8:46am |
"How Twitter users turned 9 year-old Quaden Bayles into a scammer, and how the rapid spread of false information made his bullying even worse." A really good... |
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Mar 25 2020, 8:03am |
"I guess it’s not surprising that a political party that thinks sacrificing school children for the NRA is acceptable would also think that sacrificing grand... |
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Mar 23 2020, 8:24am |
Happy National Puppy Day! |
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Mar 22 2020, 9:41pm |
Steven Levy interviews the doctor who helped defeat smallpox. Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant explains what's coming. |
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Mar 22 2020, 9:32pm |
"Within a loyalty cult, no one will tell the president that starting widespread emergency testing would be prudent, because anyone who does is at risk of los... |
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Mar 22 2020, 10:23am |
One detail I love of "The Expanse" is how they use their technology without any exposition for the audience. Like in S3:E8 at 22:00, Holden worries he might ... |
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Mar 18 2020, 7:57am |
The firm that basically created the mess that is WeWork by dumping billions of dollars into the company, also owns a patent troll that bought up the patents ... |
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Mar 14 2020, 9:37pm |
"The only constitutional freedoms ultimately recognized may soon be limited to those useful to wealthy, Republican, White, straight, Christian, and armed mal... |
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Mar 12 2020, 11:56pm |
The American President had an opportunity to be presidential, to be the individual who fit the position we elected him for. This was the moment we wanted to ... |
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Mar 12 2020, 4:13pm |
Is this as amazing as it looks? Katie Porter got the CDC Director to commit to FREE TESTING for coronavirus for ALL AMERICANS. We need leadership like that. |
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Mar 10 2020, 9:51pm |
"Two Party System: Making your country sh*t either way". A hilarious video about Preferential Voting. |
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Mar 9 2020, 9:56pm |
From a friend twice removed. Elizabeth holds a PhD in biochemistry from UC Berkeley. h/t Rick Mann |
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Mar 9 2020, 2:43pm |
"'I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault,' the president said. Apparently... |
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Mar 8 2020, 10:43am |
A really nice primer on public key cryptography and an interesting story about Whit Diffie, of Diffie–Hellman fame. |
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Mar 5 2020, 8:26am |
Finalists From Smithsonian Magazine’s 2019 Photo Contest |
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Mar 4 2020, 7:39am |
With a National ranked choice Primary Election, there might've been a different outcome, one that better reflected the values of the voters. |
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Mar 1 2020, 4:28pm |
I'm trying to read Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury." So far, it's a stream-of-consciousness as told by a "man-child" who doesn't entirely understand what'... |
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Mar 1 2020, 8:49am |
The San Francisco Bay Area's KTVU Fox 2's interstitial music this morning was Primus's "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver". It was awesome. The hosts were confused... |
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Feb 27 2020, 9:09pm |
Another reason to vote for Warren. Watch her name the billionaire. |
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Feb 26 2020, 9:25am |
Just watched The Expanse S2:E5 "Home". Now I feel like everything up to this point has really just been a prologue. There's so much potential here. I wouldn'... |
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Feb 24 2020, 4:28pm |
Winners of the 2020 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest |
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Feb 24 2020, 7:44am |
At Disneyland, Lillian joined the Dark Side of the Force. Here she is using the Force choke on a couple of teenagers who need to do a better job cleaning the... |
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Feb 23 2020, 12:17pm |
Please read this post by Jim Wright. People needs to understand where the tariff money comes from and where it goes. |
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Feb 21 2020, 1:10pm |
You guys can all link to this post when I share (sometime in the future) how badly I hurt myself bouldering. |
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Feb 13 2020, 8:41pm |
This is the Oscar winning short, "Hair Love". |
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Feb 11 2020, 1:05pm |
Qinni is no longer with us. A few artists that I follow are celebrating her life and art with tributes today. |
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Feb 10 2020, 9:46pm |
I just watched S1:E3 of The Expanse. I'm in a pretty good place. It's fun to look forward to another episode strictly because I'm vested in the story. (Remin... |
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Feb 8 2020, 11:37pm |
So we missed out on a thing because we missed when a website updated. I have a shared hosting account on DreamHost that can send email that'll get received. ... |
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Feb 8 2020, 12:14pm |
In this patent application, a human and a robot assess another human's face. The human wonders who it is. The robot determines, "He looks like he probably sh... |
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Feb 7 2020, 10:36am |
Sh*t. |
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Feb 4 2020, 9:33pm |
About half way into The Mandalorian now and really enjoying it. It has elements of Lone Wolf and Cub and an homage to The Seven Samurai. But all I heard when... |
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Feb 4 2020, 9:37am |
Of course, of course this is the timeline where Trump gets his hands on the death note (a notebook where when you write someone's name, they die). |
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Feb 2 2020, 8:20am |
It's Superb Owl Sunday IV! 🦉🥳 Esp. for Sjon Svenson |
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Jan 31 2020, 8:04pm |
In all fairness to the President, the only advice I've ever heard about talking to the law was to not talk. I'd expect anybody to try not to make things wors... |
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Jan 30 2020, 10:24am |
"Wife" is a heavily gendered word, but I'm going to share this anyway, because she's not wrong about needing a partner to share the work. It's only because o... |
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Jan 29 2020, 10:16pm |
"Facebook Won’t Remove This Woman’s Butthole As A Business Page" |
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Jan 29 2020, 8:28am |
Existential Penny Arcade today. |
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Jan 28 2020, 9:11am |
The title is misleading. A seed company had withdrawn its advertising in protest of the cartoon. So, on the one hand, the cartoonist was biting the hand that... |
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Jan 24 2020, 11:25am |
"Imagine trying to explain democracy to someone who showed up at today’s trial with no knowledge of democracy except for Lincoln’s quote about a “government ... |
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Jan 23 2020, 9:33am |
Visualizing the Geography of FM Radio (Click through to the breakdown of Religious v Public v Country v Spanish v College v Hip-Hop and Gospel.) Nevada seems... |
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Jan 18 2020, 11:39pm |
Looks like my $2000 catalytic converter got stolen from my $2000 car. 😕 It sounds like a muscle car now, tho! 😅 |
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Jan 17 2020, 2:16pm |
"Can I ask you a question?" |
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Jan 14 2020, 11:15am |
Winners of the 2019 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest. Unbeknownst to the photographer, image 7 is actually the underside of a colossal frozen dinosaur frog. |
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Jan 14 2020, 8:17am |
Click through. When I first watched it there were no subtitles, and even so it was beautiful. "Qarrar-e- Panjshannba" or "Thursday appointment” made by Syed ... |
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Jan 12 2020, 7:32pm |
I love Geddy Lee's classic "Rash" shirt he wore on the Time Machine tour. |
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Jan 12 2020, 11:22am |
Best with audio on. Lillian Blume |
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Jan 11 2020, 10:12pm |
Aaron Swartz took his own life seven years ago today while threatened by an overzealous prosecutor for using MIT's open campus internet network to download ... |
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Jan 8 2020, 8:40am |
"Engaging with current events at this particular moment in modern history feels like an endless rolling panic attack. Floods. Fires. Elections. Impeachment h... |
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Jan 7 2020, 8:51am |
Click through for more amazing hyper-realistic ballpoint pen artwork from Shohei Otomo. |
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Jan 6 2020, 10:00pm |
"The president seems to believe, very fundamentally, that concerns about human rights and international law are pointless constraints on American power" but ... |
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Jan 2 2020, 7:54am |
UC Berkeley’s Ultra-Popular ‘Adulting’ Class Shows Just How Badly Our Society Has Failed Young People |
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Dec 31 2019, 9:12pm |
"[We] obtained a dataset from the phones of more than 12 million people. ... it took only minutes ... for us to track the whereabouts of President Trump." |
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Dec 27 2019, 3:15pm |
"[Trump's] past interviews were far more coherent and much more linguistically sophisticated than what we hear now." I didn't need a speech/language patholog... |
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Dec 24 2019, 9:38am |
This year's "blinry's Advent Calendar of Curiosities" is complete. Click through, there's some curious stuff there. |
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Dec 18 2019, 11:55pm |
This can't be right. |
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Dec 16 2019, 10:45am |
What if there's nothing after this? |
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Dec 14 2019, 2:57pm |
Lessig is bemused that on Facebook, only organizations — with URLs matching email domains—have commercial speech rights. Me too, but it seems like the natura... |
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Dec 9 2019, 8:56am |
I just got called a "brilliant saint"! 😅 |
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Dec 9 2019, 7:33am |
"since 1980, more than 100% of the growth in income has gone to the top 10%" Not a typo. From "What really drives millennial outrage" |
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Dec 8 2019, 10:22pm |
Now that's a powerful Nativity Scene. |
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Dec 8 2019, 4:55pm |
"Did God help elect Trump?" tl;dr: Yes, He's playing three dimensional chess, so you better do what God wants.The post starts off with some great stuff abo... |
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Dec 7 2019, 9:38pm |
How can you not love this line, "the President has crusaded against windmills". Perhaps he thought they were giants. |
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Dec 7 2019, 11:12am |
Queuing theory. "With only one teller, customers will have to wait nearly five hours on average before they are served. But if you add a second teller, the a... |
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Dec 6 2019, 11:31pm |
The last time Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006, the House passed it 390-33 and the Senate 98–0. Only 1 Republican supported it today. |
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Dec 6 2019, 2:50pm |
Can you say "mama?" |
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Dec 5 2019, 7:52am |
"[The new movie about Tommy and me] premiered last week but I stayed in Yosemite so I haven't gotten to see it yet." --Alex HonnoldClassic. He doesn't even... |
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Dec 1 2019, 2:44pm |
I love that it was the chairwoman of the county Republicans that investigated the election results when she saw the Democratic candidate had suspiciously too... |
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Nov 29 2019, 10:39pm |
TIL about Hot Ones, where guests eat wings in increasing order of hotness while being interviewed. Here's Steve-O. |
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Nov 25 2019, 12:15pm |
"Obama made a point of getting daily exercise, an antidote to stress, and he’d also golf regularly with a trio of old friends and trusted aides. Covering Oba... |
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Nov 25 2019, 11:05am |
Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2019. (Click through!) |
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Nov 23 2019, 8:31pm |
You guys! Parasite was a pretty fun movie. You should see it. |
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Nov 22 2019, 7:50am |
“Voltaire was right. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities — and social media lets authoritarians push absurdities to bil... |
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Nov 21 2019, 9:46pm |
Oops. Apparently my friends were watching the Tesla Truck unveiling while I was watching the Half-Life: Alyx trailer. |
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Nov 20 2019, 9:50pm |
This one's pretty easy: You have a choice when you use ride share. Don't use the service that excuses the cold-blooded murder and dismemberment of a journali... |
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Nov 19 2019, 12:10pm |
Happy Blade Runner Day. |
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Nov 18 2019, 9:52pm |
This was one of the most interesting bugs I've ever heard about. Some might even have to ask their apartment neighbors to put their Nintendo Switches in airp... |
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Nov 16 2019, 5:24pm |
"Trump is successful because his hyper-tribalism dovetails perfectly with this polarized moment in American history. He didn’t create the divisions fracturin... |
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Nov 16 2019, 4:44pm |
Coffee is good for you. ☕ |
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Nov 12 2019, 3:34pm |
Today's False Knees is awesome. (As they usually are.) Sjon Svenson may especially like it. |
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Nov 11 2019, 9:35am |
"Oh, I *am* the devil."That's the sincere realization my son just made bouldering with me today. He completed his first V5 (Congrats, Son!), and has been e... |
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Nov 10 2019, 4:19pm |
I'm really enjoying season 3 of True Detective. Mahershala Ali is becoming one of my favorite actors. |
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Nov 9 2019, 10:22pm |
"Secular Assault" Based on an actual quote from Bill Barr at Notre Dame. |
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Nov 9 2019, 4:59pm |
Here's a comic with a little timeline in it for ya. |
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Oct 27 2019, 9:13pm |
Just got around to this. Love it. New Robot Makes Soldiers Obsolete |
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Oct 25 2019, 10:26pm |
The Chemical Brothers - Wide Open ft. Beck (Official Music Video) Don't read anything about this video. Just experience it. The music, the dance, the cinemat... |
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Oct 25 2019, 8:51pm |
California Combatting Wildfire Risk By Shutting Off Oxygen To Thousands Of Residents |
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Oct 24 2019, 7:43am |
"These are the first sit-in protesters in history to be fighting for high crimes and misdemeanors." |
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Oct 21 2019, 9:38pm |
GNOME has been targeted by a patent troll. It'd have been cheaper for them to pay the ransom, but they're going to fight. Good on them. |
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Oct 21 2019, 10:37am |
Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2019. (Click through. The emo white-haired spider is worth it alone. Not to mention the tulip bud... |
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Oct 19 2019, 4:17pm |
Reducing the number of lines of code to a 10th of the original size and making it more maintainable is pretty great. Getting a 17x speed improvement is just... |
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Oct 18 2019, 11:20pm |
This video is a two-fer. I have a hard time wrapping my head around which way the water actually (looks like) it's going. And Destin calls out the way we ca... |
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Oct 18 2019, 10:54pm |
If you like Abba or don't like Giuliani, you'll enjoy this. |
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Oct 15 2019, 10:33pm |
The Lines of Code That Changed Everything. (The RSS item should've mentioned Dave Winer.) |
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Oct 15 2019, 12:43pm |
Scenes From the Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan |
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Oct 15 2019, 10:47am |
Click through to see some amazing miniature scale decaying Tokyo storefronts. (Worth it.) |
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Oct 13 2019, 4:24pm |
Holy cow, you can even make out the "Black Belt". This does not correlate to a population map at all. |
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Oct 13 2019, 12:46pm |
Apple's iOS 13 "Mail" app makes it harder to do one of the actions I do most frequently when triaging email. They got rid of the customizable suggested folde... |
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Oct 13 2019, 12:23pm |
"Tho’ I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier m... |
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Oct 13 2019, 7:56am |
Once you learn the password, you'll appreciate the thoughtful image choice they used for the article. |
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Oct 10 2019, 9:37pm |
Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019 |
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Oct 5 2019, 10:13am |
Gorillaz' "Plastic Beach" intended to tell a complete story over "4 or 5" music videos. Those were "Stylo", "Melancholy Hill", "Broken" and then "Rhinestone ... |
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Oct 5 2019, 8:15am |
Everybody needs a little enrichment. |
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Oct 4 2019, 7:54am |
At the "Emma Saying" YouTube channel where she pronounces "Tinnitus" both ways, one of the comment reads, "it's pronounced "tih-nigh-tus" this channel is FAK... |
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Oct 2 2019, 12:39pm |
Winners of Japan’s 2019 Laundromat of the Year Award |
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Sep 29 2019, 7:50pm |
"Why'd they used to separate the children's graves from the adults? ... Seems like a bad idea somehow." Snarky political commentary in The Dead Don't Die. |
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Sep 24 2019, 1:55pm |
This is a big achievement (for me): My son is now a certified lead belayer at the local climbing gym! Yay! Lead climbing is a whole other level of fun.🎉 |
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Sep 24 2019, 11:21am |
Oktoberfest, 2019. Witness the song of my people. |
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Sep 23 2019, 4:09pm |
Illustrations of Autumn in a Tokyo suburb. (Click through.) |
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Sep 23 2019, 8:17am |
We'd long seen the hang gliders over the local hills, and this weekend Lillian took the kids for their first tandem flights. Maddie got stunts, and Aaron cau... |
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Sep 19 2019, 2:18pm |
Come for the homopolar motor sculptures. Stay for the pan to the cat. http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2019/09/18/atsuko-yukawa-homopolar-motor-sculpture/ |
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Sep 17 2019, 9:07am |
It's interesting and scary to see these clickbait headlines take a life of their own. "Richard Stallman who defended Jeffrey Epstein" and "Richard Stallman D... |
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Sep 16 2019, 11:19pm |
Just read "The Walking Dead" volume 32 in exactly the spirit that Kirkman intended. It was really, really good not to be spoiled. What a fun ride. |
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Sep 13 2019, 5:42pm |
Musca Domestica! |
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Sep 11 2019, 4:42pm |
Soooo... I got the answer wrong, and since I did, I am now keeping my word and posting this picture (selected by Daryl Spitzer). I'm challenging my friends ... |
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Sep 7 2019, 11:00pm |
Tim O'Reilly said tax rates have never influenced his business decisions, and believes tax cuts don't result in economic growth. (This was on Google+, in 2012) |
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Sep 7 2019, 10:37pm |
So I like Billie Eilish even more after this interview with her and her family. |
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Sep 5 2019, 9:25am |
"Every one of us remembers being failed by the Proper Channels once. We can all picture the cop and the swim coach exchanging nods, closing ranks to protect ... |
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Sep 4 2019, 11:35am |
"In the study, it appeared as though aspirin didn’t work [increase survival rate from a heart attack] for Libras and Geminis but halved your risk of death if... |
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Aug 30 2019, 9:34am |
"Decades later, 81 percent of these faithful white evangelical soldiers for Jesus stood up and voted for Trump, the epitome of glitz, greed and bigotry." |
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Aug 29 2019, 2:37pm |
Click through to see context for this reply from DARPA. |
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Aug 27 2019, 8:48am |
“My concentration starts to drift after a page or two. I get fidgety, lose the thread and begin to look for something else to do.” (a quote from Nicholas Car... |
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Aug 24 2019, 12:31am |
The latest 99% Invisible podcast is about the "Peace Lines" in Ireland separating the Protestants from the Catholics, and what life nearby is like. The same ... |
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Aug 21 2019, 9:16am |
Watch through for the octopus dreaming. |
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Aug 16 2019, 12:53pm |
"Tell us a few details about you and we’ll guess which political party you belong to." And then they go on to reveal the primary indicators. |
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Aug 16 2019, 12:34pm |
"The team found that people tend to secularize when four factors are present: existential security (you have enough money and food), personal freedom (you’re... |
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Aug 12 2019, 4:35pm |
This is misleading liberal propaganda. Japan has a smaller population than the USA. The last stat should be per 1M People to normalize it. So that'd be:Gun... |
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Aug 11 2019, 2:02pm |
"Navy Ditches Touchscreens for Knobs and Dials" Hallelujah! My Prius's MFD (Multi Fuction Display) has been malfunctioning for months. The car's buttons and ... |
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Aug 7 2019, 8:24am |
A lot of choice quotes in this article. Click through! One was, "The undercurrent of all this, one that few seem willing to grapple with, is that Trump has a... |
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Aug 4 2019, 4:21pm |
Like I said in 2016, "You know what legacy I want to leave my kids? Repealing the Dickey Amendment." |
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Aug 3 2019, 3:33pm |
For your daily dose of self-loathing. (Lyrics are in the comments. Some gems like: ♫ I’m the human personification of a terrible thing like giving up in the ... |
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Aug 3 2019, 2:56pm |
OMG, I can't believe I needed that! Part of my bespoke Windows backup is to make a file backup of my saved PuTTY settings. After the latest Windows 10 update... |
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Aug 2 2019, 8:43am |
Scientific study suggests that guns kill people. |
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Aug 1 2019, 7:54pm |
Better Schools Won’t Fix America |
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Aug 1 2019, 12:47pm |
An appreciation of whales. |
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Jul 29 2019, 8:35am |
US citizens do not have the right to an attorney when detained by immigration. They can hold you indefinitely and ignore your presentation of citizenship pro... |
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Jul 22 2019, 7:28am |
Mom and Dad were right. Too much TV is bad for you. |
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Jul 18 2019, 10:23am |
The 2019 Audubon Photography Awards. Click through, it's worth it. (Esp. you, Sjon Svenson) |
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Jul 17 2019, 2:08pm |
"Telling four non-white members of Congress — American citizens all, three natural-born — to 'go back' to the 'countries' they 'originally came from'? That’s... |
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Jul 16 2019, 8:43am |
Ted Cruz evidently has this backwards. As Pew Research demonstrates (link in comment), if you rely on an appeal to authority from a tax free entity serving W... |
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Jul 11 2019, 9:55pm |
An Illustrated Guide to San Francisco's Most Unusual Statues |
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Jul 9 2019, 9:03pm |
Read "Securing American Elections: Prescriptions for Enhancing the Integrity and Independence of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections and Beyond" by the Stan... |
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Jul 8 2019, 5:16pm |
Just look at that poll. Well done, Black Protestants, all college educated, and all "unaffiliated". (And you White Evangelical Protestants? You should do som... |
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Jul 6 2019, 10:16am |
"'That's Deneb, Altair and Vega' you said as you pointed out the Summer Triangle." from one of my favorite songs that references Tanabata. Happy Tanabata wee... |
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Jul 4 2019, 11:35pm |
"Fake drone-projected street signs can spoof driverless cars". Oh, that's not horrifying at all. |
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Jul 4 2019, 10:11am |
Let us always remember this item from Mad Magazine: The Ghastlygun Tinies. |
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Jul 4 2019, 8:28am |
"But no president since the Civil War has been more uninterested in the rhetoric of healing and unity than Donald Trump. It is difficult to express how deepl... |
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Jul 4 2019, 8:08am |
Happy Independence Day, Middle North America! |
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Jul 3 2019, 3:20pm |
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a sho... |
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Jul 2 2019, 8:49am |
My favorite part of this article: "'we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abrams tanks,' Trump added." Then the reporter reminds us "... |
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Jun 26 2019, 12:56pm |
If you know me, you may be surprised to learn I quite like John Green, the author of The Fault in Our Stars. (I've never read any of his YA novels, but he di... |
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Jun 26 2019, 9:04am |
We don't need to wash our clothes as often as we do. |
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Jun 25 2019, 9:03am |
Do yourself a favor and click through. I wonder if the hostile nation, the Gay and Lesbian Nation of the Coral Sea, has taken note of the Sacred Band of Theb... |
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Jun 13 2019, 3:42pm |
Never thought I'd say this, but Robert Reich is understating it a little. The president has already invited a foreign power to hack for his personal benefit. |
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Jun 13 2019, 2:21pm |
This is a delicate, miniature sculpture made from dandelion seeds by Euglena. Click through to watch how it sways in the air. |
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Jun 12 2019, 2:01pm |
"I do not want to impress you. I am ready to be nothing, in the grand scheme. I am eager to be nothing." from Gen X is Having a Very Gen X Moment. |
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Jun 12 2019, 1:56pm |
Facebook just asked me to "Please agree or disagree with the following statement: Facebook cares about its users."Its users' what? Its users' eyeballs? Sur... |
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Jun 7 2019, 4:30pm |
You guys! Coffee is good for you! "Coffee, Even a Lot, Linked to Longer Life" ❤️☕ |
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Jun 5 2019, 5:20pm |
You guys back home in Southern California stay safe! 🐞 |
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Jun 4 2019, 5:13pm |
I think the citizens of England really get Trump. They're showing him images of Obama and the USS John S McCain. |
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Jun 2 2019, 12:41am |
It's (almost) the one-year anniversary of an awesome cover of one of my favorite Perfume songs. "Flash" as performed by Girlfriend. |
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Jun 1 2019, 12:45am |
Here, let Australia explain why America needs ranked choice voting. (Click through and watch the video. Turn on the audio. It's so good.) |
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May 31 2019, 9:14am |
John Wick is a fairy. https://twitter.com/mattdoveywriter/status/1133866756756463620 h/t @zannah at Twitter |
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May 30 2019, 9:01am |
Christine Sun Kim's "English vs. Deaf English" |
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May 29 2019, 4:17pm |
Facebook's Dirty Tricks. "This is ridiculous. The only thing the incident shows is how expert Facebook has become at ... abrogating its responsibility as the... |
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May 29 2019, 8:26am |
The Trump administration is now changing climate science reports themselves to suit their agenda. (This is new. They used to just say they didn't believe the... |
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May 28 2019, 12:27pm |
The Incredible Ice Formations of Lake Baikal (worth the click-through) |
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May 28 2019, 8:19am |
I strongly agree with this part of the argument, "regardless of whether or not one believes a fetus is ethically equivalent to an adult, it doesn't obligate ... |
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May 24 2019, 7:30pm |
I can understand Jared's perspective here. Trump does come across as an abuser. Worth clicking through and reading. See if it doesn't resonate. |
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May 24 2019, 11:22am |
I like the extinction symbol. The planet with an hourglass. Don't think I can voxelize it in a a 4x4x2 voxel space, though. Hmm... |
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May 23 2019, 10:37pm |
We walked Bay To Breakers this year, and somehow someone took a photo of me that makes it look like I was running. Gonna keep this one! |
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May 22 2019, 10:50am |
I said this on Twitter, but in light of the Facebook disinformation networks, I should say it here, too: The president and the senate are refusing to defend ... |
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May 21 2019, 1:42pm |
Uber and Lyft drivers are hacking surge pricing for better fares by synchronizing when they say they're unavailable. Technically, it's "a clever use of in-ga... |
