p1k3-wala/pages/LinkDumpArchiveSeven

A LinkDumpArchive.

= december 2008 =

WareLogging: [http://ogdl.sourceforge.net/ OGDL, Ordered graph data language]

mefi: [http://www.metafilter.com/77859/So-goddamn-good Popcorn]

xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/523/ Decline]

flickr: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/couragecampaign/sets/72157611501972510/show/ please don't divorce us]

[http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/what-is-hindley-milner-and-why-is-it-cool What is Hindley-Milner? (and why is it cool?)] - Suddenly I kind of feel like learning Haskell.

[http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/cartocacoethes-why-the-worlds-oldest-map-isnt-a-map/ Why the World's Oldest Map Isn't a Map] (via [http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/350-accidental-cartography-between-cartocacoethes-and-blatant-pareidolia/ Strange Maps])

WareLogging: [http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/ unix-jun72] - awesome.

[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/76137.html More gravy than the grave]

[http://bellflower.elfle.com/the-woman-and-her-cat.html A bunch of pictures of women with cats]

[http://dablog.rubypal.com/2008/11/30/probative-programming-the-physical-unification-of-code-and-tests Probative Programming: the physical unification of code and tests]

TheHipcrimeVocab

[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=943 Reverse Whorfianism and the value of SHAs]

[http://ragbag.tumblr.com/post/66299966/riddle-me-this Because] the first one made a lot of money?

[http://grandhotelabyss.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/change-change-change-sandman-and-the-90s/ Change, change, change: Sandman and the '90s]

[http://www.ejphoto.com/common_grackle_page.htm A picture of a common grackle]

An [http://www.alternativetentacles.com/page.php?page=jello_openletter&x=1 open letter from Jello Biafra to Barack Obama].

[http://www.viruscomix.com/page466.html The Service]

pa: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/12/19/snowballexe/ Snowball.exe]

[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2952 Damn It Feels Good to be a Banksta]

achewood: [http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12182008 If I did I'd be bluffing.]

[http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/poetry_and_pragmatism/ Poetry and pragmatism] (Rick Warren? What?)

[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010879.html Free Mundadar Zaidi now!]

[http://swtch.com/plan9port/ plan9port]

[http://victorgrimm.com/ victor grimm] - Casey's new band.

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/12/16/cooking-with-campbells-soup/comment-page-1/ Cooking with Campbell's Soup]

[http://www.kingidentity.com/doctrine.htm Christian Identity whackjobs] are the second Google result for "doctrinal".

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/12/16/we-bellow-til-were-deaf/ They Bellow 'Til We're Deaf] - More dissection of stupid genre-bashing.

[http://ask.metafilter.com/109303/Help-me-learn-about-other-peoples-lives-through-blogs Blogs about people's working lives]. Including sped, porn, coffee, and farming.

[http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/make-work/ Make-work.] - On the nature of WPA projects.

[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/75762.html Hey Santa]

[http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/348-an-imperial-palimpsest-on-polands-electoral-map/ An Imperial Palimpsest on Poland’s Electoral Map]

[http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/at_least_its_an_ethos_why_merging_rhetoric_with_composition_is_a_mistake/ At Least It’s An Ethos: Why Merging Rhetoric With Composition Is A Mistake] (things I haven't read yet)

[Eee PC]

An [http://www.dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi?do=item&id=3763 observation by steve dekorte] which strikes me as near-total BS, but is interesting anyway.

[http://cowbird.110mb.com/43.html Every base is base 10].

[Music]: [http://www.metafilter.com/77375/Everything-you-ever-hoped-or-worked-for An Elephant 6 Orchestra concert]

[Music]: [http://library.team-love.com/ The Team Love Library]

TonyHoagland

WareLogging: [http://www.guncho.com/ Guncho]

[http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/which-side-are-you-on/ Suzanne Vega]:

:Songs brand us a part of a tribe. We can pick and choose what tribe we belong to. Goth, emo, hippie, punk, folk, alternative, for example. "Mom! Why are you wearing all black?" my daughter recently shouted at me. "You look so emo!" "I always wear black," I mumbled. "But we are at the beach!" she said. Well, maybe she had a point.

[http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/jilted/ Jilted.]

[Architecture]: [http://www.oskaarchitects.com/Projects/38/Delta-Shelter# OSK Architects] ([http://www.dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi?do=item&id=3756 via])

[http://erikwinn.com/shedchen.html Erik's shedchen]

[http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/4012 Weapons of Mass Instruction] ([http://www.metafilter.com/77300/Weapons-of-Mass-Instruction mefi])

Bands from ''Illuminatus!'' which [http://p1k3.com/bands.txt might also be real bands].

mjd: [http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/ Official ''Higher-Order Perl'' text available]. MOD, PDF.

[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20081205 You don't got a good grasp of the dynamics of romance.]

[http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/334-the-atlas-of-true-names/ The Atlas of True Names]

[http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/understanding_the_black_antigay_marriage_sentiment.php Understanding the black anti-gay marriage sentiment]

[http://penrod-pulaski.livejournal.com/47646.html robin in the rye]

[http://thepaincomics.com/weekly081203.htm I'm from The Future, Asshole] - Also, keep scrolling and read the artist's statement.

ElvisPerkins

[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html Why defend freedom of icky speech?]

My [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7gln1/wanted_better_wikipedia_coverage_of_theoretical/c06lv0i take on that whole Wikipedia thing] yet again.

qwantz: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001356.html Attention, people who are breaking up with someone]

[http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7gidj/who_else_thinks_that_all_us_legislation_should_be/ Law & revision control]

= november 2008 =

pa: [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/26/memoriam/ In Memoriam]

[http://simulatedcomicproduct.com/2007/11/05/free-hats/ Free Hats]

BookLogging: [http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim A Byte of Vim]

[http://www.viruscomix.com/page465.html Bar dichotomies]

[http://beardeddevelopers.com/ Bearded developers]

[http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20081124.html On "meh"].

[http://gmarceau.qc.ca/articles/your-wrists-hurt-you-must-be-a-programmer.html Your wrists hurt, you must be a programmer]

[http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/if_youre_goin_to_san_diego/ Bérubé drives past my house]. Well, pretty close anyway.

[http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=209 i ain't need no disease]

[http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1438432.html ''Maybe'' the best photograph of all time].

[http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmzEkxcGiFdLe4IyUrRSAp0jzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080828112134AAP85UQ Yahoo Answers: What do you think of the name Brennen?]

[rlwrap]

qwantz: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001350.html Euphemisms]

[http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rlorenz/frisbee.html Frisbee research]

A [http://beatonna.livejournal.com/72573.html pretty good list] of web comics to read.

AssHattery: [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/how_the_academic_left_elected.html On how Obama was elected because the Academic Left has brainwashed the youth of America]

Bob the Angry Flower: [http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif Atlas Shrugged 2]

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/djll/sets/72157608369709836/ The End] (flickr) ([http://www.metafilter.com/76657/Last-Words via])

qwantz: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001348.html ...and finally around a huge roseate "V"...]

