Sun Apr 01 2007 06:39 PST Lorem Ipsum: Throwing in the hat:
"They’re two sides of the same coin. Vote for me, and I promise to THROW AWAY THE COIN. Or use it to line my own pockets."
Sun Apr 01 2007 07:32 PST CranAssure Urinary TractHealth by Nature's Resource:
The crucial commercial Leonard didn't mention in http://www.crummy.com/2007/04/01/0 - that, and "Enablex."
Mon Apr 02 2007 08:33 PST The Joel on Software Discussion Group - What is good about working in the IT field?:
the LEGO metaphor of software development: from click-bricks to terrorector sets
Tue Apr 03 2007 14:38 PST The Magistrate's Blog: Corpsed:
Make Your Avocation Your Vocation
Wed Apr 04 2007 12:01 PST "Category:Ailments of unknown etiology":
Sick building syndrome, geographic tongue, and other things for Dr. House to check. Also, the Rome Process isn't what you think.
Wed Apr 04 2007 12:01 PST YouTube - the meth song:
evidently taken off the air for being too pro-meth
Thu Apr 05 2007 06:02 PST Crooked Timber » » More Vlogging:
Kieran Healy - disturbingly hot - in an ultra-quick parody
Fri Apr 06 2007 08:18 PST BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Space 'nerd' readies for lift-off:
Woooo Charles Simonyi!
Sat Apr 07 2007 10:59 PST haverchuk: The ice cream project: caramel ice cream:
Make the cream and sugar into caramel before making the ice cream. Brilliant!
Sat Apr 07 2007 14:33 PST Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com:
How many world-class musicians do we just pass by in the subway? Joshua Bell and Gene Weingarten find out.
Sat Apr 07 2007 20:27 PST YouTube - Goodness Gracious Me: season 1 episode 5 part 2:
the nearly-last sketch (doctor's office) is rather biting
Sun Apr 08 2007 20:23 PST Super Mario Bros Special:
For completists only?
Mon Apr 09 2007 10:34 PST Bread and Circuits » Blog Archive » Open Source, pre-1945:
"I was finally able to tell [my grandmother] what I do: I take things that were never meant to go together and work with them until they fit, patiently refusing to give up...."
Mon Apr 09 2007 10:44 PST The Poet Speaks of Art:
poems about paintings, shown next to the paintings
Tue Apr 10 2007 07:02 PST Chow down, dude | Salon Life:
julie powell anecdote? sign me up! for danger! also Achewood, helll of such as rawr
Tue Apr 10 2007 09:12 PST Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | I can see you, citizen:
This is a brilliant idea which I will steal for a stroy
Tue Apr 10 2007 19:19 PST YouTube - Hazel - Comet:
To watch later -- mega-nostalgia song
Tue Apr 10 2007 20:36 PST HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux :
from the author of the negotiation guide! Incl. "Don't stare and point when women arrive"
Tue Apr 10 2007 20:37 PST Women in FLOSS:
via OtherMag blog. I never knew the LinuxChix logo was so awesome!
Wed Apr 11 2007 06:37 PST slacktivist: All you need is:
Western Civ's advice for Leonard and me as our marriage approaches the 1-year mark
Wed Apr 11 2007 06:40 PST Real Live Preacher Communion Taste Test - Google Video:
As in Michael Crichton's "Travels" maternity ward scene: the more you pay, the worse experience you get. Also, why does RLP not have a talk/variety show?
Wed Apr 11 2007 06:46 PST American Scientist Online - Where's the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing? :
Computational illiteracy. Even some developers don't use version control (shiver). The marginal benefit of a single lesson in best practices is huge.
Wed Apr 11 2007 06:53 PST American Scientist Online - Why We Develop Food Allergies :
Good news for vaginal birth and the extended hygiene hypothesis; "babies who breastfeed exclusively for at least the first four months appear to have fewer allergies."
Wed Apr 11 2007 06:54 PST punditslash: "The Drink" by SilentAuror:
The best Colbert/Stewart slash I've read. I've been thinking JS-SC is the One True Pairing but many argue in favor of Colbert-Olbermann?!
Wed Apr 11 2007 19:43 PST Scalpel Magazine - Sharp Reviews and Interviews:
Worth looking at later
Wed Apr 11 2007 19:44 PST crunk games - The Game Center CX Episode Guide:
Any show where they make someone play Takeshi no Chousenjou is fine by me
Thu Apr 12 2007 07:46 PST Francine's Recipe of the day:
Sci-fi author Varley's sister's recipes. Mmmm, Jalapeno Jelly!
Thu Apr 12 2007 09:07 PST Contamination Cited in Listerine Recall - Forbes.com:
via Consumerist. And I thought I was so cool! And blue!
