June 2012
3 posts
“I have known both of you all your lives, have carried your Daddy in my arms and...”
– Letters of Note: My dungeon shook (via psugar)
May 2012
24 posts
“It is the strangest of bureaucratic rituals: Every week or so, more than 100...”
– Secret ‘Kill List’ Tests Obama’s Principles - NYTimes.com
“if you’ve been in medicine for a while you’ll know that most times,...”
– other things amanzi: not one single word
“Since the practical destruction and deliberate takeover of StatsCan I have not...”
– Canada’s national archives being dismantled and scattered - Boing Boing
“I cared more about the slinky than any actor in The Avengers or Battleship”
– Slinky on a Treadmill | jwz
“Consider what that cartoon means in that context: It implies that the commenter...”
– The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.”
– Justin Bieber - GQ Profile June 2012: Celebrities: GQ
“For the next decade LEGO minifigs existed in a gender neutral utopia. One can...”
– Part I: Historical Perspective on the LEGO Gender Gap » Sociological Images
The March of Progress
alandipert:
1980: C
printf("%10.2f", x);
1988: C++
cout << setw(10) << setprecision(2) << showpoint << x;
1996: Java
java.text.NumberFormat formatter = java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(); formatter.setMinimumFractionDigits(2); formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(2); String s = formatter.format(x); for (int i = s.length(); i < 10; i++)...
“This means, and as we all know this is a real-life example, that if one wanted...”
– Elizabeth May, MP
“In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers’...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest Hemingway
“So if I sell a barrel of oil at $100 US when the Canadian dollar is at 85 cents,...”
– Robyn Allan April 27 Presentation Speaking Notes
April 2012
15 posts
“White-haired, slightly hunched and speaking in his Depression-era Brooklyn...”
– At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero - NYTimes.com
“NYAN WAITS”
– NYAN WAITS
“Reader, I examined the moles. They match.”
– Finding Goatse: The Mystery Man Behind the Most Disturbing Internet Meme in History
“Find love for less than the price of a box of bullets”
– Online dating for preppers, survivalists, doomsday believers - Mar. 29, 2012
“In this manner, the same paradoxical evolution that have been observed in...”
– People Make Poor Monitors for Computers at Macroeconomic Resilience
“Of all the stupid games I’ve played, I became addicted to only one: Drop7, a...”
– Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ - NYTimes.com
“In a study published at the Wharton School, Marshall Fisher, Jayanth Krishnan,...”
– How Hiring Makes Uniqlo a Successful Retailer : The New Yorker
“The web expands to fill all boredom. That’s dangerous for everyone, but...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The web expands to fill all boredom
“From the very first “So he wanted to rollerblade down the stairs in the...”
– The true story of the inflatable Raptor’s rollerblade crash | The Basketball Jones | Blogs | theScore.com
“My roots are not hermetically sealed in this bag, they have access to gas...”
– Fragile Oasis | Astro-Z in Zero-G - The Diary of a Space Zucchini - Part 1
“I want to watch it burn. One download at a time.”
– This is Why I Oppose the MPAA : SOPA
March 2012
45 posts
Mr Ballard: Homophobia: The fear that another man... →
aatombomb:
We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the…
“When Batman finally reached the elevator for the slow ride up to the cancer...”
– Who is the Route 29 Batman? This guy. - Rosenwald, Md. - The Washington Post
“On college campuses, the supposed hotbeds of liberalism, the young are...”
– Print - The War Against Youth - Esquire
“My favorite stand-up regular was a wild Hispanic man who scoured YouTube for...”
– Hustling the cloud: McDonald’s hot spots and the internet jackals of the Apple Store | Capital New York
“He taught me “the standard pace is for chumps” - that the system is designed so...”
– There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) | Derek Sivers