December 2009
98 posts
http://gist.github.com/265906 →
A bit of a wrinkle in my idea for a redirect service that would make URLs easy to read out loud: all of the really simple domains are taken and expensive.
Ideas?
EDIT: Scratch that.
“I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my...”
– Warren Buffett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The word sensuous is thought to have been invented by John Milton (1641) in a...”
– The dictionary on my computer.
“Just the other night I was watching Anderson Cooper’s variety show on CNN, and...”
– The End of the 00s: Noted, Without Noteworthiness, by Rob Walker | The Awl (via jayyarow) (via mikehudack)
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“I used my arm to make breathing room as I fell into the salt pile. But they do...”
– Toby Fee, Ways Not to Die
Bit.ly works by taking long URLs and providing a condensed version that redirects to the same place, like “http://bit.ly/eGygF”.
How about a similar service that takes long URLs and provides a version that’s easy and unambiguous to read over the phone? Heroku does this already, with unnamed projects given temporary names like cold-mountain-79.heroku.com. Just as easily, your...
“I go on safari and look at my history and say, ‘Go home.’ Nothing...”
– I had my last day doing phone support for Apple today.
sometimes
embody:
getting caught up on Tumblr is like looking at photographs of deep space. Like, I think the light from the Internet I was just looking at originated 6 days ago.
This is what I am saying.
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Felicific calculus - Wikipedia, the free... →
Guerrilla librarian - Wikipedia, the free... →
dalasverdugo:
Back before the Internet became commonplace, and no one was even using email, some of the nerdier kids at school would bring in huge binders filled with various things they had printed off of websites. There were all kinds of things like game cheats, weird porn, and The Anarchist’s Cookbook.
This was my first exposure to the Internet, and seeing how much crazy stuff was on it was...
Deployment round 2
thesoldier:
So, as you all know, The US is sending 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. I will be part of that surge, and I found out we will be leaving sometime in the summer 2010. Great news they tell us right when its time to go on Christmas leave.
Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia, the... →
Long zoom.
Jakob Nielsen talks about how the internet is rolling back the concentration of narrative power in the last 200 years.
Then I remember that the Catholic Church was basically the Universal Studios of the 15th century.
I made a lovely little rails application but I’m having all kinds of trouble getting it up and running.
“Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video...”
– Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones (via 2020) (via embody)
Wait, why can’t we all watch the video feeds in the first place?
“Depending on wave size, direction, and on wind conditions, sailboats can also...”
– Surfing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“We live in a time I think not of mainstream, but of many streams, or even, if...”
– John Cage
How to recognise a good programmer →
Apparently I fit these criteria by eschewing Internet Explorer, formerly working as a bicycle mechanic, making Logo programs in third grade and failing CS 111 in my senior year of college.
Octopus Hackers →
