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The Way It Is 18 Jul 2008
When something outside of yourself resembles your imagination very closely, it's a powerful experience. When something outside of yourself seduces your imagination, brings it into the fold, and then d. […]
Festooning The Tree Of Life 17 Jul 2008
Can we make a picture of history? Charles Darwin recognized that all the different species on Earth share a common ancestry, having branched apart over millions of years. He pictured the history of li. […]
Quote of the Day 15 Jul 2008
In my LATEST phase, I feel that character background should be 25 words or less, and the GM's world background should be 500 words or less. The GM may have more information, but all the PLAYERS get is. […]
NYTProf v2 - A major advance in perl profilers 15 Jul 2008
After much hacking, and just in time for OSCON, I’m delighted to announce the release of Devel::NYTProf version 2. A powerful, efficient, feature-rich perl source code profiler. “If NYTProf 1 is a. […]
grep is a beautiful tool 14 Jul 2008
[setting riff] traders of the omniversal slipways 14 Jul 2008
evocative interdimensional travel fantasy setting
Osprey Publishing - The Hussite Wars 1419–36 14 Jul 2008
picture book of military history
DESCENDING, by Tom Disch 14 Jul 2008
FeedWordPress 14 Jul 2008
RSS to posts, now supports 2.5x
המרת טקסט עברית מחורבש 14 Jul 2008
ג'יבריש היפוך אותיות עברית הפוכה - המרת טקסט עברי ויזואלי / לוגי, המרה מ-DOS, ועוד
Breakaway 12 Jul 2008
Last night I got an email from Erik Davis (of the indispensable Techgnosis, http://www.techgnosis.com/) who told me of the death, at 74, of filmmaker Bruce Conner. I'd heard nothing of Conner. […]
Yes, But What Are They Saying About Us? 9 Jul 2008
From Science Daily:When it comes to cellular communication networks, a primitive single-celled microbe that answers to the name of Monosiga brevicollis has a leg up on animals composed of billions of. […]
Paul Gravett: Article - Jack Kirby 9 Jul 2008
jQuery LiveSearch 8 Jul 2008
A fun blog post popped up yesterday in which John Nunemaker ported a Quicksilver-style Live Search to jQuery. Taking a look at his code, I decided to have a little fun and re-port it to jQuery - tryin. […]
Collecting Stray Thoughts - 2008-07-07 8 Jul 2008
Man cook meat with fire. Organic ribeye steak, grilled to within an inch of its blackened little life, with cherry tomatoes and fresh bread. # Inorganic steak is, of course, much crunchier. # No. MAN. […]
Mad Science Contest: Build a Lifeform and We'll Send You to Hong Kong or Give You $1000 7 Jul 2008
Mind Games - Remembering Brainwashing - Cold War Thinking, Today - NYTimes.com 7 Jul 2008
Comic for July 6, 2008 6 Jul 2008
Random Stupidity in the Name of Terrorism 3 Jul 2008
An air traveller in Canada is first told by an airline employee that it is "illegal" to say certain words, and then that if she raised a fuss she would be falsely accused: When we boarded a little lat. […]
100 Vim commands every programmer should know 2 Jul 2008