SILLY BLACK T-SHIRTS ONLY
—the Imperial Stout I tapped so’s we’ll have something to enjoy while bottling ME SO HONEY for @wardspan’s team.
SILLY BLACK T-SHIRTS ONLY
—the Imperial Stout I tapped so’s we’ll have something to enjoy while bottling ME SO HONEY for @wardspan’s team.
Caught a ride tonight with a hack unmarked Towncar with three packs of Malboros instead if a meter. Giving him directions to not kidnap us.
@grahamvsworld MUNI awesomeness varies depending on which line you’re on. I like @routesy for the when & where.
But jeeze, once we stop using passwords, what will happen to the “The password is ‘quotation marks’, but WITHOUT the quotation marks” trope?
@treyford I didn’t know you were thirty, Oedipus.
But jeeze, once we stop using passwords, what will happen to the “The password is ‘quotation marks’, but WITHOUT the quotation marks” trope?
@slp22 Thanks Sandra! See you soon 😃
Happy Birthday Grant!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Grant!
Happy Birthday!!! Hope you are having a fabulous day!!
Happy Birthday Dude!!!
Is today your birthday? If so, happy birthday! Hope to see you and Amanda again soon- either in MD or out your way! (Of course, SF would be a lot cooler!)
Happy birthday! Very nice photo!
Happy birthday, have a great one!
No Sleep Till Clickyn!
Happy Birthday Grant. Hope you have a great day!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!! It was nice being 30 with you:) Hope you have a great day!
RT @attritionorg: She had to leave early to tend her Farmville crops, but i think the date went well. #shelikesme
Also hidden in Area 51: knob-placement design patterns recovered from alien 4-burner, cook-top space-stoves that reduce wrong-burner error.
RT @attritionorg: She had to leave early to tend her Farmville crops, but i think the date went well. #shelikesme
RT @lonelysandwich: I love xmas music until the Chipmunks come on, singing songs I can’t understand but assume is about lighting things …
@MikD we must have read the same article this morning. I ordered my 8GB, so I’m a shipping-delay behind you.
★★★★☆ Captain Detendu, “Wish You A Stupid Xmas 2010”, http://bit.ly/hcAMzX
Precisely one Wesley Willis track away from being too stupid.
@alexhutton what’s the verdict on the Pho? We’ve tried from-scratch and from-a-kit and have never captured the magic.
I just learned how to climb up the walls. Wow.
Unrelated: thanks to @treyford’s quick belay spotting, @MikD still walks among us.
Geez Louise!
yum install telnet;
I just learned how to climb up the walls. Wow.
Unrelated: thanks to @treyford’s quick belay spotting, @MikD still walks among us.
I will probably die polishing an unsent e-mail.
Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-lagunga.
Meaningless comparison:There are currently ~10,650 monthly active cows in cow clicker, while the actual cow population of the United States in 1997 was 99,500,000 cattle. And now you know!
@teabag303 “You know that weird green dot on the moon in everyone’s photos of the 2010 solstice-eclipse? Yeah, so uh.”
Now, if 33 turned up to be 9,
I don’t mind, I don’t mind.
I’ll just walk the mile home
–Hendrix re: the nextbus 33/Stanyan MUNI
Lobbying to get our conference room renamed “The pool on the roof.”
\m/ Who else wants to go?
Now, if 33 turned up to be 9,
I don’t mind, I don’t mind.
I’ll just walk the mile home
–Hendrix re: the nextbus 33/Stanyan MUNI
Lobbying to get our conference room renamed “The pool on the roof.”
Have you stopped beating your cow yet?
S͒̂ͥ̔ͭ̽̐҉̠̗̕͟h͆̒̌͆̓͐ͨ͏̦̳̕ả͕̹̗p̮̰ͯ̈́͌̂̇̍̅͋e̼̼̲̥͂̆͂̽d̨͚͙̖͂̆͑͊̌̓͠ͅn͓̱͚̾ò͛͐̎̚͏͕̖͉t̸̎̆ͫ̉͐҉͍̜̱͇̲̘͔̬ȩ̜͈̱̳ͧͧ̋̀ͣ̈̒s: http://flic.kr/p/8YYJu5
Now Playing: Sylvano Bussotti and sfSoundGroupPhoto by Chris BrennanFlickrI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked,
dragging themselves through the clogged tubes at dawn looking for a cow to click,
Howl, The Roxie, 9PM, tonight, Saturday the 18th: anyone want to go see a movie?
A Month of Typesetting-bugs in @sans_isc’s rssfeed_full.xml would just be variations on “<br /> used instead of semantic markup.” every day.
Me: Did I tell you someone dropped a remote shell on my server? Gotta sysadmin today.
Her: Oh? Were you not paying attention to it?
Me:
See redhat. See redhat fork.
__| __|_ ) Amazon Linux AMI
_| ( / Beta
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Fork redhat. Fork.
A Month of Typesetting-bugs in @sans_isc’s rssfeed_full.xml would just be variations on “
used instead of semantic markup.” every day.
As an unofficial for citysec, No, just make it happen! RT @PhillySec: Is there an official (or unofficial) list of all the citysec accounts?
As an unofficial for citysec, No, just make it happen! RT @PhillySec: Is there an official (or unofficial) list of all the citysec accounts?
Eno’s Here Come the Warm Jets and Another Green World are both excellent.
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) is even excellenter.
I’m cow-clicking-cosby.
Excuse me, while I click this guy
Irrelevant periodical™ Click of the year™, 2010.
When all I have is a large scoop, the only portion of gummy bears I will eat every day is a large scoopful of gummy bears.
When all I have is a large scoop, the only portion of gummy bears I will eat every day is a large scoopful of gummy bears.
@deryni urinal micro-naps? And you got an A-?
Docx’s principled argument hinges on and fails because of, as so many do, the principle: artistic intent matters? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/12/genre-versus-literary-fiction-edward-docx
Are Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown a match for literary fiction?Novelist Edward Docx argues that genre fiction can't compete with works of true literary meritthe GuardianCow clicker is a really basic game, so I can’t enjoy it as much on paper, on principle, as better “real” games.
Four frame stories deep in Burton’s 1850 translation of The 1,001 Nights: it’s great, but I’d like a more modern translation.
RT @johnemcintyre: I was asked whether bourbon, brandy, or rum was preferable in eggnog. I answered that all are acceptable, and all bet …
The AirPlay speaker selection list ignores ⌘-click HIG in favor of a panel window? And what is the deal with airline food?
Getting up to get out.
Time to finally make it down to #BayThreat at the Hacker Dojo.
Two shots fired in The Mission. Wasn’t the last shooting on Mission this time of night too?
Two shots fired in The Mission. Wasn’t the last shooting on Mission this time of night too?
How does one go through adolescence in ad hoc overlapping subcultures, yet report on Anonymous as it were an NGO?
Maybe a LOLSNGO?
(Lols.)
Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, moo
The Flying Pig
The Wall (behind which is The Band)
Roger Waters performing The Wall
A fed troll never stops trolling.
#cyber #cloud #anticompliance #anticertifications #hacker #howtopronouncenuclear #trololo
Click 566: 100 more to go.
@alexhutton That’s an ESO shot: http://goo.gl/ac0fK. Hubble deep-field images are great too.
The Milky Way panoramaThe Milky Way panoramawww.eso.org@schuetzdj Yup!
RT @SteveMartinToGo: Changed shoes, nothing happened.
Moo! There it is!
Moo! There it is!
Holy shit a double-moo click! I don’t know how to reproduce it but I just got back-to-back moos on one click!
Free idea: The Oh My Bowl: An annual three-teams-on-the-field NFL bowl game featuring the Lions, Bengals, and Bears.
@wardspan PCI?
You should do a talk entitled “Do Not Contact Us Again”: https://solipsism.eu/post/2105206632
SolipsismI get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.Tumblr"THeO! I think that gets too much undeserved attention so I’m going to give it some of my own attention!
I’m Complaining-About-Hype-Cosby."
Big up to my boys in the flat across the alley working rhymes free style on the mic at 3:15 this AM in the Mission aight.
Boyakasha.
@danphilpott Pink Floyd & Chuck Palahniuk: who billions and billions of comic artists quote for science.
Don’t forget to click your city!
City cow.
@mckt_ @chipmonkey @grantstavely @treyford @mikd I always need a ride and usually bum from coworkers. A party bus sounds fun.
Holiday gift idea: Bring sacks full of cell-phone and mini-plug headphones along on MUNI rides to hive to those less fortunate.
FOUO: Please be aware that FOUO is an acronym used in some reports. Be alert for suspicious FOUO reports. An executive summary follows.
Holiday gift idea: Bring sacks full of cell-phone and mini-plug headphones along on MUNI rides to hive to those less fortunate.
Click accomplished.
“Why do you close your eyes?” Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
“Why do you close your eyes?” Sussman asked his teacher.
“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
So this @MoreBeer_B3 Honey Pale Ale I’m brewing for @wardspan and @treyford’s ops team has 3 pounds of honey in it! http://flic.kr/p/8WYfpG
Explore July 5, 2026FlickrT.S.A. security theater escalation is an elaborate ploy of the otherwise unsuccessful anarcho-capitalist syndicate known only as the D.M.V.
So this @MoreBeer_B3 Honey Pale Ale I’m brewing for @wardspan and @treyford’s ops team has 3 pounds of honey in it! http://flic.kr/p/8WYfpG
Explore July 5, 2026FlickrIs legendary, hostile, dysfunctional, depressing, refined, hardworking, and realistic.
(via apples to apples)
★★★☆☆
Flawless service, excellent food, great atmosphere and location. Minus two stars because I wasn’t loved as a child: nobody gets five.
Keep “A Pattern Language” out of affordable, PAPERBACK (24) circulation in order to frustrate potential BUYERS (1): https://books.google.com/books?id=hwAHmktpk5IC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI&hl=en
A Pattern LanguageYou can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.Google BooksThat the etymology of copacetic is more or less completely unknown is hilariously copacetic.
That the etymology of copacetic is more or less completely unknown is hilariously copacetic.
Seals barking at Bird Rock on 17 mile drive in Monterey, CA.
In an opsec-imposed void of data, try to not reify the echo-chamber punditry reflected from well-intentioned bias-driven abstractions of ___
In an opsec-imposed void of data, try to not reify the echo-chamber punditry reflected from well-intentioned bias-driven abstractions of ___
Hey guys, I think simple pick-up sports are a net-loss for humanity, so I invented this game called ‘catch’ that will prove once and for all that just catching a ball is not a true scotsman.
Wow.
Andy Baio’s Kind of Bloop: a chiptune cover of Miles Davis’ entire Kind of Blue, as introduced to me by @mrgan: https://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/1660495804/all-blues
All BluesDesigner, game maker, and writer in Portland, OR. One of the good ones.mrgan.tumblr.com@wardspan Oh, tut-tut, my monocle just popped out:
Three clicks in Z formation, the Zorro click.
The airlock is full of Imperial Stout and overflowing kraeusen everywhere: the yeast is really liking this one.
‘et cetera’ is to ‘and shit’ in a way that ‘vel similia’ is sadly not to ‘or shit’.
Well, /I/ laughed, and shit.
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2797
Language Log » Or other thingslanguagelog.ldc.upenn.eduRecorded “Witch” is not even close to as LOUD as they are in person.
I put on some Schoenberg and the weather in San Francisco goes batshit. Sorry gang but I’m leaving this on, I miss thunder and lightning too much.
“Holy Diver.”
0-data (/oʊˈdætə/): A hypey, FUD-lathered press release, report, or rumor masquerading as fact.
Etymology: Eggcorn of Hack-scene “0-day”.