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May 21 2019, 12:16pm |
Vanlal Tochhawng, this is how Modi is described to Americans. Is it far off? |
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May 19 2019, 6:09am |
Might even be better with a little Quinoa. |
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May 18 2019, 8:17pm |
But to be clear, being gay or trans is still a sin. |
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May 18 2019, 7:13pm |
From a Republican House member, "While impeachment should be undertaken only in extraordinary circumstances, the risk we face in an environment of extreme pa... |
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May 16 2019, 6:10pm |
"Right to Work", a comic. Worth the read. |
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May 16 2019, 8:17am |
You guys. It's not that anti-abortion lawmakers don't know how women's bodies work. At all. They don't care. They're happy to see pro-choicers wring their ha... |
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May 13 2019, 9:14am |
Like streaming video? Be conscientious about it, and make time for your loved ones. (I have a problem with this, too.) |
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May 8 2019, 3:08pm |
Uber admits they need to destroy public transit, and still may never become profitable. Given that they might never make a profit, and they get those billion... |
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May 7 2019, 8:23am |
Esp. for Elliott Noel, Legit, the git graph language, with a Brainfuck interpreter, conveniently proving that Legit is Turing complete! |
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May 6 2019, 12:18pm |
Winners of the 2019 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition. You guys, click through! If only to see the pic titled "Bohemian Skirt" and read the ca... |
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May 4 2019, 4:03pm |
This looks so fun! (Folding) |
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May 4 2019, 10:18am |
I made a command-line Markdown renderer helper service thingy. |
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May 4 2019, 9:58am |
May the Fourth be with you. |
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May 2 2019, 11:36pm |
"And then you are lost. He has eaten your soul." |
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Apr 28 2019, 11:48pm |
Puuung's drawing are so inspiring! I love the architecture and angle/perspective of the images, too. |
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Apr 28 2019, 1:22pm |
A great Twitter Thread on the complicated legacy of the American Civil War. |
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Apr 27 2019, 12:30pm |
Horrifying PDF Experiments. Someone discovered that Google Documents implements enough of the PDF JavaScript API to embed breakout into a PDF document. Click... |
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Apr 25 2019, 10:22pm |
I fixed an eight-year-old security bug yesterday. |
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Apr 25 2019, 10:26am |
The government took on an indefensible position because they felt they had to oppose Snowden. Now they're walking it back. |
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Apr 25 2019, 10:25am |
Click through for the video. |
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Apr 23 2019, 11:56am |
Coachella Music Festival, where were you when I was driving through town with nothing but time on my hands for four years in the late 1980s? |
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Apr 22 2019, 8:42am |
I claimed affiliation with "American Independent" (oops, I wanted "unaffiliated") when applying for RealID, and promptly got a one-question survey call from ... |
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Apr 15 2019, 8:36am |
Happy 20th Birthday, LiveJournal! I'm glad I got the no-ads permanent account. (You hear that, Facebook? I'll pay, if you're willing to make me a customer in... |
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Apr 12 2019, 9:05am |
Note-to-self: If I were to add people to follow on Instagram, I'd consider these: |
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Apr 10 2019, 10:31pm |
Mike Kobb, had you seen this one? (Click through to see both pictures side by side.) |
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Apr 10 2019, 3:42pm |
A Photo Visit to Mount Fanjing, with two temples at the top of lonely spire called the New Golden Summit, or Red Clouds Golden Summit. (Click through for a d... |
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Apr 9 2019, 9:05am |
This is confusing, because if you scan the bill itself, it says, "The Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary’s delegate, shall continue to operate the I... |
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Apr 8 2019, 9:24pm |
This is the best visualization of something Lovecraftian I've ever seen. (Blink as you watch it for better effect.) You'll recognize Bob Ross, but your mind ... |
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Apr 8 2019, 9:05am |
Japanese artist Issei Nomura has created an ambigram that reads as the outgoing Heisei one way, and the incoming Reiwa the other. |
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Apr 6 2019, 9:42am |
I can't tell what I love more about reap.vim. It's a vim plugin that overloads the "=" command and executes Python snippets inline. But its documentation and... |
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Apr 1 2019, 9:18pm |
I have a new geeky blog post. All I try to do is maintain my web services, but everybody keeps ending or breaking theirs. |
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Mar 30 2019, 3:29pm |
Really good advice here: 20 Things Every 20-Something Should Do to Start Adulting Like a Pro |
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Mar 29 2019, 9:24am |
I really respect this man's quest. (The Oreo Aficionado) |
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Mar 29 2019, 7:44am |
Chinese censors incinerated the entire run of a kickstarted Call of Cthulhu RPG sourcebook. This is notable because the book was intended for export. As Boin... |
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Mar 28 2019, 1:51pm |
Aerial Photos Reveal the Sculptural Beauty of Japanese Highway Interchanges |
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Mar 27 2019, 5:23pm |
Lillian Blume, you'll be shocked to learn that e-charting isn't all it was proclaimed to be. |
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Mar 27 2019, 8:40am |
Amber heard, Jeremy irons and Other Names that are Just Very Short Stories. |
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Mar 26 2019, 1:42pm |
The Carrières de Lumières, or Quarries of Lights, looks fascinating! |
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Mar 23 2019, 2:24pm |
Happy National Puppy Day! |
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Mar 21 2019, 8:49am |
I love the Japanese language a little more today. I just learned the origin of "sayonara" meant "if it be thus", which reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's "so it g... |
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Mar 17 2019, 7:28pm |
Here's yet another reason I make my own backups of my social media accounts: MySpace lost all music uploaded from 2003 to 2015. (There are TWO different link... |
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Mar 9 2019, 8:00pm |
U.S. Army Assures Public That Robot Tank System Adheres to AI Murder Policy |
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Mar 5 2019, 10:33pm |
This is an archive of me throwing shade at President Obama in 2012 in a movie recommendation. |
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Mar 5 2019, 10:49am |
Finalists From Smithsonian Magazine’s 2018 Photo Contest |
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Feb 13 2019, 11:20am |
Thanks for your service, Opportunity Rover. |
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Feb 10 2019, 10:01am |
Keiichi Matsuda's hyper reality videos are the best. Worth the watch. |
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Feb 7 2019, 3:38pm |
A Photo Trip to China’s Daocheng County |
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Feb 7 2019, 12:13pm |
He didn't sign the non-disparagement agreement. (Which allows him to draw this comic showing his side of the firing, and disparaging his previous employer!) |
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Feb 5 2019, 9:01am |
"Trump is a mental health story. Reporters need to stop covering him as if he’s strictly a political one." From a journalist for Time Magazine, The Atlantic;... |
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Feb 5 2019, 7:50am |
Mapping the whole internet with Hilbert curves |
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Feb 3 2019, 12:48pm |
Superb Owl Sunday III (esp. for Sjon Svenson) |
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Jan 31 2019, 12:03am |
Leaving Facebook makes you happier and less politically polarized. |
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Jan 29 2019, 12:47pm |
The Man Who Won Capitalism. (Click through. It's a four panel comic.) |
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Jan 28 2019, 8:25am |
Me, ten years ago. Living through our three greatest fears. #10yearschallenge |
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Jan 23 2019, 1:10pm |
Winners of the 2018 Ocean Art Underworld Photo Contest. (There are a lot of candidate userpics here. I especially like 23 Roar, and 25 Curiosity.) |
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Jan 23 2019, 9:08am |
A comic. The Proudest day of Grace's life was graduating as a doctor. h/t Vanlal Tochhawng |
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Jan 22 2019, 2:43pm |
The World's Largest Single-Terminal Airport Building. (Click through.) |
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Jan 21 2019, 11:58am |
I think turtle is mad. |
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Jan 19 2019, 11:55pm |
"Smirky McFuckface and his teen klan of hooting shitheels are gonna need some harsh fucking deprogramming to get rid of the MAGA brainwashing" Sadly, there's... |
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Jan 19 2019, 10:16pm |
Desert Gin. (A comic you can read in 2m.) |
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Jan 17 2019, 9:19am |
Fivethirtyeight says I'm anti-social, surly, disrespectful, conscientious, creative and open to adventure. (As if I were a loner climber, authority hating, b... |
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Jan 16 2019, 11:52pm |
This episode of Radiolab, about one of the worst players in the NHL getting voted into the All-Star Game was really, really great. Worth the listen. |
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Jan 15 2019, 8:57am |
Huh, here's an article on Marie Kondo that doesn't hate on her or Americans. It points out how she's my polar opposite, I try to purge stuff with contempt an... |
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Oct 7 2018, 10:35am |
Another take on why not to make a protest vote. (The argument is from the Left, but point remains: Do vote for the viable candidate you prefer.) |
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Oct 6 2018, 11:19pm |
It's late Saturday night! Let's write technical blog posts! "Getting Pip working for Python 3.7 on Rasbian" |
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Oct 5 2018, 11:59pm |
"The Existential Void of the Pop-Up ‘Experience’" This reporter gets it. |
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Oct 5 2018, 10:00pm |
"What goes around, comes around." "Look at what you made me do!" - Brett KavanaughIt's not a good time to be an American woman. We'll have a very partisan ... |
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Oct 5 2018, 9:43am |
Eerie Photos of an Empty Tokyo After Typhoon Warnings |
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Oct 5 2018, 12:28am |
In just over two years, we'll be 75% of the way to the epoch fail. (We still have 20 years to prepare.) |
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Oct 4 2018, 4:21pm |
"Their cruelty made them feel good, it made them feel proud, it made them feel happy. And it made them feel closer to one another. ... Once malice is embrace... |
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Oct 4 2018, 8:51am |
This week's Scathing Atheist's diatribe reviews "God Friended Me". It's the six minutes from 2:00 to 8:35. Worth the listen. |
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Oct 3 2018, 3:32pm |
Miyu Kojima Creates Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths |
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Oct 2 2018, 4:33pm |
"the spirit of a president who celebrated America as a city on a hill that was generous abroad, welcoming to newcomers, and self-confident at home, has been ... |
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Sep 30 2018, 11:45pm |
How Books and Television Affect Your Brain Differently. A reminder that we should be deliberate about how we spend our time. It's not a perfect article, but ... |
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Sep 30 2018, 9:27am |
OMG, that Venn diagram. |
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Sep 28 2018, 7:32pm |
A fun interactive graphic that lets you zoom in on Kavanaugh's and Ford's testimony. Click through and click through! |
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Sep 28 2018, 7:51am |
You can't say that this administration is inconsistent. Along with the leaving of the White House's ethics councilor and the resignation of the head of the O... |
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Sep 26 2018, 8:39pm |
Dear young people: Don't vote. |
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Sep 19 2018, 7:44am |
I respect James Gunn's response to the credible accusations of his past actions more than I do Kavanaugh's. And Gunn still lost his job for it anyway. An exc... |
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Sep 17 2018, 8:12am |
"Thinking about Attention - Walk with Me" |
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Sep 9 2018, 1:44pm |
Tucker Carlson asks (in bad faith), "How is diversity our strength?" Noah Smith gives an answer in good faith. (Please click through for the thread. It's wor... |
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Sep 5 2018, 12:22pm |
Images of the Destruction Left by Typhoon Jebi in Japan (click through) |
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Sep 5 2018, 11:33am |
Reflections of the chambermaid. |
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Sep 5 2018, 8:53am |
How would Ajit Pai treat an ISP that favored access to one party's sites over the other's then? Now he's suggesting tech companies are censoring conservative... |
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Sep 4 2018, 11:43am |
The fire at the National Museum of Brazil was devastating. (Click through.) |
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Sep 2 2018, 6:04pm |
I'm still working on this, too. |
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Sep 2 2018, 11:24am |
" They are seething with imaginary grievances, illusory persecution complexes, in which they’ve become the victims of fictional, nightmarish enemies, with th... |
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Sep 2 2018, 10:43am |
TIL: Shooting around the net, no higher than the net is legal in tennis. What an amazing shot. |
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Sep 1 2018, 9:44pm |
The Trump administration knows which side of their bread is buttered. American farmers will be impacted by the tariffs, so they're considering subsidies for ... |
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Aug 31 2018, 12:46pm |
Reliability and consistency are requirements for building a brand. That's why some major brands can't be exceptional. |
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Aug 29 2018, 11:06pm |
Hey Rosie VanHerp! It's the 9-year anniversary of Nathan's website (Flowing Data) appearance at 10/GUI! It's in the video around 7:15 in. |
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Aug 29 2018, 12:10pm |
Wow, that's basically my current understanding. |
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Aug 25 2018, 8:44pm |
This helps explain why the Wells Fargo of the 1980s is so different that Wells Fargo today. |
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Aug 25 2018, 4:40pm |
Hacking conference organizers said kids had hacked “exact clones” of state election reporting websites, but that didn’t happen. |
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Aug 23 2018, 2:49pm |
I'm in awe of these athletes. Sepak Takraw just looks so dangerous and painful. |
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Aug 23 2018, 10:48am |
On why the lead story on FoxNews.com was not Michael Cohen’s admission that Donald Trump had instructed him to violate campaign-finance laws, but the murder ... |
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Aug 23 2018, 10:30am |
I mentioned this great answer from O'Rourke to my wife. It's worth listening to. |
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Aug 22 2018, 7:35am |
The New York Times' "The Daily" also has a devastating series on this: “Divided,” Part 1: How Family Separations Started. https://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/th... |
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Aug 19 2018, 1:37pm |
Yay! President Obama recommends Factfulness by Hans Rosling too! |
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Aug 15 2018, 8:51pm |
Yeah, Dad, as a matter of fact, I do think I'm the center of the universe. |
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Aug 13 2018, 5:21pm |
A short story from Andy Weir, "Digitocracy" |
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Aug 10 2018, 10:32am |
I wrote a thing. Don't tell my kids, but this is how I control the local network remotely. |
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Aug 7 2018, 11:40am |
Impossible Architectures: The Works of Filip Dujardin. (Click through, it's worth it.) |
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Aug 6 2018, 5:21pm |
Just so we're clear: The FCC admits it wasn't actually hacked. It was the Obama Administration that fouled things up during the Net Neutrality Reversal proce... |
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Aug 6 2018, 9:51am |
The president demonstrates his lack of compassion and contempt for science, geography, and California in one tweet. (Protip: Water west of the American conti... |
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Aug 6 2018, 7:44am |
Optimized floor plan with genetic algorithms: "The results were biological in appearance, intriguing in character and wildly irrational in practice." |
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Aug 5 2018, 9:09pm |
This month, Facebook broke (their functionality in) my Dead Man's Switch, by removing the "publish_actions" scope for their party apps. So I'll try to figure... |
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Aug 2 2018, 9:38am |
I'd just started Michael Lewis's "The Undoing Project" when the library notified me that Hans Rosling's "Factfulness" is ready for me to pick up! Woohoo! Tha... |
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Aug 1 2018, 11:27pm |
I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. How hard does Sacha Baron Cohen have to work to get these sound bites? I'm glad he kept the one incredulous con... |
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Aug 1 2018, 10:55am |
"Lukianoff and Haidt argue how gradual exposure to ‘triggering’ content has been established as an effective way to overcome responses to trauma. Trigger war... |
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Jul 29 2018, 9:47am |
If we know it feels great to have worked out, and we'll be glad to have done so, why do we want to flake every time it's time to work out again? |
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Jul 28 2018, 3:01pm |
Laptop Magazine, to my mind, the Dell XPS is better in every way than the MacBook Pro except for this dealbreaker: Screen aspect ratio. 8:5 beats 16:9 for pr... |
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Jul 28 2018, 9:34am |
"AutocarJS has a modular plugin system to allow you to add bicycle pedals to your car-bike abomination." |
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Jul 26 2018, 4:18pm |
"Everything about [the outrage over his old tweets] shouts 'bad faith.'"We're going to see a lot more of this as we get closer to election season. It won't... |
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Jul 25 2018, 6:10pm |
SEGA told Hideki Kamiya that the game character Bayonetta shouldn't have glasses, and he insisted they stayed, then gave literally every single other charact... |
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Jul 25 2018, 5:59pm |
I'm the only person in my family who liked Die Hard better than Skyscraper. Clearly, they're all wrong. History will judge them harshly. |
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Jul 25 2018, 2:40pm |
30 years ago. |
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Jul 22 2018, 1:39am |
A good lesson from Poorly Drawn Lines. |
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Jul 21 2018, 2:42pm |
So it goes. I appreciate James Gunn's statement about being fired from Guardians of the Galaxy 3. |
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Jul 17 2018, 12:42pm |
Character matters. |
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Jul 16 2018, 5:16pm |
This cannot be true. (Putin helpfully answers for Trump.) |
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Jul 16 2018, 12:35pm |
Protonmail, a secure email alternative, has a uniquely clever short URL. While user@protonmail.com works, they've also got user@pm.me. I like the natural mne... |
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Jul 12 2018, 10:02am |
This Twitter thread shows how things can go right on Twitter. Smart person shares that she learned something. Another smart person chimes in about some of th... |
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Jul 11 2018, 8:49am |
It's amusing when the title doesn't match the URL. The title here is, "Believe it or not, Trump just told the truth". But the URL is help-vladimir-the-europe... |
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Jul 9 2018, 8:45am |
Nice, to verify the E.P.A.'s curated findings, ProPublica went to the contractor testers, and reviewed the military's tests, and got a better understanding o... |
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Jul 8 2018, 9:25pm |
Wait, what? This can't be true. "If Ecuador refused to drop the resolution [supporting breastfeeding instead of substitutes], Washington would unleash punish... |
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Jul 8 2018, 5:36pm |
I'm gonna be honest: I'm only to the Madison Square Garden picture in this article about the brain and Neuralink, but I've already learned so much about the ... |
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Jul 8 2018, 3:49pm |
On information warfare and the "#walkaway" campaign: "this psychological operation ... represents a trial run for future social media manipulation efforts.... |
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Jul 6 2018, 10:41pm |
Anybody see Ant-Man and the Wasp yet? Let me know if you have. Do not read the comments if you haven't. |
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Jul 6 2018, 8:01am |
The Postal Service trolled stock image sites for a photo of the statue of Liberty, and ended up using one of the replica in Las Vegas instead of the original... |
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Jul 5 2018, 9:11pm |
A puzzle my son wrote on my Father's Day card set me on a path that reminds me why I like code development. |
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Jul 3 2018, 10:03am |
Inspiring art from Loish from her recent trip to the Cévennes in France. |
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Jul 1 2018, 12:57pm |
There are some good points in this essay, although the title is a little provocative. "How American Collapse is Powered by Modern History’s Most Backwards Id... |
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Jun 30 2018, 10:17am |
That's pretty much what I imagined Dave Grohl would say when asked if he would replace Neil Peart. Such a silly question. |
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Jun 29 2018, 9:20pm |
Airline's got me acclimated to neo grotesque Roboto.You're all probably going, Dude, just settle with Open Sans. But Roboto's got a version with the triang... |
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Jun 28 2018, 9:40pm |
Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest |
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Jun 27 2018, 11:37am |
Grace Hopper explaining and handing out nanoseconds. |
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Jun 26 2018, 2:34pm |
"Hypothetically if, while targeting [a single foreigner abroad], they happened to collect every single Gmail and every single Facebook message ... then the N... |
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Jun 24 2018, 9:48pm |
It really burns my britches to hear American politicians go on about how America's the greatest country and then also to refuse to hear criticism. Jesus, be ... |
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Jun 24 2018, 9:35pm |
"At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by thos... |
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Jun 24 2018, 9:31am |
h/t to both William Gibson and Rick Mann for sharing. This is amazing. |
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Jun 23 2018, 5:16pm |
I don't like how Security Token and Crypto don't refer to robustness and cryptography so much anymore. I have to do an intentional context switch from encryp... |
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Jun 22 2018, 10:18am |
"Only few without cellphones could escape this tireless and absolute surveillance." -From the decision in today's Supreme Court victory for the ACLU. |
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Jun 22 2018, 8:47am |
This is why I donate to ProPublica. It's effective. |
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Jun 22 2018, 8:45am |
If only there were some way to remotely and easily share something from the command line. Somebody should invent something.Protip: scp ftp mongoose webdav ... |
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Jun 19 2018, 4:23pm |
Another reason to love Legion: The finale opened with the Antihero dramatically singing The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes". Gave the song another chance to be in a... |
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Jun 18 2018, 6:59am |
Two notes on this explainer: Hashing is not encrypting. And some of those possible uses are more inefficient where we have trusted sources. (Using PGP and/or... |
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Jun 18 2018, 6:34am |
u/One_Wheel_Drive on Mexico's victory over Germany in the World Cup: "I kept referring to the German keeper as the Berlin Wall because nothing was getting th... |
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Jun 17 2018, 7:20pm |
On the one hand, it can't be as bad as this essay on The Origins of America's Unique and Spectacular Cruelty. On the other hand, the US is withdrawing from t... |
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Jun 17 2018, 4:44pm |
Went on an adventure with the kids for an early Father's Day excursion. |
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Jun 16 2018, 6:57am |
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1007753437646393345 |
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Jun 15 2018, 8:26pm |
The keywords you use to find information online can shift the ideological slant of their search results.vhttps://medium.com/s/trustissues/how-trump-voters-de... |
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Jun 15 2018, 7:11pm |
Oh, hello there little scorpion. No, you may not share our bed. Out you go. |
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Jun 14 2018, 7:25pm |
This is old, but so good. Somebody was disappointed that the guitarist from Rage Against the Machine posted something anti-Trump. His reply started with, "On... |
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Jun 9 2018, 4:03pm |
Know what I'm thankful for? Consistent keyboard shortcuts across so many applications. Vim, Facebook, GMail, Feed Reader, The Atlantic's In Focus photo journ... |
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Jun 7 2018, 9:44pm |
America Doesn’t Measure the Difference Between Good Jobs and Bad Jobs. |
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Jun 7 2018, 9:50am |
"By using such heavy material for ratings and profit and cloaking it as a means to starting conversations, we might be doing ourselves and our children a ser... |
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Jun 5 2018, 9:54pm |
Bill Gates is giving a copy of Hans Rosling's Factfulness to all college graduates this summer. I'm #72 in line for one of 8 copies at the Library. |
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Jun 2 2018, 8:38am |
On the 9.9% just under the top 0.1%, the New American Ariostocracy. "Rising immobility and rising inequality aren’t like two pieces of driftwood that happen ... |
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May 30 2018, 12:35pm |
2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest |
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May 30 2018, 8:18am |
While we're stuck in this timeline, the only thing to do is hack it. Domain experts and dedicated civil servants need to capitalize on what affects the presi... |
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May 27 2018, 7:14pm |
"Making a 3 percent profit is better if the company spends more. ... It’s like if a mom told her son he could have 3 percent of a bowl of ice cream. A clever... |
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May 27 2018, 5:58pm |
If this were really about freedom of religion it wouldn't be about ramming Christian bills through gerrymandered legislatures. And it would be about respecti... |
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May 27 2018, 9:12am |
Kneeling during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice is a bit like a guardian reminding a student to do their homework. Nobody like it, not the gu... |
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May 26 2018, 11:47pm |
From my friend in India. Because the whole world can see how ridiculous the United States is becoming. Peacefully protesting racial injustice is not disrespe... |
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May 25 2018, 7:43pm |
I really get the angst in this essay. |
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May 25 2018, 3:16pm |
"One in five migrant kids recently placed by HHS into 'foster care or whatever' have been lost." Simon Rosenberg. This is heart-wrenching. Towards the end of... |
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May 25 2018, 1:49pm |
Another Poorly Drawn Lines classic. It's just the two panels. |
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May 24 2018, 7:52pm |
/u/Chopsdixs illustrates why they're called "birds of paradise". |
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May 24 2018, 9:20am |
The boastful and passive-aggressive tone in today's letter from the American President to the Leader of North Korea is worthy of criticism. It's not presiden... |
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May 24 2018, 7:34am |
"The key to America's competitiveness isn't lower taxes; it's investments in the American people." |
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May 21 2018, 9:43pm |
Years ago, Comcast called me to say they'd send me one of their routers for free, and all I had to do was hook it up. I said "no" because of things like this. |
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May 18 2018, 8:19am |
/u/seamuswray painted Trump trying to drink water. It's so good, I don't even know what to say. If it was done on say, George Washington, Lincoln, or FDR, I'... |
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May 16 2018, 8:42am |
"When Facebook Rumors Incite Real Violence", an important and chilling episode of The New York Times' The Daily podcast. Less than 20 minutes. |
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May 15 2018, 8:35am |
Worth clicking through. To be fair, "Fatal clashes" doesn't described the one-sidedness of it. |
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May 12 2018, 1:36pm |
"Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably be... |
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May 11 2018, 7:54am |