[http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/all-noble-things-are-as-difficult-as-they-are-rare/ All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.] (Leibniz, Spinoza, etc.)

WareLogging: Minimalist blog engines: [http://github.com/chneukirchen/trivium/tree/master trivium], [http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hacker.html Jekyll] ([http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/2008-11-18 via]).

[http://www.thatsaspicymeatball.com/comments/ Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments]

xkcd: [http://www.xkcd.com/505/ A Bunch of Rocks]

[http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/2008-11-14 14Nov2008]: The fortune cookie said: Only count the blessed moments of life. / The pessimist mathematician reasoned: The cursed moments are uncountable.

[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010794.html Three approaches to Utopia]. Ishi, Ursula K. Le Guin, first contact, etc.

Penny Arcade [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/14/limitless-adventure/ explains my total indifference to WoW].

[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/72244.html Movin' Up the Ladder]

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/13/were-in-ur-librariez-controlling-ur-recordz/ We're In Ur Librariez, Controlling Ur Recordz]

[http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/oclcscam Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab]

http://openlibrary.org

[http://johnsautter.wordpress.com/ John Sautter has a blog]

Well, it's not like Paglia doesn't [http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/comments/1193/ deserve this].

[http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_openmanufacturing?currentPage=3 BatchPCB gets a ''Wired'' plug]

[http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/the-wall/ The Wall]

[http://www.velociraptorz.org/ One Velociraptor per Child]

[http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/free_text_geocoding Free text geocoding] / [http://fetegeo.org/ Fetegeo]

[http://www.erasing.org/2008/11/11/hum hum]

LanguageLog: [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=823 Some discipline where nobody knows what the hell it is]

tnh: [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010790.html The Great War, ninety years on]

riotclitshave: [http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1415909.html So I'm curious~ what do you look like?]

[http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11684.html Dulce et Decorum est]

[http://www.gumbopages.com/music/wilco/lyrics/am.txt Lyrics to Wilco's ''A.M.''] (txt)

qwantz: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001341.html ultimatum game]

qwantz: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001342.html ryan north = pure class]

[http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20081110-00 Wikimedia and GFDL 1.3]

[http://www.omaha.com//index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10481441 Obama wins electoral vote in Nebraska]

ocms: [http://bouldertheater.com/event_detail.php?id=924 at Boulder Theater, 11/20]

tnh: [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010783.html Google is imperfect]

mjd: [http://blog.plover.com/politics/countdown.html Election results]

[http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/06/dowd/index.html Greenwald]:

:Hence: Bill Clinton had an affair and let contributors stay in the Lincoln Bedroom; George Bush tortured people, stomped on the Constitution, chronically broke our laws, started wars based on manufactured pretexts, committed felonies by spying on American without warrants, abolished habeas corpus, imprisoned human beings in "black sites," etc.  Boy, politicians sure are bad.

Bill Ayers [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2008/11/mr-ayerss-neighborhood.html sounds like a pretty likable guy].

[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010763.html Schneier on election results]

WebComics: [http://www.viruscomix.com/page460.html Sex Fantasy]

[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-studs-terkel-dead,0,2321576.story?page=1 RIP, Studs]


[Linux]: [http://debianclusters.cs.uni.edu/index.php/Udev:_Renaming_Network_Interfaces udev - renaming network interfaces]

wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FRINGE WP:FRINGE]

WareLogging: [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/default.aspx MSDN Library]

WareLogging: [http://www.danga.com/memcached/ memcached]

WareLogging: [http://hackmysql.com/mysqlreport mysqlreport]

WareLogging: [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html ab] - [Apache] benchmarking.

= october 2008 =

[http://blog.nataliedee.com/index.php?blogid=274 Natalie Dee has a baby]

[http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/and_because_its_friday_1.php The Museum of Stones]

[http://richardkulisz.blogspot.com/2008/10/fields-of-academe-devoid-of-logic.html Richard Kulisz explains what is wrong with academia]

JackChick: [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp The Death Cookie]

[http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/bloom.html The lost Bloom County strips]

[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/69908.html Boat!]

http://myfairelection.com

PiccadillyNotebook

[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/03/081103fa_fact_talbot Red Sex, Blue Sex] ([http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/11640.html via])

[http://wiki.php.net/rfc/backslashnamespaces \ as a namespace separator in PHP]

[http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/i_am_staring_into_the_garden_i_am_watching_the_moon.php I am staring into the garden, I am watching the moon]

sparkfun: [http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=192 Battery vs. Water Tank]

dy: ''[http://dannyreviews.com/h/Anatomy_Fascism.html The Anatomy of Fascism]'', Robert O. Paxton.

[http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/10/23/stephen_king/index.html Stephen King's God trip]

acephalous: [http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2008/10/the-high-price.html The high price of idealism]

http://www.blackcover.net

[http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/spread-the-wealth/ Adam Smith, socialist]

LanguageLog: [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=736 Giveth and taketh]. Also, T. L. Friedman still sucks.

[http://coilhouse.net/2008/10/12/riotclitshave-the-blog-thats-worth-a-billion-words/ Interview] with [http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/ riotclitshave]'s Bean Noneya. Who's apparently [http://riotclitshave.livejournal.com/1376714.html at Maker Faire in Austin] this weekend. [http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=195 So are a bunch of Sparkfun kids].

achewood: [http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=10172008 Light all flickerin' across the empty spot on the mantel where her massage therapy degree will never go]

AssHattery: [http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2447021/the-culture-war-for-the-white-house.thtml On how militant atheism is responsible for the financial crisis] ([http://crookedtimber.org/2008/10/17/those-stupid-bankers-and-their-stupid-stupidity/ via])

[http://markchristian.org/projects/lolfeed/ lolfeed]

[http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page Deletionpedia] - [http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Category:Deletionpedia:Pages_on_Wikipedia_for_1000_or_more_days Pages on Wikipedia for 1000 or more days]

[http://www.maudevintage.com/jamesharvey/ Harvey James]

[Notebook]: [http://jackcheng.com/stuff-i-love-muji-chronotebook Chronotebook]

[http://thepaincomics.com/weekly080514.htm The Heartbreak Fairy]:

:Instead I’m drinkin’ some barley wine called Hog Heaven and playin’ Rock-‘Em-Sock-‘Em Robots with transsexuals down at Burp Castle! Yow! And someday, O heartbroken reader, I promise, you will be too. (Maybe not literally, since these days Rock-‘Em-Sock-‘Em Robots are harder to come by than transsexuals, but you know what I’m saying.)

[http://jacobpaulcammack.blogspot.com/2008/10/duane.html duane]

[http://erikwinn.com/shedchen.html Erik's micro-housing]

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/10/10/ad-hominem-worries-about-global-justice/ Ad hominem worries about global justice]

[http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/09/eavesdropping/ Major shock: Eavesdropping powers abused without oversight]

acephalous: [http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2008/10/this-nicholas-2.html Sandworm farts, etc.]

