April 2009
105 posts
As much as I love Wikipedia, I can’t help but imagine what would happen if we got like half of the people contributing to it to stop for a week or two and work on Freebase instead.
LOOKING FOR NSA PNP XHTML CSS PHP FUN
Flickr: The Official White House Photostream →
“The user interface has a slick new feature, a “taskbar” at the...”
– A person who is actually employed as a tech reporter, and who has apparently been using Windows 3.11 for the past 15 years, referring to Windows 7. (Emphasis mine.)
<3 Barney Frank.
“Most” whats? I don’t think “most” people know the difference between micro- and macroevolution. Most of the people who “don’t believe in evolution” think evolution means our grandparents were monkeys and the Bible says that isn’t true.
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“When the flu vaccines are distributed, Senators who voted to eliminate funding should of course be...
“Look, I get it, “real America.” After an eight-year run of...”
– Bill Maher
“In the weeks since the Pentagon ended an 18-year ban on media coverage of fallen...”
– The Stranger
“When the flu vaccines are distributed, Senators who voted to eliminate funding...”
– Anthony Hecht
Seriously.
Is there a reasonable argument why we shouldn’t be in the process of converting to the metric system right now?
I have barely taken any photos since I left Europe. I need to start carrying my camera now.
Patrick Wolf is the gayest ever. I have a couple...
Human sexuality = most worthless class ever.
Legislation To Protect Consumers From Crappy... →
“Akbari, along with Surabi Menon, another LBNL scientist, and Arthur Rosenfeld, a...”
– Why Doesn’t The Stimulus Include Money For Painting Roofs And Roads White? » INFRASTRUCTURIST
“Well guess what, right-to-lifers? Americans would abort fewer babies if they...”
– The Stranger | Slog | Choose Life: Support Socialized Medicine
Babies Cancelled Due To Recession →
“Here’s hoping they actually do it. You’re the majority party, gang,...”
– Dan Savage
The Stranger | Slog | Just Do It
Look at this fucking hipster →
“We’ve already got socialized fire departments, police forces, public...”
– The Stranger | Slog | Anti-“Socialized Medicine” = Anti-Family
I ordered that golden hard drive I posted a few weeks ago. I’m excited.
Last quarter my microeconomics professor taught us how to do this specific type of graph that wasn’t in the book, and then put that on the test to penalize those who didn’t come to class.
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I’m taking this microeconomics class to fulfill a gen-ed req. The textbook and the homeworks are online, so I haven’t actually gone to class. Even on the first day, which some might deem...
Such a rebel.
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idea: smoke a cig during crit tomorrow.
what are they going to do? ask me politely to put it out?
“Streetcars are going to be a priority, certainly, as a part of livable...”
– Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation
“Let’s end air travel of less than 500 miles.”
– PA Governor Ed Rendell
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-19) →
Metric (2)
Mirah (1)
The Ting Tings (1)
Garrett Murray (1)
Lady GaGa (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchfaucet:
ranblag:
This is what 1000fps looks like.
crazy cool.
Yeah you were probably there early. Edwin said they were planning on going.
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So there is this thing every friday after studio called Blast where architecture students will go to a local bar and hang out and I’ve never done it before and I decided to go today so I walked down a big hill to get there and I recognized one person there and it was basically empty and I was all “wth” because I...