January 2012
1 post
December 2011
11 posts
Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change... →
Yet another global warming threat. Huzzah!
If You Like Links, You’ll Hate What Facebook Is... →
stoweboyd:
chartier:
Case in point, this weekend I tried to share a link to a story in The Guardian I found interesting. You’ll note (as I highlighted in a red box) even my browser recognized this was a link to the publication’s website, not Facebook.
However, due to how The Guardian has configured their site’s Facebook integration, anyone clicking the link is not taken to the expected URL....
I Work For The Internet →
Fight SOPA now!
Naomi Klein's Inconvenient Climate Conclusions -... →
stoweboyd:
Our willingness to accept the scientific consensus on climate change is strongly influenced by our cognitive worldview:
Naomi Klein in Naomi Klein’s Inconvenient Climate Conclusions
[…] The research coming out of Yale’s Cultural Cognition Project, […] has found that the major determinant of whether a person rejects the scientific consensus on climate change is whether they have a...
Alan Moore attacks Frank Miller in comic book war... →
Here’s to Alan Moore.
'Satyagraha' and Occupy Lincoln Center, Last Night... →
I wished I had known about this… Nice discussion in this article on arts and public funding.
parislemon: ANNOYING: The Article As A Slideshow →
parislemon:
Matt Rosoff’s thoughts on Google becoming more like Microsoft should have been a provocative and effective article. Instead it’s a slideshow. Why? I have no clue.
Well okay, pageviews, clearly. But it’s still weird to see this type of story formatted this way.
Business Insider has…
Well, that’s what you get reading a trash rag like AlleyInsider anyway. That said, I...
September 2011
2 posts
Samuel L Ipsum | Alternative Lorem Ipsum Generator →
Awesome. For everyone who like me is tired of latin placeholder text.
CrunchFund? No Matter What You Call It, It's... →
Nice Kara Swisher rant.
August 2011
6 posts
“Only fools debate whether patently illegal programs “work”—only...”
– Cheney memoir: Just because he believes in torture, we don’t have to. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
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“Make sure you start Helen Schulman’s new novel, This Beautiful Life on a Friday...”
– Maureen Corrigan reviews Helen Schulman’s This Beautiful Life (via nprfreshair)
Spoilers don't spoil anything →
This is for all you big crybabies who always complain about spoilers.
Patent Trolls Come in All Shapes and Sizes |... →
John Borthwick talks about the patent troll that hit up Fotolog. There was also a very good This American Life story about this recently, which I think even covered the patents that we were hit with: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2011/07/a-couple-responses-to-when-patents-attack
Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home →
I like the way this guy rolls!
July 2011
7 posts
Argh! One more little Spotify gripe...
So I dutifully added a bunch of albums to playlists, synced them to my iPhone, marked them all as “available offline”, and then watched as it synced 150 or so songs (it was a bit annoying that it would pause syncing when I exited the app and it went idle, but I blame iOS for that more than Spotify). Then just before getting on a plane, I searched and added one more song to a playlist...
Oooooooffff...have you ever done something just SO...
Techy alert!
So I am in the process of setting up graphite and statsd for use in our environment, and I was very proud of myself for getting a test version of Graphite up and running and turned my efforts to statsd, a NodeJS daemon written by etsy for aggregating stats via UDP and putting them into Graphite. Cool stuff. Graphite is not terribly well documented and requires a lot of prep work to...
Playing around with Spotify...
Couple of Spotify notes. I have been a premium member since last week, as the offline capability is very important to me. Their catalog is indeed quite deep. However in a few days of use, I am experiencing quite a few annoying issues: songs that don’t play for any apparent reason (e.g., a whole album is saved to a playlist, and songs 2 and 3 just won’t play), the mobile app refused...
Decided to go to a movie tonight…yup, you guessed it: Errol Morris’ new documentary “Tabloid.”
Google+ reminds me of everything I hate about tagging.
Google is funny. While joining Google+, they suggested I link my Picasa. Options were “Link Picasa” or fuck off, you can’t join + then.
On flight to SF. Stunned at how uncomfortable AA flights are. I’ll use miles for biz class on AA, but otherwise never again.
June 2011
4 posts
Definition of a shitty user experience: using an upgraded Google Apps for Business account *and* a regular google gmail account in 1 browser
I can’t believe how happy it makes me to know I am living in a place that no longer treats some citizens and many of my friends like shit.
Albertina Sisulu of South Africa has died. Worth reading up on her life. http://bit.ly/l7Ta8Q http://bit.ly/mgy2aK
My god…even my sweat is sweating right now.
May 2011
10 posts
RT @AdamSerwer: Protip for right wingers: Before asking “WHERE’S THE @ACLU” Google “ACLU” and whatever you’re looking for.
I’m happy for REM that they are getting so much airplay for “End of the World As We Know It”, but ENOUGH ALREADY!
Apocalypse-ready! By the way, I probably won’t be seeing a lot of you after tomorrow…
One reason LinkedIn is worth so much: once you upgrade to a premium account, they make it almost impossible to downgrade to free again.
SPLAAAAASH. That is the sound of Top Chef jumping the shark.
Do we really need more reporters cracking wise on how Strauss-Kahn’s Rikers cell is not like his $3k/night hotel room?
Good example article to demonstrate the poverty of academic thinking and social psychology in particular: http://nyti.ms/iEz4Yq
Visiting Mom at the hospital, I was subjected to “The View” and an idiot’s defense of torture. Welcome to hell.
Would be awesome if we could take the same joy in the trials of the guys in custody as we do in taking out the one who escaped.
Walking across central park at 79th, 4 different jazz musicians in 4 minutes. Running out of singles to give them…
April 2011
6 posts
Great interview with Diane Ravitch on today’s Fresh Air http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/. Pity no one will listen to her.
If David Simon has to kill someone off of Treme this year, I hope it is Steve Zahn.
Oh yay, more hydrofracking please! NYTimes: Chemicals Were Injected Into Wells, Report Says http://nyti.ms/haXWwn
Saw dress rehearsal of NYCO “Seance on a Wet Afternoon”. Second act is trite and ridiculous. Should go back to drawing board.
Just went into a GameStop to buy a present. Man, you would not BELIEVE how nerdy that place is!
I love you MongoDB, but goddam you for making me learn Javascript.
March 2011
5 posts
Ok Obama is in the AMNH.
Requested pat-down over backscatter. 1. Less invasive than I thought it would be (TSA very professional) 2. Felt safer than radiation blast.
Changed channel on mom’s TV from Fox News to MSNBC.