The 2008 VP Debate Drunky Bingo Game
No one should have to watch the debates sober. Be sure to print out some Drinky Bingo Boards before the hurting begins. Update:
View ArticlePics from the GitDown
We went to a ridiculous event put on by the GitHib crew. It was like dorkbot but with version control instead of electrons.
View ArticleDamar the Talking Starling
You can hear him repeating his name “Damar” a lot. Via this reddit thread, which contains this devastating story of a guy caring for a mccaw. I used to have a friend who worked the night shift at...
View ArticleWhy gcc has a free Objective C frontend
Apple compiles OS X and almost all of its software with gcc. I still find it hard to believe that such a secretive company builds almost all of its software products using gcc, the compiler that...
View ArticleMind Tricks: Ancient and Modern
My new favorite little book. It’s got all kinds of helpful funny things. One of the ideas is to map letters to numbers, then make up nonsense sentences to remember strings of numbers (combination...
View ArticleApple Tech Support: Secret Tricks of the Apple Fanboy
Even though Apple makes the best tech stuff in the world, that doesn’t mean their products are free of bugs. Far from it :-) As a former employee of Apple Computer and a buyer of many tens of thousands...
View ArticleRemembering GeoCities and KickTam
After fifteen years, GeoCities is shutting down for good today. The Internet Archive has been working with Yahoo to make sure that the Wayback Machine has a complete, final snapshot of GeoCities before...
View ArticleOne month of vacation, visualized as git commits
I took a month off from my day job. Surprising, my github contribution graph for the last month went nuts:
View ArticleMay Tronix Linkdump
Tronix: Artist’s Notebook: Ramsey Nasser – Ruby in Arabic A Dutch book on mixing color DevOps Against Humanity OpenTX – open source firmware for RC transmitters An Interesting Gallery of iPython...
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