October 2011
1 post
Captcha #WTF.
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March 2011
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January 2011
1 post
Guilty Pleasures
I sometimes edit my .emacs file in vim.
- marktran
Guilty as charged.
December 2010
7 posts
Just write.
Checking out OmmWriter for the first time.
I am impressed.
Talk about a nicer way of writing.
I will go and give them money. Now.
November 2010
8 posts
“But none of poker’s daily pains are deadly or instructive, really. What’s more,...”
– The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High by Jay Kang
Tour of Internet Darknets: Parenting Forums
If you thought geek speech was difficult to decipher on IRC, here’s an incomplete list of apparently common acronyms used on the subculture darknet referred to more ominously as “parenting forums”:
AB - after baby
AC - assisted conception
ACC - all crossables crossed (good luck)
AF - Aunt Flo or Aunt Fran (menstruation)
AFAIK - as far as I know
AFK - away from keyboard
AI...
The right feel for an iPad stylus: a whiteboard marker.
Brilliant!
“It’s like playing nude musical chairs with Skynet.”
– Public toilets
Because Facebook has chosen to emphasize growth over monetization these past few years, they have de-prioritized close, meaningful connections over broadly relevant ones with a larger group of friends. While this will help them get to a billion users faster, and increase their share of brand spend on advertising (where Facebook is really killing it these days), it may create vulnerability to...
October 2010
17 posts
“Earlier this month, the head of the Delaware Division of Alcohol and Tobacco...”
– Quote of the Day via adcontrarian
“One of the dangerous things about social media is that it gives a certain type...”
– adcontrarian
“Like the Ministry of Truth, it appears that Apple is deliberately attempting to...”
– Jeff Rock makes a great point
“Regardless if your page has anything to do with a brand (i.e., Coca Cola,...”
– The Fun’s Over with Facebook Community Pages | Pixelrage.net
“Due to a hard drive failure which occurred at the same time as our backup system...”
– Famous last words. happypenguin.org is still down 15 days later.
Amazon to Launch “Kindle Singles” →
Less than 10,000 words or more than 50,000: that is the choice writers have generally faced for more than a century—works either had to be short enough for a magazine article or long enough to deliver the “heft” required for book marketing and distribution. But in many cases, 10,000 to 30,000 words (roughly 30 to 90 pages) might be the perfect, natural length to lay out a single killer idea,...
“Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the...”
– Raph Koster
“Jenny Agutter as Dr Crusher? I’d have watched every episode had that...”
– StarTrek NG casting
“To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your...”
– Jake Lodwick, announcing the end of his blog.
(via marco)
September 2010
10 posts
Rowerowa półka
ostatni:
Bardzo fajna półka na rower w zabójczej cenie ($270 albo $300)… Tylko, że ja mam tzw. damkę:(
Congratulations Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder on your new positions at Georgetown University.
Congratulations, Evan Estola, Tristan Sloughter, and Jordan Wilberding on your new positions at Orbitz.
It sounds like the end of the Information Retrieval Lab at IIT.
Bez tytułu.
Spóźniłam się na autobus, stałam na przystanku czekając na następny kiedy podeszła do mnie skromnie ubrana babuleńka
- ma pani może 50 groszy, albo chociaż 20?
- a do czego pani brakuje?
- do chleba…
- odpowiedziała, a w jej szklistych oczach obijało się zażenowanie i wstyd
- chodźmy do tego sklepu tu za rogiem, kupię pani ten chleb.
Wzięłam babuleńkę pod ramię i poszłyśmy. Po drodze...
“The only acceptable response to a feature request is: ‘Thank you for your...”
– MicroISV on a Shoestring
“Google’s AdSense [click solicitation] policy of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell is...”
– Cringely: I’m with stupid (via marco)
Pomysłowa farba
ostatni:
To takie proste. Zamiast rysować na tablicy, rysuj na ścianie. Ja to uwielbiałam w dzieciństwie ku wielkiemu niezadowoleniu rodziców i dziadka;)
IdeaPaint ($30 za 0,5 m2 - $175 za 4,6 m2) tworzy suchą i ścieralną warstwę (podobnie jak farba emulsyjna), dzięki czemu można swobodnie rysować po ścianie, a potem to zmazać.
Przydatne informacje o tym jak to rzeczywiście działa...
“This guy has gone to the zoo and interviewed all the animals. The tiger says...”
– mechanical_fish on HN
August 2010
8 posts
“Remember that Feynman covered all of physics — heavenly bodies through QED...”
– Does your documentation really need more?
(via rtomayko)
“I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially...”
– Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech
“There were vast fortunes to be made, after all, in an economy based on mass...”
– Against School, by John Taylor Gatto
Journalism Warning Labels: Contents Not Verified
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.
I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London...
“And every time you make a singleton, God kills a start-up, two if you think...”
– The Smell of Hell