I just kegged the Porter Amanda Walker Stavely and I made a few weeks ago: clean finish & kinda simple flavor profile: not bad things to be. Brewing an Imperial Stout some time this afternoon.
“Holy Diver.”
RT @wardspan: alright time for the 1st annual Zynga Hackville with FB and Google - outtie
CLICK 5000™, with space age Cow Clicker®™ MOO 5050™ audio effects so real, you’ll think you actually clicked a cow.
Moo.
@alexhutton are Ents such an emerging threat that you needed an expert? Where’s the data?
Here in the pasture of clicks
You look through the app list
This is the pasture of clicks
One step through the wall
Roll out that special click
This is our favorite one
Please don’t try to leave
Don’t leave the pasture of clicks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zAbEMoXzQ8
- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.comIf my cow went through a TSA security perimeter it would probably opt-out of the Rapiscan backscatter screening. Then I bet a TSA agent would try to click it. 😦
It’s the moo of the cow, it’s
the thrill of the click
Rising up to the shared wall posts of our facebook friends
And the last known friend
clicks his cow in the pasture
And he’s spamming us all with the moo of the cow
The devil logged into Facebook, he was looking for a cow to click
He didn’t have any friend’s clicks to click: he was looking to buy a click.
Veni, vidi, clicki.
Imaginary link to an xtranormal video entitled “Arial vs. Helvetica”: http://
“I don’t care. I want Helvetica. It has the Linotypeses.”
TGIC!
Click if you got 'em.
For every click is imperious and as SUCH, attempts to philosophize.
The argument performed by constantly always complaining about something privileges the thing complained about.
I’m not a playa, I just click a lot.
Free potty humor for the day, to be played over an already-sample heavy mix, or dubstep.
e.g. https://soundcloud.com/choicecuts/dj-mek-word-of-mouth-vol-2 & http://goo.gl/KPe7y
RT @baythreat: Tickets on sale now for BayThreat!
Early-bird prices are limited. www.baythreat.org
Dec 10th & 11th, Hacker Dojo, Mtn …
CLICK MOR CHIKIN
@grantstavely: I put on my sysadmin robe and hat and upgrade switch firmware, fixing guest WLAN.
Sunday: What the f*ck, I told you not t…
Hiking Russian Hill today with Ben and Christine: Farmer’s market -> cable car -> Lombard & Hyde -> hike.
Funny cow clicker message writer’s block!
C-L-I-C–K-E-Y Hey Clickey! Hey Clickey!
Has a click Buddha-nature or not?
I clicked.
He hecho clic.
我点击。
@vurtyou and I just saw “The American Four Seasons” performed by @robertmcduffie & the V.B.O., and it was very good.
Don’t forget to click your cow!
STP at the Warfield!
Guardian of the Emerald City Gates: There’s only one of him and he’s it. He’s the Cow of a Different Color, you’ve heard tell about.
Runyon’s narrator doubts his own sources, constantly inserts commentary, and self-summarizes like Herodotus, with better slang, about love.
Personally, I am staying in, reading a few Damon Runyon stories with the ever-loving wife, and one thing and another, http://t.co/4IuWgZt
Runyon’s narrator doubts his own sources, constantly inserts commentary, and self-summarizes like Herodotus, with better slang, about love.
Personally, I am staying in, reading a few Damon Runyon stories with the ever-loving wife, and one thing and another, http://t.co/4IuWgZt
It takes all the clicking you can do, to keep in the same place.
Kid Koala at Ninjatune XX.
In his Ya Gabba Gabba koala costume.
When the night has come.
And the pasture is dark.
And the stargazer is the only light we’ll see.
No I won’t be afraid, no I won’t be afraid.
Just as long as, you click by me.
So darlin’, darlin’, click by me, oh now click by me.
Click by me. Click by me.
The lounge downstairs at the Regency Ballroom during the second 2010 World Series home game in San Francisco: non-stop-inaction.
@mrgan an “Automatically hide and show the Menubar” option would be nice too.
That’s a lotta dicks.
RT @gruber: Screenshot: http://post.ly/17k30
Click, ergo sum.
That’s a lotta dicks.
RT @gruber: Screenshot: http://post.ly/17k30
Late night tacos at Pancho Villa in the mission.
I hear the Stargazer cow moos exactly the same as the other cows, only out of phase. I need the Stargazer cow.
RT @marty__mcfly__: Whoah. Now I have to get my parents together otherwise I’m gonna fade out of existence. This is heavy.
Mooney, it’s a gas
Grab that click with both hands
And make a stash!
RT @marty__mcfly__: Whoah. Now I have to get my parents together otherwise I’m gonna fade out of existence. This is heavy.
A-B-C. A-Always B-Be C-Clicking. Always Be Clicking! Always Be Clicking!!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop writing documentation.
Put me in coach, I’m ready to click.
Anyone in/near Baltimore looking for a software development position making web games? Let me know.
Then it looks so real I can feel it
And it feels so real I can taste it
And it tastes so real I can hear it
And it sounds so real I can see it
So tell me why, can’t I click it (more than every six hours)!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PF9iXrn09Y
- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.comClick-click-click with the Clickasaurus Rex!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smRJTY7h-_A
- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.comErrbody inda club gettin’ clicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGUwafCcL2M
- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.comAnything said with fine print, diminutive logos, roman numerals, and glyphs along the bottom is profound.
™ ® ᵍʳᵃⁿᵗ ˢᵗᵃᵛᵉˡʸ ᴹᴹᵓ ᵟ
∞
Your pop caught you clicking - and he said NO WAY!
That hipocrite - clicks two cows a day!
Man living on the pasture is such a drag
Now your mom threw away your best click mag (Bust it!)
Load up on clicks and bring your cows
It’s fun to click and to pretend
She’s over-clicked and over-moo’d
something-something
click, click, click, click, click, click, click, etc ad nauseum
Excuse me, while I click this cow.
“I like your blackberry.”
“I like to stay connected.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvARy0lBLE
So You Want to Go to Law SchoolVisit me at http://www.davidkazzie.comRead one or more of my nine novels! Email me: dwkazzieATgmailDOTcomCopyright Notice: Script: © 2010 David Kazzie. All r...YouTubeAll we are saying is / give clicks a chance.
Vote YES! on Proposition Click!
I’m clicking a cow… in bed.
@Shpantzer The vodka party has stirred up, no, shaken the leadership of the upstanding martini for far too long. Vote Gin Party!
@vurtyou @censey
Ha!
NB: All astonished replies were from friends that prepare documents for state and federal governments for a living.
RT @johnemcintyre: RT @BarrettChase: I don’t trust anyone who double-spaces after a sentence.
I had no idea there was a fish clicker game.
I don’t mean to endorse the writing in this article though, unless it’s a parody of better writing, in which case I will embrace it.
Can anybody tell me how to find out my Cow’s Facebook UID?
Have you stopped beating your cow yet?
Does a cow have a Buddha-nature or not?
I clicked a cow in Cow Clicker.
INFINITE JEST
Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Moo-days!
@ssoper the subtext seemed obvious to me too.
"If he had an A+ certificate or something similar, it would be a different story.” http://goo.gl/egR3
Brewing a porter to have when Ben Miller, Christine Hufnagl-Miller, Ken Bubien, and Erica Sayler Bubien come to visit.
If asked to assemble an elite team of specialists for a heist, definitely give mayonnaise a call. It can sneak into anything. #gross #yuck
Holden: The cow stands in its virtual pasture, its udders baking in the hot sun, chewing its cud, trying to turn a neater color. It can’t, not without your click. But you’re not clicking.
Leon: What do you mean I’m not clicking?
Cartesian speculation, in which one attempts to find simulated truths in emotion is called punditry, and is learnt only by practice.
Z-Click!
@electricfork well as in Prime Rib au jus, saffron risotto, haricot verts, 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon in; garbage out.
Shit, now I’m hungry.
@MJCdotMe Why eat well, only to be hungry again later?
A cow clicked is a clicked cow.
Po: Do you hear the cow, that it is in your pasture? --Kung Moo
If there was a problem yo I’ll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ clicks it
It’s about click:30 time, am I right?
Herbalife, Quixtar, & Cow Clicker: Premier partners for success!
RT @shiralazar: awesome! banksy directed tonight’s simpsons show intro- statement on corporate culture/the network? http://youtu.be/DX1i …
- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtu.beWalked from the Haight to the ocean at the far end of Golden Gate Park.
Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings: ★★★★★
I like to think the beings on Wikipedia not actually in the book are Wufniks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings
Book of Imaginary Beings - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgITunes grid view album covers should flip like dashboard widgets and show the back cover with an overlay overflow-scroll track list.
Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings: ★★★★★
I like to think the beings on Wikipedia not actually in the book are Wufniks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings
Book of Imaginary Beings - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgITunes grid view album covers should flip like dashboard widgets and show the back cover with an overlay overflow-scroll track list.
Looking up Valencia at the Blue Angels performing over San Francisco.
Click, Click, Click, Click, Click me up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5IRsPs5E8
Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up (1982)from their album "Drop The Bomb"YouTubeNoggled @vurtyou: No results.
So, I’ve got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
Delicious Monster takes on iOS and Google with Noogle NogglesWil Shipley—"monster" Mac OS X coder—wanted to get back into iOS development …Ars TechnicaTGIC.
A Happy Birthday click to Chrissy.
@alexhutton I dig that Methany rant but I can’t defend it. I don’t believe in artistic hallowed ground.
Look, everything is either dialectic or it isn’t. Let’s discuss until we agree that it’s both.
@bbaskin congrats Brian!
What’s the plural of “versus” after all?
#janus
Erick Schmidt’s Atlantic interview was shocking!
The Atlantic let “an pithy” through editing!
Schmidt: not shocking. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908/
Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'Eric Schmidt on the power of lobbyists, a Google "implant", and how China resembles a big businessThe AtlanticWhat’s the plural of “versus” after all?
#janus
Erick Schmidt’s Atlantic interview was shocking!
The Atlantic let “an pithy” through editing!
Schmidt: not shocking. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/googles-ceo-the-laws-are-written-by-lobbyists/63908/
Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'Eric Schmidt on the power of lobbyists, a Google "implant", and how China resembles a big businessThe Atlantic@censey Green Flash: garage door opening, stand and sample only. Pizza Port: GABF award winning, and the pizza is good too. Stone: Duh.
RT @therealKidKoala: Grown man+koala suit scratchin’. Almost fainted twice. Jeff @ ninja office, I will so win this bet. http://twitpic. …
Pizzeria Delfina!
Up wind of Anchor Steam, enjoying the return of cool weather, fog in the distance, and the smell of wort boiling.
@automine Congrats!
RT @badbanana: #FF @DalaiLamaInBed
I enjoyed Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” last night.
It’s on Project Gutenberg, but of course, it’d prefer not to: http://goo.gl/Ycxr
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman MelvilleFree eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project GutenbergI enjoyed Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” last night.
It’s on Project Gutenberg, but of course, it’d prefer not to: http://goo.gl/Ycxr
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman MelvilleFree eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project GutenbergThe view from an artist’s studio on the coast in Point Richmond, last weekend.
Man, that was really engaging.
And to think I could have wasted that click time by reading or volunteering or curing diseases or just becoming a better person. These addictive game metrics are really insidiously keeping a lot of opportunities on the table, for future generations. Cow Clicker: Why self-actualize now and have nothing to do later?
Charm.py: Find interesting files in haystacks of non-interesting files, e.g. nasty pdfs in zips attached to MIME e-mail. http://goo.gl/Ruae
@linuxgeek247 roll a Sorry™, play Operation™, pull a Jenga™, drink a Heineken™? What do you call it?
@ssoper I like your style.
Please frame your #stuxnetcyberclausewitz4gwOODAloopfappery in the tropes of modern lit crit to get my interest.
