May 2008
24 posts
Mr. Lessig Goes to Washington →
May 31st
May 30th
“The first rule of biology labs: “Don’t drink things in the vials...”
– The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science
May 30th
Disable Caps Lock :: Useful Stuff ::... →
A registry hack to map the Caps Lock key to Control in Windows
May 30th
WMARS Patron Info →
Lets me check my library info (yours too, if you’ve got a Western/Central MA library card)
May 26th
CSS2 Reference →
May 26th
Twisted - Conch bugs not up for review →
Copying my bookmarks from Firefox into del.icio.us.
May 26th
May 25th
WatchWatch
The Green City: A great talk with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom about how he’s making SF one of the greenest cities in the world. (from the 2008 New Yorker conference “Stories from the Near Future”)
May 25th
Language Log →
They’ve finally got a real RSS feed (that doesn’t just have an excerpt of the post) so I can subscribe in Google Reader. (thanks Catherine!)
May 24th
CURB ALERT →
If you live in Western MA and want some free stuff, please take some of mine!
May 23rd
Dear Lazyweb,
My current cellphone, a Motorola SLVR L6, is dying. Requirements for its replacement: thin (roughly 11-15mm) which probably also means candybar Bluetooth calendar sync over Bluetooth (ideally just by copying iCal files) MP3 ringtones Quad-band (I’m going to Europe in the fall) camera roughly $75 on eBayThere’s an SLVR L7, but that was out when I bought my L6. What else is out there?
May 21st
My Testimonial for Pioneer Valley CrossFit
I started with PVCF in April as a way to crosstrain for Ultimate Frisbee but in that time it’s become something I look forward to all on its own. We’d have conditioning as part of practice in college, but that’s nothing compared to the workout I get coming to CrossFit 3 times a week. In the short time that I’ve been coming, I’m already more flexible, stronger, and...
May 21st
Under water grottos, caverns Filled with apes That eat figs Stepping on the figs That the apes Eat, they crunch The apes howl, bare Their fangs, dance, Tumble in the Rushing water Musty, wet pelts Glistening in the blue. A poem Barack Obama wrote back in 1981.  (via harper’s) 
May 20th
Best Scenic Drives in the U.S. →
We’ll be hitting some of these on our road trip in September: Highways 1 and 12, Going-to-the-Sun Road at least.
May 19th
“[Dreams are] random firings of sleepy brains. They’re stupid stuff my...”
– T-Rex (via Dinosaur Comics)
May 12th
May 9th
WatchWatch
Who knew that the stupidest bike lane in the USA was right here in Maryland?
May 8th
“We’re giving the people of Zimbabwe another opportunity to mend their...”
– Scary comment about the highly controversial elections in Zimbabwe (via nyt)
May 8th
Zombie Strippers [2008] [R] - 8.10.8 →
By the numbers: 37 F-words and its derivatives, 1 obscene hand gesture, 1 sexual hand gesture, 10 sexual references, 13 scatological terms, 10 anatomical terms, 13 mild obscenities and name-calling,…
May 6th
Little Brother » News →
This is the book I’ve most been looking forward to reading; it’s going straight to the top of my reading list.
May 6th
May 5th
“One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am – a...”
– Edward Abbey (posted on the tackboard in my mom’s office)
May 5th
Dumb as We Wanna Be - New York Times →
Tom Friedman on our not having an energy policy.
May 1st