I check my credit online three times a year, each time from a different service. Today's is Equifax, and this time they say they require my request by mail w... |
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May 9 2018, 11:58pm |
Defunding the Carbon Monitoring System gets them part of the way. They still need another Dickey Amendment, this one to "defund any research that may be used... |
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May 8 2018, 7:32am |
Mike Kobb, On this week's "This Week in Tech", Leo and Ashley fanboy over Yonatan Zunger. Ashley recommended one of his tweet storms, and Leo was all, "I lov... |
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May 7 2018, 4:58pm |
Travel Monday: A Photo Trip to Zhangjiajie. (Worth clicking through.) |
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May 6 2018, 11:49am |
Photos of Kilauea's Newest Lava Fissures on Hawaii's Big Island. |
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May 4 2018, 12:25pm |
Great excerpt from "Change Agent":[Telling an autopilot where to go] "Chiang Mai Airport, please""Why do you say 'please' to these things?""Because it's ... |
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May 4 2018, 7:43am |
Driven to Greatness |
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May 3 2018, 3:34pm |
When you visit Tokyo, be sure not to miss the The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, the largest storm drain in the world. Even their st... |
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Apr 30 2018, 9:34pm |
My family doesn't understand why writing throwaway lines like the following make me so happy:cp -rnv $backup_dir/.vim $HOME | grep " -> " | cut -d " " -f3 ... |
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Apr 30 2018, 8:19am |
The NRA is banning guns for safety, and the South Korean President says the American President should get a Nobel Peace Prize. I MADE IT BACK TO THE GOOD TIM... |
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Apr 26 2018, 12:18pm |
“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.” — Robert Waldinger, director of... |
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Apr 22 2018, 4:14pm |
I wrote a post explaining how to make the bash shell prompt responsive by using the (()) construct to evaluate $? when calculating colors. |
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Apr 21 2018, 2:23pm |
I've read a lot of criticism of James Comey, and heard two interviews. This is my favorite. Terry Gross asks two of the questions I wanted her to. 1. What wa... |
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Apr 21 2018, 2:10pm |
Was it a mistake to shut down backpage.com? As is often the case, it's complicated. Listen to this interesting podcast. https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all... |
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Apr 20 2018, 8:36am |
Please ignore Robert Reich's political leanings. Consider whether what he says is demonstrably true regardless of party affiliation. If you care about who wi... |
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Apr 19 2018, 10:20pm |
Janis Ian's "At Seventeen". A clear voice and eloquent depiction of a fragile time in life. |
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Apr 15 2018, 7:33pm |
I can't imagine what it must be like for that teenager. Helping the police and FBI, but then he was slated for deportation by ICE and marked for death. |
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Apr 15 2018, 12:46pm |
That time when Tom Cruise made UPS deliveries to show Michael Mann he could blend in. He even had lunch with a guy posing as the delivery man, and nobody kne... |
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Apr 15 2018, 7:56am |
With the latest drop of iOS, my iMessage conversations have been occurring in chronological order. (Instead of my friends' messages appearing above my latest... |
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Apr 13 2018, 1:11pm |
Something from the Monterey Bay Aquarium that Rick Mann might appreciate. |
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Apr 13 2018, 7:39am |
Joseph's most complex Rube Goldberg machine yet. The Cake Server. Worth watching. h/t Rick Mann |
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Apr 12 2018, 12:30pm |
Fallen Giants. Includes Google, Amazon, Apple, Netflix. |
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Apr 11 2018, 12:23pm |
Another great collection of photos from The Atlantic: China Viewed from Above. |
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Apr 9 2018, 5:40pm |
You guys, click through for a nice desktop vacation. Travel Monday: A Photo Trip to Meteora, Greece |
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Apr 8 2018, 7:37pm |
Kai Stinchcombe is still right about blockchain. |
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Apr 7 2018, 12:44pm |
Fair enough. |
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Apr 5 2018, 6:57pm |
Robert Reich is not wrong on this. We should be making repairs in Puerto Rico, not sending troops to the border with Mexico. |
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Apr 5 2018, 4:59pm |
I absolutely do use our library. I'm a big fan of their reservation system. |
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Apr 4 2018, 7:57pm |
I really love this one. h/t Rick Mann |
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Apr 4 2018, 1:39pm |
I don't run from my problems. I let my problems run me. |
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Apr 4 2018, 12:36pm |
April Blooms in The Atlantic's "In Focus" feature. |
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Apr 3 2018, 8:16pm |
You guys, a Game Developer Magazine format Post Mortem! I miss these and love them so much! |
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Apr 3 2018, 9:42am |
The White House's "1600 Daily" cites this Buzzfeed article on "a huge caravan of Central Americans" crossing Mexico to storm the U.S. You guys, we're under a... |
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Apr 1 2018, 5:34pm |
I wrote up a little history on the subtle evolution of my user-pic from 2D pixel art to the current voxel art version. |
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Mar 29 2018, 1:01am |
Jan Morris sounds amazing. She served in World War II, accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary when he climbed Mt. Everest, and at 90, wrote a new book about the batt... |
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Mar 26 2018, 12:31pm |
"If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings?” he asked. “War would be a thing... |
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Mar 26 2018, 9:26am |
Want to see a factlet that I'm uncomfortable with? About the relatively few men stockpiling guns: "For the most part, they don’t appear to be religious—and, ... |
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Mar 24 2018, 6:18pm |
I rendered my avatar in magicavoxel! |
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Mar 23 2018, 10:08pm |
I just downloaded my Facebook data to give it a look-see. It even shows "Advertisers with your contact info", including Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper. My top ... |
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Mar 20 2018, 11:30am |
Final tally of over 50,000 votes on "was edward snowden a patriot". |
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Mar 19 2018, 12:45am |
I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that our leak detectors actually work, and when they trigger, they emit "SOS" in Morse Code. (Cute, like th... |
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Mar 17 2018, 10:45am |
"Note: This testing does not irritate or harm the robot."Lies! That robot was peeved and will remember this. It's burying its emotions for the time being a... |
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Mar 15 2018, 10:53pm |
Why doesn't Chrome trust the certificate at https://www.convergepay.com/converge-webapp/#/login but other browsers do? |
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Mar 13 2018, 8:37am |
Given their new CIA director, this is a question many Americans are asking. (The skit is hilarious.) |
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Mar 12 2018, 8:42am |
Today's "1600 Daily" from the White House explains we should resent California because "California has obstructed Federal law and put the interests of crimin... |
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Mar 10 2018, 9:55am |
Tim suspects that Netflix is optimizing to the metric. Something that Joel Spolsky wrote about in 2002, calling it "measurement dysfunction". https://www.joe... |
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Mar 6 2018, 8:52pm |
The president said "you have to de-nuke, you have to de-nuke" to the South Korean President. Either that, or he didn't, and is lying about what he said. Are ... |
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Mar 4 2018, 8:45am |
Leonhard Euler proved the Basel Problem, that 1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + ... = π²/6. (Why is π in in?) It turns out you can intuit another proof by imagining lig... |
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Mar 3 2018, 11:09am |
I forgot how much I like songs from Rush's "Hold Your Fire" and "Roll The Bones" albums. They're not usually the first albums one thinks of. Still, I really ... |
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Mar 3 2018, 10:44am |
This is probably the most misguided Medium article I've ever read. He's not *all* wrong, but there's a lot wrong. |
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Mar 1 2018, 12:54am |
So, I update Pihole to 3.3 and it's incompatible with Raspbian Jessie. |
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Feb 28 2018, 12:19pm |
Daniel Suarez looks to be prescient again. I've just started his book Change Agent. "Synthetic biology was the transistor of the twenty-first century. Yet ... |
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Feb 26 2018, 8:23am |
Did you see the Olympic Closing Ceremonies? NBC called one of the pop artists "CK" (in the closed captions), but I think it's the same Anti-Tump activist MIL... |
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Feb 25 2018, 9:15am |
I can't tell you how much I love this one comic. |
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Feb 25 2018, 9:10am |
We need to shed more light on these people. There's no place for these hate groups. |
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Feb 25 2018, 7:47am |
"It has been suggested that these crimes justify not only banning people with a history of mental illness from buying weapons but also arming those without s... |
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Feb 24 2018, 10:57am |
Seventy five years ago last week, a group of young idealists stood up to their government, "Every honest German today is ashamed of his government ... We wil... |
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Feb 24 2018, 10:22am |
Ikigai: a Japanese concept meaning “A Reason For Being” |
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Feb 24 2018, 9:30am |
Ha, what a practical, entertaining and effective lesson. |
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Feb 18 2018, 8:37pm |
"If you joined an antivaccine group on Facebook, she observed, the platform might suggest that you join flat-earth groups or maybe ones devoted to Pizzagate—... |
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Feb 16 2018, 8:33pm |
This is a powerful Twitter thread. Click through and read it. This is the time to do something. |
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Feb 15 2018, 11:43pm |
Want to watch how trees suck up CO2 in summer, but not so much in winter? Watch a year in the life of Earth's CO2. |
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Feb 15 2018, 3:57pm |
"That’s how ridiculous our situation has become. People are starting to question whether the problem is with sending kids to school, not with pervasive acces... |
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Feb 14 2018, 10:20pm |
Did I just see Olympic skaters perform to Disturb's cover of Sound of Silence? |
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Feb 14 2018, 10:15pm |
Ha, didn't expect the cute ending. |
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Feb 14 2018, 9:20am |
Robot emotion. |
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Feb 12 2018, 8:19am |
Today's XKCD reminds me of a similar joke I made on Twitter two years ago. (You have to click this text link to get to my tweet: https://twitter.com/dblume/s... |
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Feb 11 2018, 9:24pm |
"The White Darkness: A solitary journey across Antarctica." An moving story of dedication, inspiration and perseverance. It gives you real sense for the dang... |
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Feb 11 2018, 11:10am |
Chris Newman gets it. Permaculture is part of the solution, not *the* solution. "If technology can offer decent, affordable meat to people without environmen... |
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Feb 11 2018, 10:55am |
On using Muslims as examples of perpetuators of violence to justify reauthorizing section 702 of FISA: "If the government and its allies wanted to cite cases... |
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Feb 11 2018, 9:42am |
Here's a simple, clean product I adore: ItsyCal. A tiny menu bar calendar for OS X. |
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Feb 9 2018, 8:41am |
Today's White House newsletter demonstrates why my friends just delete it. It repeated his divisive tweets:"Just signed Bill. ... This Bill is a BIG VICTOR... |
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Feb 8 2018, 4:13pm |
As posted from my friend in Belgium. (Who knows how silly America is.) |
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Feb 8 2018, 10:09am |
From today's White House "1600 Daily": "'America is a Nation [sic] of believers,' President Trump said this morning".That's like saying it's a nation of wh... |
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Feb 7 2018, 4:16pm |
Awesome candid interview with Quincy Jones."You know who sings and plays just like Hendrix? Paul Allen" |
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Feb 5 2018, 4:40pm |
This month, my first website turns 21 years old. And it's still online! It's so very web 1.0. |
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Feb 5 2018, 8:22am |
"War Dogs" and "American Made" would make a deliciously cynical double feature. |
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Feb 4 2018, 9:54am |
Some amazing photos for Suberb Owl Sunday. |
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Jan 29 2018, 9:04am |
"If you wonder why this is so important: The Holocaust didn't start with people being rounded up and being dragged into camps. It didn't start with the murde... |
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Jan 27 2018, 10:23am |
It's devastating that power has protected those that do harm for so long. |
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Jan 25 2018, 6:58pm |
Awesome. Snopes reports the same story. Love it. |
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Jan 25 2018, 10:42am |
There are some salient points in this short video. "Is there something wrong with democracy?" |
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Jan 25 2018, 9:17am |
The Department of Health and Human Service's new office of "Conscience and Religious Freedom" protects the right to refuse healthcare to the LGBTQ community. |
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Jan 23 2018, 12:29pm |
Shocking new study correlates increased happiness with playing sports and hanging out IRL. |
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Jan 20 2018, 9:48am |
After voting a belligerent TV personality president, this doesn't seem so far off course. |
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Jan 19 2018, 10:27am |
When this rolled into my inbox, it took me a few seconds before I realized it was satire. How sad a statement is that? |
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Jan 18 2018, 9:16am |
Suppose there's an emergency and your family's access to the internet and phones is down. How does your family get in touch? Where do they go? Make a plan, a... |
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Jan 16 2018, 8:41pm |
My favorite song by Perfume is "Edge". In the US, they could reserve the Warfield in San Francisco (about 2300 seats). Here they are in Japan closing out the... |
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Jan 16 2018, 12:25pm |
Gorgeous images of Jupiter's endlessly swirling atmosphere. What is even happening there? |
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Jan 14 2018, 11:03am |
"The job of libraries is to keep primary documents safe so that they will be there when new insights and technologies make it possible to answer questions we... |
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Jan 13 2018, 5:22pm |
The 10-year bet between Warren Buffett and Protege Partners is over! Girls Incorporated of Omaha is going to get $2,200,000.00 because Buffett won! |
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Jan 13 2018, 12:11pm |
Facebook can't remember my setting "Most Recent" instead of "Top Stories". They've (long ago) deprecated the "read_stream" permission from their graph API fo... |
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Jan 12 2018, 12:37am |
Re Twitter: "limit messages to 140 characters and that happens to create, unintentionally, a subtlety-free indignation machine""Both Twitter and Facebook’s... |
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Jan 11 2018, 11:09pm |
For everyone who has to work the night shift. |
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Jan 11 2018, 9:02pm |
James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop passed away a few days ago. Today is the 5th anniversary of Aaron Swartz's suicide. I have much love for their survivor... |
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Jan 11 2018, 3:50pm |
"In the hands of the Bust Administration this framework was a template to apply indiscriminately to any and all of the military confrontations they had long ... |
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Jan 10 2018, 6:03pm |
President Trump's challenge coin is very fitting. |
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Jan 9 2018, 11:06am |
"5 College Life Hacks Everyone Should Know" Forgive me for sharing a listicle. But it's not wrong. |
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Jan 6 2018, 2:07pm |
You know who else was a "stable genius"? Mr. Ed. |
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Jan 3 2018, 2:31pm |
"The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequenc... |
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Jan 2 2018, 8:49pm |
"Honey, you're doing it wrong. Use long consistent strokes.""No! Short and fast!"--My wife and I on how to use the squeegee on the shower glass. |
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Dec 31 2017, 11:57am |
This needs to be better understood by all: 'Session replay' scripts record everything (including passwords, personal info, etc), like someone looking over yo... |
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Dec 30 2017, 10:42am |
"Trump’s legacy will be exposing the patina of decency for what it is and revealing just how much a demagogue can get away with. It does not take much to ima... |
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Dec 29 2017, 11:22pm |
This is very much worth your time. It sheds light on why people seem to have less trust nowadays, and if there's anything we can do about it. |
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Dec 28 2017, 8:45am |
Ha, for my birthday I learned that Owarimonogatari Season 2 is on Crunchyroll. Which is funny, because owarimonogatari translates to something like "story of... |
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Dec 24 2017, 3:06pm |
This article says what I've been thinking about the blockchain, and goes on to back its case. |
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Dec 24 2017, 9:12am |
On this: Trump, talking about the tax bill, told friends at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago Friday night, "You all just got a lot richer.” |
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Dec 23 2017, 5:53pm |
"Our president's crazyDid you hear what he saidBusiness and pleasureLie right to your face"Talking Heads, "Making Flippy Floppy" in 1983 when Ronald Rea... |
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Dec 23 2017, 11:31am |
Lillian Blume, we've got to try this! |
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Dec 22 2017, 4:53pm |
How many years ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? |
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Dec 22 2017, 12:28pm |
On the pleasant experience living in a country where there's security in healthcare, education, childcare, sensible work requirements and public works. And w... |
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Dec 21 2017, 10:34pm |
"I am saddened that our government has become so dominated by pro-gun lobbyists that an appointment such as mine — which has no responsibility for gun contro... |
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Dec 21 2017, 10:25pm |
...and affordable higher educationand universal health careand to be able to retireand for people to be able to find work |
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Dec 21 2017, 10:52am |
"It’s easy to forget that a proven lie used to be met with a correction or an apology, not self-righteous defensiveness.It’s easy to forget that faith in g... |
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Dec 21 2017, 7:46am |
One year ago, I was proud of our federal government for enacting a law that says, "a country's practice of routinely denying visa applications for religious ... |
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Dec 20 2017, 10:48pm |
"Second decade of the 21st Century. Corporations rule." The daily news, or Johnny Mnemonic? |
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Dec 20 2017, 5:36pm |
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/943587725122441216 |
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Dec 20 2017, 5:24pm |
https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/943542778968944640 |
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Dec 20 2017, 11:31am |
"don’t let your despair turn into cynicism about our ability to turn this around. That’s what they want most of all -- for the rest of us to become so discou... |
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Dec 20 2017, 10:09am |
"We fundamentally wish that people from our past cared about us, and if we can't start that cycle of caring about our future then nobody will." Alexander Ros... |
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Dec 20 2017, 8:15am |
"The purpose of this tax cut is not to raise wages or stimulate the economy. Corporate tax cuts are pretty much the worst way to do that. The purpose is to r... |
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Dec 18 2017, 2:00pm |
Tomorrow, Dec 19th, marks the 33rd anniversary of the horrific car crash that killed five El Centro teens and CUHS students after they went to a party. For t... |
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Dec 18 2017, 1:25pm |
"Under previous administrations, Republican and Democratic alike, Southerland said staffers could make their case to agency leaders, presenting the scientifi... |
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Dec 18 2017, 12:43pm |
In 1929, a government decided that an important area of research, one that the worldwide scientific community had been working on for decades, was wrong. Ins... |
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Dec 17 2017, 2:35pm |
On the repeal of Net Neutrality: There are two "pro-repeal Title II" Express comments from my brother's name, entered a month after he died, from fake out-of... |
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Dec 17 2017, 11:48am |
One of my favorite actresses of all time, Salma Hayek, on her experience with Harvey Weinstein. |
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Dec 17 2017, 9:25am |
"That makes me smart." President Trump on not paying taxes. He got a last-minute real estate deal into the Tax Plan, too. |
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Dec 15 2017, 7:14pm |
What possible motive could the Trump administration have for refusing the Center for Disease Control (CDC) from using the phrases "evidence based" and "scien... |
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Dec 14 2017, 11:47pm |
Jólabókaflóð is an Icelandic tradition where people give each other books for Christmas, and "everyone reads the books they have been given straight away, of... |
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Dec 14 2017, 10:34am |
1.4 billion (and counting) clear text credentials discovered in a handy single database, with a running list of new sources cited. The database maintainer ac... |
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Dec 13 2017, 8:40pm |
This is the post I needed. "Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs" |
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Dec 13 2017, 12:33pm |
"Seven Years", by Randall Munroe, whose fiancée was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. |
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Dec 13 2017, 8:25am |
Really interesting charts are the ones regarding born-again Christians, college educated voters, and white voters vs. black voters. I guess it makes sense th... |
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Dec 13 2017, 7:29am |
Today's "1600 Daily", the White House newsletter, boasts about the large increase in military spending, "one of the largest defense spending increases since ... |
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Dec 12 2017, 5:33pm |
Winners of the 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest |
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Dec 10 2017, 1:58pm |
On making amazing horror films on a small budget and just a few actors: I strongly recommend "The Autopsy of Jane Doe". Some of the scariest empty hallways i... |
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Dec 10 2017, 9:09am |
Five cartoonists on guns in the U.S.A. |
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Dec 9 2017, 11:03pm |
“'What shall it profit a man,' Jesus asked, 'if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?' The current Republican Party seems to not under... |
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Dec 8 2017, 2:29pm |
Hopeful images from 2017. Worth clicking through! |
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Dec 8 2017, 9:18am |
On comparing school districts based on proficiency levels and growth rates instead of standardized tests. (You can enter your local school district and see h... |
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Dec 7 2017, 12:59pm |
"Why would you ever expect network neutrality to survive within a government that has so completely given up on democratic neutrality?" - Lawrence Lessig |
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Dec 7 2017, 12:26pm |
tl;dr: Transition away from .dev (a newly SSL-only TLD) and use .test, .localhost, and .invalid instead. |
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Dec 7 2017, 8:46am |
"...at some point, you're going to compare a string and a Date, and JS doesn't know how to do that. Its response is to convert both to numbers, presumably on... |
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Dec 5 2017, 4:12pm |
The command line tool "jq" is handy. |
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Dec 5 2017, 11:19am |
One of my favorite Advent Calendars. |
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Dec 4 2017, 10:11pm |
https://twitter.com/ChristnNitemare/status/937773211256844288 |
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Dec 4 2017, 10:04pm |
"Be wary of anyone who tells you the only options are to attack them now or attack them later. For the last 50 years the USA has blundered into a nearly unbr... |
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Dec 3 2017, 4:56pm |
Here's a wonderful post about the relationship between overpopulation and environmental issues. When faced with the issue of overpopulation, some veer toward... |
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Dec 3 2017, 3:05pm |
Rosie VanHerp, Lillian Blume, this is the story where Project Veritas tried to catfish the Washington Post with an actress who claimed to be in a relationshi... |
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Dec 1 2017, 1:06pm |
Note to self: Next time I have to send a fax, just do it with a curl request via Phaxio. No more trips to FedEx or Kinkos. |
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Nov 29 2017, 1:42pm |
I want a climbable bookshelf! |
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Nov 29 2017, 8:45am |
"So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop... |
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Nov 29 2017, 8:33am |
No it' not. That doesn't make sense. That's horrible misdirection. And yes you did. |
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Nov 27 2017, 9:12pm |
ComCast on charging tolls for Internet fast lanes with the Net Neutrality Repeal. "We never will, but it's very important that we are able to. But we won't. ... |
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Nov 25 2017, 12:43pm |
One of the things I'm grateful for is the Open Source Software attitude held by developers like the late Pieter Hintjens, creator of ZeroMQ. Here's one of hi... |
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Nov 22 2017, 10:39am |
We're getting closer to checkmate for the Republicans. By silencing scientists, removing access to scientific data, declaring corporations personhood, removi... |
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Nov 20 2017, 9:17pm |
"If a police officer ever tries to give you a speeding ticket, do not tell him that you are the Kwisatz Haderach and You Can See Where No Bene Gesserit Can S... |
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Nov 20 2017, 4:35pm |
Probably the most unsettling Zen Pencils yet. But it's timely. William Blake's "A Poison Tree" illustrated by Gavin Aung Than. |
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Nov 20 2017, 2:05pm |
Winners of the 2017 Epson International Pano Awards. Click through, you'll be glad you did. |
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Nov 19 2017, 8:27pm |
How companies encourage you to binge-watch, and how to stop binge-watching from ruining your life. |
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Nov 17 2017, 7:35am |
No, really, how shortsighted is Trump? "Where do his hands go" with regard to sexual misconduct? How did he think his opponents would respond? Trump's not ca... |
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Nov 14 2017, 9:08am |
Details of the tax bill going through Congress, by Michael Linden, Fellow at Roosevelt Inst., Policy & Research Director at the Hub Project. |
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Nov 13 2017, 3:14pm |
The Humorous Self-Portraits of 89-Year Old Kimiko Nishimoto |
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Nov 11 2017, 9:39pm |
Donald Trump called the 20 women who went on the record and accused him of harassment "liars," and suggested they were not attractive enough to harass and vo... |
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Nov 11 2017, 9:35am |
Saejin started off doing an art piece redo of something cheesecake from 2010, and said, "it just kept getting weird until the end". I even love that the YouT... |
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Nov 10 2017, 1:56am |
Michael Lewis has a fascinating series of articles in Vanity Fair about the transition to Trump's presidency. This is a great interview with him and Dave Dav... |
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Nov 9 2017, 9:06pm |
Ha, ha, yeah, Trump's nominee to lead the Council on Environmental Quality won't affirm that water expands when heated, for political reasons. The point to w... |
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Nov 7 2017, 7:19am |
A satellite monitoring the Arctic broke. We had a replacement ready and paid for. Congress ordered it dismantled. Good news, the more the U.S. blocks educati... |
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Nov 6 2017, 5:40pm |
The Onion continues to make its point. Only the dates, places and numbers change. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. |
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Nov 6 2017, 9:07am |
This article inadvertently serves to remind us that Edward Snowden was actually a patriot and a hero. |
