I tried to plot ellipses around groups of points from the same survey site, but ended up with this beautiful stained glass-esque plot. via @algaebarnacle
October 31st, 2013 7:10am
posts from 2013 / 10
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No more soy pigs have the power, hand of lunch has struck the hour. \m/. http://t.co/vmNvZHCj4E
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Put “SSL added and removed here! 😃”, in Comic Sans on a goldenrod yellow t-shirt, sell it for pay-what-you-can, give all proceeds to @EFF.
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Machine-translated attack write-ups can be philosophically heavy.
“…feed the attack string only from the page via a possible reality.”
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October 27th, 2013 6:05pm
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Cats and their damned colorblindness and their damned apathy. She refuses to chill one level lower. http://t.co/Vup7fYc6vh
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Cats and their damned colorblindness and their damned apathy. She refuses to chill one level lower. on Flickr.
October 27th, 2013 3:35pm
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@grahamvsworld bring back the Web Masters is what I say. And their Web Rings. And their Under Construction shame. Immanentize the eschaton.
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October 27th, 2013 3:18pm
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Brewed with a fresh tank of propane for an hour before seeing that someone wrote “Don’t Sell” on it. DWRAHAHB. http://t.co/cHpc0DwZTg
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I liked section 6, Gnarl, in @rudytheelder’s A Writer’s Toolkit. Gnarl is a fun word for what hack supposedly was.
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RT @rudytheelder: My guide, “A Writer’s Toolkit” is still online free as a PDF. Check it out. http://t.co/jR1f1y2AvM
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“Mission Dolores: Good title for a book.” — welp,
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“Mission Dolores: Good title for a book.” — welp,
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@grahamvsworld
3a. paradoxical corollary: security experts that aren’t qualified in law are qualified to judge a legal matter
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RT @SteveMartinToGo: Favorite hall: Carnegie. Oates song: I dunno. RT @KaleDavidoff: what’s your favorite Hall and Oates song?
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@alexcpsec @grahamvsworld no worries, I’ll handle it. I never let that kinda thing stop me.
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RT @grahamvsworld: pretty much the least funny thing you can do on twitter dot com is passive aggressively retweet people you disagree with
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@grahamvsworld would have to be a multiverse of miniserieses. The War of the Lance on HBO, the shit with kenders flying to the moon on TBS.
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Do yourself a favor and watch this.
Russell, shut up and take my money.
LOL at everyone who dismissed this man as a senseless attention whore.
I like to think I’m a smart man. And this man makes me feel very, very stupid.
God I hope people listen.
October 24th, 2013 7:00pm
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October 22nd, 2013 9:44pm
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RT @freecialis: if you do something illegal on the internet but you’re in incognito mode you can’t get prosecuted. look it up
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Unix has put ifconfig in /sbin and not put /sbin in user paths since 1983. As a joke.
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@vogon @grahamvsworld @dijkstracula @doeg lol at all the shameful troll feeding itt
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“We’ve added world class simulation glitch detection technology that we think you’re going to love.” http://t.co/KAHZyilh0S
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“We’ve added world class simulation glitch detection technology that we think you’re going to love.” on Flickr.
October 20th, 2013 4:11pm
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@maradine no.
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@grahamvsworld or like “Hey we have a wait list and a webcam. We could get a buzzer thing or call you but, ugh.”
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@grahamvsworld honest question: what the fuck is wrong with a wait list webcam?
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@s2research https://t.co/jaHYPFwk6w
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@coaxmetal @grahamvsworld well that wraps that up I guess. I feel like such a little donkey.
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@coaxmetal it really… delivers.
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RT @bbaskin: Regardless of our government, I won’t respect for America until we, once again, socially allow MSG in our Chinese food.
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@grahamvsworld my only excuse is that I am burritoblind. To you, it’s a burrito. To me it’s a street taco with too much tortilla and filler.
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How have I never heard of The Alameda Weehawken Burrito Tunnel? FFS.
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“The moral of the story? Always take care over the email attachments you open, and the links you rkjhgjkfhbgkjbdfnd”
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N.C.E.
ESTABLISHING SHOT. EARTH FROM SPACE.
North America turns under view. The Earth appears as from orbit, only overlaying the geographic borders are political borders in stark dotted lines, as if they were part of the geography.
EXT. A DESERT VISTA
A tumble weed rolls by followed by two smaller tumbleweeds. A fourth surpasses them.
