March 2011
83 posts
Mike Huckabee Wants Every American To Be ‘Forced... →
technipol:
Iowa played host to two right-wing rodeos last weekend, the Conservative Principles Conference and the Rediscover God in America conference. While many of the GOP 2012 presidential hopefuls graced both stages, only at Rediscover God in America did they offer Americans two revealing facts: “America should be governed by biblical law,” and that discredited historian David Barton is...
look i try to keep an open mind but screamo is...
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animepatrickswayze:
skubs:
my friend tells me “it takes a lot of talent to do screamo”
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seriously the only music i can’t get into
wtf, like it or not, that doesn’t mean you don’t have to be talented to do it. Being able to scream well is talent, you can’t learn how.
Tell that to all the vocal coaches that focus on death/black metal style growls.
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kateoplis:
Gingrich: “I have two grandchildren… [and] I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they’re my age, they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists…”
Jon Stewart: “I don’t want to nitpick here, but how can a secular atheist country be dominated by religious extremists? An atheist...
“So here’s the Android bait-and-switch laid bare. Android was “open” only until...”
– John Gruber (via ericmortensen)
And thank god they have. Have you seen some of the crapware that verizon puts on their droid phones? Have you seen the terrible UX layers that providers have put on top of a (generally better and faster) base droid UI?
It’s still open, and I’m freaking...
icoulduseinsouciantmaybe:
basilones:
I Need A...
I just realized the add new post images on...
Are image maps.
What is this, 1999?
Also, what’s with the 864 character inline javascript on the “more notes” link?
I know it’s probably DB issues that let the tumblbeasts roam, but I can’t help but think making some of these things more efficient would help you guys along…
Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Jim Schachter, Associate Managing Editor, The New York Times, discusses how the newspaper entered hyperlocal news.
From an anecdote early in this video, it appears that it was largely serendipitous.
“Whatever else there is in abundance on the Web,” says Schachter in reference to local news sources, “there is a shortage of reporting.”
Solution? Put some of the Times’...
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Anheuser-Busch to buy Goose Island for $38.8... →
ohhleary:
Brewmaster Greg Hall to step down.
Let’s just hope they don’t screw over the recipes.. oh wait, I heard they’re replacing it with rice beer.
Gag. This is awful. I mean, grats on the Goose Island guys for getting payout, but.. at what cost?
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In Arming Libyan Rebels, U.S. Would Follow an Old,... →
theatlantic:
The U.S. has a long, complicated, and dark history of arming rebel groups around the world. Our support for the anti-communist militias in Argentina and Honduras led us to directly train some of the fighters that later evolved into outright death squads. Nixon-era CIA operations in Chile helped Augusto Pinochet’s takeover by military coup, which later ended with Pinochet’s arrest...
Send Mara's out of business sooner →
ohhleary:
Mara’s Homemade - a mediocre comfort food restaurant in the East Village - is BLAMING THE FIRST AND SECOND AVENUE BIKE LANES for the drop in business that’s forcing them to close at the end of April.
That’s right, they’re in the fucking East Village within a 5-minute walk of five subway lines selling mid-priced comfort food - not exactly destination dining - and they’re blaming bike...
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Hard (impossible) to find PC part?
So, I’m trying to find one of two things.
Option one: VGA/DVI to laptop screen convertor Option two: LCD screen that accepts VGA/DVI and will fit into a laptop bezel
Anyone know what would work for either of these? I’ve spent a bit of time the past few days searching, and haven’t turned anything up.
My plan is to take a defunct laptop and dremel out the touch pad, creating a...
Untitled-1 @ 66.7% (RGB/16): Push Notification... →
thegongshow:
Push notifications on iPhone are a total mess. The signal-to-noise ratio when my phone buzzes is quite poor these days.
Apple is doing the classic bad design cop-out move: give the user explicit, fine-grained permissioning and then dust their hands of the problem. I have 27…
I have a little thing on my phone that glows when I get a push notification, miss a call, or receive...
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Uoki-Toki, “Welcome to Zombieland.”...
So I'm sitting at my new regular bar
ohhleary:
And I strike up conversation with the guy next to me… because he’s rocking an awesome tin of American Spirits. (WTF? I don’t even smoke, but this tin is kind of awesome. Am I falling into a hipster trap?)
Anyway, as I’m about to turn and walk home and I say goodbye to the guy sitting next to me, and he says, “hey, are you on Tumblr?”
Sure enough, it’s my neighbor, Jonprins.
Small...
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WatchHistory of the world in 100 seconds, according to Wikipedia (via hackernews)
Comodo admits hackers issued fraudulent SSL... →
pseudonym:
WEB SECURITY OUTFIT Comodo has admitted that an affiliate registration authority (RA) was compromised leading to the issuance of fraudulent secure sockets layer (SSL) certificates.
Fuck You Cafe Select in NYC
evangotlib:
Two new policies today:
$25 credit card minimum (for a restaurant???)
No longer taking American Express
I used to go there every day. No more.
Why do restaurants do this? The short term gain will kill them in the long run. Idiots.
If you see merchants doing it, you can report them. I don’t know where to, yet. I assume Visa or Master Card. As a part of the Dodd-Frank...
Against Our War in Libya | The Awl →
mikehudack:
I would love to deconstruct this entire article and show everything that’s wrong with it. But I don’t have time. There’s simply too much wrong with it. So let me just say this:
No persons are on a “targeting list” for the allies in Libya. This includes Qadaffi.
This is a police action, not a war. It has more in common with the engagement in Serbia than Iraq or Afghanistan.
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"Google" AI Challenge
So, the winter ‘11 AI challenge has to do with ants. On a torus. They get close to food and spawn a new ant. They get close to an enemy ant and they battle.
Just finished up writing the i/o parser, map tracker, entity table, and a simple bot that just moves its ants around randomly.
Next up is to actually keep track of individual ants each turn (currently it wipes the slate clean each turn...
Devil Nights: Day Twelve: Favorite female... →
spuffboy:
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Lydia Deetz, Beetlejuice.
I wish I was cool enough to be Lydia Deetz. After I saw Beetlejuice sometime around the 6th grade, that was it. I had seen the light, and that light was Winona Ryder. (Her and Christina Ricci, I swear to God, I…
Lydia Deetz was my first crush. To be fair, I didn’t see the film until about 6...
“Gear is a money pit. It’s a trap. It’s fool’s gold. You can sit and stare at...”
– Ric Viers (via ctplr)
The same is for programming. You are not your IDE. Getting one more plugin to do autocomplete or auto-refactoring will not make you a better programmer. Buckle down and use vim or emacs, and really get to know your code. Don’t go gaga over tools that separate you from...
Developing with my Cr48.
The good:
Light
Fast enough for web
Available posix shell for ssh
Long battery life if I’m working outside my home or office.
The bad:
ssh response time is kind of slow. I often have to wait for my (remote session) of emacs to catch up to my typing.
shell consoles are in a completely separate screen that you switch to with alt-tab. Each additional running console is a new entry in...
flapjacksblog2 asked: What is your favorite moment from Flapjack?
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Watchbrooklynmutt:
Twitter Gets the Ken Burns Treatment From Funny Or Die
AllThingsD
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Twitter has a Status Tumblr →
brooklynmutt:
Updates on the status of the Twitter service.
Why use a less stable channel for communication to communicate about instabilities in your own platform?
Is It Iced Coffee Weather? →
ohhleary:
LIES! It’s always iced coffee weather!
Is for me! Iced cappuccino from La Colombe Torrefaction… yurmmy.
