(via icanread)
Yay new Murder by Death and they’ll be here on April 6th. Badass.
web2py Bayesian classifier and databases « web2py
Interesting approach to populating databases with sanitized data. It’s a perennial problem in development and test and I like this idea a lot more than taking a production database and scrubbing it…
(via nightwarrior)
“et’s like a watermelon on top of a toothpeck! i’ve upset the boy, i’m gunna give him a complex. he’s gunna go cry hemself to sleep entop of hes ‘uge pilla.”
this is my favorite one, and i think still sums up the site, so without further ado, it’s been an awesome project and i’ve loved doing it for you. i’ll leave you with this.
______________basically i want to be able to look at my son one day - right in the eye - and say “your mom was fucking hot”. and then we high five, me and the kid. or something. i haven’t thought all this out yet.
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Untoon of the Day: “Mr. Burns” by Martin Beyer.
Would not watch.
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Untoon of the Day: “Mr. Burns” by Martin Beyer.
Would not watch.
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Books & the Future
A while ago Rands posted about books and what they say about their owners.
What I’m learning during this stalking is my deal. The intricacies of my assessment aren’t the point. You are decidedly and blissfully not me, which is why I’m standing, wine glass in hand, totally and completely lost in your bookshelf. Dr. Seuss and Calvin and Hobbes… interspersed on single shelf. That… is fucking brilliant.
He posted it shortly after I had bought my kindle2 and sold nearly all my paper books. If Rands came over he’d see a handful of Calvin and Hobbes and a couple books I received as gifts. This bummed me out to an extent and has prompted me to start a graphic novel collection.
I haven’t come to a resting place on this set of thoughts yet. I know there are books that are worth owning, I have a few in my collection. However, there is a vast pile that I don’t need to lug with me every time I move, I don’t need to pay $200 sq/ft to house them in the city, and I don’t need to own. I haven’t found a good way to articulate these thoughts especially with bibliophiles like @wjhuie around. I think that Craigmod has done the best job yet of describing this.
As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over?
We’re losing the throwaway paperback.
The airport paperback.
The beachside paperback.
We’re losing the dredge of the publishing world:disposable books. The book printed without consideration of form or sustainability or longevity. The book produced to be consumed once and then tossed. The book you bin when you’re moving and you need to clean out the closet.
These are the first books to go. And I say it again, good riddance.
I don’t have many problems with what he says except the dividing line he draws. That formless content goes digital and definite content goes print or iPad. Then again I don’t get paid the big bucks.
kill -0 | final cog
I must admit, after a decade of working professionally with unix/linux, that I had never encountered kill -0 until TODAY.
Mayor of the North Pole
Lovely story about what happens with an open api and growing pains. Really creative with his accounts and check-in on foursquare. I think the starbucks mayors losing their shit is the best part.
I created a fake Simon Cowell who visits massage parlors and gets lunch at Hotdog on a Stick when not visiting the Kodak theater.