INT. A DARK BUNKER
The General paces behind a row of analysts in a dark war room the size of an NBA arena, but stylized like the bridge of The Enterprise. You know, from Star Wars.
EXT. A DESERT VISTA
ECU. A SIGN
A military looking sign on a chain-link fence topped with razor wire topped with barbed wire proclaims “NSA – FORT ENTERPRISE”.
INT. A DARK BUNKER.
Analysts at each station operate banks of keyboards. The keyboards are different colors and have differently colored CAPS LOCK LED lights. Each color indicates the language of the workstation each is attached too. The CAPS LOCK LED lights are lit on every keyboard. Arrays of monitors tower over each analyst but The General is tall enough to be seen above them as he paces.
ECU. THE GENERAL
The General: Did you phish them yet?
ECU. ANALYST HANDS, TYPING.
ECU, THE ANALYST NAME BADGE.
The name badge is blank.
Analyst 1: Sir, we’re trying.
ECU. THE GENERAL
The General: I gave you a direct order. Phish them again!
Analyst 2: I am sir. They haven’t clicked anything yet. We need more time!
The General grimaces.
The General: There is no time.
WIDE. THE DARK BUNKER
A third analyst approaches from the far side of the war room. His heels click on the gleaming floor in the silence. Analyst 3 reaches The General.
Analyst 3: Sir, intelligence just in.
The General: What is it lieutenant?
ECU. ANALYST 3.
Analyst 3: Sir, they’ve been warned.
ECU. THE GENERAL.
The General: Warned?
ECU. ANALYST 3.
Analyst 3: Sir, we’ve cracked their signal. The translators say it says “Be Careful about what you click on. And don’t open any attachments.”
ECU. THE GENERAL.
The General: Damn!
ECU. THE GENERAL’S FIST
The General’s fist clenches.
ECU. THE GENERAL
The General: Damn it all to hell!
EXT. A DESERT VISTA.
Sand wisps into the distance.
THE ENDOctober 17th, 2013 7:22am
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Memento Mori
60 BC - 40 BC
Found in Naples
Emblem mosaic depicting allegorical the transience of life, cd. Memento mori
The mosaic in the second style , formed the ‘ emblem in the floor of the triclinium , and in it we find an allegorical and symbolic, philosophical theme of the Hellenistic origin of the transience of life and death dell’incombere ( “memento mori” ) which, eliminating disparities in social class and wealth, the fate of equilibria. The summit of the composition is a level with his plumb line, a tool that was used by masons to control the leveling in construction. The axis of the lead is death (the skull), under a butterfly (the soul) balanced on a wheel (Fortune). Under the arms of the level, and opposed in perfect balance, are the symbols of poverty on the right (the bag, stick a beggar and cape), and wealth to the left (the scepter, purple and crown). It should be observed in using the wisdom of the artist weave of different colour to provide greater accuracy and characterization of some representations, such as the skull, or the level, where the shades allow you to notice the wooden part of the instrument and the elements of fitting in bronze.
(Source: National Archaeological Museum of Naples)
October 16th, 2013 6:03pm
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- Oh huh no module named dns? I’ll just easy_install dns. No? Er, pip install dns? No?
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Libraries imported with a different name than they are called by that language’s package manager is proof that this is all a simulation.
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Grant: 1, Brachs Candy Corn: 0, and it’s only October 16th.
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I’m such a lousy reader that I didn’t slow down enough in Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge to get the DeepArcher pun.
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@coaxmetal @vogon @patriciaxh naw, show off that you read by mentioning that you know not to read it on Kindles.
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@coaxmetal @vogon @patriciaxh it will until Amazon fixes footnote navigation. Get a paper copy.
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In the U.S. House of Representatives, it’s not always September, it’s always January.
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In the U.S. House of Representatives, it’s not always September, it’s always January.
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RT @rudytheelder: Another review of Pynchon’s great new BLEEDING EDGE. http://t.co/1awXnQnn68
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RT @TomBollyky: The take on TED and most writing on technology & development in this @evgenymorozov essay resonates. http://t.co/XhHIyv7ljd…
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RT @AvoidComments: The Two Classic Online Blunders: Never get into a LAN war in Asia, and never go in to the comments section when your san…
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@grahamvsworld @vogon why quote “But if and when…” and then go on to seemingly ignore it? Strange when it supports his good points.
