working out of Zebu on Broad St. for a few hours this AM while kids overrun our house.
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links for 2008-01-29
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Even if Google’s index no longer includes my old posts, I know that NewsGator archives the contents of millions of RSS feeds. So I contacted Greg Reinacker to see how to access that archive, and he pointed me to the NewsGator Archive Service
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The secret of happiness | It’s in Iceland | Economist.com
The secret of happiness | It’s in Iceland | Economist.com
The search for happiness is becoming more scientific. But does that make it any more accurate than it used to be? Two books explore a growth industry
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a morning of my least favorite acronyms: GD lib in PHP, CSS edits and SQL at the CLI.
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iTunes movie rental experience
iTunes movie rental experience
This past Sunday found us lying around bored with no football on or Netflix to watch so we decided to give the iTunes video rental a try.
The selection is OK. Not great. It seems pretty limited right now but the movies they do have look decent enough to brush away the boredom of a lazy Sunday afternoon. I think we picked Ronin to watch. Unfortunately, we were never able to download the movie. There were multiple reasons behind the failure.
First off, I have a PO Box associated with my…
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Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face
Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face
hosted SVN – free 20MB 1 repository hosting
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Moonwatcher: Feed Archaeology
Even if Google’s index no longer includes my old posts, I know that NewsGator archives the contents of millions of RSS feeds. So I contacted Greg Reinacker to see how to access that archive, and he pointed me to the NewsGator Archive Service
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As long as we’re talking about interesting magazines . . .
As long as we’re talking about interesting magazines . . .
This month’s issue of Harper’s has a short piece about George Bush’s misunderstanding of his favorite painting:
So Bush’s inspiring, proselytizing Methodist is in fact a horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob. It seems a fitting marker for the Bush presidency. Bush has consistently exhibited what psychologists call the “Tolstoy syndrome.” That is, he is completely convinced he knows what things are, so he shuts down all avenues of inquiry about them and disregards the information that is…
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links for 2008-01-28
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screen/video capture and sharing.
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Bigger perhaps than the NYTimes dropping its paywall . . .
Bigger perhaps than the NYTimes dropping its paywall . . .
The Atlantic Monthly has made its awesome, super-amazing content available for free on its website.
This is one of the magazines that Hugh McKenna, my high-school English teacher, suggested I subscribe to (the other was Harper’s). I’ve been reading them ever since and subscribing to them off and on since college. Moreover, this is the magazine that Emerson wrote for. I can not say enough good things about The Atlantic. It is like a readable version of Smithsonian with substantiated…
Current Spins
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Posts Worth Reading:
Letterboxd
- Mike Judge doesn't disappoint. Really timely movie, too.
- +1 for how the Banana boat song got incorporated. Also Winona and Keaton are still great
- barely worth having on in the background while I did something else.
- John Cena!
- So local.
- Like a good John Grisham book
- If you want to get super stressed out
- Brutal and honest. Great movie.
- Made me aware of how little I know of geopolitics and socialism.
- Follow up to watching the Montreux performance
Reading Notes
- The antidote to all of this, in the broadest terms, is *more reality*, more immersion in the finite here and now: more writing on paper; […]
- “Under the worst conditions, what’s the most important thing to have?” He replied: “Friends.” Source: Recording: After the Election – Four Ways We Can Respond […]
- Spain’s unity at this moment is from the bottom up. Or, as Spanish professional soccer player Ferran Torres wrote on social media, “The people are […]
- Unable, then, to see the world because I have forgotten the way of being in the world that enables vision in the deepest sense, I […]
- Suppose Bob writes an email to Sue, who has no existing business relationship with Bob, asking her to draw a picture of a polar bear […]
Saved Links
- Whether you’re looking to escape into a cottage-core wonderland, enact fiery revenge on a deadbeat ex, or cosplay as a bigtime magazine editor, there’s a POV playlist for you. — Direct link
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- Audiophile streamer for the wonderful Raspberry Pi family of single board computers and DIY audio community. — Direct link
- Bluesky offers a lot of unique features like algorithmic feeds and custom moderation that can make for a rich, in-control experience for users. — Direct link
- Stanford professor and Smule co-founder Ge Wang explains how computers can make music, and the future of creativity in an AI world, on The Vergecast. #music #ai — Direct link
- Good iOS shortcuts resource #personal_technology — Direct link
- Objective news — Direct link
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