We call it WeaponBnB. Most weapons lay idle when enthusiasts aren’t using them. Pistols, rifles, bows, katanas, etc. That’s the opportunity.

RT @nostrich: “The sharing economy is the centralization of global casual labour.” http://t.co/VVoC6pa9fQ

RT @mallelis: A Day in the Life of a Troubled Male Antihero: http://t.co/YQChii8z4R

Weird Browsers

My 1995 self would be very interested to find that that my browser no longer has a stop button, or any other navigation buttons. And that it uses a weird form of MDI, like tabs in an application’s preferences.

My 1995 self would probably be pretty confused that I consider my bookmarks menu to be a vestigial feature that hasn’t been cleared of the software’s defaults or populated with any categorized reference material. And that a download manager is built in, and not shameful browser side-ware. And that, still, nobody cares about anything similar to VRML.

My 1995 self would probably not understand at all that my browser has a default deny policy for all plugins and javascript. And that it hides comments on any page from other “netizens” besides the author. And that it has a huge button that hides all the pictures and videos and ads and style and just shows the text in a suck.com style readable format. And that it has two export buttons that save the text off-web somewhere because things on the web disappear or are hard to find. And that I don’t hide ads because I understand that adults need to be paid for their work.

August 30th, 2013 7:04pm

The NSA
at first mention, thereafter use colloquial title: e.g. The NSA, subsequently The Secret Police.

—missing on http://t.co/dBUj2tF7d1

The NSA
at first mention, thereafter use colloquial title: e.g. The NSA, subsequently The Secret Police.

—missing on http://t.co/dBUj2tF7d1

القنبلة الخط العربي

First القنبلة الخط العربي came for the ycombinators,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a ycombinator.

Then القنبلة الخط العربي came for the iOS6-havers,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a iOS6 haver.

Then القنبلة الخط العربي came for the IRC topics,
and I didn’t speak out because I was a weechat user.

Then القنبلة الخط العربي came for me when I tried to put (╯° °）╯︵ in front of القنبلة الخط العربي in the topic to make it even funnier,
and there was no terminal left to speak for me.

August 30th, 2013 9:22am

First they came for the /topic
and I didn’t speak out because I use weechat.
Then I tried to put (╯° °）╯︵ in front of it,
and iTerm crashed.

Janeway’s liberal interpretation of the prime directive finally got Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant, on the corner of 18th and Lexington. on Flickr.

August 28th, 2013 10:53pm

Janeway’s liberal interpretation of the prime directive finally got Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant, on the corner… http://t.co/NwdZQcnDNr