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July 8, 2008

xkcd - MacGyver gets lazy.... → 6:27 pm

May 14, 2008

2:32 pm

Schrodinger’s cat is a zombie.

— Slashdot | Quantum Cryptography Broken, and Fixed

May 13, 2008

The Narcissism of Small Code Differences → 11:57 pm

May 6, 2008

xkcd - Forks and Spoons → 1:21 pm

January 17, 2008

1:03 pm

RKelly is a ruby implementation of Kelly. Kelly is a fictional project that I made up so that I could name my project RKelly.

— » Parsing Javascript Parser

12:17 pm

In all this crazy Tom Cruise hating business of the last couple of years, I have prevented myself from thinking he’s totally batshit. This video. He’s fucking batshit.

— Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientology Tried To Suppress

January 14, 2008

Lisp Primer → 6:24 pm

Dumb moments in Bass History → 12:32 pm

I’ll kick off the party. I nominate Krist Novoselic’s bass toss:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNNDr…eature=related

Welcome to OpenVZ — Server Virtualization Open Source Project :: OpenVZ :: Supported by SWsoft → 8:12 am

7:54 am

Nutime - a Ruby DateTime alternative

nutime from RAA by Tadayoshi Funaba An experimental time class NuTime is an alternative time library. - Compatible with builtin Time’s API - Supports timezone handling. - Faster than DateTime

January 13, 2008

Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back → 11:23 am

theodp writes “Time reports that vinyl records are suddenly cool again. Vinyl has a warmer, more nuanced sound than CDs or MP3s; records feature large album covers with imaginative graphics, pullout photos, and liner notes. ‘Bad sound on an iPod has had an impact on a lot of people going back to vinyl,’ says 15-year-old David MacRunnel, who owns more than 1,000 records.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Edible Antifreeze For Smoother Ice Cream → 2:12 am

holy_calamity writes “Proteins extracted from gelatin can dramatically improve the quality of ice cream by preventing the growth of ice crystals that ruin its texture. Perfect smooth ice cream has ice crystals around 20 microns in size, but slight thawing and refreezing makes them grow and ruins the mouth feel, making it gritty. The new proteins are similar to those in the blood of the snow flea, an insect able to keep active in sub-zero temperatures.” Here are the abstract and the full article…

SimCity Source Code Is Now Open → 1:01 am

Tolkien writes “Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPLv3. For legal reasons the open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. The OLPC will also be getting a SimCity branded version that has been QA’ed by Electronic Arts. Some very cool changes have been made by Don Hopkins, who updated and ported what is now Micropolis. (Here is an earlier Slashdot discussion kicked off by a submission Don made.) Among other things, it has been…

January 12, 2008

XKCD Inadvertently Causes Googlebomb → 7:00 pm

MrCopilot writes “As I noted yesterday (and was joined by many others)… in an offhand observation xkcd has singlehandedly changed a small section of the Internet. Changing the results from a Google search for “Died in a Blogging Accident” from 2 to (at this writing) over 7,170 in a little more than 24 hours.” If you aren’t reading xkcd, you’re missing out.