[From Mau-Mauing the Crap Flingers]
photo caption of the day
Month: February 2008
have you seen this?
Impressive.
Makes me want to learn this on the more traditional instrument for which it was composed.
Impressive.
Makes me want to learn this on the more traditional instrument for which it was composed.
quote of the day
[T]he wingnut anti-woman/anti-abortion movement has almost zero to do with protecting life and almost everything to do with ensuring that women don’t have control over their reproductive lives.
…I’d amend that to remove the word “reproductive.”
[T]he wingnut anti-woman/anti-abortion movement has almost zero to do with protecting life and almost everything to do with ensuring that women don’t have control over their reproductive lives. [From Um, No.]
I’d amend that to remove the word “reproductive.”
links for 2008-02-20
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the blogosphere’s finest analyst tackles the news of the day in his own incisive style.
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TPM wins a Polk award (no, not James K.). “I have seen the future and it works . . . ” as the old saying goes.
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if authors have more to fear from obscurity than piracy, how can this fail? failing to meet her new audience with new books, speaking gigs or whathaveyou is all I can think of. free is about the next release . . .
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the underlying mythology of America. Just because they’re called myths doesn’t mean they’re not true.
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376.59 miles per gallon? in a car that was 20 years old when the record was set?
links for 2008-02-19
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I didn’t know that BeOS had re-emerged. I remember being impressed with its potential 10 years ago, but it never really caught fire.
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100 Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books: Compiled by the American Library Association. I need to see how many I have read.
quote of the day
I bet when he looks in the mirror every morning, the mirror throws up.
I bet when he looks in the mirror every morning, the mirror throws up. [From Not my problem]
but isn’t that stealing?
At my birthday or Christmas, I request as my only present that my kids, nieces and nephews burn me a disc of their favorite music in the last year, or so.
…When I am traveling overseas I ask students who befriend me to burn me a CD of their favorite local tunes, and boy does this beckon forth some great unknown stuff.
Here’s what works for me. At my birthday or Christmas, I request as my only present that my kids, nieces and nephews burn me a disc of their favorite music in the last year, or so. It is an easy gift for them to make, and a great learning experience for me. The few tracks I can’t stand, I just delete. The stuff I love I seek out on iTunes to purchase more of. From this I get the fashionable tunes.
This trick actually works even better with kids not your own. When I am traveling overseas I ask students who befriend me to burn me a CD of their favorite local tunes, and boy does this beckon forth some great unknown stuff. [From Radio David Byrne]
Oh, but wait. He uses these tracks as a way to find and buy these artists’ other work. Huh. No one could have predicted that this would happen.
BeOS lives?
Perhaps they should have called it the Phoenix OS?
Perhaps they should have called it the Phoenix OS?
I’m building out a PC to donate to my kids’ school for the PTA and parents to use for various projects, and I am using FreeBSD 7 as the OS. It will be replacing a 233MHz screamer with Windows 98: anything is an improvement 😉
GNOME will look enough like Windows for most people, I expect. But if Haiku was further long and it had support for what people expect (ie, equivalents to the office apps people are used to) I would have been sorely tempted.
links for 2008-02-17
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This is really insightful stuff. When we level the playing field — when everyone is connected — how do you manage those connections? with devices *and* identities/accounts?
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yeah, why is all hardware box art made by “artists from middle schools obsessed with warrior women, fantasy animals, and monster trucks?”
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this is a great hack. Worth doing, I thinlk.
quote of the day
The Editors on the best evidence of entitlement you’re likely to find:
…It’s like the Helen Keller story, except with physical handicaps replaced by a blinding sense of entitlement.
The Editors on the best evidence of entitlement you’re likely to find:
Behold the Audacity of Hope! Seriously, this should be a children’s book. It’s like the Helen Keller story, except with physical handicaps replaced by a blinding sense of entitlement. [From The Little Pantload Who Could]