Out here on the perimeter there are no stars (or Starbucks…) Out here we is stone—immaculate.No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1720333 The domino effect.http://15minutelunch.blogspot.com/2007/10/strap-in-shut-up-and-hold-on-were-going.html Strap in, shut up and hold on. We’re going back. [Warning: Adult Language]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7scA_f5PFM Gee… what a great idea!http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12825-passwordcracking-chip-causes-security-concerns.html “Should I throw away my web server and run for the hills?” he says.http://www.pfflyers.com/video/menomena_window.php Evil Bee [Warning: Sound]http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/103815/Where-Do-You-Stand-on-America’s-Wealth-Spectrum If you’ve made it onto the top levels of the ramp — say you have at least $5 million in investments — you are deemed to be an ultra high net worth individual (or UHNWI).http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071106/lf_afp/britainlawsoffbeat_071106191929 Only a clerk in a tropical fish store.http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1594.htm He should not beat her like he would beat an animal or a child – slapping them right and left.http://www.ifilm.com/video/2910103?ns=1 Let’s go fishing!http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weirdworld/2007/10/23/weird-and-wondrful-foreign-phrases-89520-19993239/ Pesamenteiro - Portuguese: one who joins groups of mourners at the home of a dead person, apparently to offer condolences but in reality is just there for the refreshments.
So… we bought a house, which was built in 1974, and except for a couple additions and paint and a bit of ceramic tile, hasn’t been updated since.
Translation: there is real work to be done before we move in. I spent 3 days taking down a 100% illegal addition that used the block wall on the property line as the outside wall of the room. Yep, built right to (and over) the property line.
Not that it was built correctly, so it had gotten wet, and rotted in places.
Anyway, I managed to tear it down without getting hurt.
I spent parts the last two days removing an interior wall which consisted of a sliding glass door (patio door) and an outside window. Seems these were original to the house, and had simply been kept as the previous (now deceased) owner added on.
Next up, removing the asbestos-laden ‘popcorn’ ceiling texture. I feel so much like Bob the Builder… (can we wreck it, yes we can!)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZWAUAburgLU
Life in Bangkok is about not wasting space.
http://www.spectacle.org/995/scorp.html
The Scorpion and the Frog
http://youtube.com/watch?v=i3Oe2fMqb1Y
It gets ugly around breakfast time.
http://birdloversonly.blogspot.com/2007/09/may-i-have-this-dance.html
Work it!
That never gets old.
http://warmowski.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/jump-in-pitch/
So there’s no frets he can choose to fix the problem!
http://www.zug.com/credit/student/
Tired of those lame designs?
Want to be spotted by Google?
http://www.noob.us/humor/windows-startup-sound-prank/
After all, what are friends for?
[Warning: Adult Content, Sound]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/us/22bar.html?ref=todayspaper“
The “irresponsible expressions of opinion by prominent aliens.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20japan.html
… and a book with tips on how to dress even the nerdiest
children like pseudohoodlums to fend off schoolyard bullies.
http://picasaweb.google.com/tedstoltz/LolcatBible/photo#5088940119647578178
The Bible: New International Lolcat Translation
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Teh Holiez Bibul
http://www.killsometime.com/video/video.asp?ID=1058
Eagle vs. Deer
OMG.
http://www.pongalong.com/beerblog/index.php/best-qvc-bloopers-youtube-friday-five/
Live advertising at its best.
[Warning: Video Links]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702519.html
Washington has a lot of bizarre practices, and it often takes
an outsider to recognize them.
http://www.dailymotion.com/cluster/fun/video/xhf76_domino-billard
How do you keep score, anyway?
http://jumpcut.com/view?id=6F36A14CC4EE11DAA7D616D49358396A
Gotta admit, it never occurred to me, growing up, to set the
hula hoop on fire.
http://influks.com/post1562.html
Takes courage to do Queen A cappella.
http://imakeprojects.com/content/view/46/32/
I used a 4-th quality “bucky” torso from the Anatomical Chart Company.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rIO-tCPSfHA
Damn conspiracy theorists.
http://www.the-backup.com/buy/commercial.php
Many customers are buying one for each side of the bed!
Apparently, the Arizona Water & Pollution Control Association
has an historian.
