== late 2011 == [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/11/21/about-pepper-spray/ About Pepper Spray] Some [https://groups.google.com/group/d3-js/browse_thread/thread/13ed21c4ca2bf47c?pli=1 discussion] on a batteries-included chart interface for d3.js [http://www.poppyfields.net/poppy/mahna.html Do doo be-do-do!] [http://www.catonmat.net/download/perl1line.txt perl1line.txt] GeneralSemantics [Bikelight] - Seriously, take my money. [http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7146312/lou-reed-metallica-album Klosterman on the Lou Reed/Metallica album] [http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ The Social Graph is Neither] wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack Spring-heeled Jack] [https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-demand-vapid-condescending-meaningless-politically-safe-response-petition/gCZfn86x We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition.] [http://boingboing.net/2011/10/31/air-space-a-trip-through-an-airport-detention-center.html a trip through an airport detention center] ([http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/14810.html via]) [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd RSS Subscription Extension for Chrome] - Why is this not just a feature? [http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/occupy-oakland-6530274 Occupy Oakland and the Militarization of America's Police] http://occupywriters.com [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/10/an-american-teen-ager-in-yemen.html An American Teen-ager in Yemen] [http://i.imgur.com/sg4Sh.jpg the line-up] [http://www.metafilter.com/108443/He-is-it-goes-without-saying-a-popular-popular-man-at-dinner-parties#3977479 pancakes] Kieran Healy: [http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/10/10/a-sociology-of-steve-jobs/ A Sociology of Steve Jobs] http://thealrightband.com xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/963/ X11] [http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388 Cable does not enter slot.] xkcd: [http://www.xkcd.com/956/ sharing] Jason Scott: [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3331 "enjoy your future"] [http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/09/amazon-warehouse-heat-shipping The Real Price of Amazon's Free Shipping] WareLogging: [http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ d3.js] - some pretty sweet dataviz stuff [http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/htf/2288729704.html Large Cat Statue] sparkfun: [http://www.sparkfun.com/news/700 SFE Visits Scaled Composites] - I need to get in on more junkets. Elizabeth Bear: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/09/i-singularity.html I, Singularity...] WareLogging: [http://grml.org/zsh-pony/ The Zsh Pony] [http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/08/29/305723/feminist-media-criticism-george-r-r-martins-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-and-that-sady-doyle-piece/ All that really needs to be said about this]. wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Faust Johann Georg Faust] [http://feelafraidcomic.com/19.php This isn't a god damn singles club] [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/case-pseudonyms A Case for Pseudonyms] [https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki Smallest Federated Wiki] [http://www.complang.org/ragel/ ragel] CharlesStross: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality-check-1.html Three arguments against the singularity] [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3365 on Jamaican Creole] [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/10/12/091012crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all on scientific management] [http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly110713.htm Tim Kreider on the moon vs. Afghanistan]: _As my instructive chart shows, we’ve blown like three times more accomplishing it’s not clear exactly what in Afghanistan than we spent putting men on the Moon. I am not even counting Iraq, for the cost of which we could probably build a floating pleasure-dome on Io. So how about knock it off with the why-are-we-spending-this-money-on-space horseshit already and do something useful with your pipsqueak pious outrage instead?_ [http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ sharemenot] [http://rapgenius.com/posts/The-history-of-hip-hop-as-told-by-rap-genius the history of hip hop (as told by rap genius)] jwz: [http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/mork-keeps-on-giving-when-the-database-worms-eat-into-your-murder-trial/ when the database worms eat into your murder trial] xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/910/ Permanence] [http://mollybackes.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-be-writer.html how to be a writer] (tl;dr: write.) wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski Alfred Korzybski] Stross: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/federovs-rapture.html Federov's Rapture] wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition Metacognition] ([http://www.metafilter.com/105186/Metacognitive-training-for-schizophrenia-suffers-and-everybody-else via]) alan: [http://acg.github.com/2011/06/10/measuring-the-measurers.html Measuring the Measurers] [http://vimeo.com/14912890 Everything is a Remix] [http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html The History of Electronic Mail] (via [http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-one/ this fascinating interview]) [http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.3/junot_diaz_apocalypse_haiti_earthquake.php apocalypse] [http://www.andrewskurka.com/advice/technique/fancyfeaststove.php making a Fancy Feast backpacking stove] [http://mjg59.livejournal.com/137313.html rebooting] [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/france-attempts-to-civilize-the-internet-internet-fights-back.ars Sarkozy & "civilizing" the Internet] [http://textism.com/2008/08/31/a.dslr.catechism A DSLR Catechism] [http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/ Unix First Edition Manuals] - absolutely fascinating. [http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/ Unix First Edition Source Code] https://github.com/brennen/bpb-kit - dotfiles, etc. WareLogging: [http://richardappleby.