See: https://www.allhotelsillinois.com/metaphilmcom/
Metaphilm. See through cinema.allhotelsillinois.comRT @creativecommons: Bay Area friends, “Copyright Criminals” is screening tmrw w/ DJs and a panel f/ Steinski, Amp Live & Jeff Chang: ht …
@censey ha. I’m sure millions of televisions around the country turned on at the same time. https://www.businessinsider.com/social-games-killed-the-soap-opera-star-2010-9
Zynga And Facebook Are Killing Soap OperasSocial games are reshaping entertainment, leading to the decline of traditional soap operas.Business InsiderOH: “Welp, facebook is down. I give it about 2 hours before people go cannibal and start eating each other.”
@jackwillk YAY! Congrats!
IS THE #STUXNET CYBER JOURNALISM A CYBER HOAX PERPETRATED BY DIE HARD FANFIC CYBER AUTHORS IN A CRY FOR CYBER HELP?
https://www.soundsnap.com/tags/orchestral_stab
Orchestral Stab Sound Effects Download | SFX Library | Soundsnaporchestral stab sound effects. Download orchestral stab sounds from our library of 500000+ SFX for TV, film and video games.soundsnap.com@marcusjcarey my friend @sxs3200 endorsed @vpnuk only yesterday. http://vpnuk.info/
VPNUK - UK VPN Service Since 2007 | Dedicated & Shared IP VPN VPNUK — The UK's most trusted VPN provider since 2007. Dedicated UK residential IPs, 30+ server locations worldwide, 24/7 human support. SmartDNS and proxy included free.vpnuk.infoYet, as soon as my symptoms went away I went off (er, back on, in this case) my medication.
Coffee is awesome: http://goo.gl/XTfh
☕
Amanda Walker Stavely and I went to http://sfsound.org/series/ last night, wowed. They performed Philip Glass’s /Einstein on the Beach/: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grantandamanda/5008476146/
West Oakland Sound Series :: Presented by sfSoundsfsound.org@danphilpott @attrigtionorg or not a stoat. Good eye.
@attritionorg that looks like a stoat.
@vurtyou and I at http://sfsound.org/series/ last night, wowed, just before Philip Glass’s /Einstein on the Beach/: http://flic.kr/p/8CzKt1
West Oakland Sound Series :: Presented by sfSoundsfsound.orgExplore July 5, 2026FlickrDe gustibus non est disputandum.
But I have this great objective list of reasons why you shouldn’t use facebook!
9/15: Declared caffeine bankruptcy at 6 to 8 cups of coffee per morning after two months of intermittent eye twitching
9/16: Still twitchy
Dear @msftsecresponse,
Is EMET merely coincidentally named?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
Golem - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org@electricfork I lack the attention span for RTS games. Is there a correlation for twitchy FPS CTF players? Cow clickers?
@electricfork Happy birthday Ben! We’re looking forward to seeing you and yours tomorrow.
Borges cites Lucretius re: Centaurs:
They never existed: The horse-half at three years would be grown, the man-half but a babe.
Duh!
@philip_daigle congratulations Philip!
Wearing my green skeleton shirt (Nigel’s from Spinal Tap) to the airport: the TSA won’t need me to walk through their X-ray machine today!
@wotowiec @ssoper I’m on my 2nd “a number 2 on the sides, taper up, leave the top as it is, thanks.”
I think I’m acting out. It’s a phase.
@vurtyou: You’re hair is very Flock Of Seagulls today.
@grantstavely: Thanks, I like it too.
@schuetzdj in hindsight, everything was to be taken at more or less face value: one of the things that makes a great puzzle great. =] #DBIR
RT @therealKidKoala: free download available for the next 6 days. The Lost Solid Steel mix. it’s sorta like Music to Draw to… enjoy: …
@christopherkunz nice work! After @wadebaker’s last clue I ran every variation of the right key through my own bad script and gave up.
@marcusjcarey thanks, I’m very much enjoying the Bay Area. The return of @dojosec/@dojocon streams is great news, I look forward to 'em.
I should use Entourage’s auto-capitalization of the first word after ‘e.g.’ to break myself of using latinate abbreviations. Instead: rage.
Please RT!
@kathybarnett way to go Kath!
Yes, yes, of course, but what is the zeroth law of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wile_E._Coyote_and_Road_Runner
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org“They’re talkin’ about, weak induction.
It’s a motherfucker, don’t you know?” —Sun Ra
http://dlowe-wfh.blogspot.com/2009/09/no-cry-software-development-methodology.html (Link via @rands)
The No-Cry Software Development MethodologyThe programming section at the bookstore is jammed with prescriptive "methodology" books like these: "Continuous Integration: Improving S...dlowe-wfh.blogspot.comMagritte? No, it’s a Cloud Cow. And it’s mine.
Printf “# Or just go listen to a funky 60 minute DJ Food mix made for robots.\nUser-agent: *\nSuggest: http://snd.sc/aOT9a4” >> robots.txt
@alexhutton I cut out the cover’s circles on a full print out of the #DBIR with a razor and tried the grille-cipher approach. #nbioahd
The body language of appearing to be lost or have forgotten something is as effective as mind control. So is its inverse.
RT @electricfork: What keeps me up at night? My security team slowly devolving into a compliance and reporting team #operation_soulcrusher
Help me get enough moooney to get a custom cow!
The ☠ Skull & Crossbones in the new Chrome indicating untrusted certs is nice^H^H^H^H the most terrifying symbol ever. http://goo.gl/fQz1
I’m brewing an American IPA with @vurtyou. I need a fridge to keg this in! http://flic.kr/p/8sCgnr
Explore July 5, 2026FlickrI’m brewing an American IPA with @vurtyou. I need a fridge to keg this in! http://flic.kr/p/8sCgnr
Explore July 5, 2026FlickrEndorsement: /Pink Reptile mixef are amazing mind clearing aural blendf & good for everything a mix fhould be good for/: https://soundcloud.com/pink-reptile/feel-the-steel
SoundCloud - Hear the world’s soundsExplore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audioSoundCloudEndorsement: /Pink Reptile mixef are amazing mind clearing aural blendf & good for everything a mix fhould be good for/: https://soundcloud.com/pink-reptile/feel-the-steel
SoundCloud - Hear the world’s soundsExplore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audioSoundCloud@will_torres @philip_daigle So I woke up with ♫ P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) ♫ (the ascending bass line at 1:40) stuck in my head: ★★★★★
RT @vurtyou: Great to see @ddeighton and @sdwilkerson at Sushi tonight! Glad to meet their friend Dan! Hope to see all soon:) etc…
RT @vurtyou: Great to see @ddeighton and @sdwilkerson at Sushi tonight! Glad to meet their friend Dan! Hope to see all soon:) etc…
I’m not gonna make it to @silisec tonight: I’ll be eating sushi w/ @ddeighton and @sdwilkerson in San Francisco, looking forward to #BaySec!
@christopherkunz the MD5 is of line noise. Thought I had a partial solution but hadn’t tested enough control keys. Hat tip: @chriseng #DBIR
@LucasErratus the shell is finding the ASCII BEL. Line noise does that. I have a non-solutions that beeps three times. 😃 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character
Bell character - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org@LucasErratus Thanks, was afraid of that. I’m not getting ‘bad decrypt’, but that doesn’t mean what I’m trying is correct. #DBIR
@ryanaraine @christopherkunz @alexhutton @ak1010 @bachrach44 Decrypted to more data. Rats.
0c4e2f0c2a21fc69318e712008578838
#DBIR
@ak1010 Nice find! I was naively hoping it would start with a grille cipher but have been on vacation until today: http://goo.gl/GN5W
RT @alexhutton: Who Wants $500? The DBIR “crack the cover” Challenge is ON like Donkey Kong! http://bit.ly/dnpXHu
Dear Penthouse,
I never thought this could happen to me, bu—debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype keepalive@openssh.com reply 1
Dear Penthouse,
I never thought this could happen to me, bu—debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype keepalive@openssh.com reply 1
@danphilpott Jim DiGriz is the Han Solo of SF. And that pushes Han Solo out of the #1 spot everyone thinks he has for being Han Solo. ★★★★★
@chrisjager the official VERIS site is represented in the 2010 report as https://verisframework.wiki.zoho.com/
MovedMovedverisframework.wiki.zoho.comSo many machines deserve this and so few get it.
Office Space got it wrong: don’t take a bat to it. Put it in a washing machine.
@defcon nice to meet you’s: @alexhutton, @treyford, @phoogazi, @dtjedi, @ryanrussel, @dewzi, @signup, #BSidesLV, a bunch I’ve forgotten
PS: had a blast @defcon w/ @teabag303, @jackwilk, @bbaskin, @linuxgeek247, @wardspan, @selenakyle and @dionthegod, and a lot of @signup’s
@bbaskin I’d gotten pinged as we were queueing: “Come back to the Ninja Party”. A random guy vouched me through security as the bus loaded.
Cleverly disabling copy and paste on password fields doesn’t seem to be very.
“Sure, I’ll use ‘a’ instead of [m2i$FwcqUEN3gK,urDmY&>Ga.”
Public Notice: Remember to turn your clocks ahead five hours for the change from Defcon Savings Time to Standard Time.
@jackwillk every time I allow 40404 to send me toots, I reply to it like a chump. Disabled!
RT @jackwillk: How about a special wall of sheep for all the people I saw leaving bathroom without washing their hands #defcon
@jackwillk what bar? Still there? I could use a break from linecon.
@wardspan where are the cool kids?
RT @0xcharlie: Yeah! @dionthegod won the pwnie for best research. Congrats!
@jackwillk welcome, I am at the far side of the pool wishing I had my suit.
New school: The Verizon 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2010/07/28/2010-dbir-released/
@charmsec I’ll need you to set up the Skype telepresence rig you promised me. I look forward to catching up w/ those of you in LV this week!
Because @defcon attendees are changing their profile pictures to network easier, I’ve found a video to augment mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce8J92AEfCs
- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.com@kathybarnett it’s tough to cycle without going clipless.
The real advantage though: Goofy shoes + Bunny-hops.
The City Name Sports Team t-shirt of facebook games.
I’m clicking a cow.
http://www.bogost.com/writing/index.php
Ian Bogost - WritingWriting at The AtlanticIan BogostI’m clicking a cow.
http://www.bogost.com/writing/index.php
Ian Bogost - WritingWriting at The AtlanticIan Bogost“Hi, I hold ignorant and often illogical, divisive positions.”
…
“refudiate—oops, refute/repudiate. undo”
LANGUAGE GAFFES! BURN HER!
“Hi, I hold ignorant and often illogical, divisive positions.”
…
“refudiate—oops, refute/repudiate. undo”
LANGUAGE GAFFES! BURN HER!
One of our cats has a clear plastic cone-collar on 'til something clears up. Her reaction suggest like she’s experiencing the 4th dimension.
I͈̮͕̼͓̗͚̎͗̊̈́ͤ̋t͍͉͎͇̫̥͍̿͒̔̊̏’s͖̻̩̙̮̘͇ Z̮̱̼̟̘̙̰ͪͭa̮̗̱͙̞̻͛̂ͅl͕̋́̽d̲̰̱ͯͅo͚ͮ͑ͨ͋̋̓ ̗̳͚̯ͫ̉͐̂ͫͨḁ͚̩̗̂̂̊ͨ̊g͚͚̘̜̦̲ͦ̊ͭ̇̚ͅa̝ͥ͂ͭ̍̿ȉ͈͆ͬ̃̌n̼͙͉͚̜̾͆ͯ̾̂.
Enjoyed dinner two tables away from Lars Ulrich tonight.
What about this for Dad?