Thu Apr 12 2007 14:48 PST Letters: Help! I'm avoiding and hiding again! - Salon:
just because you succeed doesn't mean you are your parents
Thu Apr 12 2007 20:06 PST Frank Talk:
Not only does "30 Rock" have more free video online than many DVDs have as extras, but apparently Frank blogs and is Jim Anchower. What new Onstadism next?
Fri Apr 13 2007 03:25 PST O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2007 - Powerpoint Karaoke:
via Scott Rosenberg. I want to see a video of this.
Fri Apr 13 2007 17:13 PST ASPN : Python Cookbook : stock prices historical data bulk download from internet:
Whoa! When did this happen?
Fri Apr 13 2007 17:38 PST Stop Illegal Spying:
eff-endorsed
Fri Apr 13 2007 20:41 PST The Heirloom Project:
I'm sticking to tomatoes
Fri Apr 13 2007 21:30 PST Simons Lecture I: Structure and randomness in Fourier analysis and number theory « What’s new:
Am i gonna understand this stuff?
Sun Apr 15 2007 18:00 PST Internet Archive: Details: John Cage Lecture Reading: on Rauschenberg, Duchamp, Johns etc. at L.A. County Museum of Art, 1965:
Cage + Duchamp = NOTHING
Mon Apr 16 2007 04:51 PST Zack Weinberg Is: A Weird Poem Form:
Last night, when I was all, "trebuchet? tricolor?" I mean "triolet." Villanelles include "Do not go Gentle into that Good Night."
Mon Apr 16 2007 05:17 PST Dear Diary - New York Times:
"Where are you visiting from?" as the worst unintentional slur for a born New Yorker, and smiling at waitstaff as the culprit
Mon Apr 16 2007 07:31 PST Epicenter - Wired News:
so many insights - the strengths of Sony, Intel, Dell; many short meetings with as many people as can come; different kinds of brilliance
Mon Apr 16 2007 19:17 PST Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium:
Another instance of conscious adoption of SF imagery and metaphor
Mon Apr 16 2007 19:22 PST Main Page - Globulation2:
Globulate good times, come on
Mon Apr 16 2007 19:25 PST SFReader.com Science Fiction & Fanatasy Author Page: David Walton:
It's a portal!
Mon Apr 16 2007 20:52 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Poetic_form:
Look what the poets have been doing while we weren't looking!
Mon Apr 16 2007 20:52 PST Chistory :
"The late 1960s were a turbulent era for computer systems research at Bell Telephone Laboratories."
Mon Apr 16 2007 20:54 PST Kenzer & Company HackMaster:
A game as complex as the URI you use to find out information about it!
Mon Apr 16 2007 20:55 PST Building Marble Machine 2:
I believe this qualifies as Marble Madness
Mon Apr 16 2007 20:57 PST Recipe: Supernatural Brownies - New York Times:
Everyone keeps linking to this recipe, so I'll at least look at it
Tue Apr 17 2007 05:03 PST The Poor Man » Your Final Exam in Country Music:
Rappers kick themselves that they can't take "Johnny Cash" for themselves
Tue Apr 17 2007 08:00 PST Trivial Pursuits:
the uses of freedom
Tue Apr 17 2007 12:07 PST Crooked Timber » » A Friend in the Family:
"mafiosi have a strong interest too in ensuring that individuals don’t come to trust each other independently of their contacts through the Mafia."
Tue Apr 17 2007 18:51 PST PLoS Biology - Who Needs Sex (or Males) Anyway?:
Obvious in retrospect: asexual reproduction messes up our conception of "species"
Tue Apr 17 2007 18:56 PST FreeCol:
The successor to FreeCiv?
Tue Apr 17 2007 18:56 PST David Lebovitz: Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream:
Possibly better than the caramel ice cream I already made?
Tue Apr 17 2007 18:56 PST The Starfish and the Spider / Socialtext Open Source Wiki:
This book looks worth checking out
Tue Apr 17 2007 18:58 PST Smitten Kitchen | recipe liberation day :
The barley recipe looks great, minus the eggplant
Wed Apr 18 2007 06:41 PST US News for Tuesday May 16th 2006 - Topix:
Will this URI still work tomorrow?
Wed Apr 18 2007 20:09 PST First Movers: A Musing on the Constitution and Windows:
hard to refactor, and such a legacy system
Thu Apr 19 2007 12:29 PST YouTube - Online Piracy PSA Parody:
Takes a twist I wasn't expecting. No, that is not really Danny Glover.