WareLogging: [http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/ wdiff]

xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/485/ Depth]

[http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx?VideoID=8 Video] from Neil Gaiman's reading last night in Boulder.

http://libcom.org

[http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/charming-event/ Charming event.]

achewood: [http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua9kDHDq Ray gets kind of stoned.]

What was that about [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27062761/ palling around with terrorists]?

[http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=194 "you know, a dark room"]

[http://minima.soup.io/ Minima]

CharlesDarwin

Much recent material [http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ via].

[http://www.erasing.org/2008/10/03/boring Coffee]:

:...should be hot as hell, black as death, and gulped greatly from a cadaver-hued earthenware mug while listening to nightmarish glitch techno through big fuck-off headphones and staring out the window at fall-colored ash leaves shuddering in low-horizon sunlight as window drafts under your ugly desk refrigerate your feet.

[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=95183303 The effect of country music on suicide]

[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010639.html Brown bag apple pie]

(An exchange with) Just maybe [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/74ub2/curl_developers_working_without_copyleft/c05p082 my new favorite reddit user].


[http://anarchaia.org/archive/2008/10/03.html Anarchaia done], go read [http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/ Trivium]

dy: [http://dannyreviews.com/h/Violence_Early_Modern.html Violence in Early Modern Europe]

[http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2008/10/02/glenn-beck-stupids-up-a-reasonable-point/ Glenn Beck, asshat]

[http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080930.html "Weddin's is all ooh, look at me I found '''joy''' in a world of crap and now I might not die '''alone'''"]

[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/67148.html Fat Pony]

Phish [http://phish.com/news/index.php?year=2008#story409 are playing some 2009 dates].

[http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/06/081006crat_atlarge_gopnik?currentPage=all Adam Gopnik on John Stuart Mill]

[http://www.unl.edu/cornfed/ Cornfed Ultimate]

wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Taylor_Mill Harriet Taylor Mill]

http://www.canterburytalesproject.org

[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95170954 Will Sheff guest-DJs All Songs Considered] ([http://thefartparty.blogspot.com/2008/09/break-for-yer-ears.html via Julia Wertz])

[http://crookedtimber.org/2008/09/29/more-untimely-stuff-about-disability/ More untimely stuff about disability]. Worth reading.

[http://crookedtimber.org/2008/09/30/gmu-sued-for-zotero/ Reuters sues GMU over Zotero], [http://madisonian.net/2008/09/28/endnote-v-zotero/ another take].

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bretchilcott/sets/72157607420906375/ Bret Chilcott's WVF '08 photos]

[http://www.hodgsonrigsbee.com/web08/walnutv00.html RHR photography WVF photos] - Click on the little walking guy.

[http://pickersparadise.org/2008/ Don Shorock's '08 Winfield photos]

WareLogging: [http://bhami.com/rosetta.html Sysadmin's unixersal translator]

php: [http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Diff/ Text_Diff]

WareLogging: [http://caladbolg.net/luadoc/textadept/manual.html Textadept]

WareLogging: [http://www.usps.com/webtools/technical.htm USPS APIs]

= september 2008 =

xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/ Height]

[http://radian.org/notebook/oenophiles Oenophiles]

[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/9/29/ "Well, tough shit. Nobody added your business to the list of protected species"]

[http://www.reason.com/images/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5ad.jpg What part of legal immigration don't you understand?]

Jacob [http://jacobpaulcammack.blogspot.com/ has a blog again].

[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=635 The phonetics of flop sweat?]

[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/66630.html Rebel Yell]

SamRusso

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4jk6OAUp28 Harmonica Stomp] (youtube)

[http://www.fartparty.org/2008/09/26/reality-is-a-harsh-mistress/ Reality is a Harsh Mistress]

acephalous: [http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2008/02/yo-dawg-we-is-u.html Dawg, We Is Underscrewed]

ocms: [http://www.crowmedicine.com/tour.php tour dates]

[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/mclemee Darkness Becomes Him]

[http://alasophia.blogspot.com/2008/09/david-foster-wallaces-syllabus.html A DFW syllabus] ([http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/a_david_foster_wallace_syllabus/ via])

[http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/moller/index.html Our Culture is Our Resistance]

TheDewaynBrothers

MyTeaKind

[http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/airwolf.htm Airwolf]

A more or less perfect [http://www.bluegrassworks.com/review.php?reviewID=110 exercise in missing the point].

http://www.stage7winfield.com/

[http://plasmasturm.org/log/517/ How to usurp PHP’s place: an outline]

DavidFosterWallace: [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace Host]

[http://pickersparadise.org/refugee.html Locations for some relocated camps at Winfield]

I share [http://www.mitchclem.com/mystupidlife/91/ this problem].

[http://www.birdandmoon.com/birdandmoon/interrupted.html interrupted fern]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy0y9JJ_bk0 Winfield floodwaters (youtube)]

[http://www.winfieldcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=26042 Mandatory evacuation in effect for Winfield Fairgrounds]

WebComics, etc.: [http://plutocrat.org/ This dude's stuff], it is really good.

[http://plutocrat.org/blog/?p=101 Samurai Jack, Clone Wars, and Buddhism]

[http://kenyonreview.org/blog/?p=1176 To tear a cat]

[http://www.democracynow.org/about/jobs#sysadmin DN! needs a sysadmin]

[http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/9/3/call_to_action_on_behalf_of_dn_journalists_facing_charges_for_reporting_on_the_republican_national_convention Call to action on Behalf of DN! Journalists Facing Charges]

[http://www.kucinich.us/ Impeach]. They're looking for a million signatures before the 10th.

[http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?]

[http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20080819.html Uh huh]

[http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/05/11/mowat/index1.html Farley Mowat and non-fiction]


[http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=346 The Singularity is Far]

WareLogging: [http://www.maxreason.com/software/xbasic/xbasic.html xbasic]

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/trikuare/2826647464/ Average of 1220 Dinosaur Comics]

[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=570 Hating on ''The Elements of Style'']

DerrickJensen

qwantz: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000467.html My life is a whispered apology]

[http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin Evolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain]

The beautiful thing about Achewood, really, is that every time you get a little worried that maybe Onstad has decided not to make comics that would offend and disgust three quarters of the people you know, he comes through with [http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=09052008 something like this].

[http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/change-in-voter-registration/ Change in voter registration]

[http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=21&editionID=164&ArticleID=1399 Phineas Gage - Unravelling the Myth]

[http://beatonna.livejournal.com/63067.html Party Time with Richard III]

[http://www.ep.tc/problems/ Comics with problems]: [http://www.ep.tc/problems/28/index.html Dick Hafer was an asshole].

ml: [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010537.html Minneapolis / St. Paul: asking the right questions]

[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-Technology.html Le Guin on technology]. And, more briefly, on [http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-Ishi.html Ishi].