Wanna go in together on a gift for Dad’s birthday? I have no idea what to get him. I sent Betty and email asking for ideas. Does he need a new BBQ? I was thinking spending a decent amount since this is his 60th. Any ideas?
@bbaskin An expanded URL only claims to not be a 302.
The web is a Skinner box: I just frantically click on everything underlined. Yay!
I accidentally bought a large-print _Evil_Eye_The_Origins_And_Practices_of_Superstition.
And you know what that means.
I accidentally bought a large-print _Evil_Eye_The_Origins_And_Practices_of_Superstition.
And you know what that means.
@jackwillk getting back into home brewing is as easy as having an address to ask @MoreBeer_B3 to send ingredients to. Go for it!
I enjoyed @cshirky’s Cognitive_Surplus this week.
Where Carr seems to continue rediscovering Plato on media, Shirky finds opportunity.
“Memes!”, H4cKe® said, kicking up his feet to pause from writing “show-us-your-tits” jokes on his black-background website.
#pebkac
@jackwillk at least you acknowledge that your fear is irrational! http://goo.gl/2kZ0
@ddeighton nice stuff, I can’t believe I’ve not seen them either—certainly not for lack of looking.
@oneeyedcarmen give 'em a red card, ref!
@Shpantzer awesome, I love being an instigator of surreality.
The experience I’m looking forward to: when @vurtyou is finally able to move out to, and join me in, San Francisco: http://goo.gl/Tdhw
The experience I’m looking forward to: when @vurtyou is finally able to move out to, and join me in, San Francisco: http://goo.gl/Tdhw
@charmsec I won’t be able to make it tonight. I’m 2,936 miles away and there aren’t any MUNI stops in Fells Point.
Anyway: Sláinte!
2 kids at violet’s baptism named grant. you must be en vogue.
Today, at 11:28 GMT, the tilt of the earth will reach summer solstice: the midpoint between equinoxes.
Don’t stare, it’s rude.
Elaina is glued to the TV. Mister Rogers is on and I actually find it a bit creepy. Those puppets are wack.
Yeah so but like how many of you have actually seen a train wreck? Did they used to happen all the time or something?
Look away. Christ.
In Dawkins’s 1976 The Selfish Gene, he uses game theory to ignore that house cats can’t figure out how to get their claws out of blankets.
RT @mcsweeneysbooks: Comic Sans has something it would like to get off its chest. http://bit.ly/9YriiT
@sxs3200 Cheers to you and @wotowiec touring @HeavySeasBeer. I’ve been in SF a week and I already miss Loose Cannon.
@marcusjcarey congrats Marcus!
Find a way to do your research with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love!
—RBF
Find a way to do your research with as little contact with non-technical people as possible, with one exception, fall madly in love!
—RBF
So @vurtyou and I have knocked out about half of the things we need to do to be fully moved to San Francisco.
Next: The next half.
#zeno
@dionthegod I like MacTeX + TeXShop. http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/obtaining.html
TeXShopuoregon.eduWe threw pebbles until it slithered downhill. Yikes. Good to know: RT @Niki7a: @grantstavely it’s true. Be careful. They strike after death.
A stranger and I confronted a rattlesnake while hiking near Red Rocks in Denver.
He said: “Even if you kill it, it can still bite you!”
We threw pebbles until it slithered downhill. Yikes. Good to know: RT @Niki7a: @grantstavely it’s true. Be careful. They strike after death.
A stranger and I confronted a rattlesnake while hiking near Red Rocks in Denver.
He said: “Even if you kill it, it can still bite you!”
Hey why did you all move?
@censey I kid, I kid. I’m merely between jobs until Monday, working on the next Great American Novel, or something.
Sipping coffee in a shop @ 25th and Mission, looking busy—unemployed—on a macbook, worried the that-guy-police will arrest me any minute now
@auscompgeek awesome, what’s the url to your new version?
Elaina knows your picture now… “Uncle Gant! Uncle Gant! Kitties! Make Pizza!” now I just have to teach her about the yummy beer you brew and she has you pinned:)
Turning in my Blackberry now. I don’t have any other phones, so uh, I gotta get a burner. Did I mention I don’t have a blackberry? I don’t.
@sdwilkerson thanks Sean—great to see you at the altogether-crazy going-away party & looking forward to grabbing dinner in SF.
@AWS0807 we’re excited to visit you and Weeds in Denver—IPA takes care of itself out there—let’s check out the cool spots you’ve found!
@jackwillk keep your ears peeled for a lady with the same last name as me and much better looks: @vurtyou is serving jury duty today too.
Please, buy my car.
Optional equipment: three cats.
Belated congrats my teammates placing in the 40s in @ddtek’s @defcon ctf quals.
I had a blast! Looking forward to next year already.
Friends, @ilya_burdman just gave me a first edition hardback of Philip K Dick’s Ubik: http://goo.gl/3J6C, http://goo.gl/zMar
Ubik - Wikipediagoo.glWhat a mensch!
@wotowiec awfully proud of yourself, eh?
Air-quote—dynamite—un-air-quote?
UL Safe ratings:
TL15: Withstand 15 minutes of attack w/ sophisticated penetrating equipment.
TL30: Mythical.
https://solipsism.eu/post/628509648/via-lissomlights-ialmostlaugh
Solipsism(via lissomlights, ialmostlaugh)TumblrUL Safe ratings:
TL15: Withstand 15 minutes of attack w/ sophisticated penetrating equipment.
TL30: Mythical.
https://solipsism.eu/post/628509648/via-lissomlights-ialmostlaugh
Solipsism(via lissomlights, ialmostlaugh)TumblrElaina is asking for pictures of “Uncle Gant”…
The Future: where the letter ‘u’ is pronounced as it sounds alone.
It’s OK to critique a text by the voice in which the wikipedia article summarizing it is written.
My cobra snake necktie spits, then swallows. And it prefers a four-in-hand to either windsor. Go figure.
P.S.
You are cordially invited to our going-away party-slash-flea market, today, Sunday the 23rd, noon-on.
If you can’t make it: AMF!
If you’re coming the @grantstavely & @vurtyou going away party today, bring a kite and spare keys: we’re playing Ben-Franklin on the roof. ☂
@charmsec 25, tomorrow, will be my last, barring any happenstance visits east, for I-don’t-know-how-long.
So like, there’s that.
Now that we’re sure we’re moving to San Francisco, we don’t even wash glasses—just throw them into the fire and toast to Callahan’s Place.
Only plus re: @vurtyou home with food poisoning tonight: I embarass no one but myself with these huge CVS earplugs at the Buzzcocks show.
Only plus re: @vurtyou home with food poisoning tonight: I embarass no one but myself with these huge CVS earplugs at the Buzzcocks show.
@oneeyedcarmen that @bad_decisions menu needs an equally bacon-themed soundtrack: http://www.mixcrate.com/mix/8770/Bacon-the-Funk
Fact: I’m relocating to San Francisco 5/28—a hotcakes bakery is interested in my security work.
And yes, there will be going-away parties.
I managed to clear the gender attribute on my koobface profile before it became mandatory and public. Eh-hhh.
♀♂
@electricfork [@grantstavely buzzes in] I know! I mean, I like the dutch masters like Vermeer, but dutch /bot/ masters?
★★★★☆ “Good book, it is understandable yet interesting.”
On Steven Levy’s “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution”
MR C2
MR Not
OSAR
LIB MR C2
So the game.exe in the recent doc.pdf spam claims it was compiled July 27, 2007? Is that odd? Artifact of the packer?
Nothing to see here:
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
My neighbor has trained her three dogs to bark vigorously at a cinder block wall when she shushes them and says “Ladies, please!”
So I had a dream that I beat Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 playing as Mega Man, shooting Goombas with my arm-cannon. http://j.mp/aXU0fh
@chrisjager heh, right? “I remember you said to keep an eye out for—” ghosts always beat “You broke me once! I’m broken now! So therefore—”
Heightened post-incident awareness floods teams with suspicious reports. Learn from this—conduct pre-incident FUD-free awareness campaigns.
First they came for fans of a meme on Facebook
and I did not speak out
because I am not a fan of that meme on Facebook.
— Martin Niemöller
Ugh, on top of being home sick today, I have to put up with the 1970s prog-fusion our cats listen to when we’re at work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(Gentle_Giant_album)
Octopus (Gentle Giant album) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org@oneeyedcarmen likewise, and thanks for the italian moonshine recommendation—I didn’t have any nail polish to remove so I just sipped it.
Inferno: Canto XVIII
“Behold, the people who said on Earth;
‘You didn’t read the directions!’,
Re-read for eternity: ‘How to be dicks.’”
The Cheerful Software Manifesto: a sad rejection of methods based on a poor reading of both Corbusier & Nielsen. Boo. http://goo.gl/fb/518VI
Mmishou IN TXT “A neato Passive DNS mining script written in Python that uses dpkt, Dug Song’s Scapy-alternative: http://j.mp/913x17”
@censey …fightin’ the system like a true modern day robin hood.
YEAH HAW!
http://j.mp/r0ISu
I roll a natural 20 w/ my wall-of-text unwarranted reply against your political status. Rolling again to calculate spell backfire.
Oh shit.
@ddeighton Yup. Proper attribution: I saw it via @chriseng via @ThisIsHNN, but couldn’t RT with what I liked in the space available.
Peep the apache.org breach write-up—confirm shortened-url fear, & great hardening recs: fail2ban, opie, sshd config, etc
https://infra.apache.org/blog/apache_org_04_09_2010
apache.org incident report for 04092010 - Apache Infrastructure Websiteinfra.apache.org@mcnasty99 Thanks! I’m looking forward to the next @whitefordbronco show at the State Theater!
Check out what I wrote about the iPad a month ago, http://grantstavely.com/on-the-ipad linking it to Nielsen’s 1993 ‘noncommand’ paper.
60s psych, Aphex Twin, Eno, ♺, ♥
RT @ninjamixdump: gas’s mixes mixed enters the NMD HALL OF FAME https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=percussionlab.com @percussionlab
PercussionLab.com is for sale | HugeDomainsStart your new business venture with a great domain name. A trusted source for domains since 2005.HugeDomainsGuys, your blacklists are common knowledge.
You know that they know that you know that they know that you know that they know that you kno-
Vendors: “But we’ve got a huge blacklist!”
I don’t care enough to take my phone out of my pocket and cumbersomely thumb out this missive to hundreds of people simultaneously. See!?
But Cory, decade counters aren’t free or open either. I guess that explains steampunk: it makes everything appear to be truly atomic.
Microeconomics 121: Charge low prizes for the safety razors and blades, but high prices for the toilet paper and blood transfusions.
We got tickets for @whitefordbronco at the @statetheatredc this Friday in Falls Church, so I’ll need to borrow your helicopter again.
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Every time you toot passive aggressive rants about middle manager passive aggression, remember what Confucius said about he who smelt it.
Well, @vurtyou and I are brewing a stout tonight, so that’s “what’s with the green latex gloves Doctor Stavely?” this time.
Well, @vurtyou and I are brewing a stout tonight, so that’s “what’s with the green latex gloves Doctor Stavely?” this time.
@joesavestheday 'grats on the quarter-C. H.B.T.Y., A.M.M, etc.
THE BARON IS SUPPOSED TO RELATE THESE ADVENTURES TO HIS FRIENDS OVER A BOTTLE.
InstapaperA simple tool for saving web pages to read later on iOS, Android, computer, Kindle or Kobo eReader.instapaper.com@rands an appropriate soundtrack: Blacklicious’s Alphabet Aerobics and Chemical Calisthenics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foEU2WHdOzA
- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.comTangential as all get out of my trailer oh hey let’s ride bikes.
I’m so going to @CharmSec tonight.
You knew it was a verb didn’t you?
