Tue May 01 2007 04:32 PST So you'd like to... Consider ideas for upgrading Amazon's software:
using ListMania to give Amazon suggestions for improvement
Tue May 01 2007 04:33 PST History News Network: Top Young Historians:
Is Jason Sokol the son of Jonathan Sokol?
Tue May 01 2007 09:10 PST The Poor Man Project:
for posterity -- Danny DeVito is the poor man's Wallace Shawn
Tue May 01 2007 09:21 PST I Hate Cilantro - an anti cilantro community:
there should totally be another story on the site where a cilantro-hater gets hit on the head by a falling bunch of cilantro
Wed May 02 2007 04:40 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Edelstein:
Lisa Edelstein : Salma Hayek :: Beck : Joseph Lieberman
Wed May 02 2007 07:48 PST The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Attitude problem?:
interesting discussion on expectations, documents, discussions, and specifications
Wed May 02 2007 12:01 PST Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup:
Note to self: write more like Ellen Ullman, less like Sandra Tsing Loh
Thu May 03 2007 05:01 PST Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Only connect:
"...every morning I have seen this sign, and every morning I experience a little twinge of awe."
Thu May 03 2007 05:04 PST A College Education Without Job Prospects - New York Times:
absolutely and completely true, and harming thousands of promising people every year
Thu May 03 2007 05:06 PST
How not to let annoying people annoy you :
a bunch of tips to help reduce annoyance
Thu May 03 2007 05:13 PST Tortfeasor - On Dormant Commerce Clause Jurisprudence:
"Perhaps you should take a line from other parts of New England and try to be more anally retentive."
Thu May 03 2007 05:22 PST http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patton_Oswalt:
"...Actually, the phrase 'two more sips' would sound festive, just not with that accent, that makes it sort of ominous..."
Thu May 03 2007 11:16 PST Wondermark by David Malki ! - 285: In which Everyone is a Failure:
akin to the Dino Comix near our door
Thu May 03 2007 19:29 PST Cool Tool: Sock Pro:
We had these when we were kids
Fri May 04 2007 04:56 PST Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Good summer vacation books?:
"I've read enough Ayn Rand. At the point where someone criticizes Google and you think "How Ellsworth Toohey-like!", you know it's time to step away from the Ayn Rand."
Fri May 04 2007 08:18 PST http://www.woot.com/Files/20070504-F3JXAO.mp3:
"happy Quatro de Mayo"
Fri May 04 2007 19:55 PST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self:
Is this worth watching?
Fri May 04 2007 20:16 PST The Bibliotaph and Other People, by Leon H. Vincent.:
Lots of anecdotes
Sat May 05 2007 09:19 PST Improve your photography with clasical art.:
I never even realized people did this manually
Sun May 06 2007 10:14 PST Fractals of Change: Morph of a Nerd CEO - The Power of Silence:
Make 'em sweat....kinda
Sun May 06 2007 12:54 PST MacLeans Canada - Blogs | Jaime J. Weinman: TV Guidance:
extremely concise connection-making and articulation of The Problem Of Insiderness
Sun May 06 2007 18:54 PST
Charles Dickens,
by Charles Kent.
:
Who was Charles Foster Kent?
Wed May 09 2007 06:31 PST :: rogerebert.com :: Commentary :: A bouquet arrives... (xhtml):
Rob Schneider makes a touching gesture! Restores my faith in humanity!
Wed May 09 2007 09:05 PST Press Release Distribution - Why use PRWeb for press release distribution services?:
only now do I catch the whiff of spam
Wed May 09 2007 10:39 PST Fix your mom's computer for mother's day - Joel on Software:
Fog Creek Copilot (for Mac OS X and Windows) free on Sunday - save time with desktop sharing, kill spyware, back up files, install Firefox
Thu May 10 2007 09:03 PST What Every Manager Should Know About Feedback:
via Eric Nehrlich -- would it be meta-subversive-feedback if I gave this to my managers?
Thu May 10 2007 13:40 PST littera_abactor: I Has a Sweet Potato:
"WE JUST WON'T HAVE ANY ROOT VEGETABLES ANYMORE. THERE. ARE YOU HAPPY? "
Thu May 10 2007 13:41 PST Uncertain Principles: Many Worlds, Many Treats:
Dog: "...And according to Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, that means that you *did* drop steak on the floor...."
Thu May 10 2007 17:02 PST Subterranean Press » Fiction: Pluto Tells All by John Scalzi :
It gets better. "What is this “sweep your lane” shit? Let me toss Eris at your planet and see what sort of job Earth does sweeping the lane."
Thu May 10 2007 17:53 PST Play time on Flickr - Photo Sharing!:
Penguins Take To Sea, Begin Reign of Terror
Thu May 10 2007 18:35 PST http://www.mikedaisey.com/2007/05/blackberry.sht:
"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult."
Thu May 10 2007 18:55 PST http://www.usenix.org/events/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/provos/provos.pdf:
"The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware"
Thu May 10 2007 19:04 PST:
Content From Nowhere
Fri May 11 2007 16:50 PST Mark Sandrich:
wonderful movie titles, like "The Way of All Fish" and "Razored in Old Kentucky". L says these all need remaking as scifi flicks.
Sat May 12 2007 06:26 PST Find Dinosaur Pictures - Illustrations of Dinosaurs - Dinosaurios - Dinosaur Art:
Has stuff not on the site I'm about to delicious
Sat May 12 2007 07:48 PST Matthew Yglesias:
impetus for change in my life and reduction in insecurities: do I really want to be like THOSE people?
Sat May 12 2007 09:33 PST NASA - Preventing Sick Spaceships:
hidden floating globules of dirty water AND/OR ALIEN LIFE??