''[http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=673479&skuid=7749 Ishi in Three Centuries]'', Nebraska, 2003.

wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_influences_and_analogues Harry Potter influences and analogues] ([http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2008/09/03/le-guin-on-rowling/ via Eric])

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/09/03/better-never-to-have-been/ Better Never to Have Been]

An [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slapball Urban Dictionary entry for Slapball]. [http://p1k3.com/2006/11/6 Really?]

[http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/9/1/update_democracy_now_s_amy_goodman_sharif_abdel_kouddous_and_nicole_salazar_released_after_illegal_arrest_at_rnc Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Nicole Salazar arrested at RNC]

[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010533.html Police at the RNC]

[http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/30/report-massive-warra.html Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.]

Greenwald: [http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/30/police_raids/index.html Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis]

nyt: [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/politics/30arrests.html?ex=1377921600&en=7a00ca941e0678d6&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention]

[http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/30/the-history-of-breaking-up-protests-before-they-can-happen-how-cops-have-spent-years-squashing-the-right-to-assembly-and-free-speech/ The History of Breaking Up Protests Before They Can Happen, How Cops Have Spent Years Squashing the Right to Assembly and Free Speech]

[http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9710/31/pepper.spray.update/ Tension high after pepper spray used on protesters] (1997)

WareLogging: A [http://www.bitfolge.de/rsscreator-en.html decent PHP feed generator].

WareLogging: [http://it.toolbox.com/wiki/index.php/Twiki2mediawiki TWiki -> mediawiki syntax converter]. RegEx based, but may work.

WareLogging: [http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison A comparison of Mail Transfer Agents]

[http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/selectors_adjacent.htm Selectutorial] - Good CSS selector tutorial

Super useful PHP functions: [http://us2.php.net/debug_backtrace debug_backtrace()]

WareLogging: [http://labs.kraih.com/blog/2008/09/why-mojo-wont-kill-catalyst.html Mojo]

= august 2008 =

[http://www.folkwest.com/index2.htm Four Corners Folk Festival] - Shoulda gone to this one.

[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010528.html Recap of Making Light's Katrina coverage]

[http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/27/invesco-field-transformed-ahead-of-obamas-acceptance-speech/all-comments/ Are these people fucking insane?]

[http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/please-buy-my-record-the-futility-of-flogging-music.html The Futility of Flogging Music]

[http://sites.google.com/site/earlykodachromeimages/ Early Kodachrome]

''HowBuildingsLearn''

[http://dablog.rubypal.com/2008/8/6/pseudo-persuasion-in-online-discourse Pseudo-persuasion in online discourse]

[http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2008/08/turning-high-school-biology-into.html Turning High School Biology into a Battleground Over the Existence of God ] - The comments here are instructive, in their way.

[http://www.kgnu.org/ht/listencomp.html KGNU streams]

Ken Knabb: [http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/responses.htm Rapid Responses]. Also [http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/website.htm Ten years on the web]. Also, [http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/primitivism.htm The Poverty of Primitivism].

WebComics: http://www.radiomaru.com

[http://paperpools.blogspot.com/2008/08/regrets-ive-had-few.html regrets, I've had a few]

[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_05_08/ A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica]

[http://landscape.blogspot.com/2008/08/maps-and-nationalism.html Maps and Nationalism]

achewood: [http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=08192008 Jack Chick tracts]

Comics: "[http://newreliable.com/?p=16 You Ain't No Dancer]" strikes me as a pretty great name for a thing.

[http://dannyreviews.com/h/Colonialism_Science_Fiction.html Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction]

[http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html How to Deconstruct Almost Anything] - I expected to hate this, but actually I suspect the guy's basically right.

qwantz: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001282.html Analogical difficulties].

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/agrumer/sets/72157606712106077/ Denvention 3 sketch notes]

LanguageLog: [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=481 One question, two answers, three interpretations]

I never read Thomas Disch, but man do I [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=310 fucking despise Eric S. Raymond].

[http://hackety.org/2008/08/12/thoseVintagePKDCovers.html why on vintage PK Dick covers], a [http://www.philipkdick.com/works_covers.html scanned collection of same].

qwantz: [http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001281.html Do you want a boyfriend who's only a little desperate?]

LanguageLog: [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=478 David Brooks, Social Psychologist]

[http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2008/08/11/sandman/ Eric on ''Sandman'']

[http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/ Portraying Obama as the ''Left Behind'' antichrist]

[http://www.comicsgirl.com/?p=164 Re-reading ''Sandman'']

[http://oc-co.org/?p=124 Is Wikipedia saturated?] - Well, maybe, but is it saturated in terms of ''coverage'' or in terms of petty bureaucracy and procedural noise?

''TheDispossessed''

''TwentiethCenturyType''

WebComics: [http://www.freakangels.com/ Freakangels]

http://vazze.hu

[http://www.bluegrass.com/folks/lineup.html Folks Fest lineup]

achewood: [http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=08062008 There are actually bad times to have a baby.]

WareLogging: http://cronolog.org

[http://taco.com/roots/minglewood.html "Minglewood Blues"], which doesn't mention the OCMS version on BigIronWorld, though I think the lyrics are pretty close to the NoahLewis original.

[http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=&article=4039182 Awwww, how sweet].

JoWalton [http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=2292 on Eric Frank Russell].

[http://www.reason.com/news/show/34134.html "The secret reformist history of the Ku Klux Klan"]

[http://wiedler.ch/felix/books modernist book design in germany and switzerland 1925–1965 (and beyond)]

[http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/ this is exactly how shitty i feel.]

ocms: [http://store.merchmerch.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=OCMS&Product_Code=OCMS-TNPSHRCD&Category_Code=New Tennessee Pusher]

[http://www.nationbeat.com/ Nation Beat]

[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/8/1/tender-human-trachea/ I actually suspect there might be a market for this.]

[http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/03/eliminationism-in-america-appendix.html kill-the-liberals rhetoric]

WareLogging: TileStack

[http://radian.org/notebook/oenophiles Heh].

Some [http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/08/01/knol_content_wo.html Knol bashing].

WareLogging: [http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ hugin] - panorama stitching.

WareLogging: [http://www.olimex.com/pcb/dtools.html A list of PCB design tools].

http://p3rl.org

WareLogging: http://datetime.perl.org

http://ajaxpatterns.org

[http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2082 America and Coca-Cola]

= july 2008 =

ubuweb: [http://www.ubuweb.com/sound/hoffman.html Wake Up America!], apropos of a conversation with Erik about how his dad's band recorded this with Abbie Hoffman.

AssHattery: [http://mormontimes.com/ME_blogs.php?id=1586 Orson Scott Card on how legal recognition of gay marriage marks the end of democracy in America].

Rexroth: [http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/police.htm The Heat]

qwantz: [http://qwantz.com/archive/001270.html "if only I could describe something using my words"]

[http://rockonaudio.blogspot.com/2008/07/beginning-of-rock-on-audio.html Slightly crazy people] I work with.