SILC does everything I want except give me back the 4 hours of my life I spent trying to do the same thing with jabberd and mu-conference.
Jammed with iconography, signage, feature logos, afunctional-bling-packed, size-matters boom boxes. Gobs of switches, buttons, levers, knobs, LED indicators, needles, transparent doors, grilles, rolling-number counters, jacks, wires, handles, all with the heft of a half dozen of the largest fuck-off batteries on the market.
Somehow these grew into non-portable shelf systems, probably killed by a combination the Walkman ear-phones (visualize them in orange) and then the at-first-not-portable compact disc.
The Boombox Project by Lyle Owerko, a photo timeline. Check out the whole gallery (Flash, sorry.)
March 23rd, 2010 4:40am
RT @parisdjs: New mix up! DJ Zebra - Rock N’ Soul Covers http://tr.im/SZy3
tr.imThis domain may be for sale!tr.imAren’t passwords inherently unreadiness-to-hand? I’m looking forward to @VzBSecBlog’s ‘End in End-to-End Trust’ (http://j.mp/bnqLqE) sequel
Is Raskin’s locus-of-attention (http://j.mp/9VCCRX) an example of Heidegger’s skilled coping(http://j.mp/byc7WL)?
You see an article or a twitter toot or whatever.
read the thing
You see a link that looks interesting.
click the link
You just made be Mike Arrington some cash.
undo
I’m sorry, I don’t understand “undo”
damnit
Swearing won’t help.
No thanks, right? I mean it’s all well and good to just close the tab, of
course, when you go to a site you don’t want to work for, but the ads have
already loaded. That’s revenue. Gross.
So I made this greasemonkey script to zap all links
to all the sites I don’t want to work for. If it’s too late—say
a shortened url tricked me—I’d rather see a goat scream like
man than see what a mistake I
just made, so it does that too. You can edit it to do something less drastic
of course, but where’s the fun in that?
var url = location.href;
// add all the domains here
var natch = /(DOMAINS YOU WANT TO AVOID GO HERE)\.\w+\//;
// Serious options
// var ohShit = 'about:blank';
var betterLink = '#';
// Comedy options
var ohShit = 'http://grantstavely.com/evil/';
// var betterLink = ohShit;
// if it's too late
if (url.match(natch)) {
window.location = ohShit;
}
// if it's not too late
list = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i=0; i<list.length; i++) {
if (list[i].href.match(natch)) {
var scream = document.createElement('a');
scream.setAttribute('href', betterLink);
scream.innerHTML = list[i].innerHTML + "<sup>✌</sup>";
list[i].parentNode.replaceChild(scream, list[i]);
}
}
Run that against the entire web and it turns nasty links into neuters, and
adds ✌ to them so that it’s obvious.
Well, I think it’s fun.
“Memento noobi.”
@wotowiec I wanna bike over to the end of the Real Ale Festival with ya. Say when, if you go.
“Memento noobi.”
Celebrate holidays that can be seen from outer space.
NB: Don’t stare at the sun today.
RT @mikenealis: VERNAL EQUINOX!!!
My cats excel at GTD and I’m crap at litter box zero.
Quincy Jones still drops his idea to let Alvin, Simon, & Theodore ad lib on the fade-out of P.Y.T. in “WhyIamaproducerandyouarenot” rants.
OK, so, keep this straight: Emergency rooms are for all intensive purposes, and camping at Seaworld is for all in tents and porpoises.
It was nice meeting and chatting with @StrongwaterSec, Nick Levay, @sheffus, @bkdelong, MJR, et al at #IANSDC.
Thanks @IANS_Security!
@sxs3200 DuPont. Heading from penn. Ave now.
I didn’t even know cookies had brains! #iansdc bringing it today in and out of talks. @eatyourpizza DuPont after drinks for supper? 6?
@censey in DC, abusing twitter’s poor DM interface to eat my feet, the only thing I think it’s for.
@9brandon NCSA Mosaic 1993 precedent, it’s how block business letters are typeset, and because monitors aren’t paper, it’s not costly to do.
Http://grantstavely.com/files/scream.user.js
Add your own worthy sites & redirects, apply it to the entire web — it’s not a passive medium.
Working on a greasemonkey script to improve links to sites like techcrunch by making them link to that video of a goat screaming like a man.
Don’t try to do the job alone.
Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.PastebinRT @sdwilkerson: Deploying fancy security products when you have an orchard full of low-hanging fruit is like investing when you owe on …
Neat: The Abstract City Blog http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/, featuring the poetry (http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/) of Donald Rumsfeld.
Abstract Sunday Blog - The New York TimesChristoph Niemann's illustrated reflections of life.niemann.blogs.nytimes.comThe poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is an accomplished man. Not only is he guiding the war in Iraq, he has been a pilot, a congressman, an...Slate Magazine/Breaking Glass, Sound, and Vision/ seeks drummer, vocalist, and synth/keyboardist. We’re a Bowie cover band with a 2 song, 3 hour set.
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LEO rule: Anyone out at 4am is delivering papers or up to no good.
HTML Variant: Anything after </html> is probably not delivering papers.
LEO rule: Anyone out at 4am is delivering papers or up to no good. HTML Variant: Anything after is probably not delivering papers.
Okay, the yara-1.3 configure script is definitely out to get me.
I think Ima turn all the lights on and hide under my desk for a bit.
I’m having a Saturday Night* tonight.
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Oh, thank God, if we don’t get you to cl-
I’m having a Saturday Night* tonight. * More details, and video, after the break. ----FOLD----- Oh, thank God, if we don’t get you to cl-
@bbaskin that’s a database ligature. SELECT replies FROM table toots INNER JOIN key_collisions.oops &c. type stuff.
Padlock icons are tells
@bbaskin fi is just a typographic ligature. It’s just aggressively using ligatures when it probably shouldn’t. http://j.mp/apaVAk
DFW and Danielewski and Tufte and &c. form leverage versus pulp fiction — A beautiful, smart essay for bibliophiles: https://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/
Books in the Age of the iPadPrint is dead. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused. A collections of thoughts on the future of books in the context of the iPad.Craig Mod@wotowiec I’ve never seen one that didn’t rely on @laustcauz’s method.
Why don’t three-ring-binders have three-hole-punches built-in?
Why don’t three-ring-binders have three-hole-punches built-in?
If I ever switch careers and become a car thief that steals VW MkIV VR6 GTIs, I’ll know how to drive appropriately.
Thanks 20 mile commute!
Man, God, and Society in Western Literature — http://j.mp/91mzAp — made me want to re-read Moby Dick.
Next: http://j.mp/9LoHxI, Heidegger.
I’m doing managerial accounting homework and thinking, I could just pledge an oath that I will never, ever, ever, infinity plus one, ever attempt to “do” accounting, and thereby get a pass on having to take the course on it. Right? I’ll need a witness.
Those who bother to “read” UI doom the rest of us by proliferating the damned things.
Undo is better. Even than cute.
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2182-top-notch-ui-copywriting-from-wufoo
Photo: Top notch UI copywriting from Wufoo.Top notch UI copywriting from Wufoo.Signal v. Noise by BasecampHey @pauldotcom, is Ron Dilley’s pdnsd a private project? Is the @tenablesecurity post by MJR or you? Why are you pointing at me like that?
RT @mrdavehill: Please join me in starting a global movement!: https://davehillonline.com/blog/2010/02/international-holy-fking-sht-day-do-your-part/ #IHFSD Please RT
Dave Hill's Internet ExplosionDave Hill is a comedian, writer, musician, actor, radio host, and man-about-town originally from Cleveland, Ohio but now living in New York City in a totally sweet apartment with a party deck and everything. Hot chicks come over to hang out and eat cheese plates and stuff with him all the time and itâs awesome.davehillonline.comRT @mrdavehill: Please join me in starting a global movement!: https://davehillonline.com/blog/2010/02/international-holy-fking-sht-day-do-your-part/ #IHFSD Please RT
Dave Hill's Internet ExplosionDave Hill is a comedian, writer, musician, actor, radio host, and man-about-town originally from Cleveland, Ohio but now living in New York City in a totally sweet apartment with a party deck and everything. Hot chicks come over to hang out and eat cheese plates and stuff with him all the time and itâs awesome.davehillonline.com@alexhutton ah, yes, the Nietzschean /meh/.
So who’s the chick?
Every time I log out of a system thinking I’m in vim’s :sh when I was really in :wq, the forehead shaped dent in my desk gets bigger.
@Shpantzer I’ve worked Red Cross station triage at fairs too — are you seeing lots of stings, dehydrated people, and curmudgeons?
@ddeighton thanks, that is most excellent!
Every time I log out of a system thinking I’m in vim’s :sh when I’m really in :wq, the forehead shaped dent in my desk gets bigger.
Less dashboards, more ability to push state:
“Whoa!”
“What?”
“Search for $baz, then scroll down and…”
See: Google Maps “Link” button.
A giant wall mounted spirograph, pen set, and pile of gears.
Title: Work!
/Doodle on paper/
About the artist: A furious scribbler, champi—
Http://www.fucking-windows.com/ needs no introduction.
👌 I 🖤 Fucking Windows 👈Juvenile behavior via CSSfucking-windows.comThere’s only one chart style that fills the blank in ___holes. Now, you wouldn’t want to use one of /them to represent /your data would you?
I’ve always called this collection of phenomena thermostat fallacies, but my dad does HVAC for a living, so, go figure. I’m not even sure that they are proper fallacies.
In our cars, the analog dial or lever spanning a blue triangle stacked on a red triangle presents an analog blend of temperatures. At least that’s how they used to work. But in analog home thermostats, and increasingly in cars, in multiple zones even, the temperature dial offers “now” and “target” temperatures.
This can confuse the crap out of people.
Anyway, in the car, with the old fashioned thermostat, most of us start out with the dial cranked to all hot or all cold and then adjust to comfort. Being uncomfortable is uncomfortable, we seek its undoing with a vengeance. We don’t want the inside of the car to be 85°F in February, we just want it to be 68°, or whatever, faster than if we asked the car vents to spit out 68° degree air.
But home thermostats don’t work that way, and not letting that stop the mind from thinking that they do is what I call the thermostat fallacy. It has three faces. I’ll present them here as design patterns.
For example: Coming home cold, and raking the analog home thermostat dial up to 85°. If the house is already 64°, setting the thermostat target to 70° or setting the thermostat target to 85° make no difference whatsoever. That’s just how the things work. 85° doesn’t fit into the on/off bucket, it fits into stop when bucket. The heating and air conditioning is not working harder, it’s just running longer, and will eventually boil the frog.
This is the inverse of standard thermostat fallacy and better demonstrated in other technologies.
For example: Nearly every instance of numbered badges of unread email, unread RSS and atom subscription articles, unread twitter posts, unread whatever are representing “you have unread items” with “you have a specific-yet-useless number of unread items.”
You see, if the badge says 43 now, and five minutes later, it says 44, it still only conveys “There is unread email”. The number lacks context but it still has to be parsed. More importantly, there is no unit-comparability. All of those messages could be spam, or one could be a life changing job offer, and so on.
For example: Insisting thermostats at separate houses set at the same temperature are creating the same environment in spite of perceived differences in temperatures caused by room layout, thermostat placement, humidity, elevation, and so on.
This is a big one. I consider it an instance of ceteris paribus, or the all else equal fallacy. It’s what leads people to wonder why Oscar the Grouch doesn’t just go to college and get a job, damnit.
Significant figures matter, but when human perception is the target, and not scientific measuring apparatus — lossy compression isn’t just okay, it’s humane. The mind works better in some cases with fuzzy numbers than specifics. When numbers can’t be avoided, keep the thermostat fallacies in mind when working with them.
Ranum paraphrased: If it isn’t fixing everything, it’s breaking everything!