Sat May 12 2007 09:39 PST Student, 18, is death investigator | IndyStar.com :
Good job, Amanda Barnett! Youngest coroner in IN history. CSI : forensics :: Star Trek : engineering?
Sat May 12 2007 17:33 PST crapulence. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. :
The best word ever!
Sun May 13 2007 18:34 PST Wumpus 2000:
WUMPUS 2000!...7
Mon May 14 2007 14:30 PST Lost Garden: Danc's Miraculously Flexible Game Prototyping Tiles:
These are good enough to build a game around
Tue May 15 2007 04:16 PST Educated Guesswork: Niven and the legality of pickpocketing:
Ha! Nitpicking plausibility in scifi books - a blog post scrabbles for existence
Tue May 15 2007 18:25 PST Brent Fitzgerald / Life & Research Notes / Blog Archive » Promiserver thesis complete!:
This is pretty close to being Constellation tech
Mon May 21 2007 19:40 PST GCU Dancer on the Midway - Your pragma ran over my dogma:
The God Delusion, and the trouble atheists have distinguishing religion's beliefs and practices
Tue May 22 2007 09:35 PST Revenge of the Zombies:
This came up in conversation with Sumana. Always worth reading!
Tue May 22 2007 19:37 PST Mango - Mango Sticky Rice Dessert Recipe :
I was skeptical, but this is delicious
Wed May 23 2007 15:42 PST The James Bond-Cary Grant connection - CBn Forums:
Cary Grant would have been an awesome James Bond. As would have Fred Astaire/Rogers/Ashtray. Or Batman.
Wed May 23 2007 19:25 PST Two Bad Mice - Supplying High Quality cards from Contemporary Artists.:
I bought "Hoping for a girl" in London in 2002 waiting for Susanna to have a baby. That's planning!
Thu May 24 2007 11:15 PST James Fallows | Author and Journalist » Boiled-frog:
Primary Pet Peeve of James Fallows: the "frog in tepid -> boiling water" canard
Thu May 24 2007 14:27 PST Source Control HOWTO:
Do you know how many software developers don't use source control? It's scary.
Thu May 24 2007 17:12 PST overview by zombieaynrand (on reddit.com):
Holy heck, how did I spend half an hour reading all this woman's reddit comments?
Fri May 25 2007 08:46 PST Amtrak - Weekly Specials Fare Finder:
If only they came through New York more often
Fri May 25 2007 09:02 PST » Teaching kids, part 1 - DevChix - Blog Archive :
Rachel Chalmers! What are YOU doing to foist programming literacy on Claire and Julia?
Fri May 25 2007 09:04 PST davidbau.com: Haaarg, world!:
More peer pressure from hacker dads
Fri May 25 2007 11:45 PST How the World Works - Salon.com:
note to self: read the letter to Sumana
Fri May 25 2007 14:08 PST "Nothing Better" by tyler page :
closely observed, lovely in-progress graphic novel (some NSFW)
Sat May 26 2007 10:51 PST:
Reminder since librarything is down: read "laughing gas", "strangers from the sky", "abroad"
Mon May 28 2007 07:20 PST Bitch Ph.D.:
"UCLA department had a secret reserve of money that they used to supplement the salaries of male faculty members only." The comments are right on.
Tue May 29 2007 05:44 PST 5 reasons to switch to Helio (reddit.com) :
When I find a good reddit commenter, I read batches of their old comments
Tue May 29 2007 09:44 PST Crooked Timber » » Sue Gerhardt on Why Love Matters (Daycare Revisited):
Reminding me about the hard choices ahead re: parenting and career
Tue May 29 2007 12:25 PST YouTube - Dig:
nice rhymes, including internal rhymes, in a paean to the Protestant Work Ethic; also includes weird Southern (black?) church parody
Tue May 29 2007 14:54 PST The Strokes - You Only Live Once Video - The Strokes Videos on IMEEM:
via Daring Fireball. This is, belatedly, the epic for which "Last Transmission From Starbase XY003" is the parody. Awesome.
Tue May 29 2007 17:44 PST Poetic Devices Illustrated Through Billy Joel:
includes Pathetic Fallacy, Synecdoche, and Metonymy. "Hopefully, through Billy Joel's brilliant lyrics, you now have a better grasp of basic poetic and literary devices..."
Wed May 30 2007 05:44 PST Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.:
via kottke. I'll have this problem someday, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.
Wed May 30 2007 15:10 PST:
robot pterodactyl says: bandai 1985
Thu May 31 2007 06:13 PST Malaysian court refuses to recognize Muslim's conversion to Christianity - International Herald Tribune:
How could she get kicked out of Islam without also incurring a fatwa against her? Saying some sort of anti-shahaada in the public square?
Thu May 31 2007 06:15 PST http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/05/29/discuss-amongst-yourselves/#comment-21829:
connecting Grice with perceptions of arrogance and the tact filter
Thu May 31 2007 08:54 PST Bumped Fliers and No Plan B - New York Times:
Decadent biz traveler no-shows let overbooked flights keep budget advance-purchase flyers aboard. And re: trained agents leaving - it's been so long now I'd have no advantage at Salon.
Thu May 31 2007 16:47 PST Mister Rogers might've even been a nicer person than you thought (reddit.com) :
Mr. Rogers makes Redditors (and me) cry at work!
Thu May 31 2007 19:08 PST Oh! XML: Implementing REST Web Services: Best Practices and Guidelines:
Needs reformatting
Thu May 31 2007 19:11 PST Online Art Contests, Galleries & Art Portfolios : Art Face Off:
Evan's dream realized
Thu May 31 2007 20:30 PST Ruby Reports:
Owned by Ruport Murdoch
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