[http://www.viruscomix.com/page449.html Summing up] that whole human resources thing.

http://judiciary.house.gov

achewood: [http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=07252008 "all the magazines are saying that terrible is the new horrible"]

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/25/what-obligation-maximise-what/ What obligation? Maximise what?]

ocms: [Eutaw], BigIronWorld

CowboyJunkies - MilesFromOurHome

[http://plasmasturm.org/log/512/ John Gruber doesn't understand freedom]

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey?gusrc=rss&feed=media Epic.]

http://knol.google.com

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/22/book-review-savage-mules/ Book Review: "Savage Mules"]

RabbitFurCoat - JennyLewis & TheWatsonTwins

[http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20080721 What is this terrible music?]

[http://sdh33b.blogspot.com/2008/07/icfp-contest-2008.html Controlling a simulated Mars rover in tex with a perl wrapper for network support], [http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~shicks/icfp08/ code]. Mad.

[History]: [http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/ The Edge of the American West]

achewood: [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/07/an-interview-wi.html Onstad in the New Yorker]

[http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2008/07/thank-god-for-a.html "he would probably be an avid RED!"]

[http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Features/train_in_vain Train in Vain]

[http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/06/the-paragraph-in-web-typography-and-design The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design]

GoodDesign: [http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/ Proper Treatment], [http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/Differentiation/ Differentiating regions]

[http://unbound.biola.edu/index.cfm The Unbound Bible]

flickr: [http://flickr.com/groups/stickfiguresinperil/pool/ Stick Figures in Peril]

[http://www.gerdarntz.org/isotype Gerd Arntz web archive]

[http://www.fantasticmetropolis.com/i/50socialist/full/ Fifty Fantasy & Science Fiction Works That Socialists Should Read]

[http://istheday.blogspot.com/ Today is the Day]

[http://www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/~sanderso/music/astralrev.html Lester Bangs on ''Astral Weeks'']

I've never lived in Brooklyn, but who hasn't had a similar [http://www.fartparty.org/2008/07/04/i-heart-brooklyn/ experience]?

WebComics: [http://www.kukuburi.com/2007/08/09/one/ Kukuburi]

dc: [http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_054.html "Childhood's End"], [http://dresdencodak.com/lj/00022.jpg concept art]

Danny Yee [http://dannyreviews.com/h/American_Agriculture.html on ''American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century'']

perl: [http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?pbp_module_recommendation_commentary PBP Module Recommendation Commentary]

WareLogging: [http://kile.sourceforge.net/ Kile]

[http://wiki.stealthiswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page Steal This Wiki]

[http://www.alexpoole.info/academic/literaturereview.html A lit review on serif vs. sans-serif legibility]:

:Finally, we should accept that most reasonably designed typefaces in mainstream use will be equally legible, and that it makes much more sense to argue in favour of serif or sans serif typefaces on aesthetic grounds than on the question of legibility.

quirksmode: [http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html Cookies]

WareLogging: [http://www.vladdy.net/Demos/IEPseudoClassesFix.html pseudo-class fix for IE's lack of :hover support]

= june 2008 =

[http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyright-renewal-records-available.html US copyright renewal records]:

:Estimates of how many books were renewed vary, but everyone agrees that most books weren't renewed. If true, that means that the majority of U.S. books published between 1923 and 1963 are freely usable.

http://www.communitycycles.org

[http://www.porchmusic.com/ Oakhurst]

Will Shetterly: [http://shetterly.blogspot.com/2008/05/to-begin-gods.html To Begin, the Gods]

[http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20080623-00 PROPERTY OF PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON]

WareLogging: http://magcloud.com - like Lulu specifically for magazines.

acephalous: [http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2008/06/pity-the-poor-s.html Pity the poor supremacists]

[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/06/23/deep-crow/ deep crow]

[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061202258.html Some sputtering incoherence about the "demise of the sentence"].

This pretty much sums up how I feel about [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/15/ Kevin J. Anderson's work].

[http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=75893f9a-3391-4ab5-88c8-cf7e74bcd835 Some spoilers for ''The Happening'']

[http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/ Measure for Measure] - blogging by musicians.

[http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/the-ear-of-the-beholder/ Rosanne Cash]:

:The exact words he said, who was right or wrong, whether he relapsed on the 7th or the 10th, why exactly she does what she does, the depth and weight and timbre of the feelings, whether Love Heals Everything — these aren’t facts, these are ever-changing blobs of emotional mercury, and when you are working in rhyme, it can be much more powerful and resonant to write about the shards of the coffee cup than about the feeling that caused him to throw it across the room. You are better off moving the furniture than you are directly analyzing the furniture maker.

[http://horhaus.com/abominable/ "Ahead of what?"]

[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/news/samesexmarriage/profiles1 Profiles of same-sex couples with marriage licenses in California]

pnh: [http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/torpodcast/media/tor_podcast_090107_cbr.mp3 An interview with George Takei] (mp3)

AssHattery: "[http://info.icopyright.com/honorcopyright.asp Don't] use your browser to cut, copy, and paste content. It is wrong and, in most cases, illegal."

VisualizingThings: [http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home Many Eyes], [http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/ code_swarm]

[http://plasmasturm.org/log/503/ Deleting Deletionism?] - This is just crying out to be implemented.

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/06/22/map-of-things-to-do-in-budapest/ Map of things to do in Budapest]

''LegacyOfAshes''

[http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/meaning-box-722 The Meaning of Box 722]

[http://www.coloradohometownnews.com/Louisville-Times/top-story.asp?ID=2760 Patchwork School in the local rag]

[http://radian.org/notebook/distraction-machine The Distraction Machine]

[http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/extreme_work_study/ Extreme Work-Study]:

:UPS refuses to provide meaningful persistence figures for the more than fifty thousand students it has “aided” over the past decade. But of the ten thousand at the Louisville hub, it could account for little more than three hundred bachelor’s or associate’s degrees earned.

[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/6/4/dont-delay/ Call now]

[http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2007.00325.x?cookieSet=1 Ow].

achewood: [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06242004 on pimm's]

[http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=117 be open to the possibility that you are a bad person]

ocms: [http://www.oldcrowfans.com/lyrics/were_all_in_this_together.htm We're all in this together]

http://lostfrog.org

[http://lucaantara.blogspot.com/ Luca Antara]

AugieMarch

xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/430/ Every damn morning]

wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Sex_Olympics The Year of the Sex Olympics]

WareLogging: [http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html XAMPP] - Decent looking LAMP bundle for OS X.

WareLogging: [http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Main_Page Reia]

[http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1061-why-we-skip-photoshop Why we skip Photoshop]

sparkfun: [http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8703 GPS USB stick]

[http://fixedsys.moviecorner.de/?p=start&l=1 fixedsys ttf]

WareLogging: http://tilestack.com/

pm: [http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=690624 Parsing with Regexes and Beyond]

WareLogging: [http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html Scrivener]

= may 2008 =

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/29/the-great-and-unrembered-war/ The Great and Unremembered War]

[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/28/apprehension/ You aren't allowed to think that's awesome.]

