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Notes

2010-09-18T18:27:00.010-04:00

Here are some decent links from the last few months:

37Signals: Styling For Change With Rules and Exceptions
Mislav's Git Tips
Back in June: Controversy over Poland's decision to mandate castration of certain sex offenders
According to One Recent Study, Studying Economics makes you more likely to be a Republican
Relive The World Cup Via This Pre-Cup Analysis
closer to home: medium.ahfr.org is a companion to foundry.ahfr.org, and it has more than one curator, and some improved/different functionality. Both of these sites receive regular improvements and updates.

First Blog Split Available:

2010-03-24T20:19:00.000-04:00

http://foundry.ahfr.org/

Truncated version of major announcement:

2010-03-22T01:20:00.001-04:00

As my skills improve, I've realized that I'd like to move this web presence to a software stack that gives me complete control over the logic, presentation, and data in and around it. This is the post where I reveal that to you and announce that this blog will split. Details of split and further splits will be announced here and at any relevant child nodes of this web presence.

I figure someone will appreciate this, so I'm saying it: RSS is probably the best way to stay abreast of these changes.

2010-03-18T17:41:00.002-04:00

2010-03-17T11:06:00.000-04:00

We're Back.

2010-03-13T17:45:00.000-05:00

I didn't take the website offline. The domain merely expired and it took a while for me to sort things out with the registrar.

Here is an excerpt from my journal, dated August 20, 1996:

2010-02-03T01:58:00.001-05:00

Today I would like to write about a book called "Thinner." It is a horror novel written by Stephen King. Thinner is about an obese man named Billy Halleck who accidentally ran over an old gypsy woman whose father put a curse on Billy. This terrible mix of revenge and magic made Billy lose two pounds or more every day. In this book my favorite character was Billy's friend Richard Gillini who was always ready to help a buddy and loved action. The moral of this book was probably, "The Good Guys Don't Always Win."

Gold.

2010-01-22T18:47:00.000-05:00

[the big picture - gold]

Tomb of René de Châlons, 1557

2010-01-20T19:44:00.005-05:00

scientology letterhead

2010-01-16T10:08:00.002-05:00

[see more at letterheady]

2010-01-05T12:46:00.003-05:00

[michael cera's jersey shore makeover]

2010-01-04T15:21:00.002-05:00

Anonymous Letter, 26 October 1605:

2010-01-04T14:34:00.002-05:00

My lord, out of the love I beare to some of youere frends, I have a care of youre preservacion, therefore I would aduyse you as you tender your life to devise some excuse to shift youer attendance at this parliament, for God and man hath concurred to punishe the wickedness of this tyme, and thinke not slightly of this advertisement, but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety, for though there be no apparance of anni stir, yet I saye they shall receive a terrible blow this parliament and yet they shall not seie who hurts them this cowncel is not to be contemned because it may do yowe good and can do yowe no harme for the dangere is passed as soon as yowe have burnt the letter and i hope God will give yowe the grace to mak good use of it to whose holy proteccion i comend yowe.

[guy fawkes? the birth of bonfire night]

Rza, 2008:

2010-01-02T12:19:00.001-05:00

Me and Dirty were living together. 1998 in Battery Park, Manhattan, and Dirty—the feds were out to kill him. I had so much love for him and shit that I wanted to help protect him, and I had a feeling overcome me that I was a superhero—somebody to help the world! So I had my brother order a Level 4 fucking vehicle—what the president rides in. You can shoot it with an AK and it keeps moving. After he hit a deer, it didn’t even dent the car! The deer flew way in the air and not even a dent on the paint! It was a Suburban. I still got it. It weighs nine tons. It’s parked at my brother’s house in New Jersey. And the suit I built but one of my employees sold it to a drug dealer. Some drug dealer in Brooklyn got it. That’s funny! A $20,000 suit—Level 4 bulletproof and knife-proof. You couldn’t stab or shoot me. Head to toe. It had a few other toys I don’t like to talk about. I don’t wanna describe it too much—that nigga who got, he got it! I had a briefcase to go with it as well—to block bullets! We were just buggin’ out! We was getting high, too. Don’t get that twisted. We were partying hard. There’s a certain mentality.

[RZA: KUNG FU CURES PERVERSION!]

JESUS WEPT

2009-12-31T07:17:00.002-05:00

It Is Back.

2009-12-28T18:17:00.002-05:00

Man convicted for killing and eating China's last Indochinese tiger

2009-12-28T16:47:00.001-05:00

[full story]

Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church:

2009-12-25T16:35:00.004-05:00

"With the blessings of NASA and GOD, we could indeed be the first anti-homosexual church in space. Furthermore, perhaps we can establish a Westboro settlement on the Moon -- where we might, at long last, enjoy an existence truly blessed by His grace.

cool signs

2009-12-19T18:03:00.001-05:00

[see the rest here]

yes

2009-12-18T13:16:00.003-05:00

fuck yes

2009-12-14T23:38:00.000-05:00

The Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer has said it will continue its association with Tiger Woods despite the golfer's highly public personal problems.

[link]

primates and syntax

2009-12-14T13:27:00.000-05:00

By modifying a call sequence or the order of calls within a sequence, the messages are changed, and can relay precise information about the nature of the danger (a falling tree, a predator), the type of predator (eagle, leopard), how the predator was detected (acoustically, visually) but also about social events unrelated to predation (gathering before the group moves to another site, an encounter with another group of the same species at territory boundaries...)

[link]

rotating kitchen

2009-12-13T21:17:00.003-05:00

rotating kitchen from Zeger Reyers on Vimeo.

(thanks parag!)

I Will See This.

2009-12-13T20:36:00.002-05:00

Roger Ebert on Avatar:

Watching "Avatar," I felt sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977. That was another movie I walked into with uncertain expectations. James Cameron's film has been the subject of relentlessly dubious advance buzz, just as his "Titanic" was. Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely.

[link] (i have not read this review, nor do i plan to; have only read the excerpt quoted above)

berlusconi

2009-12-13T19:38:00.000-05:00

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan.

He suffered two broken teeth, a minor nose fracture and cuts to his lip after being struck by a man wielding a souvenir model of the city's cathedral.

[link]