June 2008
37 posts
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will | The A.V. Club
May 2008
61 posts
“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”
– Barack Obama (via marco and azspot) (via david) (via mikehudack)
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters (via verbadjectivenoun) (via britticisms) (via mikehudack)
Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like A Horse →
WatchPaper Console - Battery-Free Entertainment
Scheduling a meeting via iCal is sketchy. Maybe this is one instance where Apple could steal a page from Microsoft’s playbook?
Scheduling a meeting via iCal is sketchy. Maybe this is one instance where Apple could steal a page from Microsoft’s playbook?
trying out the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta. Good bye VMWare and CrossOver Office, hello native Aqua apps!
“While no manager will listen to your crazy ideas, they generally don’t care how...”
– How to Deploy Your Skunkworks Application– and Take Over Your IT Department’s Software Development in the Process « Learning Lisp
trying out the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta. Good bye VMWare and CrossOver Office, hello native Aqua apps!
“Now I feel as if someone snuck a television onto my desk. Terribly addictive...”
– Disconnecting Distraction
BIOWAVE: Biomimicry Solution for Ocean Power →
Using biomimicry as the guiding design principle, the Australian firm BioPower Systems has developed Biowave: an ocean power system that harnesses energy by mimicking the motion of underwater plants…
“Aquaculture’s current heavy reliance on wild fish for feed carries substantial...”
– A Farmed Fish with a Hefty Price Tag » Celsias
How to Spot & Destroy Weak Arguments →
Keep these simple rules in the back of your mind so that next time somebody tries to get in your face, you can slice them deep (all the way to the white meat).
Working through the backlog of open firefox tabs. Apologies for anyone that follows me on del.icious.
Working through the backlog of open firefox tabs. Apologies for anyone that follows me on del.icious.
“If you’re a working environmental scientist, it’s likely that your income ranks...”
– Neutralize Your Travel Emissions!
“I know that some of you may doubt that we face real energy shortages. The 1973...”
– Jimmy Carter’s Proposed Energy Policy In 1977 - BSAlert.com (via Raganwald)
“Entrepreneurs don’t give up easily. When they are successful it’s called...”
– Blog, Startups Entrepreneurship, Being Young - Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing
China grows huge food with seeds from outer space →
“Drivers often assume the hardware is misbehaved but never malicious. It is...”
– Links » Exploiting Network Cards
“Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you’re...”
– Writing, Briefly (via pg)
Using sshfs with public key auth →
Generate key on client with ssh-keygen -t dsa, no passphrase
Move id_dsa.pub to .ssh folder in home directory on server - hint: scp id_dsa.pub user@host:~/.ssh/
SSH to server, cd to .ssh directory, append the key with cat id_dsa.pub » authorized_keys
Lost Cat: NOT Friendly. →
“The company envisions DC charging hubs that would be available in conference...”
– Swtched On: Green Plug tries to replace the worry warts (Part 1) - Engadget
Bill Clinton's Angry Confrontation With Voter... →
From “CBS News RAW”: While campaigning in Fayetteville, W.Va., Bill Clinton argued with an audience member over claims made by Hillary Clinton that she improved health care during his administration.
Hidden OS X feature: Twitter integration →
Nice one.
“Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?
Because Oct 31 equals...”
– Best Programming Jokes
amazed there isn’t a mashup dj named enormouse
“Bahama 4 Obama”
– The Nassau Guardian - www.thenassauguardian.com
ESPN - Wife: Rodriguez fainted during first... →
Wife: Rodriguez fainted during first daughter’s birth
“Ecuador is considering including the rights of nature in its new constitution.”
– Ecuador: Establishing the Rights of Nature » Celsias
