Monthly Archives: February 2006
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What’s In Your Shredder?
Dear Capital One, Thank you for giving my shredder such a wonderful workout. I have now idea how I would quite so regularly verify that it’s still working if I didn’t get your asinine offers for credit cards four or five times a week. I don’t know if it’s the 0% success rate you’ve had [...]
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The Ghost Brigades is out
John Scalzi’s new book The Ghost Brigades is available at stores as of yesterday. I picked up my copy last night and stayed up reading it later than I really had planned on. I haven’t finished it just quiet yet, but I like it so far. It starts of very quickly and is within a [...]
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What’s In The Briefcase?
Today is my first day of glorious unemployment. What am I doing with this momentous occasion, you ask? I took my dry cleaning in. If this doesn’t cement in your mind the notion that I am in fact the most exciting individual ever to walk the earth, I’m not entirely sure what will. I totally [...]
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BarCamp
I got the call via email today to represent for Pasadena at this year’s BarCamp Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it in part conflicts with Lebowskifest LA, so I don’t know that I’ll be able to make it — I could in theory go on Sunday, but I don’t know that an evening of bowling and white [...]
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A Timely Hunting Quiz
Test your hunting knowlege over at Channel One. If you do well on this quiz, you probably already know that it’s not cool to shoot your hunting friends in the face.
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John Battelle on China and US Information Technology
John Battelle has some intensely interesting things to say about Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, the US Government and their role viz China and free information. Long story short we’re all doing the wrong thing, and the problem goes all the way to the top. Until the person leading this country values human rights over appeasement, [...]
New Beastles album available
I know I’m lame for posting something that’s already been on BoingBoing, but the last Beastles album was so good that I can’t pass up mentioning this. Long story short is that djBC put mp3′s for Let It Beast up on the magic internet machine. The first two tracks are great. Grab it while you [...]
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Web 2.0 v. Doing Things Right
Joel on Software has some interesting things to say about setting your priorities when creating software products, the basic conflict being between doing things quickly and doing them correctly. Listen, I know that everybody is saying that the cool thing to do these days is Ship Early and Often, but when you ship half-baked ajax [...]
Posted in Links, Programming, The 'Hoo | Permalink | 5 Responses
narnia rap battle
I don’t know if it’s on or if TLI just got served, but I do know that this east coast/west coast narnia rap battle is damn damn funny. Thanks to Jill for the link!
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