Thu Nov 01 2007 08:46 EST ACM Queue - A Conversation with Jarod Jenson: Tales from the trenches with a former Enron performance guru: DTrace-using performance ninja speaks

Thu Nov 01 2007 14:49 EST Educators Corner: Podcasts : Fodder for a future mobile music player

Thu Nov 01 2007 16:08 EST § 102. Conditions for patentability; novelty and loss of right to patent - AltLaw: Yay AltLaw for having the US Code browseable. Boo for patents on obvious inventions.

Fri Nov 02 2007 18:52 EST Twitter / Steven Frank: â« We can't go on together.....: reminds me of an Achewood where Roast Beef sings about Samuel H. Invisible, because of the musical notes

Sat Nov 03 2007 02:29 EST reseda_ptah: Fake News: The Thing With Feathers: One of the best Colbert fanfics I've ever read; Pratchett-y. "If you're an act," SC asked O'Reilly, "then what am I?" The sequel is also fun. Gah I'm up late.

Sat Nov 03 2007 15:30 EST http://smilesawakeyou.livejournal.com/12256.html: Alternate universe fanfic where Vowell, Hodgman, Colbert, Seinfeld, Ferrell, et al. go to or teach at the same high school. Slash is breaking my mind.

Sat Nov 03 2007 16:21 EST Harry Potter and the Eagle of Truthiness: Too bad it ends so abruptly, but HILARIOUS and written just right (and it's not slash!)

Sun Nov 04 2007 02:59 EST Composite: thoughts on poetics by Liz Henry: Geek dress code, Silicon Valley version: So true. I am wearing mismatched white tube socks as I type.

Sun Nov 04 2007 13:49 EST Antony Flew - Atheism - God - Books - Authors and Writers - New York Times: A reputation made at 27 and unmade, or remade, at 84; the dangers of senescence; dark currents in the community of discourse.

Mon Nov 05 2007 10:32 EST YouTube - Kerry behind the scenes at Colbert Report: xkcd got it re: YT comments. "Colbert exposed -- ha ha stupid liberals" also breaks my mind.

Mon Nov 05 2007 16:32 EST Status: tips for raising perceived status

Tue Nov 06 2007 09:57 EST Schneier on Security: Modern-Day Revenge: Time to get my zvengeance on some high school archnemeses!

Tue Nov 06 2007 12:19 EST YouTube - The Daily Friends: Surprisingly watchable and heartwarming

Thu Nov 08 2007 00:54 EST Kung Fu Monkey: Heh, You Know ...: The worst thing about promotions is all the ads.

Thu Nov 08 2007 23:11 EST: Death By {Game,Graph,Number} Theory

Fri Nov 09 2007 00:03 EST YouTube - Change Your Point of View - Square One TV: "Oblique Strategies" for kids with a rockin' beat

Sat Nov 10 2007 06:53 EST Still, Pissed At The National Gallery -- Daddy Types: What kind of terrible docent tells kids that authority figures decide what's art and you just have to deal with it? Gah!

Sat Nov 10 2007 06:55 EST The web is a fuzz test: patch your browser and your web server: sing to the tune of "the world is a vampire"

Sat Nov 10 2007 06:56 EST YouTube - Mathman Glitch Decimals greater than 1: YouTube comments on the Square One TV vids are already impassioned, but the ones for this clip show incredible anger

Sat Nov 10 2007 06:58 EST YouTube - Square One TV: 8% Of My Love: creepy or wholesome in its sanguine "Here's how much I'll commit to you" calculation; a modern band should cover this

Sat Nov 10 2007 07:30 EST reddit.com: mexicodoug & atomicthumbs: An attempt at a joke that goes wrong, but leads to connecting anew

Sat Nov 10 2007 23:32 EST:

Rotating/shuffling actors in a movie
Generate universe crossovers
Slash pairing between characters played by the same actor

Sun Nov 11 2007 21:30 EST Crooked Timber » » Torture, torture, torture: Holbo: insightful on why moving the Overton window doesn't seem to work for liberals, and why conservatives compete on extremism

Sun Nov 11 2007 22:53 EST Spam One-liners - a photoset on Flickr: For a while i thought these were graphical attachments sent with the actual spam

Mon Nov 12 2007 14:50 EST reseda_ptah: Fake News: Five Times Jon Terrified Stephen (5): "He's fragile and plagued by self-doubt. He always tries to do his best." I'd missed those.

Mon Nov 12 2007 22:52 EST Freeloading Man: Franzen's obtuse remark at the end of the first para makes me want to avoid his work forever. Men shouldn't write 1st person re females? WTF?

Tue Nov 13 2007 12:45 EST Ubuntu meets Veronica Mars - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog: Nicely demonstrates the difference between how people actually talk and how they talk on TV.

Tue Nov 13 2007 17:59 EST Sour Note Coda « NotionsCapital: Classy bait there. Reminds me of Salon, Conrad, and the mannequins.

Thu Nov 15 2007 23:40 EST: "Caution: filling is sentient" could be a real story

Fri Nov 16 2007 18:15 EST slacktivist: You're not the pope of me: Clark's version of "Luther solved that problem for you!": "I told him I preferred my postmodern crisis of authority to his premodern one."

Sun Nov 18 2007 16:33 EST Best Channels Ever - MITVWiki: great Miro channels - video podcasts that are neat include 2007 South African Harvest Report

Tue Nov 20 2007 10:25 EST Talking Back to Prozac - The New York Review of Books: The Morning News tells me to read it

Mon Nov 26 2007 01:39 EST So it's confirmed that Cain and Six are lessssbian lovers.: Quizno's, BSG Battlestar Galactica Razor, and WTF

Mon Nov 26 2007 15:21 EST The Enchanted Duplicator - Introduction and Table of Contents: recommended by tnh

Tue Nov 27 2007 21:23 EST Wax Banks: How literary theory works.: Hey programmer: Walter Holland feels your pain, but do you feel his?

Wed Nov 28 2007 09:17 EST laptop [MelChua.com]: Don't charge a lithium-ion laptop battery above 85%?

Wed Nov 28 2007 14:32 EST CSE P 590TU: Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography, Winter 2006: To check out after HTDP

Thu Nov 29 2007 11:29 EST Unshelved comic strip archive : "Mallville Library: Lawless Den of Hedonism." Ah, marketing!

Thu Nov 29 2007 13:53 EST Unshelved comic strip archive : Plus Salinger, Tupac Shakur's book of poetry, Vonnegut, Tolkien, Blume, Black Panther stuff...

Fri Nov 30 2007 10:02 EST WE THE ROBOTS : Peanuts-esque existentialism with cheap 50s spot art

Fri Nov 30 2007 18:14 EST Fraud, intimidation and bribery as Putin prepares for victory | Russia | Guardian Unlimited: Kremlin aides openly acknowledge that their aim is to push smaller parties out of parliament. "We have moved towards the purification of the legislature," said Putin's deputy spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.