Prototype: Object-Oriented Javascript Library is written by Ruby hackers for the Rails platform. Used to make these pretty effects.
[ also via Accordion Guy ]
Author: Dotan Dimet
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special kind of hug
A 1950’s sex education recording, The Marriage Union (mp3)
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The name is Lane, Loser Lane.
…in 1958, a New York City father named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner… Three years later, the Lanes had another baby boy, their seventh and last child. For reasons that no one can quite pin down today, Robert decided to name this boy Loser. Robert wasn’t unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the name’s bookend effect. First a Winner, now a Loser. But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, could Loser Lane possibly succeed?
Via Charles Stross’ LJ, I found this Astronomy knowledge quiz. Since the link was posted, the quiz writer modified the results so it gives you the ratio of correct answers in each category rather than the precentage. So I got 5 of 5 background knowledge, 6 of 8 solar system, 6 of 6 stars, and 5 of 5 galaxies.
More interesting to me than the results is tracking down where I got my knowledge from. Come back here after looking at the quiz..
The Long Emergency predicts that a continuing, permanent energy crisis is close at hand, with cheap oil becoming a thing of the past, and America’s economy and infrastructure collapsing, more or less, along with the rest of the world.
Somehow, when I was younger, these apocalyptic scenarios seemed less bumming.