[http://www.hospitalityhouseshelter.org/ Hospitality House Shelter]

''Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds'' - 1841 - [http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/051788433X Amazon], [http://books.google.com/books?id=PUwBAAAAQAAJ Google Books], [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m#a516 Project Gutenberg]

[http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/86733/ Amy Goodman on Utah Phillips]

Well, shit. [http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/964804.html Utah Phillips dead].

SamRoberts

UncleEarl

[http://www.bluegrass.com/rockygrass/lineup.html Rockygrass 2008 lineup]

[http://p1k3.com/wala/spam_feed.pl A feed of blocked wikispam].

CasiotoneForThePainfullyAlone

[http://www.google.com/transit?ie=UTF8&ll=39.841160,-105.124460&spn=0.768560,0.903819 RTD on Google Maps]

[http://paperpools.blogspot.com/2008/05/kapitalismus-kommunismus-klutter.html Kapitalismus, Kommunismus, Klutter]

mjd: [http://reddit.com/info/6kang/comments/ A missing feature in document viewers]

[http://pff.org/index.html The Progress & Freedom Foundation] - Evidently dedicated to eliminating both.

[http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080430-is-lessigs-free-culture-just-a-modern-das-kopyright.html Is Lessig's Free Culture just a modern Das Kopyright?]

AssHattery: [http://pff.org/news/news/2008/042808freecultureanalys.html Tragedy and Farce: An Analysis of the Book ''Free Culture'']

GoodDesign, planets: [http://oklo.org/ systemic]

TomWaits

[http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4516 State-by-state map of marijuana laws]

[http://www.metalog.org/files/th_interlin.html Hypertext interlinear of the Gospel of Thomas]

[http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi OLPC's a con?]

:I've thought for a while that sending laptops to developing colonies is simply the 21st century equivalent of sending bibles to the colonies. --comment from Guido van Rossum

[http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/life/rem.htm The Reminiscences of William Topaz Mc Gonagall]:

:I will begin with giving an account of my experiences amongst the publicans. Well, I must say that the first man who threw peas at me was a publican, while I was giving an entertainment to a few of my admirers in a public-house in a certain little village not far from Dundee but, my dear friends, I wish it to be understood that the publican who threw the peas at me was not the landlord of the public-house, he was one of the party who came to hear me give my entertainment.

An economist I ain't, but [http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html this comparison] - while interesting - strikes me as a bogus way to delineate the "world's largest economic entities".

[http://maireadbyrne.blogspot.com/2008/05/poetry-writing-that-formulates.html poetry]

PaulBlackburn: [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/blackburn/blackburn_pancho_villa.html Pancho Villa or The Fate]

[http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2008/05/man-books-for-m.html MAN-BOOKS FOR MAN-MEN!]

Some days, just [http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05142008 some of us are Roast Beef Kazenzakis]. Not that anyone around here knows what I'm talking about.

[http://www.bu.edu/arion/Geuss.htm Raymond Geuss on on Richard Rorty]

WareLogging: [http://code.google.com/doctype/ Google Doctype]

[http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.security.announce/1614 Debian OpenSSL vulnerability] (also affects Ubuntu)

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/05/13/in-praise-of-rachel-carson/ In praise of Rachel Carson]

[http://www.scientificblogging.com/adaptive_complexity/what_the_platypus_genome_is_and_isnt? What the platypus genome is and isn't]

[http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/10/sf-fanzines-prefigur.html#comment-184636 SF as the ur-fandom]

NeoDarwinianSynthesis

LynnMargulis: [http://tinyurl.com/cyuqg Gaia Is a Tough Bitch]

[http://www.alternet.org/columnists/5721/ Amy Goodman columns] on AlterNet

LanguageLog: [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=136 Creole birdsong?]:

:The [http://ofer.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/Slide1.JPG cited work] by Olga Feher et al. demonstrates this kind of “multi-generational phenotype” (Ofer’s phrase) experimentally, in a colony of zebra finches whose founder was an isolate. As each succeeding generation learns songs from the preceeding one, the effects of biases in the learning process accumulate, so that after a few generations, normal zebra finch songs have re-emerged.

mjd [http://blog.plover.com/brain/Jaynes.html on ''The Origin of Conscious in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind'']

[http://youtube.com/watch?v=ToEPFDIzhNA M. Ward - "Chinese Translation"]

WareLogging: [http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/webcheck/ webcheck]

Further [http://www.justthinktwice.com/stumbleweed/just_a_plant_02.htm evidence] that the DEA's marketing people are taking the piss.

[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010178.html Eric Clapton, White Power enthusiast]

[http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05012008 We are all Roast Beef Kazenzakis.]

WareLogging: [http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.com/ Fixedsys Excelsior] - a Truetype version of my favorite ugly monospaced font with support for additional languages.

WebComics: [http://www.odd-fish.net/index.php?comic_id=64 I'm in a rock group.]

WareLogging: [http://ditz.rubyforge.org/ Ditz]

= april 2008 =

[http://420moneybomb.org/ Join NORML for $4.20]

Is anyone even slightly surprised by [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html this]?

[http://markdingemanse.nl/the-ideophone/migration-stories/ Migration stories]

TrackingWriters: AndreaGibson

[http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/17/law_professor_lawrence_lessig_on_net Lessig on DN]

[http://www.cafepress.com/tubman Buy some Tubman Free School swag]

''[http://www.expelledexposed.com/ Expelled]''

WebComics: [http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=122 David Foster Wallace on a desert island]

JoGuldi: [http://landscape.blogspot.com/2007/09/technologies-of-management.html The Technologies of Management] - "It is difficult, looking backwards, to conceive of gravel roads and footpaths as carefully engineered devices of high technology."

[http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/marcos_index.html Writings of Subcommander Marcos of the EZLN]

[http://www.gregbrown.org/gblyricscovenant.html#rexrothsdaughter Rexroth's Daughter lyrics again]

JamesGalvin

[http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2006/04/10/index.html#friday The Light Above Cities]

[http://www.thefreight.net/ Gregory Alan Isakov & the Freight]

[http://crookedtimber.org/2008/04/11/i-would-like-to-thank-my-parents-ayn-rand-and-jesus/ d^2 on Ayn Rand]:

:I forget who was that said that there is a moment in a child’s life when he is reading the Narnia novels and some grown-up tells him "Of course, you realise that ''Aslan'' is really ''Jesus''" and the kid realises that he can never trust an adult again. As with Pilgrim's Progress, as with Narnia, as with all such books, the students are going to end up fucking hating capitalism for ruining an otherwise perfectly decent novel.

~Would it not be fairer to say the authors ruined the novels? And what the hell does a form of government, namely capitalism, have to do with the interpretation of literature?~

<[Brennen]> Have you ''read'' AynRand? [http://p1k3.com/2008/4/14 Further to this point].