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@grahamvsworld @vogon that Jane Jacobs quote is from The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which I’m reading now. It’s great.
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Saved from missing the chance to cron and script by logrotate’s missing ‘hourly’ keyword and ‘dateformat’ strftime specifiers! Heck yeah!
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“Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police Because They Were Watching The Ed Sullivan Show On TV”
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If arachnophobia was treated like introversion
M̲̣̭̖̭͍̤̾̃a͎̰ͫ̀͒ͭͩͣs̮͕̥͓̟̹̫ͤ͛̂̂͑̓͂t͔͇̰̦̝͂e͇̭̘͉ͭͯ͒r̥̣͓͓̞̬̥̓̋̇̔̍ ̤̟̹̝̍͗ͪy̬͙̲̟̺͍ͩ͗ͮ̇ͣọ̳͎̭̖͍̊̐ͩu̖̦̺̹͙̘͖r̩ͧ ̣͕̰͖s͔̪̈́̔ͧp̳̭̟͈̜̽͂́̓ͫͭ̓ỉ̙͖̗̠̗͛d̼̮̟́̋e͕̗͓̊̽̉̉̽r̗ͥ-͉̬̺̞̽̾͑̃f͈̳̼̏̄̉ͤ͂ͬr͈̩̺͙̗͌ͮi̤̳͚ͣ͒ͮg͍̺͉̪̻̻̒ͥ̄ͥh͙̱̻̒ͦ́̅ͬt̻̮͈̖, b̼͇̺̟̜̭̱̈́̈́̎͒͑e̩̪̺͙̱̮͙̩͋ͪ̃̈̒̀͒c̦͖̋ͩo͙̱̝̣̯̜͆̿̒̉̉̽ͭm̞̹͖ͣͣͪȅ̫̙͓̲͓̟̄̾͒ ̖͍̰̗̅ͩ̌̉ͣ̉ͧ̈́̌a̠̬͉ͭ̍ ͎̹ͩ̓͐̀ͦl̬̙͔̈̄̐͗͐̄̏̊ͪë̼͇͉́͒a̭̺̗̖͒̆̂͌͑ͭ́d͈̖̩̰͍̜̿ͩe̫͙̖̤͍̗̘͍ͣͯͫ̈ͅr͈̼͍͕̋ͥ͂̔̑̚ ̜̮̺̯ͭ͂́ͭ͑̀ö̟́̇̈́ͅͅf̣̲̞̲̺̘̮͙ͨ͂͐̓̎̏ ̼̊̌ͪ̀ͭͬ̉ͩ͌ͅt͇̳ͭ̌͗͊̾̚h̲͔̱̭͖̟͈̗̬̐ͦ̾͑ͤ̎e͎͕̟͕̗͙ͯ̃m͕̺̖̭͑͆, a͑͐ͧ͠҉̗͍͈̞ͅñ̴̠̯̤ͬͭ̈̊̒ͬ̚d̸̡̬̠̣͎̤̉͗̉͗̆ ̛̛̺͚̼͉̔̈̈̃̅ͨ̊́s̖̳̟͔͉̺̹͕̪̋̈́̎̅̄̇̽͢p̡̟̓ͦi̢̤͉͓ͪ́͗͛̅̒͂̓ͅn̖̫̾̓ͥ͒ͮͮ͂ͮͧ͞ ̵̙̩̝̳̥̯̙̣ͨ̐̐̉̽͋́̚ỳ̡̘͕̬̣o̷̬̊͗͡ͅͅű̜͖̤̱̹̤̰̲͍r̮̫͇̰̲̺ͦ̀ͬ̍̓͆ͨ͜ ̧̩̗̿͆̓͑̆͑̀͜o̡̻̱̗̯̬̻̮̱ͭ̿̂̉̚͘w̄͛͒̊ͧͨ́͐͏̵͖̻̬̩̼̺ń̶̡̪̞̮̮̯͆͢ ̸͚͕̯͈ͧͩ̓ͪ̏̾ͦͅc̷͔̘̥ͮͤ͑̈́̐͝l̸̡̰̗̙̳̩̯͔̖̉̍̈́ͩͪ̈̓͝o̴̷̥̯͓ͣ̉̍̄́̋́͞t̲͓̖̦͖̻̟̪̽ͩ̾ͮ͢h̥̘̺͂̾̃̀̐e̜̹̲̒̿̾̏ͩͥ̓̿̀͢s͕̜̩͈͇̘͙͙̰ͯͫ͂ͫ͟͜ ̢̝̟̜̞̘͉̓̍ͯ̑͜͡o͓̤ͥ̃̉̅̈ͬ͘u̡̡͔̖̠̩̮̭̓̈́ͣͦ̋ͮ͗ͨt͚̺͕͖͈̜̦ͤ͂̌͊͒̄̌̔̐ ͇̗̯̗̭̼̈͌͛͠o͇̟͈͓͚͍̤͛͗͌̄̏͐̏͞ͅf̠̮̗̲̫͗̂ͮ͋̐̀̀ ̛̩̣͇͖͕̫ͤ͛͞wͧ̃̆ͨ̽͋́҉̬͉̥͍̮̞̯ͅͅe͂͋̋ͧ҉͎̦͓͉͡b̨̗̠̜̝͎̑͊̉ͭ͛̈̅̀͘ ̢̨̺̯̹̜̬͐̐͒ͩ̓̉̚s̭̥ͭ̃ͩ͂ͭi̦͓̭̱̭̜̳̹͐̇ͤ͛͟͡l̐̄ͣ͑ͮ̔̒̚҉̷̫̭͎̞͇̤̤̣̲k͈͎̲͕͒͛̾ͯ̅̉̀ͬ͞ ̛͎ͩ͂ã̬͈͎͔͙̠̇̓t̫̎̆Ş́ͭͭ̃ͫ̇͐̾ͣ̇̋͛̌̑ͧͦͮ̾͏̟̫̙̮̣͍̯͙͉̜͓͔ͅp̐̽͑̆ͪ̍̓ͭ͐̿ͩͬ̓͗҉̵͙̺̻̦͚̫̼͕͉̰̰ī̷̵̢̛̒ͥͥ͊ͬ̔ͯ̃̒ͬͩͮ̍̉̓̊̚҉̟̼̬̞̫͕̱͓̫͔̞̟d̷̵̶̷̤͇̠̲͍͓̞̜̗̫̩̝͚̝͇͊́̆̿͂̐ͥ̾̏̑̽̿ͨ̉ͧ̔ͥ̆ͅe̢̹̖͉̞͚͉̼̳̼̯̭̰̭͎̯̜͍ͫͪ͊̐ͦ̏̆̒͐̌͌ͬͪ͌́͠r̵̵̸̶͓̜̟͕̮͍̤̺̋̓ͥ͑̉ͫ̽̍̐̑̏̓ͥ̎̈́ͅm̶̫͍̦͎̞̭͎̮͇̦͚̗̩̲̔͑̌ͣ̀̊ͦͧͩͥ̉ͤ͑̀́͜͜ͅa̶̯̤͎̲͈̔ͥ͒̃̊̈́͡s͆͐͗̂ͫ̈ͣͣ͆ͪ̉ͮ̍ͬ̇̊ͥ͊̚҉̺͔̭̲͉̯͙̦̠̺̝͘͢ͅt̵ͩͥ̑ͭ̋ͤ̓ͭ̓̆̌̚͞҉͏̦͇̩̹̩̀ę̊̆̈́ͮ̒̑̊͐͐̍̍́͐҉̧̡̭̠̭̭̰̗̩̳͈̼ͅṛ̵̷͕̥̪ͩ͌͊ͤͤ͋̃ͩ̾ͬ͐̈ͬ́s̵̓ͬ͗ͫ̓͑́̓ͦ͊̀̅ͫ́ͯ҉̟͉̗̯̬͓̩ ̶͎̱̰͚̟̫̯̫ͪ̀̏̂ͮ̓̃̏ͣͨ̃̀̀͡Į̱̳̺̯̮̞̟̩̖̣̂͑ͯ̒̏ͮͤ̒͆ͥ͐͟ͅņ̴̴̛̬̱̘̘̯̗̼͈̫͚͔̺̩̻ͯ͑ͨ͂͂̍͌͒ͪ͛̀t̑̔ͩ͐̊ͦ̚҉̺̫̬̠̻̯͕̞̻͉͈̱eͦͭ͊́͑̋ͬͫ͆̇͒ͭ͐͑ͪ̏ͬ͊̚͏̷̢̩͚̹̘͔̜̥́ṙ̬͙̙̲ͯ̿̐̚͘͟ͅn̡̋͋̇̔̀̅ͩ̽́̔̌̏̑̏͏̵̨̢̹̠͕̙͍̪͉̯̻̙̤͓̞͔͖ͅą̵̸̹̱͙͕̦̘̻̻͉͚̣̜̦͕̊̾̑ͥ́ͨ͂ͩ̊ͯ̒ͦ̉̈̑͒̚t̷̡̩̪̙͎̺̝̞͕̭͈̜̩͓͕ͩ͌̌ͤ̀͊̍ͣ͐͗̀̕iͯͨ̃͛͛̾͊ͤͪ͋̍҉̛̻̫̝̗̹̩̹̤̞̙̖́͜͢ơ̧̡̨̗̠̖͇̮͉̬̙̜̟̹̻̹̬̊̏ͦ͋͐ͬ͆ͧͬ̄̆̃̀̚n̢̢͇̗̳͎̤̘̰̗͓̪̠̤̰͊ͯ̿̋͌͟͢͞ͅẫ̸̡̺̝̬̗̩̱̫̪̳̗̞̈̌ͣ͑̀͘͞ͅlͨ̀̓̐̽͊ͪ̄ͦ͐̌͆͂ͫ҉̸͇̬̞͈̬̭̠̳̜͎̣͕̖̤̀ͅ.̖͈̱̺̮̻̹͋̌̎̊̌̃̀͘͠͠