Thu Apr 19 2007 12:37 PST Giving an Academic Talk:
yet more grist for my Powerpoint complaint mill of a column....wait
Thu Apr 19 2007 15:12 PST George Orwell: Funny, but not Vulgar:
I just need to buy and read a Compleat Orwell and not bankrupt myself in the process
Thu Apr 19 2007 17:46 PST GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! Now Playing at the Actors Playhouse, Off-Broadway, NYC:
Possibly worth seeing
Thu Apr 19 2007 17:46 PST Tumbleweed Tiny House Company | Small House Plans, Floor Plans, Designs:
I just want to make an omelette!
Thu Apr 19 2007 19:16 PST Kragen's Blog Thing:
Feels like I've read this already
Thu Apr 19 2007 19:17 PST Rigs of Rods:
When did software projects start having Blogspot weblogs?
Fri Apr 20 2007 08:51 PST Brown Bobby:
making a "greaseless" doughnut in a waffle iron
Fri Apr 20 2007 10:26 PST Cell Phone Hand Set: Bitwise Gifts:
for Zack: http://www.panix.com/~zackw/exbib/2003/September/7#0125
Fri Apr 20 2007 13:14 PST The NYC Insider: An Insider's Guide to New York City:
How in the world is $20 "cheap"? How I long for the beauty school at Sixth and Mission in SF.
Sun Apr 22 2007 05:52 PST Food - Supermarkets - Obesity - Nutrition - Calories - Farmers - Agriculture - New York Times:
Pollan is, as usual, devastating in synthesizing the strands of politics, economics, and food
Sun Apr 22 2007 06:36 PST You have the right to remain the hell in Dodge (MemeMachineGo!):
my intuition tells me that I have the right to visit any non-private land in the US; courts disagree?
Sun Apr 22 2007 06:37 PST User interface and user education:
the significance of literacy and comp literacy; "our inability to articulate the standards for these judgments... was no evidence that the judgments were impossible"
Sun Apr 22 2007 06:41 PST ~stevenf: Aerophobe:
"If it's affecting your life, if it's preventing you from doing things you would otherwise do, get help. Seriously. Realize that it's bigger than you, or you'd have gotten over it by now."
Sun Apr 22 2007 06:42 PST THE AD GENERATOR:
a good companion to Kevan's slogan recombinator
Sun Apr 22 2007 06:43 PST Working Assets Wireless:
Working Assets does cell phone service as a frontend to Sprint
Sun Apr 22 2007 07:03 PST Lomto - League of Mutual Taxi Owners :
as long as Fog Creek doesn't move two blocks north or south, I'm eligible for this credit union
Sun Apr 22 2007 18:59 PST NASA Image of the Day:
To subscribe
Sun Apr 22 2007 19:03 PST Tomboy : Simple note taking:
Sam-recommended
Sun Apr 22 2007 19:04 PST http://infohost.nmt.edu/~val/review/flosspols.pdf:
How awesome is Val Henson? Can't help but remember mustachioed Kara Thrace in the "must have beards" pictures
Mon Apr 23 2007 04:42 PST:
-blacklist pcspkr
Mon Apr 23 2007 10:41 PST George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant:
Another story I read when I was too young to grok it. Had an Achebe-like moment realizing I was Orwell and the Burmese both.
Tue Apr 24 2007 10:55 PST Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth:
"Not having power was probably the single biggest problem that created animosity among Iraqis," Ryan says.
Tue Apr 24 2007 18:07 PST Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection:
This Medieval Life
Tue Apr 24 2007 19:04 PST The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift - Project Gutenberg:
Includes "On Poetry". When letters are in vulgar shapes/'Tis ten to one the wit escapes/But, when in capitals express'd/The dullest reader smokes the jest
Tue Apr 24 2007 19:40 PST Eye of the king:
Best job title ever (beats out Mouth of Sauron). See also: rest of site
Tue Apr 24 2007 20:03 PST Pret a Manger - Pret DIY:
Kind of preachy about how great the sandwiches are, but they are actually pretty good.
Tue Apr 24 2007 20:20 PST OpenTTD - News:
Not to be confused with OpenTDD
Tue Apr 24 2007 20:20 PST Rubygame:
PyGame vs. Rubygame
Wed Apr 25 2007 10:16 PST The Seven Essential "Stations" Every Home Should Have - lifehack.org :
Leonard, this sounds like a good way to articulate/organize some stuff at our place
Wed Apr 25 2007 13:17 PST Iceberg Sneak-Ins:
"When it was done, I had to laugh at myself. Somehow my "one-line" feature required me to modify seven source files."