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Nov 5 2017, 9:17am |
Even the creator of one of the world's most popular manga is a fan of Blade of the Immortal's creator. Here's "Hiroaki Samura (Blade of the Immortal) in conv... |
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Nov 5 2017, 8:33am |
In case you missed it, this season's Starbucks Holiday Cup design is a mostly white cup that celebrates two red Starbucks Holiday Cups in its design (at the ... |
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Nov 4 2017, 3:27pm |
Takashi Miike adapted one of my favorite comics of all time, Blade of the Immortal. I followed that comic for years until its bloody end. Go see it. |
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Nov 4 2017, 10:41am |
Whoohoo! Chrome stable channel update 62.0.3202.75 reverted to the behavior where new tabs start with the Ominbox's text already selected, so your first key ... |
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Nov 2 2017, 11:32pm |
In the U.S., the head of the E.P.A. invoked God while barring domain experts from speaking on science, while in New Zealand, the Prime Minister chose not to ... |
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Nov 2 2017, 12:16pm |
Worth clicking through. 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest, Part II. |
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Oct 31 2017, 8:20am |
Sarah Sanders explains that if we don't like the tax cut for the rich, then the rich can just walk away and not pay, and then we'll be sorry. This is the Whi... |
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Oct 30 2017, 10:00am |
"Donald Trump has created an unprecedented power vacuum in the United States. ... Donald Trump is America’s Boris Yeltsin. The manufacture of a power vacuum,... |
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Oct 27 2017, 8:50am |
"Being friends with white people always involves a fair amount of overlooking ignorance and assuming good intentions. We can’t swear you off altogether becau... |
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Oct 26 2017, 4:37pm |
"He doesn’t just risk conflict or catastrophe, but also the poisoning of a generation with apathy, cynicism, and resentment." |
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Oct 24 2017, 2:27pm |
"The president just mouths off at turns ignorantly and dishonestly, and nobody pays much attention to it" |
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Oct 24 2017, 12:12pm |
This stuff is important, and more people should understand and care. WPA2 was kracked because it was based on a closed standard that you needed to pay to rea... |
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Oct 22 2017, 5:05pm |
On demonizing neither the assaulter nor the victim:"I became a fan of restorative justice. Not because I am some kind of soft-on-crime libtard, but because... |
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Oct 21 2017, 3:00pm |
'Awful as the grifterish mentality and behavior may be, worse is the other part of kakistocracy—inept, corrupt, and disruptive governance." |
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Oct 18 2017, 9:48am |
Yesterday was America's National Pasta Day! So many Flying Spaghetti Monster and separation of church and state jokes missed. Oh well, hopefully next year! |
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Oct 17 2017, 8:33pm |
Natalie Merchant's "Wonder", a gentle song and a video that celebrates women, caring and diversity. |
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Oct 15 2017, 9:24am |
"In the best moments, I think of my scripts as love letters to artists. I want to give them the best story possible so that they will have the best time poss... |
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Oct 11 2017, 9:33am |
Great nighttime satellite shots to demonstrate how most of Puerto Rico has been in the dark for over 21 days. |
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Oct 10 2017, 2:39pm |
Lawrence Lessig's post starts off like it's going to be supportive of Clinton's "What Happened" but by the end it's pretty scathing (not just of her). |
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Oct 9 2017, 10:06am |
"I find regulations around nonsensical categories like 'assault weapons' (a term made up for political press, not actually a kind of gun), or the 'we demand ... |
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Oct 5 2017, 5:15pm |
Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2017 Click through, you'll be glad you did. |
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Oct 3 2017, 8:31pm |
"So nothing gets done, and preventable deaths keep occurring." |
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Oct 3 2017, 8:39am |
"Americans nationwide agreed that years of taking no measures whatsoever to prevent mass shootings may finally be paying off." |
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Oct 1 2017, 5:22pm |
"Apparently, whatever sleep does, it's so basic to survival that even diffuse neural networks need to do it." Yonatan Zunger |
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Oct 1 2017, 5:03pm |
If I were Kim Jong-un, I'd consider the president's words. Maybe it really is a waste of time to negotiate with the United States while Trump is its presiden... |
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Sep 30 2017, 5:12pm |
At our local CERT class (it's "SAFE" in Milpitas) we got to the part about checking for medical conditions by looking for medical alert bracelets before assi... |
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Sep 29 2017, 10:36pm |
Nice of YouTube to show me this 2017 Remastered Bladerunner album. I can't believe it's 35 years old. Vangelis's music is ageless. |
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Sep 29 2017, 6:16pm |
A little National Coffee Day trivia for you: By the gram of coffee beans, my cold brew (30g/cuppa) is half as efficient as my AeroPress (15g/cuppa). But cold... |
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Sep 29 2017, 7:23am |
Happy National Coffee Day! ☕ |
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Sep 27 2017, 10:52am |
Enrollment for 2018 Affordable Care Act (ACA / Obamacare) starts November 1 and ends December 15. Trump reduced the advertising funds by 90% to announce when... |
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Sep 26 2017, 9:53pm |
Wise words. Your stuff has little value. |
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Sep 26 2017, 7:46pm |
The anime Blade Runner Black Out 2022 is out. |
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Sep 26 2017, 9:00am |
How does our current president's race baiting and war mongering compare to that of previous modern presidents? |
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Sep 25 2017, 8:49am |
"Donald Trump does not give a shit about whether or not anyone stands, kneels ... on the American flag" Caitlin JohnstoneI don't actually like Caitlin John... |
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Sep 23 2017, 12:35am |
Analyze the movie "mother!" all you want. It's a perfect example of the terribleness of other people when you're an introvert. |
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Sep 18 2017, 10:18pm |
You guys, take a moment and absorb this: We literally have to cache science away from America while Trump is president. How did we ever allow this to become ... |
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Sep 16 2017, 9:44pm |
I just listened to Rage Against the Machine's 1999 song, "Sleep Now In The Fire", (sorta) performed live on Wall Street where some guy holds up a "Trump for ... |
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Sep 16 2017, 10:56am |
Even-handed and educational. Know your hate groups. Some icons started out that way, some didn't. |
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Sep 16 2017, 9:14am |
Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo fame is directing a short Blade Runner anime. |
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Sep 13 2017, 12:58pm |
Zannah Aensland, Loish's second kickstarter got funded in four minutes. |
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Sep 12 2017, 9:44pm |
A FOIA document shows the Heritage Foundation wrote to Sessions & said voter fraud commission should exclude Democrats & "mainstream Republicans" |
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Sep 11 2017, 8:02pm |
h/t Zannah Aensland |
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Sep 11 2017, 8:24am |
The hovertext is on the nose, too. |
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Sep 8 2017, 11:33pm |
I see what the LGBT community is going through in Australia with the postal plebiscite, and at first I think, that's one thing that America actually settled ... |
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Sep 7 2017, 9:13am |
"In the meantime, please enjoy watching this robot fall over" ...and fail to block the ball. There's something I really love about that. |
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Sep 6 2017, 11:58am |
Got to see the X level 9.something solar flare happening now. |
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Sep 3 2017, 3:08pm |
h/t David Johansson |
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Aug 31 2017, 9:15am |
I subscribe to the President's "1600 Daily" and it asks that we share this page of Hurricane Harvey Rumor Control. |
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Aug 31 2017, 9:08am |
I love things like this: Replicating a big government projects with open source software. |
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Aug 21 2017, 10:17am |
I keep snifffing for the smoke and ash. When the sky is like this, that means a forest fire, right? |
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Aug 21 2017, 8:45am |
Your iris has a sphincter muscle. |
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Aug 20 2017, 12:16pm |
It's sort of reassuring to know that even the Japanese can foul up Godzilla as much as the Americans. I just watched Shin Godzilla, and while it came closer ... |
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Aug 18 2017, 9:02pm |
What's the last four weeks been like for the U.S. President? Here's a handy review! |
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Aug 16 2017, 7:53pm |
Have you guys heard about "crown shyness"? It's when trees create rivers of open space between their crowns so that trees don't overlap each others' branches... |
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Aug 15 2017, 9:01pm |
Trump is saying there are ways to be good, intolerant White Supremacists. This is not OK. This intolerance extends to attitudes about gender, gender identity... |
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Aug 15 2017, 4:05pm |
"The admissions procedures at these schools don’t determine which students get the benefit of a better education; the perception of a better education is its... |
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Aug 14 2017, 8:43am |
"We will not be replaced!" If not, can you be educated and corrected then? |
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Aug 12 2017, 9:09pm |
Pro-Tip: Suppose the .srt subtitle track you're trying to use just isn't working. It might be in an encoding your video player doesn't understand. Open it in... |
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Aug 11 2017, 12:25am |
Quick: Trump on opioid abuse: Is this quote satire or not? "The opioid crisis is an emergency and I'm saying officially right now it is an emergency. We're g... |
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Aug 4 2017, 3:23pm |
Inspiring and quirky ballpoint pen drawings of Japan by Yukihiro Tada. |
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Aug 1 2017, 9:50am |
Click through, you'll be glad you did. |
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Aug 1 2017, 9:03am |
"Court costs and other semi-official aspects of the legal system do not plunge people into life-altering cycles of debt by accident. These have always been t... |
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Jul 31 2017, 8:25am |
On Surfing, parallel parking, software projects and the sunk cost fallacy:Chris Baus recently wrote "I consider software projects to be like surfing. Your ... |
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Jul 29 2017, 8:41am |
From this reddit discussion of what McCain did to the reconciliation bill: "So McCain was actually the fucking hero all along?" "McCain just pulled a Snape." |
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Jul 27 2017, 10:56pm |
"When we have been pushed down for so long, it can become impossible to see whose hands are keeping us there. Is it really welfare queens or immigrant labore... |
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Jul 27 2017, 10:54pm |
I don't know when I'm ever going to go back to hot coffee. I've been drinking iced cold brew for the past few weeks, and today I just had my first iced cold ... |
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Jul 22 2017, 8:55pm |
"Trump’s statement in early 2016 that he “could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and… wouldn’t lose voters” has turned out to be prescien... |
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Jul 20 2017, 7:43pm |
"The Trump administration didn’t think my years of science and policy experience were better suited to accounts receivable. It sidelined me in the hope that ... |
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Jul 19 2017, 8:39am |
Our master negotiator businessman of a president didn't bring his own interpreter to the secret meeting with Putin? How is that even...? How could you not, i... |
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Jul 14 2017, 8:05pm |
"White House releases sensitive personal information of voters worried about their sensitive personal information" |
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Jul 13 2017, 9:55am |
Vanlal Tochhawng, have you heard this episode of Revisionist History about the 1943 Bengali famine? |
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Jul 11 2017, 7:58am |
Here’s every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime. |
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Jul 10 2017, 10:07am |
"Culture and values flow from the top, like in any hierarchal organization. Since long before he became President, Trump has been setting personal loyalty as... |
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Jul 10 2017, 8:48am |
Oh, wow. This is intriguing. First I've heard of it. |
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Jul 7 2017, 8:08am |
"So now, when Trump flagrantly violates ethics rules, breaks laws on a daily basis, and even conspires against his own country, there is sweet fuck-all to be... |
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Jul 3 2017, 10:30pm |
My big brother, Randy, called me on Friday afternoon, talking about investing and taking care of his family. He said that he dreamt about Mom and Dad, and th... |
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Jul 3 2017, 8:42am |
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-real-reason-the-elites-keep-killing-single-payer-1fbaa24c2c22 |
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Jul 1 2017, 11:19am |
Flip up sights for an AR on the side of a C9 for holding it sideways while shooting. Close them when jabbing it forward while shooting, open them when you wa... |
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Jun 29 2017, 8:31pm |
"The Court today ... leads us instead to a place whereseparation of church and state is a constitutional slogan,not a constitutional commitment. I dissent.... |
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Jun 28 2017, 8:34am |
We're still happy customers of rsync.net, backing up from Linux, macOS, and Windows to their servers. I don't benefit from this endorsement, but in this time... |
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Jun 28 2017, 8:04am |
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.To be led by a fool is to be led by... |
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Jun 27 2017, 7:34am |
It starts with "This is my daughter Rebecca in 2013. She was 5¼ years old when I took this, and less than three days later, she almost died on an ER bed." a... |
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Jun 25 2017, 11:20pm |
I really like the idea behind Reddit's r/changemyview. You post your view on something, and invite others to respectfully change your view. If they succeed, ... |
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Jun 24 2017, 5:04pm |
I overlayed the post-election Trump Rally locations over the New York Times' article about which counties most resemble the past vs. those that most resemble... |
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Jun 24 2017, 1:12pm |
Kevin Drum's thoughtful critique of Trumpcare. |
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Jun 23 2017, 2:56pm |
"The motto of the United States is not, in fact, “Fuck you, I got mine.” It was, and should have remained, “E Pluribus Unum” — out of many, one. We’re all Am... |
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Jun 19 2017, 9:56pm |
Oh, man, my inner 14yo can't stop laughing. |
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Jun 16 2017, 10:51pm |
Every time I think of diving into JavaScript, I see a video like this that shows various handy ways of avoiding confusion because the value of "this" is dete... |
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Jun 15 2017, 7:19pm |
That wail in Wonder Woman's theme song is supposed to be evocative of a Banshee wail. |
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Jun 15 2017, 1:45pm |
From the winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2016. Here's a direct link to the climbing photo: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/06/winners-of-... |
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Jun 14 2017, 12:03am |
"I believe that [Alex Honnold's free solo ascent of El Capitan] should also be celebrated as one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever." |
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Jun 9 2017, 6:07pm |
I think Americans would be wise to pretend President Trump said this, and to reflect on what they think is right. It's a straight-up surrender of some human ... |
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Jun 9 2017, 11:53am |
"Will there be a hearing on the health care proposal?" I'm not a fan of images of text, but this is too important not to share. (Taken for a transcript of th... |
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Jun 6 2017, 8:06pm |
"What we do know is clear: Winner is accused of serving as a journalistic source for a leading American news outlet about a matter of critical public importa... |
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Jun 5 2017, 9:10am |
Good local leaders start the process to recoverty. |
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Jun 4 2017, 8:58pm |
"What the world needs is for the U.S. to stay in the Paris Accords." -- Alex Honnold on the importance of having free-soloed El Cap. (I'm not kidding. It's ... |
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Jun 3 2017, 10:13am |
"The Dianas grew in number, emboldened by Teen Vogue thinkpieces." |
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Jun 3 2017, 8:57am |
I accidentally let my letsencrypt certificate expire because I didn't want a cronjob with root privileges doing the renewal. But now I've set up root's cronj... |
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May 28 2017, 1:45pm |
Just imagine having this play structure at your local park, where the kids who wanted to, could try climbing that overhang. |
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May 18 2017, 9:40am |
A blog post combining two of my favorite things: Climbing Gyms and SketchUp. |
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May 16 2017, 9:24pm |
We still live in that ridiculous era where contractors email you a PDF and expect you to print, sign, and fax it back. |
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May 15 2017, 10:09am |
From someone who directly addressed the issue at a social network on how, if hate speech is de facto legal, it silences the weak and amplifies the powerful: ... |
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May 13 2017, 8:22pm |
I just got an email from someone claiming to be a contract killer and I'm on their list, but I can buy my way out. Usually I delete spam, but I don't like ha... |
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May 13 2017, 7:44pm |
So, the global ransomware thing enabled by the U.S. NSA was accidentally stopped by an analyst? (They registered a domain that the ransomware required to be ... |
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May 12 2017, 7:31am |
I just watched Scorsese's powerful movie, "Silence", with Kylo Ren, Spider-Man, and that guy who has a "particular set of skills" in the movie Taken.It's g... |
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May 11 2017, 2:29am |
A possible win for 2020 gerrymandering and policy making without data. Perhaps his replacement will be a believer that 800,000 fake votes went for Clinton, a... |
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May 7 2017, 9:27pm |
My nephew was looking at getting a Batarang fidgit spinner. I told my son he could get a fidgit spinner too, but only if it was a Krull fidgit spinner. He lo... |
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May 6 2017, 1:39pm |
Today's "1600 Daily" links to Trump's "Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty", but if you read it, it reads like Citizen's United for C... |
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May 6 2017, 10:08am |
“We’re going to win so much, [when] you’re going to be so sick [we the rich will be] winning.” - President Trump [predicting the money transfer made possibly... |
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May 3 2017, 8:54am |
Another inspiring Zen Pencils: "Nicola Tesla: Visions of the Future." |
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May 1 2017, 6:12pm |
"I didn't say, 'don't test a missile.' He's going to have to do what he has to do. But he understands we're not going to be very happy. ... Perhaps nothing's... |
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Apr 27 2017, 9:37am |
Feeling optimistic about trends in technology and industry? This is the cure. The title is misleading, it's not a listicle and it's not about Silicon Valley.... |
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Apr 24 2017, 8:58am |
I still receive "Your 1600 Daily" and read the occasional full interview transcript with Trump. And I can see how there's the occasional difference of unders... |
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Apr 23 2017, 12:13pm |
Steve Ballmer recently released USAFacts, and I'm really interested in what we can do with it. "USAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American popula... |
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Apr 21 2017, 7:43pm |
How can you not respect ProPublica? They've just released a report on staff diversity. They're going to get some just criticism. But that's the point, isn't ... |
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Apr 21 2017, 9:10am |
Thanks, Ireland, for calling attention to the console command correcting tool thefuck. https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck (As seen in https://medium.com/@hoffa/... |
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Apr 21 2017, 7:22am |
I needed this. Thanks, Vanlal Tochhawng. |
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Apr 19 2017, 8:16pm |
Val M Jamora, have you seen the John Coltrane quote? |
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Apr 19 2017, 8:15am |
TIL: Disney perpetuated the Lemming Suicide myth by staging one in the documentary White Wilderness. Next time I play the computer game Lemmings, I'll say, "... |
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Apr 16 2017, 11:44pm |
Katsushika Hokusai on aging: "When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs, but all I have done before the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 7... |
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Apr 16 2017, 9:55pm |
There's no fix for this in Chrome yet. Best to view the URLs in a text-only editor to detect punycode, to avoid phishing. |
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Apr 16 2017, 10:39am |
Watching my guilty pleasure, iZombie, right in the middle of some pretty good tech babble, "So I bytemapped an image of the OS footprint, loaded up a hex edi... |
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Apr 15 2017, 8:54pm |
"Reznor was sent [Johnny Cash's cover of 'Hurt'] while in the studio with Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha, and, when the pair sat down to watch i... |
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Apr 15 2017, 8:37pm |
Microsoft's excellent response to the Shadow Brokers disclosure. |
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Apr 13 2017, 11:09pm |
Good or bad, I'd prefer to see transition records maintained and in the public, even government social media accounts. We all make mistakes. I think it looks... |
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Apr 13 2017, 10:24pm |
This is going to end well. |
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Apr 13 2017, 9:00am |
I just read JavaScript's Prototypal Inheritance explained with SASS (CSS extension). So weird to think of people coming in from using CSS extensions first, t... |
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Apr 9 2017, 3:14pm |
How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers' Buttons. It's got edifying JavaScript interactive games. And what I've seen so far is rational behavi... |
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Apr 6 2017, 10:17pm |
I love Zen Pencils. The latest is about Frida Kahlo. |
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Apr 5 2017, 8:45am |
"I told him, 'I want to show you a movie to help you understand my culture and my people,' and I showed him John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China." |
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Apr 5 2017, 8:23am |
Let's remember to keep things in perspective. Trump would still have a ways to go to achieve being our worst president. This is a good read. |
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Apr 4 2017, 10:50pm |
President Trump issued a press release about the sarin gas attack in Syria, and manages to squeeze in a "Thanks, Obama" right in there. Classy, Mr. President. |
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Apr 4 2017, 7:52am |
Respect to the Christian clergy who followed up and said they should own this. We all need to own up if we want to move forward together. |
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Apr 2 2017, 6:19pm |
The first in a four-part series. Note, the Times is not calling for blanket “non-cooperation” with the Trump administration. But it is trying to work within ... |
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Mar 31 2017, 8:34am |
The pairing of "Cheetos" for "All the President's Men" was my responsibility. |
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Mar 29 2017, 8:57am |
These past few weeks, the United States have been working in opposition to this noble goal of the Code of Hammurabi: "so that the strong should not harm the ... |
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Mar 28 2017, 11:29am |
"The White House is calling for immediate budget cuts of $18 billion from programs like medical research, infrastructure and community development grants to ... |
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Mar 26 2017, 6:00pm |
Gina Trapani nailed my JavaScript experience and fears:1. It started off as a cute language on the client side.2. Then became kinda clever with jQuery.3.... |
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Mar 25 2017, 10:38pm |
President Trump really is unhinged. Read his interview with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer. Some choice quotes:(On the topic of Time magazine... |
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Mar 23 2017, 7:56pm |
New Gorillaz album coming! |
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Mar 22 2017, 8:35pm |
They're called "violin plots", and they visualize probability distributions. But that's never what I see. |
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Mar 21 2017, 9:09pm |
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-partisan research and policy institute assess H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act. |
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Mar 21 2017, 8:57am |
Regarding Tomi Lahren's suspension: "as a Republican ... I’m for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well."I don... |
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Mar 21 2017, 7:27am |
Elliott Noel, these seem fine, right? |
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Mar 19 2017, 12:39pm |
Some of my Indian friends were critiquing the article "Yogi Adityanath's Men Telling Hindus To Rape Dead Muslim Women Is Beyond Shocking". From their convers... |
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Mar 18 2017, 11:49am |
I'm thinking these two highly rated movies should be seen as a double feature: Loving and Get Out. |
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Mar 18 2017, 9:21am |
I got an email from The White House, "Your 1600 Daily", promoting this wonderful piece, "Trump’s budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will ... |
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Mar 17 2017, 3:08pm |
Netflix said of a title "Recommended based on your interest in Breaking Bad, Inception and Deadwood." I love imagining what a combination of those three show... |
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Mar 16 2017, 10:31am |
I really appreciate it when people post little technical postmortems that include wrong paths taken. |
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Mar 14 2017, 1:33pm |
It bugs me that they're still called "marketing pixels" when they've long stopped being actual (transparent) single pixel images. Just call them tags or noti... |
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Mar 14 2017, 8:39am |
To contrast the liberal articles that Facebooks feeds me, I subscribe to the White House newsletter. But it's really not helping. They only link to Breitbart... |
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Mar 14 2017, 7:26am |
Today in 1593: Best Pi Day ever. (Rounding up, of course.) |
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Mar 12 2017, 10:54pm |
We're in Laniakea, "immeasurable heaven" in Hawaiian. |
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Mar 12 2017, 10:33pm |
So yesterday, my Raspberry Pi went from being 0 seconds off from my other web server to being 4950 seconds behind. No idea why. (If it was daylight savings t... |
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Mar 12 2017, 11:03am |
I upgrade my search engines the way I upgrade my phones. Every other generation. Skip ack and go straight from grep to ag. (The command name is 33% shorter t... |
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Mar 6 2017, 1:42pm |
Finally got far enough in the book not to be spoiled by the excellent Weta images in the article about Seveneves. |
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Mar 6 2017, 8:57am |
Creating software to subvert the law on a corporate level like this infuriates me. |
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Mar 5 2017, 8:06pm |
While I've been able to resist the gamification of... games, I just spent part of today upgrading my CodeClimate GitHub badges, for like, nearly zero practic... |
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Mar 5 2017, 10:03am |
A note on programming language popularity: While Carlo Zapponi hasn't updated http://githut.info/ with info past 2014, the https://www.githubarchive.org/ is ... |
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Mar 4 2017, 10:45am |
A blooming agave plant. They bloom once, for about nine months, and then they die. They never used to bloom in Northern California. |
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Mar 3 2017, 9:59am |
Here's a throwback of me in 2009 saying "Sometimes I search for X-23 and Movie. And then I cry. ... Yeah, let's just make like 5 Punisher movies. And let's j... |
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Mar 1 2017, 9:37am |
Why "The Giving Tree" makes you cry. |
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Feb 28 2017, 8:47am |
A letter to Ivanka from a concerned parent."removing protections for transgender kids is a distraction from the myriad of other super-pressing issues facin... |