A coup d’moi.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071012/diet-chocolate-craving/
In the same way people are one of water’s methods for moving
uphill, people are how bacteria gets its chocolate fix.
http://influks.com/post1616.html
Mixing musical styles.
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/266689
“… those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual
activity.”
Straight-forward.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626252.800
If you can take the grisly details, read on for a brief guide
to the many and varied ways death can suddenly strike.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48354634@N00/sets/72157602391235021/
Food and money.
http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html
Satan’s own cookbook.
http://www.extremepumpkins.com/
At what point did the carving of pumpkins turn into a “cute” event?
Run, do not walk to http://www.bigdeadplace.com/iraq.html wherein you will find an excellent interview with a contractor in Antarctica. One of the best things I’ve read in a while.Couple of samples:
Strange events blossomed without scripts in a landscape of decay, dirty machines, and whiskey-soaked mustaches. Men were piled into old military tents on the side of the mountains far from the heart of the town. It was the only place I had been where at night you lulled yourself to sleep pretending that the noise of a half dozen men whacking off was actually a group of thirsty dogs lapping at a water bowl. As cum-soaked socks hit the floor with gentle thuds, the heavy breathing was followed by the click of zippos and I would grab my blanket for comfort in the darkness. We had stepped back in time to a place that you would never bring your mom or your sister—a primate working class culture in the harshest of environments. Like a small town out of the Twilight Zone, or one of those old “Weird Tales” comic books, anything seemed possible.
[…]
Raytheon came in and started a slow evolutionary process that took the town and put it in a Petri dish as an experiment. With microscopes, management was forced to sit around in white coats looking for the viruses and discolorations. These coats would have collars with chains that extend to the mother ship where reports were expected at least five times a day. Someone in Denver who drove home in a Lexus with an “I Brake for Penguins” bumper sticker would control the puppetshow on the ice. This Someone in Denver would stop at BlockBuster Video on the way home and rent the latest Robin Williams movie. This Someone in Denver liked Home Depot and decided that McMurdo too could be run like a corporate giant. A new level of idiocy had reached the ice and it became not unusual to find yourself watching a video on “How to Walk Correctly”, or being forced to sign a contract disallowing the use of the word “vagina”.
Oreilly has canceled ETel 08, and the question is why? All they had to say officially was:
Due to changed circumstances since ETel 2008 was announced, we have decided not to move forward with the conference, which was scheduled for March 3-4, 2008.
Could it be The Long Fall of Books?
Or have conferences just run out of steam?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/05/appendix.purpose.ap/index.html
Finally.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/05/BA51SKDL3.DTL
As part of the lawsuit, Reid presented a statistician’s study
of employees and managers in his department at Google that found
older employees consistently received lower evaluations than
their younger colleagues, and older managers got bonuses that
were 29 percent less than those awarded to managers who were 10
years younger.
http://www.dynamicdemand.co.uk/60_seconds.htm
Dynamic demand control in 60 seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaH4y6ZjSfE
Onslaught
[Warning: Sound, 1:18]
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2526128.html
More whacky celebrity diets.
http://www.mazm.com/2007/09/19/38.toys-manufacture-in-china-25-pics.html
Made in China.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2181337,00.html
Cutting-edge science.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070928/ap_on_sc/hair_of_the_mammoth
Jurassic Park, here we come.
The next time you see a beautiful shooting star…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/internet_story_human_tragedy/
Riding a Jet 101
The problem with Open Source
0 Comments Published September 21st, 2007 in Software Freedom, Open Source, Linux.
Developer: “I just created this essential piece of software according to a tunnel vision, the worse-is-better fallacy, and several misjudgements.”
The herd, in chorus: “Oooh! Shiny! Let’s adopt it!”
From Theses on free softare. Worth reading. See also: http://blogs.sun.com/rsands/entry/joining_the_church_of_macintosh. Pull quote
It seems to me that great user experience is inherently not something that emerges naturally from the hurly-burly world of open source development. Different developers think they know the best way to do something and don’t want to be constrained by others’ ideas on usability. Or they want to experiment with different approaches. Or whatever - it doesn’t matter why all those Linux applications are different. They are. So how to reconcile the need for great user experience - which requires discipline and consistency - with the open source development model? I don’t know the answer - but I suspect that a combination of a community-invented (by open development usability nerds) UI specification and guidelines for Linux applications, coupled with intense peer pressure for projects to conform to these guidelines might be a start.