August 2010
2 posts
Take this job and shove it, in style
JetBlue Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh had taxied to a stop at Terminal 5, Gate C around noon Monday when flight attendant Steven Slater, 38, was struck in the head with luggage that a passenger was trying to unload from an overhead compartment, according to an airport official with knowledge of the incident. Slater demanded an apology from the passenger, but the passenger refused. The two argued...
Aug 10th
What's right.
I’m using Let there be Comic Sans to read . I feel this is proper.
Aug 6th
July 2010
2 posts
Fine journalism. →
As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. We dare you.
Jul 2nd
Jul 2nd
June 2010
3 posts
Login is not a verb?
John Gruber linked to “Login” is not a verb today. This website presents the argument that login, along with other similar words such as shutdown, signup, etc., form a class of words that are commonly considered to be verbs (especially among computer types), but are, in fact not. The argument is based on analyzing these words in light of the two major regimes of germanic verbs,...
Jun 20th
“Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think...”
– http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html
Jun 16th
“Anonymous 06/07/10(Mon)09:33:29 No.236920XXX so wait Im watching: a black guy...”
– 4chan, in a nutshell
Jun 7th
May 2010
31 posts
“All of the punks in Camden could never shout about it All of the hipsters in...”
May 29th
May 28th
May 26th
BP Is a Hostile and Destructive Foreign Invasion...
The United States has been catastrophically attacked by a hostile remorseless invading foreign power, British Petroleum. BP is refusing to comply with our legally constituted authorities in matters over which they have perfectly clear legitimate jurisdiction. For heaven’s sake: Freeze and seize all BP’s goddamned assets, divert all the money to cleanup and to salaries for regular...
May 24th
May 23rd
May 22nd
Clean bill of health.
[stephen@frode /mnt]> sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/ad12 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) ...
May 20th
Now I get to wait some more
[stephen@frode ~]> sudo smartctl -t long /dev/ad12 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: “Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode”. Drive command...
May 20th
Let's see if it worked
[stephen@frode ~]> sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad12 bs=4k dd: /dev/ad12: end of device 366284647+0 records in 366284646+0 records out 1500301910016 bytes transferred in 34590.738018 secs (43372937 bytes/sec)
May 20th
“Do me a favor, will you? Stop giving me the run around just like the rest of the...”
– From the saddest email I’ve received today. It’s from an Internet Explorer user, frustrated that he couldn’t get Instapaper’s “Read Later” bookmarklet installed. (It’s incredibly clunky to do in IE, because IE doesn’t support the troops, poisons your children, and gives you cancer.) It’s a sad...
May 19th
150 notes
Flickr and Data Ownership →
May 19th
May 18th
18 notes
“I’m not saying you want an iPad or need one (or any of the upcoming tablets) — I...”
– http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2010/05/13/here-on-gilligans-isle/
May 14th
May 14th
Towards a Resource-Centric Data Network for...
Improving the use of metadata in astronomical research. Two tastes that go great together.
May 14th
Major science funding bill blocked →
May 14th
“People only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The...”
– http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8681410.stm
May 14th
my filesystem made an ooops.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad4s1a 496M 255M 201M 56% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad4s1e 496M 58K 456M 0% /tmp /dev/ad4s1f 9.7G 1.1G 7.8G 13% /usr /dev/ad4s1g 256G 93G 143G 39% /usr/home /dev/ad4s1d 496M 94M 362M 21% /var /dev/ad8s1d 1.3T ...
May 7th
May 6th
1 tag
Mariowiki on Earth
Famous for its varied culture and role large role in Earth’s history, Europe is divided into countries such as France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Famous cities include Paris and Venice. Europe is mainly inhabited by humans. God damn it, nerds.
May 6th
Oh My God Guys I Can't Believe Senior Year Is... →
(via silby)
May 5th
1 note
IE9
Since releasing the first Platform Preview, we’ve answered a lot of developer questions. Here’s a recent one from a GMail engineer: Sometimes we have to do browser detection, and we tend to group all IEs together, with the occasional branch based on version. Should we treat IE9 entirely differently? Is it intended to behave closer to webkit/gecko than IE7/8? Our answer is an emphatic YES....
May 5th
“For many years the UNIX mail program sendmail[1] contained this bug: when mail...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_a_typewriter
May 5th
Mirandizing Terrorists
Why is this even an issue?
May 4th
Notes on the experience of travelling by rail in... →
May 3rd
Hard Mode Platforming (game) →
May 2nd
Adobe UI Gripes
Has been given new life by the release of CS5. It’s (still) good stuff.
May 2nd
Map Abstraction
Drawing more useful maps by removing realism. Interesting.
May 2nd
Run (a game) →
May 2nd
May 1st
May 1st
April 2010
10 posts
Birthers
In September 2008 U.S. District Judge William Alsup stated obiter in his ruling that it is “highly probable” that McCain is a natural born citizen from birth by virtue of 8 U.S.C. § 1401, although he acknowledged the alternative possibility that McCain became a natural born citizen retroactively, by way of 8 U.S.C. § 1403. These views have been criticized by Gabriel J. Chin, Professor...
Apr 30th
Apr 30th
WatchWatch
Great screensaver or greatest screensaver?
Apr 30th
Appointment Internet
While I’m spamming this thing with shit, there’s this piece from Warren Ellis: It’s true that the nature of the web does away with a lot of the necessities behind day-and-date release. But there’s also something nice about “appointment internet,” even when it’s just a day out of the week.
Apr 30th
Motorola
Motorola sold a total of 8.5 million phones in the quarter […] Four years ago, when the Razr was still popular, Motorola sold 46.1 million phones in the first quarter. Shit.
Apr 30th
1 tag
Apr 30th
The Cloud
This, however, from the piece Gruber linked, is terrifying: At the same time, wireless broadband is coming. As it does so, organizations and users will increasingly move their data out into the cloud (read: onto hordes of servers racked up high in anonymous data warehouses, owned and maintained by some large corporation like Google) It’s true, but it sucks. I find myself being...
Apr 30th
“Apple’s decision to ban apps made using Adobe’s Flash cross-compiler isn’t about...”
– http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/30/stross
Apr 30th
Found it in a Bar →
I love this sort of one-off website.
Apr 30th
1 tag
Marco.org: Flash →
Make Flash (the tool) cross-compile between Flash Player binaries and HTML5/Javascript. Then use Flash Player as a legacy compatibility layer for browsers that don’t fully support the necessary standards, including Internet Explorer and Firefox. God damn it, Adobe, you could be so much better then you are.
Apr 29th
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August 2009
1 post
1 tag
Aug 3rd
July 2009
6 posts
1 tag
Company Denies its Robots Feed on the Dead |... →
Goddamn it, science.
Jul 28th