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Feb 27 2017, 8:55am |
While receiving the Legendary Leader award, "As we sit here and celebrate what we have done, let’s remember that millions of young people who had the misfort... |
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Feb 25 2017, 8:16pm |
Because "This is not the intelligence assessment the president asked for". Next time, just write whatever pre-conceived notion the President had, OK? |
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Feb 23 2017, 9:27pm |
I'm being asked to re-sign-in to all my Google services. I'm not especially worried, as I recognize everything on the "device-activity" page, my password is ... |
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Feb 22 2017, 6:55pm |
Heh, I can't really blame the author. Let me just step aside of the Baby Boomer v Millenial smackdown. |
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Feb 21 2017, 4:28pm |
I get really tempted to try Amazon Lightsail as I already have a lot of mini sites on my Raspberry Pi and at a shared hosting account at Dreamhost. But... I'... |
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Feb 21 2017, 8:16am |
Timothy O'Leary reminded me of how Trump reminds me of Tom Vu, that infomercial guy. "Trump’s demographic intersects heavily with the infomercial consumer,... |
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Feb 20 2017, 9:03am |
Why are so many barns painted red? |
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Feb 18 2017, 7:01pm |
If the world's got you down, just remember DJ Cummerbund is probably working Randy Savage into another awesome mix. |
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Feb 16 2017, 8:26pm |
Sometimes I have a hard time believing this is real. |
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Feb 16 2017, 12:30am |
Why voice your dissent with Trumpism even if you're a middle-class white Christian male? So your dissent can be seen. "10% of people will always be heroes;... |
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Feb 15 2017, 9:14am |
Warren Buffett's Best Investment, by Bill and Melinda Gates |
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Feb 15 2017, 8:52am |
There's a part of me that really likes the idea of the A-10 getting a refresh. |
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Feb 14 2017, 9:14pm |
John Oliver makes a compelling case here. |
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Feb 14 2017, 9:06am |
Trump's response to an international challenge. No communique needed after all. More importantly of his immediate audience, "they've paid me a fortune." |
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Feb 9 2017, 11:24pm |
Here's an excellent blockchain primer. |
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Feb 8 2017, 8:23am |
Donating to the ACLU whenever Trump gets your goat is probably my favorite use of the Amazon Dash button yet. |
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Feb 7 2017, 7:56pm |
I love project post-mortems. This one from Cards Against Humanity is excellent. |
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Feb 6 2017, 8:01pm |
To fix the problem with the very dishonest media's underreporting of the Bowling Green Massacre, the White House is providing a list of underreported terrori... |
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Feb 5 2017, 8:28pm |
Elliott Noel, Remember when you posted a Javascript technique for deep copies that involved serializing to and from JSON? Then we did some library comparison... |
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Feb 1 2017, 7:35am |
A visualization of the emotional arcs of the past ten U.S. presidential inaugural addresses. (Not sure I agree, but I think it's an interesting visualization.) |
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Jan 30 2017, 8:48pm |
http://lolsnaps.com/upload_pic/d6a53b0b-brilliant.jpeg |
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Jan 28 2017, 12:12pm |
Re: Trying to resist the projection of the worst onto other groups:"This is the fight that we wage against ourselves and each other. Because America is not... |
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Jan 28 2017, 12:14am |
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest... |
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Jan 27 2017, 5:31pm |
This XKCD comic is brilliantly constructed. If you wanted, you could interpret "Sad" as referring to "Seasonal Affective Disorder". Or you could read the clu... |
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Jan 26 2017, 7:23am |
Trump is sticking to his massive voting fraud story to justify new national voter ID laws. I think that should send chills down the spine of everyone that be... |
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Jan 22 2017, 5:45pm |
Note to self: Here's a John Scalzi link dump. His thoughts before Trump took office.1. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/11/16/checking-in-eight-days-on/2. ... |
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Jan 21 2017, 8:25am |
Persuasion techniques of demagogues:1. Tell people about their pain. Amplify it.2. Give them a scapegoat.3. Say you're the only one who can fix it if the... |
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Jan 20 2017, 10:29pm |
This petition looks like it'll meet its goal in its first 24 hours. |
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Jan 20 2017, 9:00am |
"All of us, regardless of party, should throw ourselves into that work — the joyous work of citizenship. Not just when there’s an election, not just when our... |
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Jan 19 2017, 10:57pm |
What would you do with your own black hole? |
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Jan 19 2017, 10:19pm |
"The Comey letter corresponded with a sharp decline in Clinton's polling, of a large enough magnitude to change the election result. The media gave dispropor... |
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Jan 19 2017, 1:11am |
"We believe there is an objective truth, and we will hold you to that." from "An open letter to Trump from the US press corps" |
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Jan 18 2017, 10:00pm |
I'm trying out Pi Hole to block advertising to the household. So far, so good. |
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Jan 17 2017, 8:42am |
You Draw It: What got better or worse during Obama's presidency? |
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Jan 17 2017, 8:27am |
So I just learned about Giuliani Security and Safety's website. Another reminder that As hire As, and Bs hire Cs. We finally get to see what happens when the... |
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Jan 16 2017, 3:33pm |
"These days, everybody needs a side hustle." |
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Jan 14 2017, 9:13am |
For those who couldn't catch the whole thing live, and don't want to sit through a video: President Obama's Farewell Address |
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Jan 13 2017, 10:29am |
The world's top human rights groups just delivered over one million signatures to President Obama asking him to pardon Snowden. |
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Jan 11 2017, 3:50pm |
This is interesting. At first, I found it counterintuitive. |
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Jan 8 2017, 11:21pm |
I noticed something small but thoughtful that Obama did in his recent message to the American people. |
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Jan 8 2017, 10:46pm |
Noodle's latest. |
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Jan 8 2017, 10:19pm |
"Tolerance, viewed as a moral absolute, amounts to renouncing the right to self-protection; but viewed as a peace treaty, it can be the basis of a stable soc... |
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Jan 8 2017, 12:04am |
Mark Hamill reads Trump's "Happy New Year" wish. |
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Jan 6 2017, 8:45am |
A note from the outgoing administration. |
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Jan 6 2017, 12:15am |
I open-sourced a website that animates the answer to my son's middle-school trigonometry question. (Not a teacher's question, but a question two kids were po... |
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Jan 2 2017, 8:42pm |
This has been bugging me: Given a circle sector where 1.9 < θ < 3.14 radians, and position it with the tip down, how high up would you make a horizontal slic... |
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Dec 31 2016, 10:47am |
This is a great post to start the new year. Please click through, it's shorter than you might thing, and oh so worth it. |
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Dec 31 2016, 10:32am |
Choice quote about why to learn Modern Standard English: "I want you to learn the prestige dialect of English, and be able to speak it and sound pitch-perfec... |
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Dec 29 2016, 8:02am |
When I woke up this morning, my head was playing "The Trial" by Pink Floyd. Especially these lyrics and the lyrics that followed:The evidence before the co... |
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Dec 28 2016, 11:06pm |
A nice piece about Rex Tillerson. |
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Dec 28 2016, 9:27pm |
Happy birthday! |
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Dec 28 2016, 9:17pm |
I just told my son that if he walks without rhythm, it won't attract the worm. Not only does he not know that it's a Dune reference, he also doesn't know it'... |
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Dec 28 2016, 9:33am |
Happy birthday David!!!! |
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Dec 26 2016, 8:21pm |
Two wonderful things in 2016 (both with links):1. There's a web version of SketchUp now! (I love SketchUp. A world-class 3D modelling app is hosted in the ... |
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Dec 25 2016, 8:06pm |
This is the Republican National Committee calling Trump the new king (not President Elect), and comparing him to Jesus Christ. |
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Dec 24 2016, 9:55am |
Two things about this tweet from Mr. I'll "Let You Know" If I Concede If I Lose: One: Not only does Putin side with Trump against the democrats, but Trump ... |
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Dec 21 2016, 1:29pm |
H.R. 1150 now even calls out protection for Humanists! It's very gratifying to see such inclusiveness. (Now to get him to pardon Snowden.) |
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Dec 18 2016, 11:30pm |
Go straight to 55m08s. (Hint, append #55m08s to the URL if you click through.) Enjoy before it gets taken down. |
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Dec 18 2016, 7:32pm |
Yonatan Zunger writes, "What's unusual about this story isn't that an American oil executive is also chairman of the board of a second, joint US-Russian, oil... |
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Dec 18 2016, 9:10am |
http://explosm.net/comics/4493/ |
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Dec 17 2016, 10:16pm |
While campaigning, Trump explained the loss carry-over use as Clinton's fault. "She, as a Senator, didn't make me pay more taxes. I was just being a good bus... |
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Dec 17 2016, 9:10pm |
"Donald Trump is like a 'Post Tortoise'." |
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Dec 17 2016, 9:07pm |
If you're into software, this is worth reading, even if you already knew what makes Lisp great. |
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Dec 10 2016, 11:14pm |
Please take the time to read this blog post on the Trump transition team’s response to the news that the CIA believes Russia interfered with the election wit... |
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Dec 10 2016, 7:47pm |
I want to make a playlist of these songs. |
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Dec 10 2016, 6:33pm |
Teen Vogue killed it. |
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Dec 10 2016, 10:32am |
Who can answer this without looking it up?Guaraldi : Schulz :: C418 : ? |
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Dec 3 2016, 2:51pm |
Esp. for Elliott Noel, was browsing for chess sets and found this. |
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Dec 1 2016, 5:12pm |
The Array of Conflicts of Interest facing the Trump Presidency |
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Nov 29 2016, 9:20pm |
SpecOut seems like a pretty good site for doing comparison shopping. |
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Nov 29 2016, 5:52pm |
Good article: Trump’s lies have a purpose. They are an assault on democracy.h/t to Daryl Spitzer, who usually goes uncredited when I link stuff like this b... |
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Nov 27 2016, 7:08pm |
The thing about Trump's "I won the popular vote, too" tweet is this: He's literally broadcasting how easily manipulated he is. He was suddenly fine with not ... |
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Nov 26 2016, 8:35am |
From Reddit, "man outside a Texan mosque". |
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Nov 25 2016, 7:54am |
Explosm take on Black Friday. |
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Nov 24 2016, 11:54am |
This wearable Rosetta Disk is pretty awesome. |
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Nov 24 2016, 11:35am |
Thanks, Elliott Noel, I've been binging on DJ Cummerbund. |
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Nov 23 2016, 12:05pm |
"Violence and chaos and aggressive wording is what people are attracted to." Celebrating super great election sales of inciting paranoia and violence. (Not n... |
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Nov 23 2016, 10:07am |
"[Trump] shouldn’t be scolding the media. He should be handing out cigars." |
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Nov 23 2016, 8:46am |
A sensible post from Senator Sasse. |
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Nov 22 2016, 6:10pm |
Apparently this is real. And you can see video of the president working on his friendship bracelet, too, down in the replies. |
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Nov 22 2016, 5:20pm |
"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." |
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Nov 22 2016, 8:42am |
Mike Kobb, Chris Zamara, have you seen this? Don't let the title throw you. The pictures and stories inside are awesome. |
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Nov 21 2016, 4:27pm |
This is encouraging. |
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Nov 21 2016, 8:24am |
Understanding the fake news problem, by Paul Ford. |
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Nov 19 2016, 12:24pm |
It's bad enough here in the liberal California echo chamber. I can't imagine what it's like in Washington D.C, where over 95% didn't vote for Trump, and here... |
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Nov 16 2016, 9:03am |
Nice rant from Wil Wheaton. |
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Nov 15 2016, 8:31pm |
Just one snippet partway down: "at a basic level: you do not give someone with a financial interest to work against U.S. policy access to sensitive informati... |
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Nov 12 2016, 9:54pm |
https://twitter.com/jonnysun/status/797198272079298568 |
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Nov 12 2016, 9:50am |
Why are democrats claiming Trump can't appoint his kids as heads of any Cabinet agency, or nominate his close relative as a Supreme Court Justice? While ther... |
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Nov 11 2016, 8:57am |
Introducing the new, lower calorie Toblerone. |
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Nov 11 2016, 8:38am |
"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." |
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Nov 10 2016, 8:40pm |
"Still, it is clear that the places that voted for Trump are under greater economic stress, and the places that swung most toward Trump are those where jobs ... |
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Nov 9 2016, 9:55pm |
According to the "Income" section of this exit poll, the narrative that this was a rebellion by the economically marginalized is merely an ennobling lie. The... |
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Nov 9 2016, 12:10pm |
When I was watching the election coverage last night, all the pundits agreed, "this is about the populace being discontent with the status quo in Washington.... |
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Nov 9 2016, 9:17am |
"We in the media have blood on our hands..." |
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Nov 9 2016, 9:11am |
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane |
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Nov 9 2016, 6:44am |
Thoughts from the editor of The New Yorker. |
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Nov 8 2016, 8:28pm |
Well, that's the trick. Keep making higher education inaccessible, corral all the already educated voters into fewer districts in fewer states, and the Repub... |
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Nov 8 2016, 4:01pm |
Ha, the JavaScript console output of Hillary Clinton's site is pretty amusing. (For those who know how: Click through and view the console.) |
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Nov 7 2016, 9:42pm |
North Carolina appears to be rockin' the minority voter suppression. Other conservative states should take note. |
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Nov 7 2016, 8:27am |
Newspaper Presidential Endorsements from 1980 to 2016 |
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Nov 5 2016, 11:35am |
While I generally agree with the LifeHacker post "Stop Using iCloud", I absolutely cannot believe this part to be true: "When you turn off the Documents and ... |
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Nov 5 2016, 2:09am |
In addition to the "phone app" version of the Anathem Glossary I made, http://anathem.dlma.com/, I just created an Anathem Glossary .mobi file to install on ... |
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Nov 4 2016, 10:05am |
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/4/13500018/clinton-email-scandal-bullshit |
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Nov 3 2016, 8:53am |
2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest, Part II: |
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Oct 22 2016, 4:03pm |
I love the moment in the NPR interview with Black Mirror's creator, Charlie Booker, where he and Terry Gross both casually note that Booker predicted the sur... |
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Oct 21 2016, 11:09am |
Another analysis of some moments in the third debate. |
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Oct 19 2016, 8:54am |
How should you really respond to unlicensed poll watchers? You'll see a lot of pithy images over the next few days that refer to very old FBI posts, like thi... |
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Oct 18 2016, 9:02am |
How the Arizona paper that endorsed Clinton responds to the threats after their endorsement. |
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Oct 14 2016, 9:14pm |
Just look! |
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Oct 13 2016, 10:24pm |
Bill Gates shares four moonshots that government should invest in to accelerate innovation. |
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Oct 13 2016, 8:54pm |
Trump could be just as dangerous in defeat has he could be in victory. He's priming his supporters to believe the election was stolen from them, and that thi... |
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Oct 11 2016, 8:44am |
Despite the hyperbolic headline, it's worth reading. |
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Oct 10 2016, 8:51am |
For those who don't have the context about Donald Trump and the Central Part Five. |
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Oct 9 2016, 2:32pm |
What do we want?Brains!When do we want them?Brains!"Stagger Slide", Dance Band |
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Oct 9 2016, 1:33am |
The 21st Century's 100 best Movies. I really like this list, makes me feel like I'm not so alone with some of my favorites.It includes one movie (I didn't ... |
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Oct 8 2016, 10:00pm |
"It is not only acceptable to choose your country over your party, it is your duty." Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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Oct 7 2016, 10:02pm |
Yahoo and Trump: UnremittingI have a friend who brags that nothing can bring Yahoo's stock price down. Not the revelation that they sat on a 500,000,000 em... |
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Oct 6 2016, 9:31am |
“The average American … does not think crime is down, does not think they are safer,” Gingrich replied.“But we are safer, and it is down,” Camerota retorted... |
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Sep 30 2016, 9:43am |
Two isolated Americas, a short insightful post with great photos. https://medium.com/@Chris_arnade/two-isolated-americas-fae2720fb48#.x6dwhsy8z |
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Sep 29 2016, 7:43pm |
One choice quote: “'Had we taken the oil … and we should have taken the oil … they wouldn’t have even formed,' Trump said. That, of course, would be a war cr... |
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Sep 29 2016, 7:26am |
GQ published a sexist climbing fashion article, and Outdoor Research answered with the perfect response. (Both the perfectly matched photos and captions are ... |
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Sep 27 2016, 8:04pm |
After upgrading to iOS 10.0.2, my Klipsch R6i's 3-button remote stopped working. But when I connected an Apple branded headphone, its 3-button remote would w... |
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Sep 23 2016, 8:49pm |
"Looking back, it’s remarkable to realize that, in response to a single day of terror, Washington set the Middle East ablaze, turned air travel into a form o... |
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Sep 22 2016, 9:31am |
A good, concise article: How To Get Better At What You Do, Every Single Day. |
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Sep 19 2016, 9:08am |
I've seen a few of these articles about the F-35. |
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Sep 14 2016, 7:30am |
I amuse myself by replacing "amateur hack" with "artisanal hand-crafted product". |
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Sep 11 2016, 10:06pm |
Today Aaron explained to the family how Dr. Hannibal Lecter is like Dr. Harleen Quinzel. Both were brilliant psychiatrists who pivoted careers towards psycho... |
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Sep 11 2016, 12:17am |
Forests before the war were thousands of meters high. What you are actually looking at are merely thirty-meter bushes in front of an Yggdrasil-like stump. |
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Sep 9 2016, 11:33pm |
I don't know what the people who didn't like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies were expecting. I felt like it hit the right mix. It didn't disappoint. |
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Sep 7 2016, 8:05pm |
There's a sequel to Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop! In case you haven't seen that one, here it is: |
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Sep 4 2016, 8:24pm |
I don't even know what to add. I really loved George Carlin. Worst. Timing. Ever. |
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Sep 2 2016, 9:00am |
Worth the read. |
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Aug 30 2016, 8:19pm |
Some people model with clay to de-stress. Some people break out their easel and a canvas. I had four days left in my trial edition of SketchUp, so I mocked-u... |
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Aug 28 2016, 10:53am |
Here's my favorite thing in Pokemon Go: Sniping gym ownership with Gozer the Gozerian, The Destructor Magikarp.If that didn't make perfect sense:Gozer th... |
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Aug 27 2016, 10:49pm |
I'm going through some old Poorly Drawn Lines. This one's "Small Cat and the Asteroid". |
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Aug 26 2016, 11:09pm |
Six years later, I finally wrote the post describing my TechCrunch Feed Filter. |
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Aug 26 2016, 2:40pm |
Just feel like dropping this here. |
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Aug 23 2016, 12:29pm |
The Ivy Lee method. "At the end of each workday, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow." |
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Aug 23 2016, 7:19am |
Nick Denton's last Gawker post. |
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Aug 22 2016, 9:01pm |
When I use my Kaleidescape System, I still go to Cover view just to browse, and enjoy watching the system shuffle similar titles together. Even though they'r... |
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Aug 21 2016, 2:38pm |
I really liked "War Dogs" in the same way I liked "The Big Short". |
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Aug 19 2016, 2:19pm |
“That kid’s amygdala isn’t firing.” |
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Aug 19 2016, 1:04am |
"Of all American homicide victims killed by people they don’t know, approximately one-third of them are victims of the police." |
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Aug 12 2016, 9:51pm |
Aaron's spirit animal. Because clicking is too hard. |
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Aug 12 2016, 9:36pm |
I think I've found my son's spirit animal. Let's see if I can leave three links here.1. The Animal: http://i.imgur.com/ti34c9t.gifv2. Son: http://www.dlma... |
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Aug 9 2016, 8:51pm |
Trump knows full well what he's suggesting, and how his less stable supporters are going to take it. |
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Aug 9 2016, 8:55am |
How things have changed: Household Types, 1970 and 2014, an interactive graphic. Click click. |
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Aug 8 2016, 8:33am |
One of the biggest takeaways I got from the The Constitutional Law Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) taught by Yale's Akhil Reed Amar was that the protest vo... |
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Aug 4 2016, 9:03pm |
This post on the life of Fritz Haber is amazing. Read it. |
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Jul 31 2016, 9:57pm |
This new technology is really cool. They shape glass so that the light passing through it creates whatever patterns they want. Watch the video. |
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Jul 30 2016, 10:25pm |
Clear and concise. |
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Jul 30 2016, 10:19pm |
The claim is that a series of 27 non-political questions will determine where you fall on the liberal-conservative spectrum. Would you rather eat a piece of ... |
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Jul 27 2016, 7:59am |
An opinion presented by an anthropologist based on patterns in human history. |
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Jul 24 2016, 10:33pm |
When I wrote an update to my remote-backup strategy post, I'd forgotten that rsync.net was the first commercial company to issue a warrant canary. http://dav... |
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Jul 24 2016, 9:59pm |
This is really charming! Set aside 14 minutes of your time, and enjoy. https://youtu.be/23KufSqo6cQ h/t Vanlal Tochhawng |
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Jul 24 2016, 8:37pm |
I finally got my own Lamarr! I'm never going to trade him! #HL2 |
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Jul 22 2016, 9:13pm |
"It’s what happens when weaponised insincerity is applied to structured ignorance." |
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Jul 22 2016, 8:47pm |
This is fascinating. I love the idea that a recent discovery makes us have to re-think what we thought we knew for the past 150 years. |
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Jul 17 2016, 8:48pm |
This is a great essay. Deep thoughts out of what was otherwise hate-linking. |
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Jul 16 2016, 12:13pm |
Aaron as "dejected Ash" because Pokemon Go servers are so sporadic today. |
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Jul 14 2016, 9:40pm |
My son got a Headcrab in Pokemon Go! I'm so jealous! Really, really want one, too. I'm going to name mine Lamarr. (Pokemon misspelled it as "kabuto" though.) |
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Jul 11 2016, 9:52am |
The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code has been uploaded to GitHub. Qi Chen then posted this amazing mashup to Ozymandius. |
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Jul 9 2016, 9:37am |
While on vacation, we passed by the Deus Ex Machina coffee shop, and I'd remembered reading this enjoyable little article about something that happened there... |
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Jul 8 2016, 5:40pm |
There was a time when The Onion re-ran the "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" post whenever there was a certain type o... |
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Jul 7 2016, 10:59am |
For New York's July 4th celebration, Pitbull performed Messin' Around, the story of the serendipitous outing of two hedonists. "You've been cheating on me? O... |
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Jul 3 2016, 1:17pm |
I was with this essay until the very last line. |
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Jul 2 2016, 9:05am |
This is a supremely disappointing ruling: A criminal defendant does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy on their computer if it is connected to the ... |
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Jun 29 2016, 8:46am |
You know what legacy I want to leave my kids? Repealing the Dickey Amendment. After every gun violence tragedy, there's all this talk about terrorism, hate, ... |
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Jun 28 2016, 9:00am |
My current favorite comic from Poorly Drawn Lines. Sasha. |
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Jun 26 2016, 8:40pm |
To prepare for Suicide Club, I watched Joss Whedon's movie about the violent, psychotic woman with a telepathic link to a desperate convict, "In Your Eyes".... |
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Jun 23 2016, 9:27pm |
USA Version: They just voted to Make England Great Again. |
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Jun 19 2016, 11:27am |
Cheers, Pop. You were gentle, loving, and generous to the end. Nobody knew that better than Mom and me. While I don't live up to the standard you set, I don'... |
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Jun 17 2016, 7:56am |
We now spend more at eating establishments then at the grocery store. http://qz.com/706550/no-one-cooks-anymore/ |
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Jun 16 2016, 9:02am |
I used to wonder if Australia's success with gun reform could ever translate to the U.S. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4ob8o4/serious_australia... |
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Jun 8 2016, 7:11am |
It's fun to watch the thought process of the computer play chess with you. http://flowingdata.com/2016/06/08/play-chess-against-the-machine-and-see-what-its-... |
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Jun 8 2016, 7:11am |
It's fun to watch the thought process of the computer play chess with you. |
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Jun 3 2016, 8:14pm |
My wife has to go to work tonight. So it's just going to be me and Roger Waters tonight. (I've waited a long time to watch this.) |
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Jun 3 2016, 8:14pm |
My wife has to go to work tonight. So it's just going to be me and Roger Waters tonight. (I've waited a long time to watch this.) https://youtu.be/jZgJqX8Dxzg |
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May 30 2016, 5:37pm |
Carpenter bees love my house as much as I do! |
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May 29 2016, 8:25am |
If you enjoyed the Science Fiction movie Primer, you may enjoy the low-budget movie Synchronicity. It advertises itself as a mind-bending 'Sci-fi Noir' in th... |