October 8th, 2013 8:59am
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Just read Paul Bowles ‘A Distant Episode’ and, uh, welp, not sure I like it at all. Any chance anyone can help?
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Position: Senior Property Owner
Property: A home constructed from leading building materials
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Mortgage: 30 yr fixed -
If real estate worked like tech recruiting, we’d all be getting offers to buy property in distant northern CA towns with strict credit reqs.
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Just read Paul Bowles ‘A Distant Episode’ and, uh, welp, not sure I like it at all. Any chance anyone can help?
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@grahamvsworld “Let’s go one of our new News Corp.™ Mr. Touch™ consoles and watch the live Fox News™ feed now, Bill.” http://t.co/cPrCm78dLr
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Position: Senior Property Owner
Property: A home constructed from leading building materials
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Mortgage: 30 yr fixed -
If real estate worked like tech recruiting, we’d all be getting offers to buy property in distant northern CA towns with strict credit reqs.
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October 6th, 2013 4:35pm
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OH “Looptid.”
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OH “Looptid.”
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The little red E in iTunes radio is there to remind me that basing a station on TCQ’s Phony Rappers was an Excellent idea.
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Horn on the dance floor.
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RT @plibin: Two-Step Verification Available to All Users http://t.co/3CkgFcg6wY #evernote #blog