AdrienneRich

[http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/whats_in_your_bash_history.html What's in your bash history?]

For some reason I really appreciated [http://textism.com/2008/04/04/alright this].

[http://www.its.caltech.edu/~erich/misc/ivins_on_paglia Molly Ivins on Camille Paglia]

WebComics: [http://www.mitchclem.com/mystupidlife/19/ There's no such thing as spiders.]

[Devotchka]: A Mad & Faithful Telling

RobertPlant & AlisonKrauss: RaisingSand

KenyonReview: [http://www.kenyonreview.org/interviews/kooser.php Interview with Ted Kooser]

LeonardCohen, HowToSpeakPoetry

GoodDesign

A bunch of [http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Williams-WC.html William Carlos Williams audio]

PennSound

[http://kenyonreview.org/blog/?p=859#more-859 The Case for Paul Violi]

JonahGoldberg: [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg1apr01,0,5893988.column Still an asshat].

TrackingWriters: YehudaAmichai

[http://www.mufi.info/ Medieval Unicode Font Initiative]

[http://www.fartparty.org/2008/03/31/little-boxes/ little boxes]

KimyaDawson

WebComics: [http://kinokofry.com/ kinokofry]

WareLogging: [http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/ highlight.js]

[http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use vim_use] google group

[http://www.wikisym.org/index.php?p=19 wikisym 2008: call for papers]

= march 2008 =

mjd: [http://blog.plover.com/prog/lib.html Suffering from "make install"]

[http://www.buttercupfestival.com/2-5.htm Those strange, irretrievable days.]

[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/21 DEEP CROOOOOOW!]

[http://thehatershighfive.wordpress.com/ the hater's high five]

[http://ignatz.brinkster.net/cbillart.html Early Bill Watterson comics]

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/03/20/thank-you-mr-mankiw/ Thank you Mr Mankiw]:

:And then they find themselves at the age of 30, smack bang on the career track of an academic industry which is in general, organised around its economic base, which is the production and retail of plausible arguments for the capitalist system as it exists. Which is not a dishonourable trade, but probably a bit of an anticlimax for someone who dreamed of joining Hari Seldon’s Foundation.

ct: [http://crookedtimber.org/2008/03/19/watchlists-human-rights-and-legal-politics/ Watchlists, human rights, and judicial politics]

I fucking love [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/19 Penny Arcade].

[http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/montaigne/m-essays_contents.html The Charles Cotton translation of Montaigne]

WebComics: [http://www.viruscomix.com/page334.html Subnormality]

[http://www.matchitforpratchett.org/ Match It For Pratchett]

[http://www.15q.net/ks.html Kansas license plates, 1969 - present]

Eric goes off on education and art: [http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2008/03/12/why-them-kids-dont-learn-nothing/ 1], [http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2008/03/14/if-triangles-could-fly/ 2], [http://www.saalonmuyo.com/2008/03/16/how-i-learned-to-stop-caring-and-love-the-verse/ 3].

[http://tomayko.com/writings/administrative-debris Administrative Debris]

This is [http://www.fartparty.org/2008/03/13/replacement-lovers/ basically my life] right now.

WebComics: [http://www.fartparty.org/ The Fart Party]

[http://www.asofterworld.com/iblamethesea/ i blame the sea]

[http://flickrvision.com/ flickrvision]

WebComics: [http://www.transmission-x.com/_raising_hell/2007/06/17/chapter1/ Raising Hell]

[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt The design of UTF-8]

[http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/10/yellow-split-pea-soup-with-sweet.html Yellow Split-Pea Soup]

HenriCole: [http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/cole_sp08.html Bats]

TheBluesVassal

[http://www.dinosaursandrobots.com/2008/03/mixed-tape-friday-night-inaugural.html mix tapes]

[http://bytethebullet.com/geologo/ Public Domain Geocaching Logo], some [http://bytethebullet.com/geologo/leatherman_variants.htm variants]

LanguageLog: [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002189.html Five more thoughts on the that rule]

mjd: "[http://blog.plover.com/risk.html Advice] to people wishing to become smarter: Get in the habit of assuming that everything is more complex than you imagine."

http://www.idec2008.org

[http://www.democraticeducation.com/ The Online Directory of Democratic Education]

[http://www.rodgab.com/ Rodgrigo Y Gabriela]

TrackingWriters: [http://www.timbradford.com/ Tim Bradford]

[http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html The GNU Awk User's Guide]

[http://tomayko.com/writings/javascript-prettification JS based code prettification]

[http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml Unix Toolbox]

WareLogging: [http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/ XSel]

VimEditor: [http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2201 SCMDiff]


VimEditor: [http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1218#2.1.12 NERD Commenter] - The keybindings for this look pretty cool, and it's got an absurdly large set of features.

[http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/mar-08/software-quality-death-spiral.html The (Lack of) Testing Death Spiral]

[http://joelneely.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/why-functional-programming/ Why functional programming?]

PerlLanguage: [http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Find.html File::Find]

= february 2008 =

pnh: [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009999.html William F. Buckley, dead]:

:"The central question that emerges ... is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race." - William F. Buckley, National Review, August 24, 1957

[http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/graffiti/crook.htm Hunter S. Thompson on the death of Richard Nixon]

[http://www.bis.doc.gov/licensing/exportingbasics.htm Export Control Basics]

[http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02282008 HOW MANY TIMES IN A ROW ARE YOU GOING TO LISTEN TO TOUCH OF GREY, YOU SON OF A BITCH!?]

''RaisingSand''

[http://www.brown.edu/Students/INDY/alpha/oldstuff/issues/092602/opinions/2.html Snoop, Say it Ain't So]:

:I read this and time slowed down. I read this and all that I knew no longer made sense. I read this and a single tear moved from the corner of my eye, down my soft cheek, and dropped onto a picture of Nelly. Was this true? Were these words correct? Could this short article really have said what I think I read? Could Tha Doggfather really be quitting the cheeba?

http://addictionis.org

[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.collecting.pens-pencils/topics alt.collecting.pens-pencils (via Google)]

ClayRose

PilotVarsity

[http://make.pingmag.jp/2008/01/15/sailor/ The God of Fountain Pens]

TrackingWriters: [Montaigne]

[http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/cr/6.htm KR on Montaigne]

AssHattery: [http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200405140857.asp on the virtues of a "mild and tolerant homophobia"]

AssHattery: [http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmM2NDQ3ZWQ1YWM0Y2QyZTUxMDdkY2M2OTJlNGE5MWE= on how Obama is a Scary Negro Communist by Birth], or something like that.

A Subversion [http://p1k3.com/archive_repository repo of the p1k3 archives]. I'm going to pull this into darcs soon and merge it with the p1k3::wala stuff. (Just as soon as I finish a first-pass implementation of a literary markup language.)