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May 29 2016, 8:25am |
If you enjoyed the Science Fiction movie Primer, you may enjoy the low-budget movie Synchronicity. It advertises itself as a mind-bending 'Sci-fi Noir' in th... |
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May 18 2016, 9:00am |
What if your country's leader hated your race? Consider these nightmares. |
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May 18 2016, 9:00am |
What if your country's leader hated your race? Consider these nightmares. https://medium.com/@seoulbrother/my-long-national-nightmare-a07a7f845ac0#.ay506l21b |
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May 17 2016, 1:40pm |
Really like this article on the price of housing in San Francisco. |
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May 17 2016, 1:40pm |
Really like this article on the price of housing in San Francisco. https://medium.com/newco/a-guy-just-transcribed-30-years-of-for-rent-ads-heres-what-it-tau... |
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May 15 2016, 5:35am |
We're packed and ready to go! Banana for scale. |
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May 14 2016, 5:00pm |
On the one hand, I'm proud of my work. On the other hand, I hope I'm not contributing to the end of humanity. |
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May 14 2016, 5:00pm |
On the one hand, I'm proud of my work. On the other hand, I hope I'm not contributing to the end of humanity. http://www.businessinsider.com/we-watch-netflix... |
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May 12 2016, 8:41am |
In today's episode of Explosm, the credits say the part of God was played by John Galt. (It's NSFW.) http://explosm.net/show/episode/201/eden |
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May 12 2016, 8:41am |
In today's episode of Explosm, the credits say the part of God was played by John Galt. (It's NSFW.) |
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May 9 2016, 7:21am |
"What it really comes down to is the political reality that we have a political class that feels it must inoculate itself against allegations of weakness." |
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May 9 2016, 7:21am |
"What it really comes down to is the political reality that we have a political class that feels it must inoculate itself against allegations of weakness."... |
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May 8 2016, 6:24pm |
"Trump isn't really that bad. He didn't mean those things he said!" |
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May 7 2016, 11:41am |
Darn you, Apple. Apple finally forcibly revoked my legacy Apple ID at iCloud (which was not an email address, and contained a period). I had to use an email ... |
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May 4 2016, 8:45am |
I was raised in one of the weirdest cities in America, promptly escaped, and landed in a whole new region, that also turns out to be one of the weirdest plac... |
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Apr 8 2016, 7:28am |
Love this series of statues called, "Force of Nature". |
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Mar 27 2016, 9:01am |
I just explained to my wife how Ladybaby might not what she expects, unless she expects Ladybeard crossed with BABYMETAL. Then it's exactly what she expects.... |
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Mar 26 2016, 10:35pm |
Remember our local domestic terrorist who had procured explosives and assembled a bomb, and had made specific threats to kill all the members of a local mosq... |
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Mar 22 2016, 7:29am |
"In fact, we have a leading presidential contender who seems like the embodiment of an online comments section." Walter Isaacson in These Are the Two Origina... |
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Mar 6 2016, 5:14pm |
My son made a new Minecraft challenge. "Dad, you're going to be my first testee." Me, "How many testees are you going to have?" We both giggled. This is wha... |
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Mar 3 2016, 7:49pm |
I'm one of those parents who opted out (filed the objection) of providing his kids' social security numbers. It's cold comfort that there were too many opt-o... |
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Feb 28 2016, 1:06pm |
“For Sale, ... one adware-adding, GNU-disrespecting and poorly-built software repository.” |
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Feb 24 2016, 8:55am |
"Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they’re inconvenient." James Allworth |
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Feb 21 2016, 10:12pm |
Santa Clara County Library has a great, flexible search system, I hope they don't make any breaking changes, because I rely on custom URLs like this one to f... |
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Feb 21 2016, 10:12pm |
Santa Clara County Library has a great, flexible search system, I hope they don't make any breaking changes, because I rely on custom URLs like this one to f... |
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Feb 21 2016, 10:47am |
Take a look at El Mauro's Twitter feed. (https://twitter.com/elmauro2011) The poor guy linked his Twitter account to his Delicious activity feed, and Delicio... |
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Feb 21 2016, 10:47am |
Take a look at El Mauro's Twitter feed. (https://twitter.com/elmauro2011) The poor guy linked his Twitter account to his Delicious activity feed, and Delicio... |
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Feb 21 2016, 10:42am |
If trust is important, then it's worth protecting. Watch what a serious key signing ceremony looks like, with commentary by Vinton Cerf. |
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Feb 20 2016, 12:27pm |
My son and I just solved this Vine. It was super fun. https://vine.co/v/iv9KVEIYZLI |
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Feb 20 2016, 12:27pm |
My son and I just solved this Vine. It was super fun. |
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Feb 20 2016, 12:19pm |
Going through the mail, my wife noted all of these ads for services like GrubHub and Munchery. I suggested she read this, and then decided to share with ever... |
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Feb 15 2016, 6:38pm |
Engineers in Seattle are so lazy. They didn't even pound this skyscraper all the way in. |
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Feb 15 2016, 6:35pm |
Another reason to like James Gunn. |
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Feb 4 2016, 7:23am |
I can't decide which I love more, the XL Giant Isopod Realistic Plush pillow, or this Giant Tardigrade Plush pillow. The isopod? Or the Tardigrade‽ |
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Feb 3 2016, 9:40pm |
World of Tomorrow is an Oscar-nominated short animation made by another UCSB alum, and it's available on Netflix. http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=16... |
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Feb 3 2016, 9:40pm |
World of Tomorrow is an Oscar-nominated short animation made by another UCSB alum, and it's available on Netflix. |
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Jan 30 2016, 9:09am |
Somebody's birthday is coming up! Who wouldn't want a giant isopod realistic plush pillow‽ |
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Jan 24 2016, 8:04am |
Here's an article from someone a little grumpy about it because he's a teacher in the trenches, who gets to see how helpless most people are with their compu... |
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Jan 24 2016, 8:04am |
Here's an article from someone a little grumpy about it because he's a teacher in the trenches, who gets to see how helpless most people are with their compu... |
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Jan 23 2016, 7:34pm |
The Paperwork Reduction Act needs to be scraped. |
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Jan 23 2016, 7:34pm |
The Paperwork Reduction Act needs to be scraped. https://medium.com/@cjoh/the-law-everyone-should-hate-f9dd8cc16fc7#.803g89cyu |
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Jan 22 2016, 9:33pm |
I love this guy's videos. This one demonstrates making a cord drill and pump drill. No words needed. |
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Jan 18 2016, 8:56pm |
Language Arts with Dad: Driving my son to karate, we reviewed that "blotto" means "excessively drunk". Then I added the compound noun, "shitfaced", which mea... |
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Jan 5 2016, 8:36am |
Happy birthday to Aaron, the newest teenage hoodlum in the house. The hoodie even looked good on you way back then, son. |
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Jan 1 2016, 9:51pm |
2015 is the last year I back up the family's photos onto local computer, remote Ceph (S3-like) storage, and optical media. For 2016, it's looking like Google... |
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Dec 31 2015, 6:43pm |
I like that San Francisco city hall has a Medallion of Equality represented by an equilateral triangle. |
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Dec 28 2015, 12:12am |
One of my computers has the job of updating DNS records for the rest of the family, since our ISP has the habit of changing our IP address. To that end, to t... |
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Dec 20 2015, 10:26am |
A Holiday story for you. |
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Dec 20 2015, 10:26am |
A Holiday story for you. http://explosm.net/comics/4154/ |
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Dec 19 2015, 8:53pm |
"Sesame Credit" is China's use of gamification to motivate its citizens to toe the line. Not only do you see your own (and everybody else's) score for how go... |
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Dec 19 2015, 8:53pm |
"Sesame Credit" is China's use of gamification to motivate its citizens to toe the line. Not only do you see your own (and everybody else's) score for how go... |
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Dec 18 2015, 6:51am |
I just realized that "come hell or high water" is within spittin' distance of "lord willing and the creek don't rise". They're the same conditions, except th... |
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Dec 16 2015, 9:00am |
Browsing social networks like Facebook doesn't generally make Kati feel happier. In this post, she describes what she thinks is going on, and what she's doin... |
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Dec 14 2015, 8:43pm |
Day after day, Facebook keeps wanting me to repost things I've already posted. There's little point to that. So I set the preferences as Bob Mankoff might've... |
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Dec 6 2015, 11:31am |
Happy 15th birthday Maddie! Hope you've learned how to clean windows a little better than this by now! |
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Nov 29 2015, 7:07pm |
This is one of those vlog commentaries that I can't believe I hadn't come across before. It's only seven and a half minutes, and worth it if your a cinephile. |
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Nov 29 2015, 1:03pm |
Commander Chris Hadfield, xkcd creator Randall Munroe, on a site that serves a GNU Terry Pratchett Clacks Overhead HTTP header (and you probably didn't even ... |
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Nov 28 2015, 11:31am |
I'm an internet old-timer, so this rang true. There's value to hypertext and blogs that we're losing. (Notice that this Facebook post doesn't let me create h... |
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Nov 25 2015, 8:37pm |
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. I was amused to see Fox News referenced as the exemplar liar, but not for the reason you might've thought. |
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Nov 25 2015, 6:58pm |
A true story about covert actions that changed the course of history. It's the stuff of action movies and thrillers. |
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Nov 17 2015, 9:17pm |
I really love the lesson in this tale. |
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Nov 15 2015, 11:26pm |
D&D Monster A-Z: There may be some of you that recognize these. |
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Nov 14 2015, 4:56pm |
Congrats Aaron, you earned it! |
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Nov 10 2015, 8:25am |
Since Starbucks removed the Flying Spaghetti Monster from their red cups, I got my barista to add it herself! Happy Pastaval, everyone! |
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Nov 8 2015, 9:03pm |
One of our top two Republican front runners is defending himself from allegations that he never attempted to murder a child. |
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Nov 8 2015, 5:03pm |
This is a surprisingly charming explanation of just how complicated our immune systems are. Highly recommended! |
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Nov 8 2015, 5:03pm |
This is a surprisingly charming explanation of just how complicated our immune systems are. Highly recommended! https://youtu.be/zQGOcOUBi6s |
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Oct 29 2015, 7:03am |
#TBT 11 years ago, I realized the pure expressive face I caught on my son while he watched his sister enjoy a ride a Great America. |
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Oct 29 2015, 7:03am |
#TBT 11 years ago, I realized the pure expressive face I caught on my son while he watched his sister enjoy a ride a Great America. https://my.dlma.com/2004/1... |
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Oct 25 2015, 12:16pm |
I've updated the old family blog a little bit, and added a "Best Of" section in the right sidebar. When Aaron found it, he loved it, and said, "Maybe when I ... |
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Oct 20 2015, 7:40pm |
So, what'd they think the world would be like today 25 years ago? Let's watch! |
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Oct 18 2015, 10:58am |
Two things that are awesome in 2015? One: genius.com, crowdsourced metadata on song lyrics. So much better than a couple of years ago when searching for lyr... |
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Oct 18 2015, 10:58am |
Two things that are awesome in 2015? One: genius.com, crowdsourced metadata on song lyrics. So much better than a couple of years ago when searching for lyr... |
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Oct 11 2015, 7:34am |
This post was made by David's "Dead Man's Switch." He hasn't been seen online anywhere in a few days.Hopefully everything's OK, please ask him to turn off ... |
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Oct 7 2015, 10:46pm |
So if I'm eating something and bits fall onto the carpet. I stoop down, pick up nearby crumbs and pop them in my mouth, on the chance that they're the crumbs... |
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Sep 22 2015, 9:42pm |
For her birthday, Lillian took the family on a balloon ride! |
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Sep 12 2015, 4:28pm |
Congrats to Aaron for winning 1st place in his age group at Ernie Reyes' Tournament today! Way to go, kid! |
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Sep 12 2015, 12:19am |
Worth every penny. |
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Sep 6 2015, 11:36am |
My son started filling his waffle with blueberries like this. Conway would've thought that waffle would Glide right into his tummy! |
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Sep 4 2015, 7:34am |
This post was made by David's "Dead Man's Switch." He hasn't been seen online anywhere in a few days.Hopefully everything's OK, please ask him to turn off ... |
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Aug 26 2015, 8:32pm |
It's board breaking week at karate. |
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Aug 22 2015, 7:39pm |
In a commentary on the trigger warnings article I mentioned last week, James Richardson wrote, "the privilege not to be offended is no right at all. Moreover... |
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Aug 20 2015, 1:28am |
I just watched Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's oddly charming "Human Nature", and it was pretty much what I expected. It was weird that I hadn't really n... |
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Aug 16 2015, 12:19pm |
From the article, "vindictive protectiveness ... prepares [students] poorly for professional life, which often demands intellectual engagement with people an... |
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Aug 16 2015, 12:25am |
I re-watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Loved it just as much as ever. I may regret this, but I've just enqueued 2001's "Human Nature" the previo... |
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Aug 15 2015, 1:10am |
I recently watched An Honest Liar (http://anhonestliar.com/) a documentary about James ‘The Amazing’ Randi. I really enjoyed most of it, especially the parts... |
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Aug 8 2015, 7:11pm |
One day, I'd like to watch a triple feature of "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and "Inception". |
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Aug 2 2015, 12:52pm |
I really liked Damián Szifron's dark, dark movie, "Wild Tales". Saw it a few days ago, and still laugh with the memories of it. |
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Aug 2 2015, 12:00pm |
I'd been wondering why the moon didn't look like it was lit directly by the sun sometimes! |
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Jul 17 2015, 5:54am |
Secret climbing wall for kids on the Seine, |
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Jul 12 2015, 6:39am |
Sculpture at St. Pancreas Intl. Notice that while they embrace, she's checking her phone? |
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Jul 9 2015, 2:06am |
Me, the Thames, and the Shard |
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Jul 4 2015, 2:16pm |
Flirting, then and now. I transcribed a conversation I had with my son yesterday. https://my.dlma.com/2015/07/04/flirting/ |
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Jul 4 2015, 2:16pm |
Flirting, then and now. I transcribed a conversation I had with my son yesterday. |
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Jun 26 2015, 1:23pm |
This post is *absolutely* worth reading. It's long, so you may want to do it over multiple sessions. It clearly explains what's going on *right now* not only... |
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Jun 22 2015, 4:56pm |
"Having just one of the 28 toggles switched on must have been psychological torture for anyone within clacking distance of the device." Esp. for Elliott Noel |
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Jun 12 2015, 12:47pm |
This is a little long, but it's really good in a The Matrix meets The Last Question sort of way. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and-i-show-you-how-deep... |
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Jun 12 2015, 12:47pm |
This is a little long, but it's really good in a The Matrix meets The Last Question sort of way. |
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Jun 7 2015, 11:54pm |
So my wife tells me she's not getting me the giant robot Kuratas for Father's Day. Fine, I can be flexible. Instead, she can get me the Furze Toasting Knife. |
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Jun 4 2015, 6:12pm |
One of my favorite things in the world is watching my wife's eyes light up when she sees our kids in a crowd. |
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May 31 2015, 10:20pm |
There's only one Kuratas left at Amazon, and Father's Day is coming soon. Hint, hint. http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/B00H6V3BWA/ref=dp_ch... |
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May 31 2015, 10:20pm |
There's only one Kuratas left at Amazon, and Father's Day is coming soon. Hint, hint. |
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May 18 2015, 8:40am |
It was a special Bay to Breakers yesterday. It fell on the day of our anniversary, just like it did on the day of our wedding 17 years ago. |
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May 13 2015, 11:22pm |
98.51% correlation between the total revenue generated by arcades and the number of CS doctorates awarded in the US. Spurious? Nothing spurious about it. Mor... |
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May 9 2015, 10:38pm |
I've just read the first Hellboy in Hell TPB, and I really loved it. I've always been a sucker for when Mignola illustrates his stories. I'm happy to report ... |
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May 3 2015, 5:49pm |
Ex Machina is my kind of movie. My wife didn't like the end so much, but I especially liked the end. |
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Apr 23 2015, 11:40pm |
I just watched and really enjoyed The Tale of Princess Kaguya. I couldn't get anybody else to watch it, even though it's a Studio Ghibli film, and directed b... |
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Apr 18 2015, 7:40pm |
You know what still works as expected nowadays? The Kindle. I still transition unexpected from device to app and back, and it syncs to the last page read fro... |
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Apr 16 2015, 10:15pm |
TIE Fighter. The Empire's perspective. |
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Mar 28 2015, 8:09pm |
Just watched S1:E3 of Black Mirror, "The Entire History of You". Completely stand-alone episode. Best thing I've watched in a long time. It's available for s... |
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Mar 22 2015, 9:49pm |
Why you'd want a systems programmer by your side during Armageddon. It's an old article, but it still holds. |
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Mar 19 2015, 10:37pm |
More than everything you need for an easy and delicious Affogato! You really only need the gelato and coffee on the left. I don't know how that Baileys got i... |
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Mar 19 2015, 9:29am |
You can easily and quickly make an amazing Affogato with freshly ground coffee in an AeroPress (just don't add the extra water to turn it Americano), Hazelnu... |
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Mar 15 2015, 1:55pm |
Huntsman spiders are awesome. (Still, as a Californian, I can't approve using water like this.) Esp for Ted Pederson |
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Mar 15 2015, 1:55pm |
Huntsman spiders are awesome. (Still, as a Californian, I can't approve using water like this.) Esp for Ted Pederson |
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Mar 8 2015, 4:17pm |
Nice day riding horses in Half Moon Bay. |
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Mar 4 2015, 9:53am |
@tehnyancatboy didn't get to see my sandwich's face today. So here it is. |
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Feb 28 2015, 8:26pm |
I've been watching Fringe for the first time. In the episode I just watched, Leonard Nimoy unexpectedly appeared from behind a shipping container and said, "... |
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Feb 28 2015, 5:21pm |
Just made a Darth Vader TIE fighter from a 3D metal model kit. It looks good, but boy was it hard! |
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Feb 11 2015, 8:34pm |
No joke: the day my daughter enrolls to Milpitas High, we get the Keanu Reeves movie about the student murder there. |
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Jan 31 2015, 1:27pm |
"The sky above was an uncompromising blue from horizon to horizon, and the air felt hot and dry." Altered Carbon.That's every single day of 2015 in Califor... |
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Jan 30 2015, 9:26pm |
So we watched Horns, Boyhood and the latest Game of Thrones trailer. They all have David Bowie's 1977 song "Heroes" in them. |
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Jan 30 2015, 9:05pm |
I can't say what I love more, Jamie Hewlett's art or Damon Albarn's voice. |
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Jan 29 2015, 11:12pm |
February. Just for Elliott Noel. |
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Jan 27 2015, 4:48pm |
"Is that called arrayReverse?""s/camel/_/""Cool thanks."My programmer friends are likely to understand that with no trouble. |
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Jan 24 2015, 10:33am |
Just now: One kid: "What's the difference between an archangel and a regular angel?" The other kid: "Instead of being just an admin, he's an op." |
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Jan 21 2015, 8:31pm |
Our local KRON 4 News ran a segment on the measles outbreak. On one side of the vaccination debate, they gave air time to a pediatrician who gave her credent... |
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Jan 18 2015, 9:30pm |
Sharing a note to myself of these charts for healthier meals and eating. Some should be handy. h/t Lisa Warmerdam White |
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Jan 18 2015, 1:05pm |
Stealth Ohrwurm Injection: We we dropping off some of Lillian's nurse uniforms at Goodwill. I asked her, "You don't want no scrubs?" |
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Jan 13 2015, 7:25pm |
Picture this: The father of the family is in the kitchen doing the dishes. He's talking to himself. The words are strange but familiar. Lyrical. He's doing a... |
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Jan 11 2015, 9:25pm |
We played Monopoly with the kids this morning. Maddie was the banker. There was yelling and screaming and miscounting of the roll. But it was all in good fun... |
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Jan 8 2015, 12:08am |
Sometimes I draw doodles on the backs of my page-a-day calendar pages. The one I drew yesterday deserves some explanation. The way I see it, both the Flying ... |
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Jan 6 2015, 12:43pm |
"...it contributes to the sad weakness of America’s critical-thinking skills." |
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Jan 1 2015, 9:39pm |
On my microwave, to cook something on high for one minute and twenty seconds, it's objectively better to hit "Add Minute", "More", "More" than to hit "8", "0... |
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Dec 28 2014, 4:05pm |
This Facebook stream seems weird... Some of these... Damn it, Facebook, stop changing my stream from "Most Recent" to "Top Stories." What you think are "Top ... |
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Dec 27 2014, 12:11pm |
Christmas haul: I got a new way to make coffee created by a local inventor, Alan Adler. |
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Dec 19 2014, 8:58pm |
That Red-One belt looks pretty good on Aaron. Congrats, Kiddo. |
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Dec 18 2014, 9:39am |
Honestly, "The Interview" never sounded that good, and I wasn't going to, and now clearly won't see it in a theater.I'm sad for the potential international... |
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Dec 14 2014, 12:53pm |
Sorry, normal people, another ultra geeky post here. Remember how mad I got at Apple? First, I was wrong about one thing: the iPhone doesn't expose a mount p... |
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Dec 14 2014, 11:16am |
For our weekend breakfast, Aaron plays some smooth jazz while we eat. Today, his mom asked for some Christmas music. Aaron snuck this song in there, all on ... |
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Dec 9 2014, 9:55pm |
On our way out from Christmas in the Park, we passed this painted electrical box. It's part of an art project, "Downtown Doors". It's a piece by Renee Gonzal... |
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Dec 9 2014, 7:53pm |
Apple, I hate you more now than I have in years. I have fewer than 300 hand-chosen photos on my iPhone, and you used to keep them in a few DCIM folders that ... |
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Dec 7 2014, 10:44am |
You guys know what "idle games" are? Cookie Clicker is one. My son is playing another one now, "Bitcoin Billionaire."A few years ago, I ran a Bitcoin mine... |
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Dec 5 2014, 9:43pm |
Well done, CodeCombat, I've tried a few different things to get my kids to explore whether or not they'd like coding, and your game and incentives are workin... |
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Dec 4 2014, 9:34pm |
This post on the typography of Alien is amazing. I forgot where I found it. If it came from you, all due credit to *you*. |
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Dec 2 2014, 9:36pm |
Oh, just a link to Vi Hart's webVR github site. (Navigate with WASD, and use the space bar to dive more deeply into an object. The peach tessellated thing ta... |
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Nov 30 2014, 3:20pm |
I'm just now watching Fringe's season 3, episode 8, "Entrada". The (first?) one with the alternating red, blue, red, blue, red, blue opening credits. Nice. T... |
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Nov 30 2014, 12:00pm |
Just sharing the Star Wars: Episode VII Trailer - George Lucas' Special Edition |
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Nov 30 2014, 9:46am |
"Gather 'round, children. Today we're going to watch 'Requiem for a Dream' for our family activity." From the book, "Things No One Said."I watched Requiem ... |
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Nov 28 2014, 11:48am |
Seems like io9 hasn't figured out this clue J.J. Abrams left in the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer. |
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Nov 27 2014, 11:48pm |
I posted a few weeks ago about why dads work on projects in the garage. A little later I came across this charming video that captures some of the spirit. |
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Nov 27 2014, 10:37pm |
It's Friday in most of the world. Is the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer out now? |
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Nov 22 2014, 8:35pm |
Fox News missed an angle. Instead of just burying the story that the House Intelligence Committee found no Obama-sanctioned wrongdoings related to the 2012 B... |
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Nov 21 2014, 10:10pm |
I liked both stories from Tuesday's "Fresh Air" podcast. I'd be hard pressed to pick one, so listen to both. One's the true story about the mutually assured ... |
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Nov 20 2014, 8:14pm |
#TBT Clowning around in the early '80s with Val M Jamora and Felicia Mignola. |
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Nov 18 2014, 9:03pm |
Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" was just made for parodies, wasn't it? |
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Nov 17 2014, 7:43pm |
Over at Google+, I posted about how much I love creative smart people sharing things. I forgot to mention that I really love the names BioCurious and Evil Ma... |
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Nov 16 2014, 10:03pm |
"...the right of such beneficiary to take any interest given to him or her under this trust or any trust created pursuant to this trust shall be determined a... |
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Nov 16 2014, 9:23pm |
Here's a note I wrote to my son regarding something that happened today. (The Facebook slug says it all. You don't even have to click through.) |
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Nov 14 2014, 8:48pm |
"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat‽"If there ever was call for an interrobang... |
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Nov 10 2014, 7:43am |
Such an enjoyable book throughout. Hope it wins. |
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Nov 9 2014, 4:09pm |
“Samuel Beckett once said: ‘Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.’” ... "On the other hand, he SAID it." -- Art Spiegelman in M... |
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Nov 8 2014, 11:40pm |
I wrote about why dads work on jalopies. Except it was about web services and #python. It's probably the most technical thing I've written yet. You can skim ... |
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Nov 8 2014, 10:49am |
Unsatisfied Women in Western Art. Click through. Read the captions.http://the-toast.net/2014/09/09/unsatisfied-women-western-art-history/ |
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Nov 4 2014, 9:35pm |
