June 2009
80 posts
NOVA | scienceNOW →
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s science show. Need to watch this.
Length of original U.S. Constitution: 11 pages. Length of most recent energy/global warming bill: 1,200 pages. http://bit.ly/qd4zb
“The Constitution requires a census; true. But it doesn’t require that it...”
– Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
“Certainly I feel sure that early man would not have embarked on the road to...”
– Jeremy Clarkson
Know Your Meme →
Operation Downfall - Allied plan for the invasion... →
TextMate Bundles on GitHub →
ry's node - GitHub →
Purely evented I/O for V8 JavaScript.
javan's whenever - GitHub →
Provides clean ruby syntax for defining messy cron jobs and running them Whenever.
“We know everything we need to know about growth to end poverty on Earth in this century.” http://bit.ly/rjRhB
“It’s hard to prove that good is the enemy of great, but the evidence speaks for...”
– John Gruber
RED: Resource Expert Droid →
I think Drupal is the new PHP-Nuke. Complete with…special…user base.
Who is following whom on Twitter? →
What It Feels Like to Be a Libertarian →
Kind of bitter and self-righteous, but nevertheless accurate.
Erik Naggum on the Meaning of Life →
The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice →
Why the debate about US health care reform is neither a debate nor a reform: http://bit.ly/sd54u
Trains running. 2 cop cars remain. Boardeda packed Richmond train. #16thmission @sfbart
Trains stopped. Cops running around. @sfbart #BART #16thmission
iBART Live seems to indicate that trains are still halted. Police cars haven’t moved. #16thmission @sfbart
2 more police cars arrived at #16thmission. Don’t know if trains are running yet. @sfbart
OH: “I wonder if anyone has a fork of the constitution on github…” @tantalor
Nude Beaches Yes! →
house n →
I am Jack’s throbbing headache.
Mac OS X Process Memory Statistics →
So much whining about why getting an iPhone 3G S is dumb, misguided or otherwise unhealthy. Why not just be quiet if you don’t want one?
BWToolkit - Interface Builder Plugin for Cocoa on... →
We ignore the economic policy lessons of ’90s Japan at our own peril. http://bit.ly/NLnH0
Localism: The World's Most Complete Neighborpedia →
Prettify* — Nice icons and wallpapers →
HelpSpot: Help Desk Software, Customer Support &... →
Moving eyewitness account from Tehran: http://bit.ly/tl5Yj (via @timbray)
On one hand I see the value of decentralized information spread for political speech. On the other, I refuse to spam people.
Swype | Text Input for Screens →
Lazyweb: Which movie had a car drive backwards up onto a moving semi trailer?
I’m happy that my Awesome Bar’s first hit for “anal” is Google Analytics.
How to See the World: Art of Travel →
Display the Date on the Menubar in Mac OS X →
Friedrich Nietzsche →
Pretty slick new web UI from @dropbox. I’m quite happy with their service, especially given that it’s free: http://bit.ly/11a6s7
Hello Rip. →
Rails Migration Data Column Type Options →
Wisdom is knowing that you must always question, not taking past conclusions for granted.
A List Apart: Articles: Managing Werewolves →
Excellent.
BeatMyPrice.com - People Powered Price Comparison →
Styling buttons to look like links →