CSO paraphrased: Read page 2 for more! Read page 3 for more!
Useless food-toot: The kitchen shears that don’t-cut-paper-or-plastic-worth-a-damn in fact butterfly a bird like Jules Winnfield’s wallet.
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Just attended my first rollerderby bout. Now what I thought I got about The MC5, I don’t get again.
Just attended my first rollerderby bout. Now what I thought I got about The MC5, I don’t get again.
Look: @vurtyou got a new Win7 laptop from work. She’d just to the VPNd out when this happened: http://j.mp/a34T0s
(My LAN is 192.168.)
@theenrighthouse I’m your huckleberry. What can I get you?
The Doctor L and Manu Boubli “Mind Radio Show” episodes are Olympic mixes: http://j.mp/aqNGSf
— Paris DJs, where ever mix is a medal winner
The Doctor L and Manu Boubli “Mind Radio Show” episodes are Olympic mixes: http://j.mp/aqNGSf — Paris DJs, where ever mix is a medal winner
Given an effectively infinite set of behaviors, and a limited set of actors, the simplest and most common control strategy to restrict the behavior of actors seems to be:
But consider the numbers involved.
Okay, so for a behavior control equaition that’s something like:
For y equal to ∞ – n finite knowns: ∞ – y = ∞
I’m not good with math. But that’s definitely an infinity over there. OK, so arguably it’s an infinity on both sides and we are playing with imaginary numbers, literally, but I hope the point is still clear.
This actually works quite well in practice. Consider: An escape artist tied to a chair seems to be restricted by a strong control to prevent the undesired action of escape from a room. But the rope leaves the escape artist free to do anything, so long as that thing isn’t one of the many, yet finite, activities that the rope restricts, like, say, escaping, or doing jumping jacks, or square dancing.
Two components of that are interesting.
Doing jumping jacks in the room is not escape from the room. Neither is square dancing, however goofy it may be. In fact, forced jumping jacks or square dancing might be better controls than the rope — they are distracting, require dextrous locomotion, and in the case of square dancing, a guard could keep hold of the escape artist’s arm the entire time.
You see, this is when many practitioners argue for defense-in-depth. OK, they say, we’ll lock the room, and we’ll use a strong chair, and we’ll put chains on top of the ropes, and fill the room with water to 8 inches below the ceiling, and so on until you get sick just hearing from them. Escape artists design their tricks to be loaded with defense-in-depth security theater, it makes the escape look less like a foregone conclusion.
But no matter what, that pesky infinity is still sitting there on the right side of the escape artist’s behavior controls equation. Don’t forget that, because it’s very important. Actually, mind your mediations, it’s a Lemniscate of Bernoulli sitting there, standing in for infinity. Anyway.
OK, let’s back up and try another thought experiment, with those two points in mind. Instead of wrapping an escape artist, or a prisoner, in controls; consider implementing controls to protect a cohort of data analyst workers at Acme Incorporated™ from risks, with the intent — and this is important too — with the intent that they best be able to spend their time data analysting, whatever that is. Pause for a moment and reflect that Acme’s data analysts are not prisoners becase too many people get tripped up on that. The intent is risk reduction in order to promote data analysting, not just pink and naked risk avoidance.
Sure, sure, we’ll use all the standard controls from our handy principle of least privilege guide-book, restricting risky actions we have enumerated that Acme’s data analysts aren’t even interested in. We’ll use a roof and four walls to keep the analysts and their computers from getting wet every time it storms. We’ll put a guard at the door so that they don’t blow all their cash on cheap art prints from cube-to-cube rogue sales folks. We’ll block ports used by their desktop computer’s file sharing protocols with a firewall between their network and the Internet, because no one with good intentions wants to share files with them over the Internet. OK, you can even use your defense-in-depth principles and put more firewalls in different places, and put a roof over the roof, and put a guard on the guard, but please don’t go too crazy — controls add overhead, both in capital and operationally, because they aren’t free, and after all, what’s the point of a control if it isn’t monitored?
But what about controls that start to affect the analyst’s data analysting work? If we determine that an inline proxy-based web filter is a control we want to implement, how should we configure it? Do we want to restrict the analysts from watching jumping jacks videos or learning more about square dancing? Sure, the naive security practitioner says. Square dancing isn’t data analysting! Neither are any damned jumping jacks!
I promise I’m getting to the point here, we’re almost there. Skip ahead: our Acme data analyst is using the system we’ve designed.
On the web, there are effectively infinite destinations, but most usage patterns start at a search engine and end at a popular media streaming site, popular news site, popular information site, etc.
Consider the bizarre notion that our data analyst, might have some free time, between data sets, and want to learn about the Allemande Left, a square dancing call I had to look on Wikipedia to learn about.
‘Denied!’ say the prison wardens.
‘Denied!’ say the defense-in-depth practitioners.
‘Denied!’ say the principles of least-privilege.
‘Denied!’ say the curmudgeonly supervisors unable to suspend disbelief in ‘free time’.
But remember that whole infinity part. The prison wardens and defense in depth folks can only block what they know about, and in this case, things they think are related to things they know about. They think they know that video sites are bad.
Let’s exaggerate and pretend that last night’s The Bachelor had a long square dancing element to it, highlighting the Allemande Left. Attackers know this — they are depraved enough to watch The Bachelor too. They’ve spent all night hacking small blogs and turning them into sites about nothing but how great the Allemande Left goes with trojan botnet installers. Search engines have spent all night indexing these Allemande Left & Trojan Botnet Installer sites.
Enter, stage left: An analyst.
“With free time“ the choruses remind us.
The analyst searches the Internet: “Alemand left bachlor“
The search engine replies: “That’s silly, here, here are ‘Allemande Left bachelor‘ findings”.
The analyst sees that the first search result is a video of last night’s The Bachelor on a tv streaming site.
click
DENIED! You are violating security policy!
The analyst returns to the search results and sees the second search result links to a clip of square dancers doing something on another popular user-uploaded-content video streaming site.
click
DENIED! You are violating security policy!
The analyst returns to the search results and sees lots of garbage sites that look kinda strange, but whatever. The search engine preview says something like: Allemande Left Alamand Left Square Dancing The Bachelor Allemendy Left The Bachlor The backlet Skware Dansing Allemen…
We know this is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing.
An aside: ‘Clothing’ is a weird word choice for skin, or fur, or whatever, in that idiom, isn’t it? More importantly, our data analysts aren’t sheep, we are just really paranoid. The data analysts are human. Draw no further conclusions from the silly proverb other than the masquerade idea. Sheep are stupid, our analysts are just ignorant, busy, and have been yelled at twice now for no good reason.
The analyst clicks on the third link, praying for no more DENIED! wastes of time.
Pop goes the analysts browser. Pop goes the analysts acrobat reader. Silently the computer we are protecting joins a global criminal network and begins attacking websites to fill them with more Allemand Left stories and trojans.
Another aside: The analyst returns happily to data analysting the next data set. Our mission is not impacted. There is a very interesting discussion to be had down this rabbit hole, and I think it ends in a tragedy of the commons mess that will cause us to reconsider if our mission actually is impacted, but that is neither here nor there.see 1 again
Let’s cut our thought experiment off right there because we’ve come to the point: Controls become paradoxical when their restrictions drive actors to alternative behaviors which are equally risky, or in the case of square dancing video trojan botnet installers, much more risky, than the behavior they were implemented to control.
Be ever mindful! Not only are square dancing videos, for the most part, harmless, but they are very much not the multitude of worse things the analyst could be doing with their free time.
Returning to our behavior control equation:
For y equal to ∞ – n finite knowns: ∞ – y = ∞
For every harmless element of the set y removed from ∞, the ∞ of available behaviors ratio tips 1 unit more towards undesirable.
As a design pattern, try to avoid doing that.
Get taken to the cleaners by register.com: http://j.mp/d3gYLx
And isn’t the frankfurter typeface reserved for junk food? http://j.mp/8XrzDA
I figured out a long time ago that if I figured something out a long time ago, I’m probably wrong about it and should re-figure it out.
Http://grantstavely.com/the-paradox-of-controls
RT @IBMFedCyber: @bbaskin makes me happy I live in a building requiring piggybacking to access. <- I fixed that for you.
RT @IBMFedCyber: @bbaskin makes me happy I live in a building requiring piggybacking to access. <- I fixed that for you.
The breasts on our snowlady have melted:
A sign that putting chairs in YOUR parking spot is just perpetuating a tragedy of the commons now.
In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker’s dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original, but plausible in the same context (“old-timers’ disease” for “Alzheimer’s disease”). This is as opposed to a malapropism, where the substitution creates a nonsensical phrase. Classical malapropisms generally derive their comic effect from the fault of the user, whilst eggcorns are errors that exhibit creativity or logic. Eggcorns often involve replacing an unfamiliar, archaic, or obscure word with a more common or modern word (“baited breath” for “bated breath”).
The term “eggcorn” was coined by Geoffrey Pullum in September 2003, in response to an article by Mark Liberman on the website Language Log, a blog for linguists. Liberman discussed the case of a woman who substitutes the phrase egg corn for the word acorn, arguing that the precise phenomenon lacked a name; Pullum suggested using “eggcorn” itself.
To @gruber: Windows Phone 7¹ infographic porn² is built right into its damned name. #s are noise.
¹ https://www.windowsphone7series.com/
² http://j.mp/9Ait5o
Nice to see a fresh, lean UI in the Windows Phone 7 shots — great use of the screen edges to imply ← presence →, but strange use of numbers.
What’s the name of the trope of adding redundant modifiers to static states? F.ex: drowned to death, electrocuted to death, worked to death.
Nice to see a fresh, lean UI in the Windows Phone 7 shots — great use of the screen edges to imply ← presence →, but strange use of numbers.
What’s the name of the trope of adding redundant modifiers to static states? F.ex: drowned to death, electrocuted to death, worked to death.
There are a bunch of technologies making interesting convergences in the iPad including search, mobility, task oriented Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and networks, but let’s just look at the HCI part.
The iPad is all over the future of task-oriented-computing HCI, as were the OLPC XO, iPhone, Palm Pre, Android, etc. They make no attempt to even try to consider faking being a netbook, tablet, laptop, or any other general purpose Windows, Icon, Menu Pointer (WIMP) system. There is a bit of duck typing there, but make no mistake, the iPad isn’t a duck, er, a tablet PC, just like the Android isn’t just “a phone”.
Back when Led Zeppelin was still touring, and wizards flipped switches, punched cards, and built up circuit boards by hand, there was limited abstraction to computing. Users had to know what their computers were doing at a pretty low level to do, well, pretty much anything. Their hacking wasn’t mediated by much at all. There aren’t many metaphors to soldering on silicon.
And operating systems advanced. Abstract command-line interfaces (CLI) became prominent. CLIs tend to user ‘verb, noun’1command oriented systems.
> rm -fr ./drafts/
> vi on-the-ipad.txt
> ping grantstavely.com
> less /var/log/httpd/access.log
And they tend to have hierarchical organizational metaphors mediating the user experience.
> /home/grant/mail
> /dev/modem
> /var/www/html/grantstavely.com/index.php
Then WIMP came along. WIMP tends employ ‘noun, verb‘2 command oriented systems.
- Select all objects, drag them to the trashcan.
- Double-click header, click the Bold toolbar button
- When log file is on screen, drag scroll bar down to scroll through entries
And they too are hierarchical experience metaphors with spatial orientation, and overlapping windows, and cursor and menu driven insanity mediating everything. Click here sort of stuff.
Both mediations — both abstractions — have advantages, and over time, lots of us, never having to punch cards or solder boards, put PCs in our homes and businesses, and solved problems with them. Wow.