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/wacom-bamboo-pen-tablet-under-ubuntu-10-10/ Wacom Bamboo pen tablet under Ubuntu 10.10] WacomTablet WareLogging: [zsh] [http://sebastiancelis.com/2009/11/16/zsh-prompt-git-users/ A zsh prompt for git users] [http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html sample Piet programs] http://openlibrary.org [http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24221709M/They_flew_to_fame. ''They Flew to Fame''] - I own a copy of this book. achewood: [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11222006 No, I ain't got a fax machine!] WareLogging: [http://mobac.sourceforge.net/ Mobile Atlas Creator] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi5q3Gq6UhI Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb] == early 2011 == wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Me_a_Pallet_on_the_Floor Make Me a Pallet on the Floor] [http://www.metafilter.com/101493/Its-called-Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-Youve-probably-never-heard-of-it metafilter overthinks ferris bueller] [http://www.youtube.com/user/michaeljohnblake What Pi Sounds Like] (via, like, everybody) [http://www.steike.com/code/xterm-colors/ xtfix] - differentiate xterms by subtly shifting colors (tiling WM users, this will be of interest) [http://goodnightdune.com/ Goodnight Dune] [http://acg.github.com/ maelstrom] - Nerds: Alan has a tech blog again, you should read it. [http://boycottharpercollins.com/ Are we still boycotting Harper Collins?] mefi: [http://ask.metafilter.com/179468/keep-hands-and-arms-in-the-vehicle-at-all-times Have you ever jumped out of a moving car?] mefi: [http://www.metafilter.com/100965/How-We-Know How We Know (Freeman Dyson)] JackieKay WareLogging: [http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/ pithos] - Native Pandora client for Linux wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hone_Tuwhare Hone Tuwhare] [http://devzone.zend.com/article/12132 Getting started with mongodb and PHP] http://www.170millionamericans.org achewood: [http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua2fKpSP Ray is high under the table] [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/ The Chess Master and the Computer] WareLogging: [https://github.com/jamiew/git-friendly git-friendly] I'm pretty sure Tim Bray is right [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/09/Hash-Blecch about this]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUxLUZTACrE&feature=fvwrel "To the Dogs or Whoever"] [http://www.granta.com/Magazine/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1 How to Write about Africa] sparkfun: [http://www.sparkfun.com/news/550 Open Source Hardware Definition] [http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/02/a-personal-reflection-on-brian-jacques A Personal Reflection on Brian Jacques] [http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133278431/first-listen-bright-eyes-the-peoples-key Bright Eyes: ''The People's Key''] [http://i.imgur.com/V4mpO.png fries] [http://bettermyths.blogspot.com/2010/08/neil-gaiman-made-up-this-myth.html a really good poem about balls] [http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/1/29/live_from_the_egyptian_revolution_by_sharif_abdel_kouddous Live from the Egyptian Revolution] flickr: [http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdguide/ Field Guide: Birds of the World] CharlieStross: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/reasons-to-be-cheerful.html Reasons to be cheerful] ([http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/13802.html via]) [http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-business/ci_17107076 sparkfun electronics growing big in boulder] - This article kind of makes me twitch. [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=240968 Jolie Holland on poetry] [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2284/ elephants] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNcOyMLJ1xI Charlie Parr - "1922"] [https://nldr.library.ucar.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=18&q=&rootcontentid=2602 National Scientific Balloon Facility Records] == Late 2010 == [http://twitpic.com/3jn5vs Neil Gaiman is better at this game than you are]. WareLogging: [http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html Vmail] - Gmail in VimEditor [http://www.themillions.com/2010/08/where-we-write-the-merits-of-making-do.html The Merits of Making Do] [http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012733.html Holding US journalism in contempt] [http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html On T. Friedman's ''Hot, Flat and Crowded''] [http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7727401/ Why You Shouldn't Become an Archivist] ([http://www.metafilter.com/97757/Why-You-Shouldnt-Become-an-Archivist mefi]) [http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/11/all_the_lonely_people.html "You know what a bore is, Travis. Someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with companionship."] [http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving] mefi: [http://www.metafilter.com/97540/The-Insanity-Virus The Insanity Virus] - [http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03-the-insanity-virus/ ''Discover'' article on possibility that schizophrenia is caused] by an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus endogenous retrovirus] [http://www.archive.org/stream/biographicalhist00holl/biographicalhist00holl_djvu.txt Biographical history of Cloud County, KS] [http://sea.ucar.edu/event/twenty-years-free-software-project Twenty years with a Free Software project] (via some BLUG folks) Via Eric, an [http://aintitcool.com/node/47326 AICN Q&A with Berke Breathed] [http://caseydentinger.com/ "five songs with nothing to do with anything"] [http://www.legalize2012.com/ Colorado Legalize 2012] harkavagrant: [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=285 Dracula] wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws List of eponymous laws] This is a pretty good summary of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/stilldavid/5118331344/ the view] out my office window. wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Melanchthon Philipp Melanchthon] [http://www.slideshare.net/cog/chmod-x-chmod chmod -x chmod] (nerds, read this one) [http://dawnchapel.com/2010/06/the-early-bird-gets-the-earworm/ "I'm gonna, but my insurance don't cover it"] wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_euphemism Baseball euphemism] mefi: [http://ask.metafilter.com/120479/Crimes-committed-by-Ferris-Bueller-during-his-Day-off Crimes committed by Ferris Bueller during his Day off] WareLogging: The [http://magic-flight.com/ Magic-Flight] WareLogging: [http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,5877.0.html Leatherman PST chronology project] WareLogging: [http://multitool.org/wiki/tiki-index.php The Multitool Encyclopedia] nyt: [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet] [http://www.youtube.com/user/gihm#p/a/f/1/pLTZV6CAY_c The Giant's Causeway] [http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201009#01 The sad evolution of wikis] ([http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/2010-09-05 via Trivium]) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3dQWKtFyvs Choppy finally catches an airplane] http://boldsparrow.net