February 2010
16 posts
The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged -... →
“In the heyday of 1960s left-wing radicalism, no liberal Democratic politicians in Washington could be found endorsing groups preaching violent revolution. The right has a different history.”
Getting ready for 3pm parade — at Magic Hat Mardi Gras http://gowal.la/s/4bC9
RT @magichat: http://www.magichat.net/tv
How genetics works →
As information visualizations go, you can’t get much better than this. Tags: genetics infoviz
Quote of the Day →
“I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on stimulus money and saying this doesn’t create any new jobs, and then they go out and do photo-ops and…
RT @e_to_the_m: So excited, @maddow will be on my friend @billsimmon’s radio show today at 4 EST. http://j.mp/aL2Wdu #psfr #btv #vt
Augmented Reality Game Example - Future of... →
This is one of the best examples and visualization of how augmented reality games will look like. the head mounted display will be replaced with augmented reality goggles or glasses and will overlay…
Tom Toles is worth a thousand words →
RT @incanus77: My app Meerkat on TUAW: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/18/meerkat-1-5-automatically-reconnects-your-ssh-tunnels/
World War Z - Studs Terkel meets Zombie War survivors as a well done audiobook.
Turned off Google Buzz. A duplication of existing content with questionable privacy issues.
A conversation I have every month or so
dwineman:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever...
Just finished Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez. Great sequel minus one major contradiction. In the first book the Daemon influenced the MSM.
Missing the point →
The personal computer of 2010 is hard to understand for novices and people who struggle with abstract concepts. Macs, PCs, all of them. Folks, it’s us, the freaks who understand drive partitioning, regular expressions, virtual disk images, task switching, and shell scripting — we’re the exception.
The Days of Miracles and Wonder →