December 2010
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In case you thought maybe Canadian a.) telecoms... →
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“…the Mayans were wrong: the end of the world has nothing to do with...”
– The Road To Hell Is Paved With Compostable Bags
(via mariahnotcarey)
“In June, Apress released a 704-page book called “iPad made simple”. Let me...”
– The ten worst products of 2010
“A developer’s time is far more expensive than the cost of an SSD hard drive, a...”
– Give your programmers professional tools
When I arrived at one former day job, I found the whole programming department housed in tiny cubicles in a cold, windowless concrete bunker, hunched on squeaky, stained, cast-off chairs, and squinting at dim, bottom-barrel 14” CRT monitors.
When the...
“‘How do you get guys to a ballet movie? How do you get girls to a thriller?’ The...”
– Natalie Portman on ‘Black Swan’
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Are Humans Evolving to Be Dumber? →
(Please discuss with your favorite creationist.)
“The teens’ friends told police that the car was having engine trouble, and...”
– Family: 5 dead in Fla. motel were like brothers
(Followup to my earlier post in which I wondered if the boys might have overreacted to over-dramatic news coverage of the Florida cold snap. Perhaps not. Senseless and sad either way.)
Five teenagers found dead inside Florida motel... →
These poor kids left a car running all night in a closed garage under a motel room, apparently because they were afraid it would not start in the morning.
This motel room is in Hialeah, Florida. That’s just outside of Miami, an area which has apparently been under a “freeze warning” and “wind chill advisory” the last couple of nights.
Freeze warning as in “it...
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ryanpurtill:
The streets outside are white, bright and insufferable. It’s like a sorority, except the streets are having trouble getting plowed.
Five teenagers found dead inside Florida motel... →
These poor kids left a car running all night in a closed garage under a motel room, apparently because they were afraid it would not start in the morning.
This motel room is in Hialeah, Florida. That’s just outside of Miami, an area which has apparently been under a “freeze warning” and “wind chill advisory” the last couple of nights.
Freeze warning as in “it...
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“How many middle-class Americans now believe that the sky is the limit if they...”
– Who Killed the Disneyland Dream? - NYTimes.com
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True Grit: The Coen Brothers' Great Adaptation →
azspot:
What’s surprising is how few reviewers of the film are familiar with Charles Portis’ great novel and seem to know it only as the basis of the amiable, but sloppily made, 1969 John Wayne vehicle. First serialized 43 years ago, like so many great American novels were, in the Saturday Evening Post True Grit is a monologue in which an elderly Arkansas woman named Mattie Ross relates her...
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The Milwaukee Meetup is ALIVE! →
smoketest:
Although TheNeilShow will unfortunately not be able to attend what was going to be his going-away party, the Milwaukee meetup is still on for January 8th.
All of you spectacular human-beings from Wisconsin should know that the meetup is now listed on the Meetups page as are all of the details. RSVP if you can, don’t worry about it if you can’t; we’d just like to be able to give...
Goat found shivering on Wis. beach gets new home →
D’awww..!
“Dragon Dictate like fire!” said Buckwheat”
– A reader comment on Dragon Dictate speech-to-text application: I love it - Boing Boing
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When did Oklahoma start electing shaved apes to... →
PZ Meyers savages, line by line, a ridiculous column by a new state representative who plans to try to bring creationism to the schools.
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“…trickle-down economics is a joke. Service jobs are not middle class,...”
– Wisconsin’s Small Government Experiment | ThirdCoast Digest
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“…trickle-down economics is a joke. Service jobs are not middle class,...”
– Wisconsin’s Small Government Experiment | ThirdCoast Digest
Kids write Santa this year for basic needs instead of toys - USA Today
Wall Street bonuses may top last year as profits soar - Reuters
w00t!
The Real Katie West is sending me a copy of Nanoka!
Now I’m gonna have to read it naked.
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Mmmm, Mint-y.
Geeking out a bit tonight. I’m posting this from an old Dell laptop running Linux Mint 10 — with wifi configured and running, even. I had a couple of delays in figuring out what to do to enable wireless (the historical Linux+laptop bugaboo) since the included tools keep upgrading, rendering older how-to discussions on community forums obsolete. But in the end, everything I needed was...
The Pipes Are Leaking: The Neil Show and... →
smoketest:
themattsmith:
theneilshow:
And Tumblr meet up! Saturday, January 8th, 6pm at Transfer Pizza on Mitchell Street, Milwaukee.
Let’s give this beautiful bastard the sendoff he deserves, you guys.
You heard it, folks! January 8th at Transfer Pizzeria will be TheNeilShow’s sendoff for when he goes to the east coast to become a firefighter and to live in magnificent sin...