March 2009
47 posts
Earth Hour 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com →
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog » Blog Archive » The... →
How My Start-Up Failed | StoryLog: true stories →
List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes... →
The Daily Mail links White on White violence to... →
I wasn’t going to post this, as it is outside the remit of Skeptobot but it’s really annoying me. Basically a 15 year old white teenager in her army cadet uniform gets attacked by a white woman and…
Eyes →
For my part, I an interested in and enthusiastic about innovation, but I do not...
– Penny Arcade! - The Law Of Unintended Consequences
Night Shade Books presents Ted Chiang's... →
Danhon: Wolfenstein 3D Classic →
Carmack on iPhone development, amongst other things: “Cass Everitt had been doing some personal work on the iPhone, so he helped me get everything set up for local iPhone development here, which is a…
The Art of Dissent #12 →
Margo Seltzer →
part of Ada Lovelace Day Margo Ilene Seltzer was born in rural, upstate New York. “I like to describe it as a place with more cows than people,” she later told an interviewer. In her small town,…
Something to say / nothing to say →
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World starts shooting one week from today. Can you believe it? No? It’s true. If you thought this movie was already shooting, well, it wasn’t. It starts shooting one week from…
“If we peel the orange we get an apple, which we can compare to an apple!” My boss is brazenly abusing this metaphor.
Boop beep boop beep boop beep I AM ROBOT HELLO HU-MANS.
LVM is easy! Mostly because of the idiot proof guide at http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm
This weeks Dollhouse is *awesome*. Yay, Joss!
The more expensive a computer case, the less likely you are to cut yourself on it.
Gossip Girl dulls my brain. In a good way.
My phone doesn’t get 3G anymore :( stupid 18 month contract.
Building a gigantic NAS/Torrentbox this weekend: should I go OpenSolaris/ZFS or Linux/LVM?
Hugs For Monsters :: The Work of Visual Artist Joe... →
Damnit Gossip Girl, less whiny kids, more RockStarDad!
Google Street View is online for London! Probably took so long because they waited for a sunny day :)
Gran Torino is much funnier than the trailer makes it out to be.
Apparently I checked in 365000 lines of code last week. Go me!
More ‘Whedony’ Dollhouse this week - ‘man-reaction’ heehee.
The McGangBang →
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OH GOD YES
The McGangBang has to be one of the more American things I’ve ever seen. It’s a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger with a McChicken sandwich crammed into it. Let that…
A Message For The Weekend →
From Zoetica Ebb:
Alice: New Samus Cosplay Girl →
That’s quite the outfit.
Amazing Moment on the Jumbotron is Today's BIG... →
WHOOOOOOOAAAA WE’RE HALFWAA-AAY THERRREE
About an hour to go, must keep it together…
So bored right now! I can’t even waste time talking to co-worker as he does not like Ghostbusters.
Feeling Blue →
While listicles (articles that are simply lists, as cataloged on great sites like Listicles) are often the laziest form of journalism, they can also be among the most delightful. Something about…
Tequila, Watchmen, Coffee, Galactica, Popcorn. Best weekend ever :)
theduty:
thedailywhat:
Mr. T just falcon-punched... →
theduty:
thedailywhat:
Mr. T just falcon-punched a shark — your argument is invalid.
WOOHAH GOT YOU ALL IN CHECK.
Why is it that the ickiest bugs always show up half an hour before hometime?
Not entirely sure why there’s a huge orchestra playing the Rocky theme outside my office, but it’s much appreciated.
Argh! Work computer needs more RAM!
Alice: Four out of five Britons repudiate... →
“The survey suggests there is a widespread lack of religious sentiment across Britain. National average figures revealed that less than a third of adults see evolution as part of God’s plan, 89%…
Tweets for today →
14:57 i defeated the weekend #
15:09 god dollhouse is a such a load of fucking crap #
15:12 did eliza dushku learn to act via a correspondence course? #
15:13 i am joss whedon, the…
Matter by Iain M. Banks →
Orbit (2008), Hardcover, 544 pages
The Caryatids →
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Palimpsest →
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Marcher →
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Tender Morsels →
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The City and the City →
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