Towards the end of the latest This Week in Tech (TWiT) around 1:21:15.Leo Laporte: "What would you get, Chromecast or a Fire TV Stick?"Rafe Needleman: "Ro... |
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Nov 3 2014, 7:31pm |
I'm tempted to vote "yes" on Milpitas's Measure E for a new gambling card room just to spite those other casinos sending me fliers to vote "no" on the measur... |
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Nov 2 2014, 2:19pm |
We triaged another couple of boxes of my parents' things. Mom kept everything, including things like her grammar school valentines and mementos from previous... |
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Oct 31 2014, 8:51am |
My son's going as a Psycho Killer for Halloween. Of course I took that as an opportunity to play the song by Talking Heads as I drove them to school. "Son, t... |
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Oct 29 2014, 1:06pm |
One of the very last sandwiches to ever be served by Saratoga's The Prolific Oven. End of an era. |
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Oct 28 2014, 10:06pm |
Rick Mann's posts citing OK Go and The Postal Service songs inevitably led me here. While I love the cover, the tribute to Oderus Urungus brings a tear to th... |
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Oct 23 2014, 11:57am |
"A week after the attack, 28 bodies were discovered in a mass grave outside the city, but forensic analysis so far suggests that none of them belonged to the... |
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Oct 21 2014, 8:51pm |
When we're alone with our elder kid, we tell her that she's the main child, and her younger brother is a backup. When we're alone with the younger, we tell h... |
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Oct 21 2014, 8:49pm |
Doing the laundry tonight, my wife was singing "I do everything for you" to the tune of Sammy Hagar's "I've done Everything for You." (She doesn't know it's ... |
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Oct 19 2014, 11:40am |
Neil Patrick Harris's rich character was showing off his ridiculously nice lake house in a movie we saw last night. He grabbed the remote to the T.V., and ta... |
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Oct 19 2014, 11:31am |
Driving home with the family yesterday, we were talking about things related to Halloween. My daughter asked, "I wonder what the scary man will do this year?... |
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Oct 17 2014, 9:24pm |
I just threw my hands in the air and yelled, "yes!" and my wife rolled her eyes at me. |
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Oct 16 2014, 8:26pm |
Especially for Mike Kobb, America's Test Kitchen reviews some knives. |
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Oct 15 2014, 8:50pm |
You won't go wrong with the Roku 3 if you watch Netflix. It's got the best UI of all. In our house, creating and using profiles is handy, so my profile doesn... |
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Oct 13 2014, 7:20pm |
Hope you all had fine Goth Chick Appreciation Day. |
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Oct 12 2014, 7:47pm |
If you didn't have to break out the fire extinguisher, did you really BBQ as hard as you could? I know I did. |
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Oct 12 2014, 11:43am |
One Redditor complained that his dad insisted that Jerry's last name was "Steinfeld". Here's the reply from another Redditor that explains one of the Dad Pri... |
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Oct 11 2014, 10:24pm |
I really enjoyed this 4-part telling of the start of World War I. It bears being linked-to again. You don't have to be a history buff to enjoy this short ani... |
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Oct 11 2014, 10:05pm |
I've long been a fan of Dave Winer, have maintained a couple of blogs and RSS drives most of my cronjobs. Happy 20th anniversary to the blog, Señor Winer! (I... |
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Oct 9 2014, 7:37pm |
I've been waiting for this book. I never got the Steve Jobs biography, I've always been a Woz man, and this books looks to be more inclusive. |
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Oct 5 2014, 10:12pm |
I unpacked and installed a new electronic gizmo today. Best part? I peeled off the thin protective plastic sheet that's over the shiny surfaces before my wif... |
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Oct 3 2014, 3:47pm |
I love Tachikoma. They're adorable salticidious robots. (Oh, you didn't know salticidious was a word? It means, "having attributes similar to the jumping spi... |
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Sep 24 2014, 3:48pm |
In honor of National Punctuation Day today, I'm giving away the Chrome Interrobang extension for free, all day! How awesome is that‽ |
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Sep 23 2014, 8:59pm |
I love this hand-drawn map of San Francisco, and it was nice to see Sightglass Coffee in one of the zoomed in pictures of the map. |
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Sep 20 2014, 12:59pm |
Coffee break! |
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Sep 18 2014, 7:52pm |
Honey, I'm getting the new Kindle! |
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Sep 15 2014, 9:01am |
I've shared the "This is Phil Fish" video with you guys before. Notch cites it in his explanation for leaving Mojang. http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-moj... |
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Sep 14 2014, 8:10pm |
I really like that the Extra Credits guys are taking a crack at addressing history in their engaging style. Watch this. I hope you like it as much as I do. (... |
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Sep 13 2014, 11:31pm |
Joyce Mayorga, Elliott Noel, have you played Nothing to Hide? |
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Sep 13 2014, 1:38pm |
One of our windshield cracks is really flourishing today. |
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Sep 10 2014, 8:40am |
Our vacuum cleaner is literally held together by fishing line and duct tape. It's lost some power, so when I went to look at it, I thought to myself, "I'm pr... |
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Sep 7 2014, 11:24pm |
Via Val M JamoraList 10 books that have stuck with you in some way throughout your life. Don't think too hard! These don't have to be the "right" books or ... |
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Sep 1 2014, 12:46pm |
Another reason my wife is so, so lucky?We're beginning to wonder when we should buy a new car. The silly girl is noticing how new cars look. Oh, the poor t... |
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Aug 31 2014, 9:29pm |
I just got done telling my wife the interesting story of how although HTTP has long had DELETE and PATCH commands, most browsers really only implement GET an... |
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Aug 30 2014, 10:13pm |
A physicist sees a young man about to jump off the Empire State Building. He yells "Don't do it! You have so much potential!" |
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Aug 30 2014, 5:27pm |
So I'm reading this interesting story from a cop working a tough beat and what he and his department are doing to make things better.halfway into it, the a... |
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Aug 24 2014, 8:07pm |
Way to go browsers. It's 2014, and every implementation of HTML5's handles onchange() differently. Chrome calls it on mouse up, Safari co... |
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Aug 23 2014, 10:02pm |
Monsters drawn on post-its. Be sure to view the entire album. |
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Aug 22 2014, 7:40am |
Really, really cute! |
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Aug 17 2014, 10:45pm |
Can't stop laughing. |
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Aug 16 2014, 10:05pm |
Spent a couple of hours tonight pushing pixels. My CSS-fu is weak, but I got the job done. Now for some binge-watching with my wife. |
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Aug 16 2014, 6:12pm |
Nice to see Elon Musk and Notch (the guy who developed Minecraft) are game for the latest ice bucket challenge. I already accepted and responded to a similar... |
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Aug 12 2014, 8:29am |
Coffee date with my wife: I read a quote by Oprah Winfrey that's on the sleeve: "You are here not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more of who yo... |
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Aug 11 2014, 12:30am |
Hyperlapse looks really, really promising. |
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Aug 9 2014, 10:04pm |
We're on a long car trip, and I give my 13yo daughter my phone (connected to the car stereo) to choose some songs for us. We have two 11yo boys in the car wi... |
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Aug 4 2014, 7:57am |
First day at the new job! A great "Codeless Code" was posted to help me keep perspective. |
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Aug 2 2014, 2:10pm |
Over on another social network, I'm celebrating that alpha release of my Infinite iPhone Photos thingy. In one of my replies, I described my feelings this wa... |
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Aug 1 2014, 7:18pm |
The problem with being a software developer? I learn that applications can change Windows' power schemes by setting specific configurations. ("POWERCFG -S NE... |
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Aug 1 2014, 4:57pm |
I'm at a stage in product development where I have to decide whether to have my app change the local computer's Power Scheme to stay awake for long periods o... |
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Aug 1 2014, 11:04am |
A couple of days ago we watched Darren Aronofsky's Noah, which I didn't expect I'd like. I underestimated my reaction, I pretty much hated it. Haven't hated ... |
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Jul 28 2014, 10:47pm |
My wife tried to take a selfie of herself with the Cloud Gate in Chicago. Aaron and I wouldn't have that. Consider this a two-for-one photobomb, Honey. |
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Jul 28 2014, 9:53am |
I saw this video yesterday, and today I'm still appreciating it. It's nine minutes long, and worth watching. Comments in this thread could contain spoilers, ... |
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Jul 27 2014, 8:04pm |
Beware: Uber geek mind-dump ahead!How nice is it nowadays that we don't need Dave's Quick Search Deskbar as much anymore? (Much of its functionality can be... |
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Jul 27 2014, 1:31pm |
I just watched Penn & Teller's "Tim's Vermeer", which was really good, (especially after having seen a few Vermeers on vacation, and working in the same indu... |
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Jul 26 2014, 9:45am |
Today's unexpected, unrealistic Google Image search: "Hayao Miyazaki, Alan Moore" since they both were entered into the Will Eisner Comic Industry Hall of Fa... |
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Jul 24 2014, 12:26pm |
I like to see Joel Spolsky's "yes, this developer-friendly corporate policy sure is working" posts. The proof is in the pudding. |
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Jul 23 2014, 8:00am |
Enjoying the thunder, lightning, and rain when our phones blare an emergency alert about flash flooding. No Ninth Ward tours for us today. |
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Jul 22 2014, 5:03pm |
I finished Andy Weir's The Martian yesterday (great book), and today's appetizer before dinner was potatoes. Potatoes. |
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Jul 12 2014, 1:16pm |
I just sang the two words, "Sheena is..."And my daughter completed, "...a punk rocker!"I'm a happy Daddy. |
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Jul 11 2014, 9:09pm |
I jokingly told my daughter that if she wants to be a good citizen of the Internet, she'll have to hate Nickelback. I almost started to explain the joke, but... |
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Jul 10 2014, 7:58pm |
I had a pretty good time bouldering today. Good news: Was keeping my own with the high school and college kids doing easy problems. Bad news: Had my scariest... |
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Jul 10 2014, 10:59am |
I've been a big fan of the hierarchical list apps TaskPaper on OS X and TodoPaper on Windows. I've just discovered WorkFlowy, and it looks really good. The l... |
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Jul 10 2014, 9:39am |
In all seriousness, I'm spending a couple of days automating something that takes me like 20 minutes once or twice a year. Why? Because "I should be able to ... |
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Jul 9 2014, 11:21pm |
I finished Dune, which I probably should have read as a Senior in high school. Now I'm starting Andy Weir's "The Martian". It's just one thing after another ... |
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Jul 8 2014, 10:33am |
This is one of the cutest user-submitted stories at The Trenches about game development. "'FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!' ... type type type." |
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Jul 6 2014, 12:16am |
I watched "The Breakfast Club" with the kids. It opens with "I don't like Mondays" (quotes and all) etched in some wood. It took everything I had not to paus... |
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Jul 4 2014, 3:27pm |
Born and bred. Half Southern and half Northern California. |
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Jul 1 2014, 8:39am |
Mother Jones shares a useful and concise TL;DR version of Ginsburg's dissent on the Hobby Lobby contraception decision. |
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Jun 29 2014, 6:28pm |
Maddie made Shrimp Scampi for the family. There was this moment where she stood idly over the range looking at the shrimp and pasta cook while there were dir... |
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Jun 28 2014, 10:17am |
An un-retouched phone-cam picture of a faded photograph of my best friend in High School. Who in an earlier Facebook thread said, "Oh, bring it on." |
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Jun 21 2014, 4:47pm |
Captured in haste and in situ: my daughter looking up from her phone to realize the new Roku device can stream her favorite YouTube channels to the T.V. She ... |
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Jun 13 2014, 11:24am |
I've already read a handful of books about Richard Feynman, but after I saw that Donald Knuth, author of The Art of Computer Programming, recommended a new (... |
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Jun 11 2014, 9:44pm |
My wife bought a little 5lb weight for the family to exercise with. We all took a look at it, to see what exercises we could do with it. Later, I said I'd go... |
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Jun 11 2014, 5:28pm |
I liked the alt-text for the image better than the article. "Michael Bay's Sister Act 3: Mother Superior Firepower" I eagerly await an honest tag for http:/... |
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Jun 11 2014, 9:16am |
Another "Long Now" XKCD comic? As as active member and donor, I love it. But it's so far into my nerdy realm, do other people appreciate it? What's next? Mov... |
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Jun 8 2014, 1:42am |
It's late Saturday night. What are you doing? I just wrote some software under the WTFPL, and got the Feynman graphic novel that Donald Knuth recommended o... |
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Jun 2 2014, 10:12am |
Naval Adm. William McRaven uses a similar trick to what I described to start the day productively. Long ago, I wrote a blog post called, "Leave the Last Pane... |
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May 30 2014, 10:04pm |
Type "cd github" and then "run github.exe". http://www.robscanlon.com/encom-boardroom/ |
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May 24 2014, 10:20pm |
I didn't have to bring the BBQ out of cold storage for Memorial Day. You know why? BECAUSE CALIFORNIA DIDN'T HAVE A WINTER. Left the BBQ outside the whole ye... |
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May 24 2014, 10:16am |
I took Aaron to get a haircut today. On the way, he asked, "what if, after they put the sheet over my shoulders, my nose starts to run. And it drips down to ... |
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May 19 2014, 8:42am |
Finally, a link that provides my answer for the question, "where do you see yourself in five years?" http://thecodelesscode.com/case/145 |
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May 17 2014, 7:00pm |
Aaron thought the tortillas were for eating. Silly boy, tomorrow's Bay to Breakers. They're for flying! |
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May 14 2014, 12:56pm |
I just saw a tall thin guy in a black turtleneck sweater. Outside. It's over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In the real Silicon Valley, not the HBO comedy. |
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May 12 2014, 1:48pm |
We're all watching the trailer for A Million Ways to Die in the West when Doc Brown is caught trying to hide his time-travelling Delorean. My kids look at me... |
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May 11 2014, 7:05pm |
Python implements common integer values as reference-counted singletons. And if you're evil or self-destructive, you could re-assign them to other values. As... |
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May 10 2014, 3:32pm |
"the freedom to reimplement and extend existing APIs has been the key to competition and progress in both hardware and software development." Absolutely, I'm... |
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May 10 2014, 12:42pm |
This article may be overstating the case, but I've been finding Google Maps less useful lately, too. |
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May 9 2014, 12:42am |
Knights of Badassdom, you had me at "Summer Glau Hottie Montage". (And with that, I think I may have lost the respect of my more refined movie-loving colle... |
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May 5 2014, 9:21pm |
The Constitutional Law Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) taught by Akhil Reed Amar is over, and I scored 95%. I'm happy for the score, but what's more: I wis... |
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May 4 2014, 7:11pm |
Maddie and Aaron were each playing Minecraft on a Player vs. Player public server. Maddie stepped away from the keyboard for a second, and Aaron ran to her c... |
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May 3 2014, 10:17am |
They're giving out temporary tattoos for the people in line for Free Comic Book Day. I want "Poor Impulse Control" on my forehead. |
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Apr 28 2014, 3:25pm |
My kids are embarrassed by it, but I've taught them to use clear hand signals when bicycling on the road. It turns out that those hand signals are recognize... |
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Apr 25 2014, 10:20pm |
I'm showing "Back to the Future 3" to the kids when the character, Needles, comes up to challenge Marty to a race. That's when I realized: Needles is played ... |
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Apr 25 2014, 4:25pm |
I approve 8-bit tributes to Studio Ghibli. Surprised? :) |
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Apr 23 2014, 11:57pm |
Elliott Noel, Mike Kobb, Did you guys know about Kindle and Fiona? |
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Apr 23 2014, 3:50pm |
It's with mixed feelings I release my static IPv4 address I'd once needed for the green lock icon on our secure SSL site. You were mine alone, IPv4 address, ... |
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Apr 17 2014, 10:51pm |
I got really tempted to buy a NUC today. (Damn you, Lifehacker.) To stop myself, I dove into my router's advanced settings to see if it would keep a dynamic ... |
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Apr 17 2014, 5:29pm |
It was good to see the songwriters of Frozen knew that the movie passed the Bechdel Test, and were also hip to the double-entendre in the line, "Why have a b... |
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Apr 15 2014, 10:56am |
Two weeks left in my Constitutional Law class. Nothing left but my final essay. I'm trying not to go full "A Modest Proposal" on my poor peer reviewers, but ... |
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Apr 12 2014, 3:42pm |
Mike Kobb: Andy Weir and Daniel Suarez will be in San Francisco this evening. I know it's last minute, but I just found out. |
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Apr 12 2014, 1:23pm |
Congrats, Aaron, on your 1st place award at the karate tournament! |
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Apr 11 2014, 12:53pm |
What happens in the age of the Internet of Things when your Raspberry Pi enhanced coffee maker is in a house with a tea drinker? http://coffee.dlma.com/ (Not... |
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Apr 7 2014, 10:22pm |
When the guy in the show "Silicon Valley" says, "Ask me what nine times eff is. It's fleventy-five." I'm thinking to myself, "did he just try to say it's 0x... |
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Apr 7 2014, 10:13am |
A little help for your geometry cat-egories. |
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Apr 6 2014, 8:51pm |
Neil Armstrong on being an Engineer, as illustrated by PHD Comics' Jorge Chan. |
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Mar 31 2014, 7:10pm |
One of us apparently got selected for a random TSA search on our boarding pass. There's an evil side of me that wants to sing the chorus to Sublime's Caress ... |
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Mar 31 2014, 8:24am |
According to my brain, it looks like this morning's song is going to be "Self Esteem" by The Offspring. So I'm singing the lyrics to myself and wondering ho... |
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Mar 30 2014, 9:29pm |
Dan Ariely's Productivity Hacks. Posted two months ago at LinkedIn, but I still managed to read it two days too early. |
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Mar 29 2014, 5:59pm |
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman is calling my name. Two of my all-time favorite movies (Tsui Hark's The Blade and Fumihiko Sori's Ichi) are inspired b... |
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Mar 25 2014, 3:54pm |
"...when you die, all that’s left of you is the people you gave a shit about." |
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Mar 24 2014, 12:12pm |
I think this streak ends this week. |
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Mar 22 2014, 3:50pm |
Excerpts from Mike Mignola's AMA today:"Do you and Guillermo Del Toro hang out and talk about things with too many legs? Please say yes." Mike: "Yes.""W... |
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Mar 21 2014, 10:35pm |
Returning home from dinner with the family, the kids got out of the car and said, "Dad, don't go in. Stay outside for a minute." They wanted to go through an... |
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Mar 15 2014, 1:40am |
I'm watching Game of Thrones on Blu-ray disc, and finally got to the episode with the Red Wedding. So glad I managed to stay spoiler-free! Totally worth it. ... |
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Mar 10 2014, 4:26pm |
My wife just sent me a video she took on her phone. It was in Landscape mode. I'm... so proud! I'm tearing up. >sniffle< Nicely done, Honey. |
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Mar 9 2014, 11:50pm |
As a long-time user of ISO 8601 and a supporter of the Long Now Society, today's XKCD (and its hover text) made me happy. |
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Mar 8 2014, 12:25pm |
I love the implication that some Theoretical Physicists may be sweating bullets partly because experiments at they LHC haven't yet shown any evidence for the... |
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Mar 7 2014, 9:22pm |
It's Friday night! I'm home from work. I'm settling down to... do peer reviews of the papers written by my Constitutional Law classmates. (I'll tell you a li... |
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Mar 6 2014, 4:26pm |
Where do I sign up for this "get a dollar every time..." thing? |
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Mar 4 2014, 7:58pm |
So now, I'm waiting for the kids to get into their next fight, so I can break out my Lord Humungus, grab them each by the scruff of the neck, hold them at ar... |
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Mar 4 2014, 1:03pm |
I just cited The Lord Humungus in a communiqué to my boss. |
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Mar 4 2014, 10:57am |
One noteworthy excerpt among many: "Precisely because we so often, ostensibly, capture everything, we avoid the hard work of deciding what few things count. ... |
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Mar 3 2014, 3:03pm |
XKCD's comic 1337 is out. It's appropriate. |
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Mar 2 2014, 1:49pm |
It may be a bit silly, but it makes me happy that my name is listed on a page with Neal Stephenson, Daniel Suarez and Neil Gaiman. They're three favorite aut... |
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Mar 1 2014, 9:37pm |
What makes us happy at work?1. Autonomy – the desire to direct our own lives.2. Mastery – the urge to get better and better at something that matters.3. ... |
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Mar 1 2014, 5:34pm |
If I ever get to name a street, I'm going to name it "Some Random". |
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Mar 1 2014, 10:58am |
http://bacon.sexy is already taken. Three years of development and business plans and meetings on Sand Hill out the window. Have to start over from scratch now. |
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Feb 27 2014, 7:23pm |
Over at another social network, where my friends are taking a Zimbio quiz to find out which Hunger Games character they are, I politely explain that I'm neve... |
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Feb 27 2014, 2:57pm |
"So what would happen if you took an entire generation of young people and systematically and repeatedly masturbated their self-esteem mechanisms? Could it b... |
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Feb 27 2014, 11:13am |
QA testers with a sense of humor are the best. Sometimes infuriating, but the best. |
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Feb 26 2014, 7:46am |
Two shy of comic number 1337, Randall Munroe came out with a clever, geeky comic for number 1335. http://xkcd.com/1335/ |
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Feb 23 2014, 5:05pm |
I wrote some thoughts on hope and inspiration based on a couple of things that happened around here last week. |
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Feb 21 2014, 8:10pm |
This guy, Gordo, is an Australian drummer who busks with buckets in Sydney. He's really inspiring. |
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Feb 19 2014, 9:12pm |
Note to the wife: If you're not ready for the answer, don't ask the question. |
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Feb 17 2014, 8:12pm |
Here's a couple of pictures of the family at Safari West today. It's hard to tell in the first picture, but we're on the roof part of a leftover Jeep from t... |
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Feb 16 2014, 9:55am |
The line for Russian River is wrapped around the block! |
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Feb 14 2014, 9:00am |
Today is 2♥14/2014. |
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Feb 13 2014, 11:34pm |
Tests are a lot more painless when no fucks are given. I just took the first Constitutional Law Quiz and got 12.55 / 13.00. All I did was watch Dr. Amar's v... |
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Feb 12 2014, 8:40pm |
If you read this, tell me if you read it continuously from beginning to end. (And how many tabs you had open in your browser!) |
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Feb 11 2014, 8:20pm |
As a resident of Milpitas, I approve of Randall Munroe's SanDisk joke in today's XKCD "What If?" http://what-if.xkcd.com/83/ |
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Feb 8 2014, 8:12pm |
My wife made the kids choose between us. Sure, she loves them, and clothes them, and feeds them, and keeps a roof over their heads. She nurtures them and pre... |
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Feb 8 2014, 11:31am |
One of my favorite authors, Daniel Suarez got favorably covered by the Wall Street Journal. |
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Feb 5 2014, 9:18pm |
You Won't Believe These Three Simple Secrets That Govern My Browsing Habits! Buzzfeed, Upworthy and Zimbio Hate This!Preamble: I'm an employed web surfer a... |
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Feb 5 2014, 3:30pm |
I can't explain it, but something about the art style in this Life Strategy Guide draws me in. ;) |
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Feb 2 2014, 1:03pm |
twitch.tv? Kids nowadays have it easy. When I was a kid and I wanted to live-stream my videogames to my friends, I had to call the television station on my l... |
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Feb 1 2014, 5:09pm |
These two posts are right next to each other in my Facebook Feed. I think that about says it all. |
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Feb 1 2014, 4:01pm |
At the mall. Help! Send the extraction team! |
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Feb 1 2014, 4:01pm |
At the mall. Help! Send the extraction team! |
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Jan 29 2014, 8:24pm |
Any of you taking the Yale "Constitutional Law" course at Coursera? Want to be study buddies? I'll bring the pizza*.*In study groups, the guy who voluntee... |
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Jan 26 2014, 7:16pm |
My wife caught me looking at my smart phone while we were grocery shopping. She got mad and snatched it away. "How's that feel?" she asked me as she pocketed... |
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Jan 26 2014, 4:16pm |
Chinese New Year's is coming up. My wife has been cleaning around the house in preparation. Me? I'm updating and patching web service back-ends, and having... |
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Jan 25 2014, 9:27pm |
I've been goofing around in Python for a long time. I still learned something really useful in this post. Spoiler:from multiprocessing.dummy import Poolp... |
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Jan 25 2014, 8:42pm |
Always backup your data. Yes, I remember when the creators of Project Zomboid had their laptops stolen. It turns out the creator of Zombox also had two of ... |
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Jan 23 2014, 10:39pm |
Especially for Elliott Noel: I made a version of my Avatar that speaks Canadian. You have to click through: http://dlma.com/canadian_avatar.gif |
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Jan 23 2014, 10:09pm |
I went to Guido van Rossum's Asychronous I/O Library talk. His proof-of-concept test program that runs (with a little modification) in Python 3.4 and Python... |
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Jan 23 2014, 9:32am |
I managed to kill two birds with one stone with today's back-of-the-page-a-day-calendar-sheet. Today's National Handwriting Day. And it occurs during Goblin ... |
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Jan 22 2014, 4:53pm |
This is a really nice tribute to one man's father and his craftsmanship. |
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Jan 21 2014, 10:39pm |
I've decided to try out a new avatar for a while. It's based on an 8-bit pixel-art style that's meant to be familiar to my old avatar, but to remind you of c... |
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Jan 18 2014, 9:01pm |
Notably, Google shut down Schemer last week. ... Oh? You never heard of it? Then why was it notable? Because unlike dropping support for Gmail Notifier (whic... |
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Jan 18 2014, 1:00pm |
Today I talked about the drought (that we have here in California) with the kids, and how we'll probably have to make some changes. Aaron's planning on drin... |
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Jan 18 2014, 11:35am |