But there are other mediations, other metaphors, other abstractions. Jacob Nielsen’s noncommand interfaces1 abandon these verb/noun, hierarchical, graphical intermediaries. They are what he calls task oriented. Like the iPhone.
- Launch phone app, task-oriented device becomes a phone.
- Return to task-selection “home” screen.
- Launch camera app, task-oriented device becomes a camera.
This is deceptively similar to our trusty old world3 systems.
Write daemon in c that will spit bits out /dev/modem. Fax from minicomputer.
Or more recently.
Load Windows IBM Fax Application from floppy disk and the big beige box, monitor, and printer can be used like a cumbersome fax machine with too many buttons and a terrible UI.
Or even more recently.
Download skype, extract and install. Launch skype. Webcam on desktop computer runs a video-phone-ish document on the desktop on the CLI system.
It’s easy to forget that CLI and WIMP command interface experiences even are mediated, but at some point we learned how to pipe a stream through sed, to grab a scrollbar by carefully positioning a pointer using a brick of plastic with buttons on it, to layer windows, to manage running processes, to find hierarchically organized documents — we learned the syntax of verbs and nouns and adjectives. But don’t forget that these are metaphors constantly, always, mediating our experience.
The menu is not the meal. Please refrain from eating the menu.
On the iPad, Pre, Android, and insert-your-favorite-hardware-here equivalent, our finger touches the data — a web page, or a picture, or a video — and swipes. The data moves. We pinch, rotate, zoom, or discard, the data. Launch a task-mode app and the device transforms.
Okay, this is starting to sound a lot like it came from the marketing department, bear with me. It’s still a mediated experience, but we can see the advancements in abstraction right?
Look, the experience is so different on these mobile task-oriented devices that comparing them to say, netbooks, is kinda silly. A touch screen, keyboardless iPad-ish PC running Windows 7, or fvwm, or whatever, is not a task-oriented system, but some of it’s applications might quack like one.
That there are Apple fanatics muddies the water if we let it, but it’s such a boring way to look at the experience, the market, people, and so on.
The iPad might arguably be the first real shot anyone’s given at a general-use, task-oriented computing platform — well, at least since the iPhone and every device that copied it. But it’s not a phone. It’s not an ebook reader. It’s not a laptop. It’s a really weird set of limitations with a web user interface, and that’s about it.
That’s kinda insane.
I think the market is out there for an abstracted, task-oriented, noncommand, web-enabled device, converging apps, mobility, search, and so on. The iPad might not be it, but it is a tell as to where things are headed.
The WIMP browser, still interfaced with a CL-ish address bar, is cumbersome. You did not get here by selecting your address bar and embracing the hierarchy that is uniform resource locators. You didn’t think to yourself (I’m guessing):
Ah, http, the protocol, next to the grumpy 😕/ guy that has two frowns. And then grantstavely.com, the Domain Name System A record for Grant’s web server. And lastly, “Oh, joy”, the virtual directory that is really just Apache trickery, “/blog/on-the-ipad”.
We’ve all watched people not do this. We use the web by searching for our favorite sites, or repeat-visiting subscriptions and bookmarks, or by following suggestions like the dozens in this article. Ugh.
When an article at Read Write Web became the top google result for “facebook login” because of a popular article they published about Facebook’s distributed login platform, the search-protocol web browsing mode failed. Not realizing that they weren’t reaching Facebook through their normal, human, protocol-following google search, dozens of Facebook users complained to Read Write Web.
ok cool now can I get to facebook
The new facebook sucks> NOW LET ME IN.
I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!
EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME!!! WHY NOT JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!!!1111
Read Write Web had to edit their article to help them.
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. You can however click here and become a Fan of ReadWriteWeb on Facebook, to receive our updates and learn more about the Internet. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as a bookmark in your browser.
See the click here, noun, verb stuff followed by the directions for how to use the verb, noun command-oriented parts. Note the suggestion to perpetuate the problem in the last helpful hint. I mean, the instructions are right, and necessary, but the opportunity here is obvious. Isn’t it?
6015+ days hath September 1993, and we are still scratching our heads about this?
Those folks would probably be more successful with an iPad and a Facebook app. An app abstracts the address, like a browser’s bookmarks were supposed to. Arguably, bookmarks already do this, but making a bookmark an app privileges the bookmark in a powerful way, beyond the full-screen, customized, scaled experience that is the app. In an environment of full screen apps at the same level of importance as the browser, the search model of finding the same thing over and over again loses it’s efficiency.
I think the size factor is more important than that. Looking at photos, watching videos, and reading articles on phones is a pretty poor experience. The pocket portability is a strength and a weakness on phones. I don’t plan on buying an iPad because it doesn’t solve any problems for me; but not because it’s too small, or too expensive to not multi-task — being a camera window, and an email window, and an IM window, and a menu, and a process management list all at once is a weakness, not a strength — I don’t plan on buying one because while I would like to have one, I’d like to have one less than I like to eat and drink really well, or get more camera lenses, or fly more places and check them out — and because I feel pretty damned unlimited with the CLI and WIMP crap I already have.
But I get the idea, and I think it’s really, really, fucking cool. And I would love my parents to ditch their PC for one, or maybe a second generation one, or whatever.
February 14th, 2010 1:06pm
There are a bunch of technologies making interesting convergences in the iPad including search, mobility, task oriented Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and networks, but let’s just look at the HCI part.
The iPad is all over the future of task-oriented-computing HCI, as were the OLPC XO, iPhone, Palm Pre, Android, etc. They make no attempt to even try to consider faking being a netbook, tablet, laptop, or any other general purpose Windows, Icon, Menu Pointer (WIMP) system. There is a bit of duck typing there, but make no mistake, the iPad isn’t a duck, er, a tablet PC, just like the Android isn’t just “a phone”.
Back when Led Zeppelin was still touring, and wizards flipped switches, punched cards, and built up circuit boards by hand, there was limited abstraction to computing. Users had to know what their computers were doing at a pretty low level to do, well, pretty much anything. Their hacking wasn’t mediated by much at all. There aren’t many metaphors to soldering on silicon.
And operating systems advanced. Abstract command-line interfaces (CLI) became prominent. CLIs tend to user ‘verb, noun’ command oriented systems.
rm -fr ./drafts/
vi on-the-ipad.txt
ping grantstavely.com
less /var/log/httpd/access.log
And they tend to have hierarchical organizational metaphors mediating the user experience.
_/home/grant/mail
/dev/modem
/var/www/html/grantstavely.com/index.php_
Then WIMP came along. WIMP tends employ ‘noun, verb‘ command oriented systems.
Select all objects, drag them to the trashcan.
Double-click header, click the Bold toolbar button
When log file is on screen, drag scroll bar down to scroll through entries
And they too are hierarchical experience metaphors with spatial orientation, and overlapping windows, and cursor and menu driven insanity mediating everything. Click here sort of stuff.
Both mediations — both abstractions — have advantages, and over time, lots of us, never having to punch cards or solder boards, put PCs in our homes and businesses, and solved problems with them. Wow.
But there are other mediations, other metaphors, other abstractions. Jacob Nielsen’s noncommand interfaces1 abandon these verb/noun, hierarchical, graphical intermediaries. They are what he calls task oriented. Like the iPhone.
Launch phone app, task-oriented device becomes a phone.
Return to task-selection “home” screen.
Launch camera app, task-oriented device becomes a camera.
This is deceptively similar to our trusty old world systems.
Write daemon in c that will spit bits out /dev/modem. Fax from minicomputer.
Or more recently.
Load Windows IBM Fax Application from floppy disk and the big beige box, monitor, and printer can be used like a cumbersome fax machine with too many buttons and a terrible UI.
Or even more recently.
Download skype, extract and install. Launch skype. Webcam on desktop computer runs a video-phone-ish document on the desktop on the CLI system.
It’s easy to forget that CLI and WIMP command interface experiences even are mediated, but at some point we learned how to pipe a stream through sed, to grab a scrollbar by carefully positioning a pointer using a brick of plastic with buttons on it, to layer windows, to manage running processes, to find hierarchically organized documents — we learned the syntax of verbs and nouns and adjectives. But don’t forget that these are metaphors constantly, always, mediating our experience.
The menu is not the meal. Please refrain from eating the menu.
On the iPad, Pre, Android, and insert-your-favorite-hardware-here equivalent, our finger touches the data — a web page, or a picture, or a video — and swipes. The data moves. We pinch, rotate, zoom, or discard, the data. Launch a task-mode app and the device transforms.
Okay, this is starting to sound a lot like it came from the marketing department, bear with me. It’s still a mediated experience, but we can see the advancements in abstraction right?
Look, the experience is so different on these mobile task-oriented devices that comparing them to say, netbooks, is kinda silly. A touch screen, keyboardless iPad-ish PC running Windows 7, or fvwm, or whatever, is not a task-oriented system, but some of it’s applications might quack like one.
That there are Apple fanatics muddies the water if we let it, but it’s such a boring way to look at the experience, the market, people, and so on.
The iPad might arguably be the first real shot anyone’s given at a general-use, task-oriented computing platform — well, at least since the iPhone and every device that copied it. But it’s not a phone. It’s not an ebook reader. It’s not a laptop. It’s a really weird set of limitations with a web user interface, and that’s about it.
That’s kinda insane.
I think the market is out there for an abstracted, task-oriented, noncommand, web-enabled device, converging apps, mobility, search, and so on. The iPad might not be it, but it is a tell as to where things are headed.
The WIMP browser, still interfaced with a CL-ish address bar, is cumbersome. You did not get here by selecting your address bar and embracing the hierarchy that is uniform resource locators. You didn’t think to yourself (I’m guessing):
Ah, http, the protocol, next to the grumpy 😕/ guy that has two frowns. And then grantstavely.com, the Domain Name System A record for Grant’s web server. And lastly, “Oh, joy”, the virtual directory that is really just Apache trickery, “/blog/on-the-ipad”.
We’ve all watched people not do this. We use the web by searching for our favorite sites, or repeat-visiting subscriptions and bookmarks, or by following suggestions like the dozens in this article. Ugh.
When an article at Read Write Web became the top google result for “facebook login” because of a popular article they published about Facebook’s distributed login platform, the search-protocol web browsing mode failed. Not realizing that they weren’t reaching Facebook through their normal, human, protocol-following google search, dozens of Facebook users complained to Read Write Web.
ok cool now can I get to facebook
The new facebook sucks> NOW LET ME IN.
I WANT THE OLD FAFEBOOK BACK THIS SHIT IS WACK!!!
EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME!!! WHY NOT JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!!!1111
Read Write Web had to edit their article to help them.
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. You can however click here and become a Fan of ReadWriteWeb on Facebook, to receive our updates and learn more about the Internet. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the first result. We recommend that you then save Facebook as a bookmark in your browser.
See the click here, noun, verb stuff followed by the directions for how to use the verb, noun command-oriented parts. Note the suggestion to perpetuate the problem in the last helpful hint. I mean, the instructions are right, and necessary, but the opportunity here is obvious. Isn’t it?
6015+ days hath September 1993, and we are still scratching our heads about this?
Those folks would probably be more successful with an iPad and a Facebook app. An app abstracts the address, like a browser’s bookmarks were supposed to. Arguably, bookmarks already do this, but making a bookmark an app privileges the bookmark in a powerful way, beyond the full-screen, customized, scaled experience that is the app. In an environment of full screen apps at the same level of importance as the browser, the search model of finding the same thing over and over again loses it’s efficiency.
