January 2009
23 posts
Jan 31st
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Make way for bio-aesthetics by John Derbyshire - The New Criterion THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2009 Hello Worlds - ChronicleReview.com Grand Text Auto » Why Johnny must program (procedural literacy revisited) Where Computer Science and Cultural Studies Collide - ChronicleReview.com Nerd Merit Badges Trust Barometer 2009 | Edelman UK Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom -...
Jan 31st
Miro 2.0rc1 Released! →
Last night, Will put up the first Release Candiate for Miro 2.0. A ton of work has gone into it, and it works and looks a lot better than 1.2.8 (our last release). If you’re okay with occasionally flaky software (it’s the first test release, after all) you should definitely check it out.
Jan 30th
Derek Powazek - Programmers are Tiny Gods →
“Programmers are the Gods of their tiny worlds. They create something out of nothing. In their command-line universe, they say when it’s sunny and when it rains. And the tiny universe complies.”
Jan 29th
“Sobering times do not necessarily require everyone to be sober.”
– John Dickerson (via Slate)
Jan 29th
HOWTO: Remove duplicates from GMail Contacts
Introduction I recently got a T-Mobile G-1. It draws its contact list from GMail. Unfortunately, GMail has a bad habit of duplicating your contacts which makes it difficult to find the right contact on the phone. Using a bit of external software, it’s not too hard to remove/combine those duplicate entries. You’ll need Thunderbird 2 (one of the extensions doesn’t work with...
Jan 27th
Jan 23rd
Headline Shirts - Mass Quantities of Code -... →
Jan 21st
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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: More Letters From Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids’ Letters to President Obama. The Transition Declaration of Independence » Transition Culture The New Atlantis » People of the Screen Harper’s Index: A retrospective of the Bush era (Harper’s Magazine)
Jan 17th
Jan 14th
WatchWatch
The only conductor to ever lead the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Zander is a prophet of human potential and an unrivaled champion of joie de vivre. Watch as he helps unlock the boundless potential of a 15 year old cellist and teaches the entire Pop!Tech audience what it means to live in a world of possibility.
Jan 14th
tab dump (getting them out of firefox so I can...
Why Policy Matters in Politics WorldChanging: Year in Review 2008: Best in Essays Friends in Need Sign of the End Time Uncle Sam
Jan 9th
Virginians See Bridge Closings As Dose of Northern... →
“Officials said the decision had nothing to do with the Virginia’s Confederate past.”
Jan 9th
End Times - The Atlantic (January/February 2009) →
About the NYT possibly going under, and the future of journalism; Jeff Jarvis (of BuzzMachine) has been saying this stuff for years now
Jan 8th
"Partisan Self-Description" at EzraKlein Archive |... →
Key phrase: “Partisans don’t simply disagree on the merits of candidates. They disagree on the shape of the underlying reality.”
Jan 8th
what makes a good day?
I’ve had the dozen daily delights up in my Firefox tablist for a couple days now. For those of you too lazy to click through, the daily delights are: drink tea eat chocolate drink wine eat a piece of fruit eat fresh vegetables have a conversation have sex get out in the fresh air do nothing, think nothing, say nothing for at least 5 minutes look at something with...
Jan 7th
I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I’m a Money Managing Healthy Tree Hugger 0% of the 38448 people who have taken this quiz are like me. (ht Ellie)
Jan 5th
Django | Built-in template tags and filters |... →
Jan 5th
paulswartz.net →
I’ve finally gotten around to getting myself a real domain. I’d thought about it before, but it took a crazy deal from Dreamhost ($11 for two years of hosting) to finally get me over the hump. The URL for this blog has switched to http://blog.paulswartz.net but the old URL should redirect for the foreseeable future. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. One thing...
Jan 5th
“I believe in letting the other fellow have my way.”
– Fmr. Senator Clairborne Pell
Jan 2nd
Worldchanging: The Politics of Optimism →
“Optimism…especially optimism which is neither foolish nor silent, can be revolutionary.”
Jan 2nd
cityofsound: The street as platform →
Jan 2nd
2008: my year of living smaller - O'Reilly... →
Jan 2nd