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Archives for March 2007
links for 2007-03-30
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In other news, hell freezes over and pigs fly.
links for 2007-03-28
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This article is the candidate for the most misleading headline of the year award.
links for 2007-03-26
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LDS claim religious iconography is a “registered trademark.”
Lose/Lose Situation
A friend of my wife recently ordered a new license plate for her vehicle.
I imagine there was a three-hour meeting at the offices of the Virginia DMV to decide whether they should issue this plate. Debate was probably an attempt to reconcile the two possible obvious outcomes:
- If we approve this personalized plate, we’ll get complaints from prudish members of the public.
- If we don’t approve this personalized plate, somebody with the breast cancer lobby will make a public stink.
Sometimes you just can’t win.
links for 2007-03-21
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A conversation at the grownup table, as imagined at the kids’ table.
links for 2007-03-20
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“Thermopylae is a wedge issue!”
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Techniques that might be useful in allowing me to set my office phone to automatically forward calls to my mobile when I’m away from my desk.
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You would really think there would be a law mandating temperature compensation at the pump.
links for 2007-03-17
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A preview of our new web application for collaborative file-versioning. It even supports files up to 2GB in size.
links for 2007-03-15
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This isn’t just stupid. This is Grizzly Man stupid.
links for 2007-03-13
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“Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth.”
links for 2007-03-09
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The television adaptation of the popular PRI program is premiering on March 22nd.
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A good explanation of some of the shortcomings of OpenID.
links for 2007-03-08
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Erin’s DIY vertical swift and lazy kate design featured on O’Reilly’s Craft blog.
CRM-114
In tonight’s episode of Heroes, a computer display briefly appeared onscreen showing a curator’s catalog code for a sword being held in a private collection. I immediately recognized the code (CRM-114) as a reference to the radio discriminator aboard the B-52 in Dr. Strangelove.
Shortly after the show aired I visited the Wikipedia page for CRM-114. I was a little surprised that someone had already edited the page to reflect the reference that had appeared on television less than an hour earlier.
The immediacy of Wikipedia astounds me.
links for 2007-03-04
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The most popular textbook curriculum as presented by a stand-up economist.
links for 2007-03-01
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A Markdown processor written entirely in JavaScript.
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The old mystery segments from 3-2-1 Contact, like everything else, are now up on YouTube.
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The typography in Mike Judge’s Idiocracy shows that the devil really is in the details.