Thu Apr 26 2007 08:59 PST Coaching Geeks from Grace Hopper conference:
how to get over self-destructive Feelings: Impostor, Loner, Outsider & Behaviors: Humble, Silent Analyst, Accomodator
Thu Apr 26 2007 10:17 PST blog.myspace.com/gabekoerner:
Gabe's tour of the liquor-driven SFX industry
Thu Apr 26 2007 11:30 PST Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots - Fresh Zero Content for Compulsive Clickers:
"a large scale experiment on search engine behaviour"
Thu Apr 26 2007 11:34 PST Taste of the N Train:
Pretty sure I posted this already. It's still great.
Thu Apr 26 2007 11:39 PST Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems:
Awesome free book inc. many real-world examples
Thu Apr 26 2007 11:39 PST Recognizing Deven: Episode 26 - India grows up:
"...once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity..."
Thu Apr 26 2007 11:43 PST Planetographic Coordinates:
If you're wondering where I got that thing about Jupiter's prime meridian in the REST book, this is where
Thu Apr 26 2007 11:46 PST Your Sky:
I tried this and it just gave me a luminescent brown smudge
Thu Apr 26 2007 11:52 PST Xooglers: Here's your desk. Now start doing marketing stuff.:
"I suffered from what Sergey would often describe as a "big company attitude" that led me to expect rules and process and clearly defined areas of responsibility."
Thu Apr 26 2007 12:51 PST LRB | Thomas Jones : Diary:
I would love to see these program[me]s.
Thu Apr 26 2007 14:03 PST TileCache, from MetaCarta Labs:
Your own map server
Thu Apr 26 2007 14:49 PST DigitalBookIndex: World's Virtual Library (90,000+ FREE eBooks,
eTexts, On-Line Books, eDocuments):
Haven't used, makes you log in
Thu Apr 26 2007 14:58 PST DigitalBookIndex: World's Virtual Library (90,000+ FREE eBooks,
eTexts, On-Line Books, eDocuments):
Haven't used, makes you log in
Thu Apr 26 2007 16:46 PST Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development - AC:
It's people! It's people!
Thu Apr 26 2007 16:46 PST IT Conversations: Geoffrey Bilder:
Probably worth listening to
Thu Apr 26 2007 17:47 PST Allan Sherman's "Here's To the Crabgrass":
Book Of The Month Club came today. / Didn't read the last one yet. / Yes you did, but you forget. / Oh well, they're all the same today.
Thu Apr 26 2007 20:01 PST Essays: 'Divine comedy' by Julian Gough | Prospect Magazine May 2007 issue 134:
"The novel cannot submit to authority." Yet, somehow, it does.
Fri Apr 27 2007 04:01 PST Baghdad Burning:
Riverbend is leaving Iraq
Sat Apr 28 2007 19:58 PST TTA Press:
Write story by Halloween
Sun Apr 29 2007 08:09 PST CNG: CNG-Ancient Greek, Roman & British Coins:
Boy, I bet those Ostrogoths wish they had held on to their coins.
Sun Apr 29 2007 08:14 PST Ancient History Sourcebook: The Emperor Julian: Mispogon (or
"Beard-Hater"):
The ancient equivalent of the White House Press Correspondents' Dinner
Sun Apr 29 2007 14:39 PST Absolute Elsewhere Contents:
Lots of fun madness
Sun Apr 29 2007 14:58 PST The Conquest Homepage:
Very old-school TOS design
Sun Apr 29 2007 19:54 PST Bill Moyers Journal: Interview with Jon Stewart - Google Video:
Catering to my tastes may lead to a pledge, they figured
Mon Apr 30 2007 05:04 PST Userpics:
LiveJournal userpics: your source for Allison Janney fandom artifacts
Mon Apr 30 2007 08:24 PST Medieval Legends:
Awesome old stories
Mon Apr 30 2007 09:36 PST 7 Overdrafts Refunded After Reader Writes Bank of America CEO - Consumerist:
good idea
Mon Apr 30 2007 12:01 PST Userpics:
Sorkin obsession in square icon form
Mon Apr 30 2007 19:34 PST EmacsWiki: TabBarMode:
It's Tab, it's Tab
Mon Apr 30 2007 19:58 PST Glorious Trainwrecks:
This can only lead to trouble
Mon Apr 30 2007 20:17 PST TalkShoe - Talkcast - Daily Affirmation with Scott and Kris:
It's like hanging out with Kris in Ackerman for 3 hours every day, except he doesn't eventually burn out and your grades don't suffer
Mon Apr 30 2007 20:17 PST TalkShoe - Talkcast - Kris and Scott Power Hour:
This is nothing at all like the previous link
Mon Apr 30 2007 20:18 PST Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Howard Smith’s Gizmo:
To watch
Mon Apr 30 2007 20:24 PST Table of Malcontents - Wired Blogs:
These reliably made me smile (esp the one with the bobbin)
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