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Prost!
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A trick the NSA dwytka: s/(trick[s]?)\s+[\w ]+\s+(doesn’t)|(don’t)\s+want\s+you\s+to\s+know\s?(about)?/$1 The NSA denies the existence of/ig
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@bbaskin Yer Hootin’ http://t.co/fNIIYrfA9v
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The tech press is always shameful except when they republish PR about something The Internet (whatever that is) has always been at war with.
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Finally read the @htbridge @yahoo PR: nice trolling folks, very nice.
I liked No More Free Bugs™, how about No More Free PR™?
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Popehat’s Journal of the Great Shutdown: Day Three
October 3rd, 2013 8:46am
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“When I grow up I wanna boost engagement.”, Kevin proclaimed.
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This “Planning a BIG Party?” gif (and that I go every year) has hypnotized me into going to Oktoberfest 10/4@7pm.
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I’m really enjoying BeerAlchemy. If you’re on a Mac and not using software to help track your brewing process, you should give it a try. I’ve got both the iOS and Mac apps, and they don’t sync yet, but I expect they will soonish and I’m looking forward to it. It’s tempting to go back and record the previous 25 or so batches from my paper notes but I just wasn’t tracking enough data points to make them useful.
Interestingly, and sadly, none of my last four batches, while all tasty enough, have finished under 7P. Fermentation temperature is the toughest home brewing challenge to tackle.
October 1st, 2013 10:13pm
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Kid Koala’s ‘Music For After Work: Space Radio Play Micromix’
October 1st, 2013 9:45pm
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Death Downwind from a Nuclear Blast
October 1st, 2013 2:59pm
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Is Pynchon’s “Bleeding Edge” proof that the Jargon file can be used for good?