I think the size factor is more important than that. Looking at photos, watching videos, and reading articles on phones is a pretty poor experience. The pocket portability is a strength and a weakness on phones. I don’t plan on buying an iPad because it doesn’t solve any problems for me; but not because it’s too small, or too expensive to not multi-task — being a camera window, and an email window, and an IM window, and a menu, and a process management list all at once is a weakness, not a strength — I don’t plan on buying one because while I would like to have one, I’d like to have one less than I like to eat and drink really well, or get more camera lenses, or fly more places and check them out — and because I feel pretty damned unlimited with the CLI and WIMP crap I already have.
But I get the idea, and I think it’s really, really, fucking cool.
“To be real, it’s got to be rea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-ea-eal.”
—Act three, scene one, Hamlet, Cheryl Lynne’s fifth folio, 1978
@sxs3200 you keep tooting BM and I keep reading bowel movement. Saving the day, in hand, on the plane, enjoy out-of-dodge, wherever it is.
Regex that naively guesses a stream is html: “<\S”. Regex that KNOWS a stream is html: Last seen in 1994 in Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase.
@vurtyou and I are walking to @MaxsTaphouse around 6 for the Belgian Beer Festival, grabbing dinner, then making @bad_decisions.
Come along
An hour of Eno, Byrne, funky bass lines, ++ RT @ninjamixdump: meatskull … DJ Food presents More Volts: The Funky Eno https://meatskull.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/dj-food-presents-more-volts-the-funky-eno/
DJ Food presents More Volts: The Funky EnoAn inspired mix from DJ Food (Strictly Kev) posted on his Soundcloud page. “An hour long trip through the funked-up side of Brian Eno’s output since the 70’s. Expect David Bryne, nonsen…Meatskull..Because Life's Too Short For Boring MusicRegex that naively guesses a stream is html: “<\S”.
Regex that KNOWS a stream is html: Last seen in 1994 in Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase.
The facebook login phenomenon is phenomenal. https://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/384061532/i-liked-the-old-facebook-login-better
I liked the old Facebook login betterDesigner, game maker, and writer in Portland, OR. One of the good ones.mrgan.tumblr.comURLs were never the best idea, search is better, apps might be better, but
The facebook login phenomenon is phenomenal. https://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/384061532/i-liked-the-old-facebook-login-better URLs were never the best idea, search is better, apps might be better, but
I liked the old Facebook login betterDesigner, game maker, and writer in Portland, OR. One of the good ones.mrgan.tumblr.com❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❆❅❄❅
Well, it looks like the Snostics have finally bliizzenatized the Eschaton.
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#notjokes
So, @g_mark brought up Gadsby, a lipographic book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
Gadsby (novel) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org Amazon Sign-Inamazon.com Amazon Sign-Inamazon.comSo, @g_mark brought up Gadsby, a lipographic book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel) Yay: https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin?openid.pape.max_auth_age=3600&openid.return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR2WOJ61CW2KI62%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_rdp_perm&openid.identity=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.assoc_handle=usflex&openid.mode=checkid_setup&language=en_US&openid.claimed_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0 (“us”,natch) Boo: https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin?openid.pape.max_auth_age=3600&openid.return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR39P22IS6NG4AX%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_rdp_perm&openid.identity=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.assoc_handle=usflex&openid.mode=checkid_setup&language=en_US&openid.claimed_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0
Gadsby (novel) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgAmazon Sign-Inamazon.comAmazon Sign-Inamazon.comWhen all you have is snow, everything looks like a sled.
Let’s get serious for a second: I’m going to @shmoocon.
I write here this morning in an attempt to return from a self-inflicted unhappy state.
One of the reasons I maintain archives of my content here — embarrassing as it always is — is because I force myself to revisit it at times like this, in the hope that I might learn more from my past mistakes than I did the first time through them.
I invite you to play along. Strike through and asides noted as we improve my own past. If only it was this easy!
I just signed up for Shmoocon, billing itself as “…an all-new, annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering an interesting and new atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software & hardware solutions, as well as open discussion of critical information security issues.“
The last (only) LUG meeting I went to was full of Haha I use loonix! 1337! people and the last other geek meet-up I went to was a mix of ultra-brights and people that change backup tapes every night (on reseting TCP sessions: “So you could knock out an FTP session! other tape-changer: But could you knock over an ssl session?” (sorry that’s so obscure but it was silly at the time))Hackers!
As a lowly consultant (like a sysadmin albeit ~35+ times over, simultaneously)I’llexpect to be surrounded by a bunch of extremely brightcoders, a fewpeoplelike myself, and a larger handful of nerds and clueless wannabe’s (those last three groups may intermingle a bit).I hope I get a t-shirt.
What’s with the incessant, murky qualification and labeling and classification of fellow human beings? Lose it.
@linuxgeek247 if you know any DC residents, bribe them to go to a police station w/ you and get a guest pass. Free on the street.
Unless you already listen to DJs that mix Weather Report, I guess.
After this semester is over Ima start a hotcakes company.
Listen, our russian-accented analyst pronounces regex like rejects. That’s awesome.
/bin/sh: verb, [adjectives], noun (rm -fr /)
Xerox Star: noun, verb, [adjectives] (select text, click “bold”)
ipod: task (transform device)
NB: @stevenf is very, very, right about our task-oriented computing future.
F. ex:
Dialog text:
Cancel?
“Cancel” “OK”
@quine is selfing like “selling” or like “the stranger”?
/bin/sh: verb, [adjectives], noun (rm -fr /) Xerox Star: noun, verb, [adjectives] (select text, click “bold”) ipod: task (transform device)
NB: @stevenf is very, very, right about our task-oriented computing future. F. ex: Dialog text: Cancel? “Cancel” “OK” http://j.mp/8YWbwr
@securitytwits I’m interested the Friday meetup.
@GoldbergLawDC CharmSec is a civic duty! Great to have you.
END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
IMPORTANT—READ CAREFULLY: This End-User License A-help, what I put in these things keeps me up at night. I’m sca-
I really like your new profile pic:)
And in conclusion, you should know that we like isometric pies, love tautology, and that digital stuff is all 1s and 0s. ✌
Live the life you deserve! The CharmSec Meetup Opportunity! Get certified to host your own CharmSecs! Sign up 1/28 at 7PM. $199 initial fee.
Live the life you deserve! The CharmSec Meetup Opportunity! Get certified to host your own CharmSecs! Sign up 1/28 at 7PM. $199 initial fee.
Not a gear guy, but I can’t stop reading @usethis interviews. Jacob Nielsen runs a water-cooled Alienware rig? The closer question is great.
TALENT
Recently, I had an idea for a Windows 7 commercial.
REENACTMENT - DESIGN FIRM
An ad executive. Sober, talented, productive.
Not a gear guy, but I can’t stop reading @usethis interviews. Jacob Nielsen runs a water-cooled Alienware rig? The closer question is great.
TALENT Recently, I had an idea for a Windows 7 commercial. REENACTMENT - DESIGN FIRM An ad executive. Sober, talented, productive.
For every impulse is imperious, and as SUCH, attempts to philosophize.
A simple modification tames the long line.
Covers with the inspiration song played at the end, briefly:
Robert Plant - Hey Joe
Nine Inch Nails - Get Down Make Love
…?
First one?
@bbaskin why use vi in a vim world? Disclaimer: I get antsy watching people use vim with arrow keys, I’m no saint.
@bbaskin I don’t telnet into 1983 often, but when I do, I reach for awk and sed. The rest of the time, I use a scripting language.
Silently postfixing everything you see, hear, and read, with “, from the standpoint of my limited experience” helps it all go down easier.
Silently postfixing everything you see, hear, and read, with “, from the standpoint of my limited experience” helps it all go down easier.
@alexhutton not if you have unreleased boots of Linda’s vocals pitch-corrected (please share if you do).
Getting saturated in San Francisco.
January 19th, 2010 11:43pm
LOST
DUCK
Please do not try to catch him. He will just fly away.
Please call http://j.mp/6dU29B
#sfmoma
Yes, I realize there are preservation defenses for gallery proximity & flash photo rules. No, I don’t find them very interesting. #sfmoma
LOST DUCK Please do not try to catch him. He will just fly away. Please call http://j.mp/6dU29B #sfmoma
Yes, I realize there are preservation defenses for gallery proximity & flash photo rules. No, I don’t find them very interesting. #sfmoma
Http://twitpic.com/yq6lx - Touring Lagunitas’ brewery with @vurtyou in Petaluma, CA.
Touring Lagunitas' brewery with @vurtyou in Petaluma, CA.Touring Lagunitas' brewery with @vurtyou in Petaluma, CA.twitpic.comHttp://twitpic.com/yq6lx - Touring Lagunitas’ brewery with @vurtyou in Petaluma, CA.
Touring Lagunitas' brewery with @vurtyou in Petaluma, CA.Touring Lagunitas' brewery with @vurtyou in Petaluma, CA.twitpic.com@BaltiBrew regrets — I’m in San Francisco for the week. Hope to improve my beer and move to all-grain, will look forward to the next meeting
Fyi - tomorrow is Mom’s B-day
Http://oink.cd/ OiNK sysop Alan Ellis acquitted, ledes surprisingly tame.
oink.cdThis domain may be for sale!oink.cd UK police herd up erstwhile OiNK users on conspiracy chargesUK police have arrested six more individuals for sharing music on now-defunct …Ars Technica Google Searchgoogle.com@mortman I’m a happy puppet user. Syntax is simple yet capable, docs are good. I use it in an OS monoculture/multi-role environment.
@auscompgeek Simplepedia hasn’t changed in months — I’ve been too busy to give it the complete rewrite it deserves.
RT @shrdlu @quine That’s it, I’m gonna write a bot that RTs anything with the words “echo chamber” in it.
Iro·ny
1 : truth revealed through a : intentional hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance b: unintentional meaning, c : snark؟
2 : whoa!
@oneeyedcarmen for next time: Roy’s Place (RIP, Roy) http://j.mp/7Rfy5, Old Siam http://j.mp/8lyFp3, Pho 75 http://j.mp/4z9jvJ, lotsa chains
Speak that I may see thee.
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2102-weasel-words-and-the-absurdity-of-corporate-speak
Weasel words and the absurdity of corporate speakReader Daniel Nitsche suggests checking out this lecture by Don Watson (MP4 file: 139MB / 41 minutes) on the absurdity of corporate speak. There are some great points in there, sprinkled with humour. Powerpoint is the ultimate in the depletion of English. It just doesn’t approve of sen…Signal v. Noise by BasecampWords are arguments.
Speak that I may see thee. https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2102-weasel-words-and-the-absurdity-of-corporate-speak Words are arguments. http://j.mp/4PXYFE
Weasel words and the absurdity of corporate speakReader Daniel Nitsche suggests checking out this lecture by Don Watson (MP4 file: 139MB / 41 minutes) on the absurdity of corporate speak. There are some great points in there, sprinkled with humour. Powerpoint is the ultimate in the depletion of English. It just doesn’t approve of sen…Signal v. Noise by BasecampThe moft excellent comedie and tragical romance of
TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEBOWSKI.
As writ by MR. ADAM BERTOCCI
https://www.runleiarun.com/lebowski/
Be aware of breast cancer. Be very aware.
The Boy (my cat) just snuck up on Grandma (her cat) so stealthily she puked, twice.
OMG! PLRK! HRPTH! GRAAZCH! MBYK! -AT!
splash
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ACME DO IT YOURSELF FRIDAY
“Immanentize your own eschaton!”
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@StrongwaterSec log DNS passively with taps in front of all resolvers and trust perimeters. tshark -nt ad -i nic -f ‘port 53’ is too easy.
@danphilpott I get ‘Steve’ a lot more often than seems sane but I feel worse for all of my prefers-the-long-version-of-their-name friends.
I accidentally bought a second copy of J. L. Austin’s How to Do Things With Words. Do you want it? http://j.mp/7hNBiS #infelicitous
I dig love.
I dig love.