February 2010
92 posts
Why Conservatives Should Care About Transit « Public Discourse:
Consider how small businesses are affected by Americans’ dependency on cars. Since businesses are obliged by zoning restrictions to locate far away from residential areas, most Americans drive to every store they visit. This means that store visits are often discrete trips that must be undertaken consciously and planned out...
Tumblr Stole My Domain At The Behest of A...
doublethink:
tumbledore:
I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address has been changed to pitchfork1.tumblr.com. Where my blog once stood now stands the official Tumblr for Pitchfork Media Inc. Watch out, Soup, I hear Campbell’s is gunning for you next.
Recently, one of my...
Quotes for the night
Jay Z - Takeover:
A wise man told me don’t argue with fools ‘cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who
Or, for those who don’t grok rap:
Never argue with an idiot.. the people watching might not know the difference.
Also, an old saying:
Never argue with an idiot, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
“Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.”
– Victor Stenger
“Grab a friend (I know someone who ran out of friends-as-guinea-pigs and started...”
– Gear needed and/or methods to use to take a decent headshot/portrait photo | Ask MetaFilter
StatPlus®:mac LE | Statistics The Mac Way. →
The LE version of StatPlus:mac with Excel 2008 is the replacement for Excel 2004’s Analysis ToolPak.
“Don’t let someone become a priority in your life, when you’re just an option in...”
– (via skewedlines)
Stop trying to come nearer to me, because I don’t want you here. Sod off already!
Grr.
Relic reveals Noah's ark was circular | The... →
Okay.
5844) I like intriguing guys a lot
sgsecrets:
They just have this certain aura about them that just attracts me to them , and to me usually the quiet guys are the intriguing ones, the one who’re not in the limelight. Do you all like intriguing guys?
All these secrets blogs are oh-so-weird.
“If you love someone, put a circle around their name instead of a heart because...”
– (via keepitshut) (via staticskies)
“Happiness is not a potato.”
– russtling
Esquire – Roger Ebert: The Essential Man →
A very moving piece about Roger Ebert’s battle with cancer. Must read. It’s certainly not a usual story.
Best advice of the day:
hrrrthrrr:
“It never hurts to have a second pair of prints on the crowbar.” So true. This is pretty much EXACTLY why I keep my friends so close.
“If we approach it spatially - in terms of context of use I mean, rather than the...”
– cityofsound: For the life between buildings - some notes on the iPad
urbanism creeps me out.
Awesome utility of the day: pigz
andrew:
Pronounced “pig-zee”, the description off their site is pretty self-explanatory: A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines.
Since most servers now have multi processors, compressing large data can be accelerated using pigz (download here) as opposed to common built-in single-threaded tools like gzip/bzip2.
“Music is enough to keep me alive.”
– Anon.
a few minutes late, i could've died.
redricochet:
i just experienced an insane happening that could probably only be seen in theaters.
but it wasn’t a movie - it happened right on my street.
it was 12:15AM and my dad just picked me up from band practice. we made the turn on misawa ct, which is the street i live in. this street has only 3 houses, the farthest one being mine. we parked along the curb of my driveway, and we unloaded...
Werewolf: How a parlour game became a tech... →
If you’re unfortunate enough to have not played Werewolf before – this is a really well-written introduction, which has otherwise been done to death in recent years in tech news circles.
If you’ve already been playing, the Extra Materials with this article is about the most comprehensive, best-written resource the experienced Werewolf player can ask for.
“The past few days have been great. But at the back of my mind I know I’m...”
– Anonymous
Sometimes I want to run away again.
sorrowsdaggerfall:
Maybe it was the journey that was the most interesting thing of all. The people I met. The conversations we had. The places I went to. The gradual comprehension of the difficulty of survival in a fairly developed country with no educational certificates and/or money. Well, I did have a reasonable amount of money with me. But not much. It wouldn’t have sustained me in the long...
HAIKU + IKEA = HAIKEA →
Watchjswtf:
Now that makes sense.
“The reality is that in grad school I had only a dial-up Internet account, no DVD...”
– Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson - Is the endless data stream eroding our attention spans?
