December 2008
33 posts
If we catch John Doe and he turns out to be the devil – I mean, if he’s...
– Se7en
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be...
– L’Avion, Antoine de Saint Exupéry; Wikiquote
After five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s bridge will span the Golden...
– Golden Horn, Wikipedia
From a Co-worker
One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from
Across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He
spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, ‘I would like to go in and
meet with President Bush.’
The Marine looked at the man and said, ‘Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president
and no longer resides here.’
The old...
@bmf: @omnivector I buy all my music from iTunes.
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Yeah, about that…
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Fun with data mining.
Here are two alternate views of the United States based solely on geocoded tagging of Flickr photos.
Data mining can be so cool.
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Forty Two →
In other news, I decided to try resurrecting a muxtape that went down in the “great purge”, using the sa-weet OpenTape package. Check it out: I’m a big fan of this playlist, hope you will be too.
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It’s a shame that it came down to this, but Jerry Yang, like other...
– The whole thing is absolutely ridiculous, but this line pretty much sums it all up.
Just a guess here, Doc: I’m pretty sure Yang has moved on from faxes by now.
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If two or three startup founders go to interview at a company and the company...
– I Told You You Were Doin It Wrong, uncov. There’s really nothing funnier than Ted when he’s been proven right.
A disclaimer: I have an automatic Pavlovian “dislike” response to anyone named Leah. But still; it’s about time.