April 2011
26 posts
“Forks into 3 smaller, crappier devs.”
– Atlassian - Angry Nerds
“Mayer, for her part, was even less forthcoming. In an off the record phone...”
– Techcrunch’s April Fools post. Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm” And Removes From Search Index
March 2011
49 posts
“My town is gone,” wrote a worker named Emiko Ueno, in an email obtained by The...”
– Panic and Heroism Greeted Crisis at Japan Nuclear Plant - NYTimes.com
localStorage adspam
bjorn@btmacbook:~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Storage$ ls
…
http_ad-g.doubleclick.net_0.localstorage
http_ad.adlegend.com_0.localstorage
http_ad.bnmla.com_0.localstorage
http_ad.burstdirectads.com_0.localstorage
http_ad.doubleclick.net_0.localstorage
http_ad.turn.com_0.localstorage
…hundreds more…
Time to manage localStorage I guess.
Samuel Pepys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“Consumers are allowed to store music files on their own computers, but it is...”
– I want a refund for all the music I have bought from Amazon MP3 if this is true. Amazon faces backlash over music locker service | Reuters
“A minute or two into the talking-points tutorial, though, someone apparently...”
– On Senate Call, a Glimpse of Marching Orders - NYTimes.com
Flute Concert with Frederick the Great in... →
“Because of their levels of radioactivity, her papers from the 1890s are...”
– Marie Curie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In an unusual decision, Marie Skłodowska–Curie intentionally refrained from...”
– Marie Curie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Metro PCS has more customers than T-Mobile in Miami, San Francisco and Detroit.”
– AT&T to Buy T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion - NYTimes.com
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Japan's Utter Catastrophe
Somebody please wake me when the nightmare in Japan is finally over.
“A small crew of technicians, braving radiation and fire, became the only people...”
– “Workers at Fukushima Plant Brave Radiation and Fire,” the New York Times.
They are the faceless 50.
(via inothernews)
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“No one executed fast enough.”
– Exit Interview: Ask Jeeves’ acquisition of Bloglines - (37signals)
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“Navy personnel — who apparently had flown through a radioactive plume from a...”
– Totally safe. It’s not a big deal at all. Navy Says 17 Americans Were Treated for Contamination - NYTimes.com
“Mr. Arakawa saw his wife slip away in the deluge, and he clung to the roof as...”
– Death Toll Estimate in Japan Soars as Relief Efforts Intensify - NYTimes.com
“Three of the world’s chief sources of large-scale energy production — coal, oil...”
– U.S. Nuclear Industry Faces New Uncertainty - NYTimes.com
“Reed is known … as the only private undergraduate college with a primarily...”
– Reed College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Where once there was one, now there are two
tldr: I am going to read two books at a time, one of which will be for simple entertainment. The first second book I have begun to read is Verner Vinge’s Fire Upon The Deep.
I am attempting a new change. I am abandoning, maybe only temporarily, my long held practice of reading only one book at a time. I will now read no more than two books at a time. I am entertainment starved. Nothing has...
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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Going to have to customize it a little so it doesn’t look like php-nuke with some rounded corners on it.
This new theme seemed a lot nicer before I paid $50 for it.
It’s pretty amazing when every new book you pick up is more amazing than the previous. So much out there yet to read, to be amazed by, to be transformed by, to learn from.
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent...”
– Dawkins said it best… : atheism
