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Wow what an amazing rant, back in September Steve Yegge posted an absolutely amazing rant on programming in the browser swamp. Here are some choice quotes. But just go read the whole post yourself, it is worth it, that is if you are into technology. Like, the kind of radical simplification Ruby on Rails introduced [...]

Jon Stewart likes jems which is concealed by the fact that Jon always wears a newscasting outfit. After his first apperance on the Daily Show, John Hodgman was able to use that fact to make a well placed bribe to Jon Stewart to become the resident expert on TDS. That is all.

Walking down a newly built walking path that goes by an abandoned steam factory on a Saturday afternoon. See a perfect spider web but cannot get the best picture of it. The sun is coming at the wrong angle. The early hint of fall folidge makes for a nice contrast with the water, rusty pipes, [...]

Cory Doctorow has a very interesting article, How Copyright Broke, in the September Locus magazine. I really like this analogy he made: Indeed, until the photocopier came along, it was practically impossible for a member of the audience to infringe copyright in a way that would rise to legal notice. Copyright was like a tank-mine, [...]

I am totally befuddled. Somehow I let xkcd slip under my radar until wil wheaton mentioned it on Monday. Now I have read all of the archives and feel enlightened. Such an amazing comic with some many insane strips. music knowledge, neil gaiman, malaria, digital rights management

I haven’t written here for a while and the trend won’t be picking up for at least another week. At noon today I head off to Oregon for a week of biking. Hopefully around 350 miles or so. No internet or cell phones or anything connected or electronic. Though maybe my music until the battery [...]

Random Acts of Reality has found one of the best blonde jokes ever.

Blueman!!, originally uploaded by spi516. Tim, Amin, and I went to the Blue Man Group “Tubes” show on Sunday. The show has been playing for quite a while and I had never gotten a chance to see it. We had second row seats. Unfortunately we didn’t get any thing on us even though we had [...]

During the drive from Syracuse NY to the Boston area I climed up to the highest point on I-90 between there and somewhere in South Dakota. I wrote down Ocama but that isn’t a town in SD. Anyway that point was approximately 1730 feet in elevation. It was right after the Appalachain trail crossed the [...]