Ordered a "Grande Mocha" at Starbucks, cashier scribbled the instructions for the barista. Barista misread the "Grande" scrawl as "six shots." We didn't tas... |
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Jan 14 2014, 7:57pm |
Continuing the thread I started back in this post, https://www.facebook.com/david.blume/posts/10151791242101561, another explanation that showcases the effec... |
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Jan 14 2014, 7:10pm |
So Rep. Mike Honda sent an email asking what I wanted Congress to address in 2014. There were a bunch of checkboxes, and I had to choose which ones to check,... |
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Jan 13 2014, 11:24am |
I'm amused how this article, "Why we think there’s a Multiverse", https://medium.com/p/23d5ecd33707, starts with pictures of pretty balloons, and eventually ... |
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Jan 11 2014, 2:59pm |
Next step: Tachikoma. |
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Jan 10 2014, 10:11pm |
Some of James Altucher's articles have really struck me the same way. It was good to read Jen Dziura's take on this. |
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Jan 10 2014, 1:44pm |
I like Yahoo's flickr and want to see it succeed. They're testing a new interface in public beta. It's not feature complete, and it's missing "notes", anno... |
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Jan 8 2014, 9:41pm |
Yay! I was on the waiting list for a talk that Guido van Rossum is giving at the next Python meetup. (It was booked within minutes.) Just today LinkedIn allo... |
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Jan 6 2014, 10:26pm |
Why did the FBI drop Law Enforcement for National Security? "If you tie yourself to national security, you get funding and you get exemptions on disclosure c... |
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Jan 6 2014, 8:49pm |
“This is a faith-based nation and a faith-based state” Rep. Earl Sears (R-Bartlesville) [Note: Religions besides those held by standing politicians don't cou... |
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Jan 6 2014, 9:37am |
Jake Solomon writes "On disdain and empathy in Civic Tech". It's a tough problem, and it's interesting that it might get addressed in one of the most gentrif... |
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Jan 5 2014, 4:54pm |
We went ziplining to celebrate Aaron's birthday! |
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Jan 4 2014, 10:09pm |
When it's anyone else's birthday, my son writes these long, rambling messages in his cards to us. He's also a fan of riddles. Let's see what he makes of one... |
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Jan 2 2014, 11:38pm |
Wowow waka wowow waka waka waka. (Or, for my Canadian friends, ting ta ting ting ting ta ting ting ting ting ta ta ting ta ting ting ting ta ting ting ting t... |
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Jan 2 2014, 2:11pm |
One of my favorite songs, RATM's "Bulls on Parade" (full of rage against the Military-Industrial Complex) was released in the halcyon days of 1996. Well befo... |
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Jan 2 2014, 9:16am |
"Fake thermodynamic imagery - it's the new phrenology." Gotta say that this fake thermodynamic image *feels* right, though. |
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Dec 31 2013, 2:00pm |
Well, I do have a fine wife. I think she'll approve. |
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Dec 31 2013, 12:33pm |
These pictures of Saturn and its moons from the Cassini Mission are amazing. Click through. |
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Dec 30 2013, 10:16pm |
Jacob Appelbaum provides information on the NSA hardware and software packages recently uncovered. |
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Dec 28 2013, 5:37pm |
My family's birthday present to me: playing Settlers of Catan together. |
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Dec 28 2013, 12:01pm |
We've got a new restaurant in Milpitas. I told my wife I wanted to try some Phở Quỳnh food at the Phở Quỳnh restaurant. I might have mispronounced things ju... |
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Dec 27 2013, 7:48pm |
So I was at Books Inc., on California Street in San Francisco. Near the backdoor, they had Super Balls. I wondered what was so "super" about it until I saw ... |
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Dec 27 2013, 9:16am |
Michelangelo's Grocery List: "Because the servant he was sending to market was illiterate," writes the Oregonian‘s Steve Duin in a review of a Seattle Art Mu... |
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Dec 25 2013, 10:14am |
Here's a nice explanation of how Gerrymandering has led to politicians being forced to the radical extremes in order to keep their jobs. |
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Dec 25 2013, 1:32am |
Here's a nice explanation of how Gerrymandering has led to politicians being forced to the radical extremes in order to keep their jobs. By the "Extra Credit... |
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Dec 24 2013, 9:49pm |
My two kids are already in bed. They probably figure if you go to bed earlier, it'll make Christmas Morning come sooner! |
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Dec 20 2013, 12:04am |
If you host a dinner for some friends, but nobody posts food pics to Instagram, did it happen‽ |
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Dec 18 2013, 3:03pm |
It's unfortunate that this infographic on grammar uses "Ex:" (without any dot). "E.g." would've been correct. Even "ex." (with the dot) isn't quite correct,... |
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Dec 18 2013, 10:27am |
I'm not racist, but... |
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Dec 18 2013, 9:31am |
Just got an email from Amazon Direct with two coupons: "Golf Lesson" and "Windshield Replacement". If you buy the first one, you'll need the second one too. |
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Dec 17 2013, 10:08am |
All of Silicon Valley smells like burnt electronics. It's pretty funny watching us run around, sniffing our Teslas and iPhones trying to figure out what just... |
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Dec 15 2013, 9:55am |
I woke up this morning trying to develop Jedi telekinetic abilities. My wife did, too. Still not there yet, and we had to get out of bed. Will keep working o... |
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Dec 13 2013, 1:07am |
Time of Eve is a short and very charming anime series about Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. The story starts when a kid notices something odd in his android... |
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Dec 11 2013, 8:27pm |
Shopping with Daddy: A True Story"Kids! Go away, Daddy needs to use the computer."I navigate to amazon.com. I'm gonna have to find enough things to cost ... |
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Dec 10 2013, 3:14pm |
My company, Kaleidescape, is looking for a Software Engineer to do User Interface development here in Sunnyvale. |
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Dec 7 2013, 10:46pm |
I like this proposal for redesigning event tickets. |
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Dec 6 2013, 10:20pm |
This was absolutely my favorite technical post of the week. It's a post that'll take about 7 minutes to read that describes how Medium's optimal post is 7 m... |
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Dec 5 2013, 2:18pm |
Yay! My review copy of Mining the Social Web 2nd Edition came in! Free technical book FTW! I promised the author I'd give it an honest look, and I'm looking... |
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Dec 2 2013, 5:05pm |
Thanks, Obama. |
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Dec 1 2013, 9:26am |
I'm against the FDA's decision to bar 23andMe from conducting genetic tests. Yonatan Zunger writes a good assessment here: https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZu... |
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Nov 23 2013, 9:38pm |
My daughter was watching Grease today, and Danny was suddenly being a jerk to Sandy because he was with his friends, and he didn't want them to know he liked... |
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Nov 21 2013, 11:58pm |
Is that how it's going to be, router? Fine, I set up a DHCP reservation for my Raspberry Pi. Didn't think I'd need it, but you like to play fast and loose w... |
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Nov 21 2013, 9:28pm |
So, I detonated a pomegranate in our kitchen yesterday. There were arils and ruby red juice splashed everywhere. The wife was not pleased. She screamed, actu... |
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Nov 21 2013, 1:37pm |
It's unsettling how timely this feels. |
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Nov 20 2013, 10:40am |
This hits home. |
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Nov 19 2013, 4:41pm |
I'm not going to spoil it more than to say the phrase, "introverts understand" is in there. It could have also said, "tired parents of children understand." |
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Nov 16 2013, 6:27pm |
Just me sitting on one of the benches outside the Exploratorium this morning. |
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Nov 16 2013, 8:10am |
I love these guys! Just look at the elegant curves of their little antennae! And on top of those pokey bodies.http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/11/na... |
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Nov 13 2013, 9:10pm |
ProTip: After watching Before Midnight with your wife of fifteen years, the mother of your two children, don't turn to her and say, "Damn, that Julie Delpy w... |
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Nov 12 2013, 8:30pm |
Stuck here at Ulta in Fremont with the girls... And the theater is. Right. Over. There. |
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Nov 10 2013, 9:41pm |
Aaron and I fired up The Stanley Parable so we could play a few endings together, and ... *Spoilers Ahead* we both nearly lost it when we played the ending w... |
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Nov 9 2013, 7:46pm |
My 10yo son was microwaving his dinner, and started to say the countdown. 10... 9... 8... So I start singing, "Ground control to Major Tom..." And then *he* ... |
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Nov 9 2013, 2:21am |
I learned about EverPix too late. It sounded awesome, and similar to what I'm doing as a one-off at home. I have to admit, though, even if they were still in... |
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Nov 6 2013, 8:24pm |
Here's how to combat Roe v. Wade: Simply get legislature passed that makes it impractical to operate Family Planning and Abortion Clinics. |
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Nov 6 2013, 4:58pm |
So the Sony Cybershot RX100 II is out, and it *still* doesn't have GPS tagging in EXIF data. Grr, freakin', doesn't anybody...‽ Wait. I always know where I... |
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Nov 5 2013, 8:16pm |
Do you ever forget how entrancing real tilt-shift can be? http://youtu.be/1m2CtJEXQLA |
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Nov 5 2013, 3:42pm |
"Fuck those guys." -- A Googler, about the NSA. NSA Director Keith B. Alexander said, "This is not the NSA breaking into any databases. It would be illegal ... |
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Nov 4 2013, 12:32am |
I've been playing Minecraft with the kids for *over* three years now. Today, Aaron asked me if we could fire up a new world, and just tool around and spend t... |
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Oct 31 2013, 9:17pm |
“The last thing I heard him yelling was, ‘Have you been to space? Because I’ve been to space!’” I hope Rick Mann has seen this one. |
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Oct 31 2013, 9:17pm |
“The last thing I heard him yelling was, ‘Have you been to space? Because I’ve been to space!’... |
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Oct 29 2013, 2:37pm |
No joke: I just accidentally sent a message to a mailing list that was supposed to go privately to my wife. In it I w... |
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Oct 29 2013, 8:54am |
Just warned my wife to be wary of Cryptolocker. http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112986709/cryptolocker-virus... |
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Oct 27 2013, 9:35pm |
"The moment a program works, it's better to say that it barely works." -Brandon Rhodes at RuPy 2013. (Just because i... |
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Oct 27 2013, 4:52pm |
Yay! Three years later I've found a satisfactory workaround for Amazon's removal of the ListLookup API. No 3rd party... |
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Oct 27 2013, 4:45pm |
Today's Codeless Code (case 116) really hit home. Curse you, Taw-Jieh. |
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Oct 25 2013, 10:04pm |
Tonight? Me, Python's PIL, and S3 against my shutterbug family's terabytes of photos and videos. Who will win‽ |
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Oct 23 2013, 8:24pm |
Here's the definitive answer why so many computer languages start their array indices at 0. It's a satisfying read. |
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Oct 22 2013, 5:26pm |
In his response to Storm, Tim Minchin asks, "Isn't this enough? This beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable nat... |
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Oct 20 2013, 5:25pm |
Since I've been reading and posting to Facebook more often lately, I've added Facebook to my Lifestream at http://dav... |
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Oct 20 2013, 3:21pm |
My kids following me on Slenderman Trail. (they hate that name.) |
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Oct 18 2013, 8:58am |
I explain the good news to Generation Y: Generation X is raising their children like they raise their Pokemon. https:... |
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Oct 17 2013, 11:16am |
This could have been written by my wife. Well, except for that second paragraph.But those parts about planning her ... |
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Oct 17 2013, 1:03am |
I'm pretty frustrated with Microsoft right now. All I want to do is use the backup utility that came bundled with th... |
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Oct 16 2013, 4:59pm |
Katy Butler writes about how we can make end-of-life care less invasive and more humane. It shouldn't only be about t... |
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Oct 14 2013, 2:59pm |
So, we get a little model of a man in The Atlantic's "This Is the Average Man's Body" article, but is there any usefu... |
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Oct 14 2013, 2:36pm |
Nice. So that's how it works: The GOP's rigged it so that the only Member allowed to call up the Senate's clean CR fo... |
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Oct 12 2013, 12:06am |
Friday night. Wife's away working at the hospital. I'm exploring web APIs to music by Ahmad Jamal. You know what's we... |
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Oct 9 2013, 8:48am |
How the 2022 Qatar World Cup debacle is exposing FIFA’s recklessness.https://medium.com/editors-picks/4d45b35... |
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Oct 5 2013, 11:43am |
Nice allegory. |
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Oct 5 2013, 11:40am |
There was a bold, majestic creature outside our front door this morning.https://my.dlma.com/2013/10/05/majestic-crea... |
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Oct 2 2013, 4:32pm |
Are any of my Facebook friends participating in Drawtober? Today's challenge was "a girl and her robot." I don't hav... |
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Oct 1 2013, 5:02pm |
A short post about my needy, needy children. https://my.dlma.com/2013/10/01/kids-these-days/ |
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Sep 29 2013, 1:17pm |
What're you serving at the Breaking Bad finale? |
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Sep 28 2013, 10:14pm |
A. The story of how, after a traumatizing event, a man's Dark Passenger causes him to kill.Q. What is Lawrence of A... |
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Sep 28 2013, 3:55pm |
LM Sacasas and Louis C.K. make some good points about the human condition and our drive to find distraction. |
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Sep 27 2013, 9:16pm |
This was a far more interesting story than I thought it'd be. http://www.npr.org/2013/09/25/226104144/meet-the-irania... |
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Sep 17 2013, 8:32pm |
"Baby," one replied, "we just got out of prison." |
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Sep 16 2013, 4:33pm |
What's the difference between seeing the world as your park, and seeing the world as your cage? |
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Sep 15 2013, 1:11am |
I've always liked this opening theme. But the pathos in the music makes me wonder if I should dig out old U2 albums,... |
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Sep 15 2013, 1:03am |
Proud of my son. He tried his best. Fair competition, good judges. |
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Aug 31 2013, 1:39pm |
One of the pleasures of being a Dad? Driving your kids nuts by singing the Jimmy Fallon (as Neil Young) version of Wh... |
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Aug 22 2013, 8:41am |
Mike Honda's right: It's time to end this ban. |
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Aug 16 2013, 10:05pm |
How to make the perfect French Press coffee. http://youtu.be/41tXXrdta9E |
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Aug 10 2013, 12:06pm |
There was a teachable moment between my son and me this morning. https://my.dlma.com/2013/08/10/a-teachable-moment/ |
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Aug 9 2013, 1:19pm |
I bought one of these books for myself, and requested one for my local library. Spoiler alert: The reviewer reveals t... |
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Aug 9 2013, 9:22am |
An excellent, short post by the founder of tinyfactory.co. I've long been a believer in cutting your loses and forget... |
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Aug 8 2013, 1:46pm |
Kaleidescape movie servers make experiences like this possible because they take the friction out of movie watching: no shuffling through DVDs, fast-forward ... |
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Aug 3 2013, 11:16am |
The Google Chart API has been failing with "connection reset by peer" way too often lately, throwing up big red squares on my status page. I might have to re... |
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Jul 23 2013, 8:19am |
I love efforts like this! Here's a site that calls for domain experts for discover prior art that would invalidate bad patent applications. Help out the over... |
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Jul 14 2013, 4:25am |
NO CANADA FOR YOU! Jet Blue held us captive (with checked luggage) at SFO from 10:00pm to 2:30am, then cancelled the flight, sending us to the ticket counter... |
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Jul 13 2013, 11:39am |
Packing the essentials for our rental-car car trip: New playlists on my mobile phone. |
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Jun 26 2013, 8:08am |
finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson and gave it 5 stars |
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Jun 22 2013, 9:53am |
"nonsense does not obey any conservation law. It keeps on coming." |
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Jun 21 2013, 8:39pm |
So I'm out kicking the soccer ball with my son in the last rays of the sun today, and what am I thinking? I'm thinking of the perfect bucket names that might... |
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Jun 21 2013, 12:09pm |
"That was nice. Come back, let's cuddle" said the female Giant Wood Spider to the male. (from http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/06/part-2-of-the-2013-n... |
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Jun 16 2013, 11:06pm |
http://vimeo.com/66753575 |
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Jun 15 2013, 7:26pm |
Nice start for Father's Day weekend! We went to the new Exploratorium in San Francisco to learn more about the world around us, went to the (San Francisco) h... |
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Jun 9 2013, 9:55pm |
I updated my post from yesterday to better distinguish Dreamhost Backup from DreamObjects. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. I also added some sample... |
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Jun 8 2013, 8:25pm |
Here's the kind of stuff a DIY programmer considers when choosing a backup-to-the-cloud solution... I didn't get into Google and Amazon, and that I prefer to... |
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Jun 4 2013, 9:33pm |
Here's a little tease for something I've been meaning to write. What do you do when every member of your family has different tastes, and can't stop taking v... |
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Jun 4 2013, 9:12pm |
That was the worst virus attack my family's ever suffered. Warning: it gets gross. I just want to stick a pin in it in case anything like this ever happens a... |
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Jun 1 2013, 9:26pm |
My son and I still love my wife, even though she peels bananas from the wrong end. |
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May 31 2013, 10:07am |
Nice touch, Alan Taylor of The Atlantic. The indices to each photo in the 2013 National Spelling Bee are letters instead of the usual numbers. |
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May 30 2013, 2:09am |
Awesome: Alpha testing consumer electronics, and they work as desired. Not awesome: Realizing one of your favorite series, Samurai Champloo, will be 10 years... |
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May 29 2013, 2:32pm |
Missy Titus makes her point halfway into the article, you could stop right there if you want to avoid the analogy getting too carried away. |
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May 25 2013, 9:47pm |
This little thing (a Raspberry Pi) has already saved the day on more than one occasion. I'm sorely tempted to see how it'd do with Pelican and Nginx. But I ... |
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May 18 2013, 5:31pm |
Racing bib? Check. Throwing tortillas? Check. Sharpie for notes on tortillas? Check. A little love and respect for the Boston marathoners? Check. We're ready... |
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May 18 2013, 3:33pm |
This is how they individually prepare s'mores at Dandelion Chocolate! |
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May 15 2013, 7:41am |
Woke up early to get into work a couple of hours early only to be stuck behind an accident and later a small wildfire beside the road. |
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May 12 2013, 7:34pm |
The going rate for child labor for feeding discs to a Kaleidescape player is $1.00 per disc. Well, that's the going rate in my household. |
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May 4 2013, 9:05pm |
ProTip: When you see an ever-growing pile of sawdust on your windowsill, tell your husband. |
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May 4 2013, 11:18am |
My family and I don't see eye-to-eye on Free Comic Book Day. We got up early, waited in line, got our freebie bag and then... I walked out, allowing the next... |
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Apr 29 2013, 9:24pm |
I feel a fieldtrip coming on. https://medium.com/the-ingredients-2/9b99dbbb6d39 |
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Apr 14 2013, 7:36pm |
A high school kid explains how he used Facebook to improve his dating live. https://medium.com/editors-picks/499387ac3c34 |
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Apr 14 2013, 6:52pm |
I absolutely believe that this happened. http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2013/04/14/it_security_in_a_nutshell/ |
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Apr 11 2013, 3:14pm |
Took a few days at work to make the pipeline to another black triangle. But I saw the black triangle today! Yay! If I showed it to anybody else though, they'... |
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Apr 8 2013, 10:22pm |
This is a good tip. |
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Apr 7 2013, 9:39pm |
Wait. So now you're telling me that the Civil War was actually about Slavery, and not just primarily about States' rights? Gah! Stop teaching me the wrong st... |
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Apr 4 2013, 8:54pm |
"Scientific American argues that the 'descriptive norm' of seeing mass support of gay marriage may be incredibly powerful--more powerful than arguing with pe... |
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Apr 2 2013, 8:39pm |
Ryan Holiday points out that we're losing services that made finding and consuming information on the web easier in favor of a web focused on ad impressions ... |
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Mar 29 2013, 11:07pm |
I've researched potential replacements for Google Reader. I've chosen selfoss. Details at my blog. https://david.dlma.com/blog/finding-an-rss-feed-reader-to... |
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Mar 24 2013, 11:08pm |
Today's XKCD is animated at one frame per half-hour. |
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Mar 21 2013, 9:06pm |
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I think I'm going to give Apple's Podcasts App a second chance. If they're getting rid of the skeuomorphic elemen... |
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Mar 8 2013, 5:53pm |
Last night I watched the 1960s movie "Inherit the Wind", which fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial about a teacher that illegally taught the theory ... |
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Mar 4 2013, 11:14pm |
Your song for the week: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/4064574/nins-head-like-a-hole-mashed-with-call-me-maybe-is-perfect |
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Feb 24 2013, 4:18pm |
Neal Stephenson's book Anathem needs an easy-to-access-on-mobile-devices glossary. A letter-picker on the right hand column is essential for quick word looku... |
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Feb 1 2013, 10:28pm |
Objectified, the documentary about industrial design, was a unique Blu-ray title. I put the disc in the player, and the movie itself started playing right aw... |
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Jan 31 2013, 9:09pm |
A sweet five minute animation. |
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Jan 22 2013, 10:52pm |
I like how the author breaks it down into actions you can take to improve your productivity individually, and actions you can take as a CEO to improve your e... |
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Jan 19 2013, 4:44pm |
It's the weekend. You don't have to do the thing you do at work all week long. Unless you love it. |
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Jan 10 2013, 11:43pm |
I wrote about a productivity tip that I gleaned from a comic book back in 2009. My post was called, "Leave the Last Panel Blank," referring to leaving yourse... |
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Jan 6 2013, 9:47pm |
On Aaron's 10th birthday, we went ziplining with Sonoma Canopy Tours. You have to be 10 years old to go. He must have been one of their youngest customers! |
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Jan 2 2013, 5:36pm |
Suspect stroke? Act FAST. |
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Nov 3 2012, 3:50pm |
How did I forget to do this this year‽ |
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Oct 20 2012, 8:32pm |
This is my son breaking one of his first boards in martial arts class. |
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Oct 15 2012, 2:28pm |
http://www.bonkersworld.net/top-donors/ Apparently the source data comes from OpenSecrets, here: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00009638 |
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Apr 5 2012, 11:05am |
Sexy Pancakes. You want them. |
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Mar 4 2012, 2:56pm |
I modded my Kindle Touch so that I can lean it up against something and do hands-free reading. I was really surprised and frustrated that you couldn't do th... |
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Jan 22 2012, 12:38am |
I wrote a little about the process of burying my parents' ashes this week. |
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Jan 15 2012, 10:12pm |
My daughter discovers her first cassette tape. She had no ideas how cool the liner notes could be. Sitting and listening and reading music is an experience ... |
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Jan 12 2012, 11:42pm |
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dblume/6687921681 |
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Jan 8 2012, 11:03pm |
Here's a little drawing from our family game of Pictionary today. |
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Jan 7 2012, 12:04am |
Music to program to. |
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Jan 5 2012, 12:28pm |
Challenge: |
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Oct 8 2011, 10:01pm |
We took an excursion to Chinatown and North Beach today. |
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Aug 5 2011, 10:50pm |
I ran my Life Stream data through the visualization software Gource, and this video is what came out. (Why doesn't this YouTube link appear with a thumbnail... |
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Jul 15 2011, 2:59pm |
We took the kids to iFly! It was really fun. The kids got two flights: On the first one they were a little nervous, but on the second one they relaxed and ... |
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Jul 2 2011, 9:49pm |
The Fillmore Jazz Festival gets my vote for the best Bay Area street fair. Go there with lots of free time, and go hungry. |
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Jun 13 2011, 12:24pm |
I've thought about rolling my own private online vault. |
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May 19 2011, 9:58pm |
Castle Rock is on the list! |
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Jan 28 2011, 2:25am |
I posted what I took away from Jonah Lehrer's "Importance of Vacation" article. |
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Jan 3 2011, 1:46am |
Drat. I think Google has Amazoned my latest project. I never thought that *they*'d do that. (Their API doesn't go far enough for my needs. My script is for... |
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Dec 30 2010, 11:12am |
As Joel Spolsky said ten years ago, I went with the service that makes it easiest for me to leave later. |
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Nov 29 2010, 3:59pm |
One day left in Movember. You can make a donation to raise awareness and funds for the treatment of prostate cancer here: http://ca.movember.com/mospace/981... |
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Sep 14 2010, 9:26pm |
My daughter played "Dolly's Dreaming and Awakening" on the piano at a recital this weekend. |
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Aug 22 2010, 2:50am |
Finally about ready to take my TechCrunch RSS Feed filter out of alpha. Soon I'll be able to release it to... me! |
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May 24 2010, 4:09pm |
In the May revision of the proposed budget, Schwarzenegger cuts 2.42% from K-12 education, but adds 12.43% to Corrections. The trend continues. If the childr... |
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Apr 27 2010, 8:44am |
I loved the debunking of Steve-Poizner-as-Teacher-In-Dangerous-School in this week's This American Life. My son plays soccer just two miles south of that sc... |
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Apr 6 2010, 9:22am |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGWiTvYZR_w |
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Mar 9 2010, 9:41am |
Inspiring final lines of a speech that douchebags will quote in their Facebook Profiiiles! Cheer!! |
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Feb 10 2010, 10:44am |
The 1965 Alabama Literacy Test. http://www.ccle.fourh.umn.edu/literacy.pdf |
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