July 2010
151 posts
“Construction was subsequently halted for almost a century, because the Pisans...”
– Leaning Tower of Pisa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Brooks (no relation) argues that Americans are a uniquely entrepreneurial...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Growth Imperative - NYTimes.com
“By 2018, the machine should be ready. Scientists then would spend the next...”
– ITER, a Clean Energy Fusion Project, Promises Unlimited Electricity - NYTimes.com
“More recent work had demonstrated that significant savings in the required laser...”
– Fusion power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The possibility of unlimited clean energy within my lifetime is something I think about daily. (Desalination of sea water, climate change reversal, space travel, an explosion of food production, etc.)
I got to work with fiberglass today. It’s like toxic paper mâché.
Trucks: joshua-roses-computer:newproject... →
joshua-roses-computer:newproject joshuarose$ script/server => Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick) => Rails 2.2.2 application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000 => Call with -d to detach => Ctrl-C to shutdown server ** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000 ** Starting…
Now go to http://localhost:3000 in your web browser. Follow these instructions...
“Jack showed how you could walk up to an ATM, break into it using a common...”
– Guy hacks an ATM machine at the Black Hat security conference. He says he was inspired by Terminator 2. (Via VentureBeat) (via dbreunig)
I hope he used an EeePC and a ribbon cable.
Mijndert's Weblog: [Mac] Get started with Ruby on... →
joshtrucks:
This is part 1 in a series I’m going to attempt.
There’s more ways to install Ruby on Rails along with Apache and MySQL on Mac OS. You could either use the Bitnami Rubystack or compile a lot from source using MacPorts. I’m going for the latter due to it giving me more flexibility.
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Hey Josh! Yeah, you need Xcode. I can send you a disk if you need it. Then get MacPorts. Other...
As of today, my parents have been married for 30 years.
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Fish in a barrel →
Apple came out with updated Mac Pros and iMacs today. I’m an iMac man myself, so that’s what I checked out. Looks nice! Of course, The League of Internet Commenters is busy finding flaws and comparing it to similar offerings from Apple’s competitors. Hardware isn’t my strong suit, but I know half…
Motorcycle websites suffer from same problem. The loss of sexiness is astounding.
I...
The Democratic Party of Oregon has a new website.
The “About the Party” page is a list of officers and staff, and the 2010 platform is available only as a PDF. Sigh.
“The Library of Congress, which has the power to define exceptions to an...”
– Exemption Will Allow ‘Jailbreaking’ of iPhones - NYTimes.com
I had no idea the Library of Congress had power like that.
Sharing Time!: Call me (but only if you use AT&T) →
She was lying down on a mattress endorsed by NASA in the investment banker’s apartment. It was her third night staying over. They had been on a handful of dates. She reached over the side of the bed to plug in her phone and saw that his charger had already been plugged into the surge protector….
“Rereading and losing position, in fact, is a common problem with long, vertical...”
– Horizontalism and Readability « Thinking for a Living
False. Vertical scrolling is awesome, especially with the right line length, margins, etc.
“The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead...”
– Robert Bringhurst, from The Elements of Typographic Style (via viafrank)
750words.com →
This is brilliant.
“In this study, we introduce the notion of a brand cult in an effort to better...”
– The Cult of Macintosh - Consumption Markets & Culture
I won’t pay $30 to read this, but I wonder if they compare Steve Jobs to Siddhartha.