DannyYee: [http://dannyreviews.com/h/Standing_Stones.html review of ''Standing Stones: Stonehenge, Carnac and the World of Megaliths'']

WilliamStukeley: ''[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/str/index.htm Stonehenge, A temple Restor'd to the British Druids]''

[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1708116,00.html Signal Failure]

[http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=02142008 Problems I ain't got.]

[http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=287 "It is possible to love everything more than everything else."]

[http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/ The Fountain Pen Network]

[http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02122008 YOU WILL LOSE WHAT LITTLE SENSE YOU HAVE AND DRIVE OFF A CLIFF!]

WebComics: [http://horhaus.com/abominable/2008/02/06/33/ The Abominable Charles Christopher]

[http://www.buttercupfestival.com/ Buttercup Festival] is back.

twas: [http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0509 best of 2007]

TheDriveByTruckers

[http://www.yosefk.com/blog/?p=16 Fun at the Turing tar pit]

[http://www.omnipresence.mahost.org/inttxt.htm Ecodefense: A field guide to monkeywrenching]

WareLogging: [Kuler]

= december 07, january 2008 =

[http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2006/05/nukes-and-nukemen-blair-has-lost-it.html Nukes and Nukemen]:

:Big things are expensive, and fine tolerances are expensive. Nukemen have a really bad habit of forgetting this fact. This is why, in general, nuclear projects tend to go over budget in such an extravagant, life-affirming, joyous kind of way. Also, partly because of the ill-informed criticism that they often get from well-meaning crusties, nukemen are constitutionally inclined to always minimise the dangers of radioactive waste. This habit of mind tends to feed off the first one, in a kind of chain reaction; because they are trying to tell the public that most of the waste from a nuclear plant is basically less radioactive than Cornwall, they find it difficult to admit to themselves or the budget committee that you need to spend millions and millions of pounds on building a special facility to deal with the teaspoonful or two of high-grade waste, which tends to fall into the category "Very Very Very Not Safe".

[http://www.areweatwarwithiran.com/ Are We At War With Iran?]

MLK: [http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-13.htm Beyond Vietnam]

[http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-25/mi-25-2.html Whose mind is it anyway?]

WebComics: http://gregnog.com

[http://www.geonames.org/about.html huge, free gis database (CCL)]

[http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-web.html list of datasets on the web]

http://theinfo.org - large data sets

[http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/01/15/um-whoops Dreamhost accidentally bills $7.5 mil in excess]

SusanSontag [http://paulgoodmanfilm.com/under_the_sign_of_saturn.html on Paul Goodman]:

:It has never been clear to most people, I think, what an extraordinary figure he was. He could do almost anything, and tried to do almost everything a writer can do. Though his fiction became increasingly didactic and unpoetic, he continued to grow as a poet of considerable and entirely unfashionable sensibility; one day people will discover what a good poetry he wrote.   Most of what he said in his essays about people, cities, and the feel of life is true. His so-called amateurism enabled him to bring to the questions of schooling, psychiatry, and citizenship an extraordinary, curmudgeonly accuracy of insight and freedom to envisage practical change.

NaomiKlein, ''TheShockDoctrine''

[http://www.archive.org/details/Anarchism_in_America_1983 Anarchism in America]

VisualizingThings: [http://osteele.com/archives/2006/02/reanimator reAnimator - visualize regexen in Flash]

EdenRobinson, ''MonkeyBeach''

[http://wilderside.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/help-utah-phillips/ Help Utah Phillips]

[http://songbytoad.com/ Song, by Toad] - an mp3 blog that I think I like.

[http://www.foodsubs.com/ The Cook's Thesaurus]

WebComics: [http://torontoist.com/tags/wildtoronto Wild Toronto] (from Rosemary who does BirdAndMoon)

http://giftfile.org

[http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogging-theory-201-size-does-matter.html Yegge on essay length]

OilShale

http://www.ourpubliclands.org/about/colorado

BustedHearts

[http://www.mikewest.net/songs/index.html Mike West's Big Book of Songs]

[http://blog.jclark.com/2007/12/thai-personal-names.html Thai personal names]

WilliamBlake

JennyHolzer

HistoryOfTheBook

CommonplaceBook

wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace Commonplace]:

:Commonplace books (or commonplaces) emerged in the 15th century with the availability of cheap paper for writing, mainly in England. They were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests.

[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/dining/02curi.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin Heat in the kitchen.]

[http://peterhcropes.blogspot.com/2008/01/where-rachael-ray-lives.html Where Rachael Ray Lives]

[http://www.wetherobots.com/2007/10/19/wrong/ "Wrong."]

[http://www.archive.org/details/tod2004-10-07.flac16 Trail of Dead at Emo's, Oct. '04]

[http://www.archive.org/details/Allen_Ginsberg_lecture_on_expansive_poet_81P117 Allen Ginsberg lecture on 'expansive poetics' and Whitman]

A JoshRitter show [http://www.archive.org/details/joshritter2007-10-29.ds70p.flac recorded Oct. 29 in Austin]

[http://www.jound.com/okkervil/lyrics/listeningtootisredding.html Listening to Otis Redding at Home During Christmas]

OkkervilRiver have a covers record called GoldenOpportunities [http://www.okkervilriver.com/ up for download].

GeorgeMonbiot: [http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2000/06/09/choose-life/ Choose Life]

[http://a214.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/72/l_7f87d4b23bb50a7635480131de0f23bd.jpg i want a dyke for president]

[http://achewood.com/index.php?date=06232003 Don't worry, I'll give you a sign. The sign will be that life is awesome.]

[http://lyricwiki.org/U2:The_Wanderer The Wanderer]

Awwwww, fuck. [http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html Terry Pratchett]:

:I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".

[http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/ron-paul-vs-new-world-order.html Ron Paul vs. the New World Order]

BitternessAboutGirls

[http://www.lyricwiki.org/Ben_Folds_Five:Song_for_the_Dumped song for the dumped]

[http://www.nerve.com/personalessays/stegall/personalinventory/ the erotic appeal of the Lands End catalog]

[http://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/22 Debian Administration: using debian system-created user accounts?]

rsync: [https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4793 Bug 4793 - link-dest hardlink does not always work well with -o -g -p]

[http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/ Fourmilab's calendar converter]

[http://sourceforge.net/projects/fusepod fusepod] - mount an iPod as a sanely organized filesystem.

[http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Git Git on Dreamhost]

[http://www.mibbit.com/ Mibbit], a fairly clean Ajax IRC client.

PerlSix: [http://blog.simon-cozens.org/post/view/1323 Simon Cozens recently on Parrot]

BruceSchneier: [http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/01/securitymatters_0110?re steal this wifi]

http://iobound.net

[http://www.sqlite.org/capi3.html SQLite3 error codes]

[http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/show.cgi Kcachegrind is the shit].

VimEditor: [http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=294 Align] - plugin to do tabular alignment of code, etc.

[http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel darcs-devel]

WareLogging: [http://loseby.net/software/floret floret]