April 2007
120 posts
Google History
I’ve had Google Web History turned on for about a week now, letting Google record my every move on the Web to see what interesting things it might learn about me. It recommends videos, personalized home page gadgets and even web searches based on your history. At first these recommendations seemed pretty accurate, but today my recommendations are being slowly taken over by Ohio football...
“Consider: 9/11 was a response to decades of competent American foreign policy....”
– IOZ, The Con
Ruleby: a pure Ruby rule engine →
Arthur Silber: Passing On the Sense of Wonder →
bleak_house :: evan weaver →
“But if the man who has the authority to launch nuclear weapons all on his say-so...”
– Jim Henley, The Story Behind the Story, the Continuing Series
Mike Gravel is awesome →
“MR. WILLIAMS: Senator Gravel, same question: other than Iraq, three most...”
– from IOZ
Uncensor the Internet with Greasemonkey →
turn lame censored swears into real swears (via John Gruber)
Doom-like game written in JavaScript →
“We need to go in a new direction. And that direction is out. And the fact that...”
– Dennis Kucinich (via Arthur Silber)
Arthur Silber: Theater of Death →
“This latest insult to our troops should come as no surprise since others in the...”
– my very own Representative Geoff Davis [i wish they fucking would declare it lost already]
The United States as Cho Seung-Hui: How the State... →
Fight over baby's life support divides ethicists →
the kid would die in hours if taken off life support, but his mother wants him kept alive artificially so he can die naturally??? (also the law that would let the hospital stop keeping him alive artificially was signed by george w. bush, who i guess was in the culture of death as a governor.)
D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y →
who cares, though? i never proofread informal writing, i just happen to be a good speller.
“America is the last, best hope of Earth,” isn’t a political...”
– IOZ, Ecclesiastes
U.S. says killed senior al Qaeda in Iraq figure →
it made a big difference last time we killed the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Vonnegut Day →
29 February, a day to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is
“It also comes with a touchscreen and no buttons, making it difficult for users...”
– Nancy Gohring paraphrasing Gartner Analyst Ken Dulaney (via John Gruber) [it’s a feature, not a bug]
“Where are all the air billionaires? Where are all the gravity billionaires? What...”
– Giles Bowkett, Economics 101 for Web 2.0+
OpenDNS | Providing a Safe and Faster DNS →
Presidential candidate Kucinich to call for Cheney... →
Steven Berg@ iStalkr: Social Feed Aggregator →
for the benefit of my online stalkrs
The Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer →
A Tiny Revolution: Kucinich To Introduce Articles... →
Old photos of London with photos of the same... →
via Cory Doctorow
“In other spheres, we act reasonably when faced with new problems. When Richard...”
– E. J. Dionne Jr. - Gun Law Pragmatism - washingtonpost.com (via Jim Henley)[shoe searches and liquid bans: not fucking pragmatic or reasonable]
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn →
“That a nation which regularly engages in aerial bombardments of urban centers,...”
– Who Is IOZ?: Looked in the Mirror, Saw a Stranger
“But while Grover Norquist and gang, who we’re right to scorn, have a...”
– Who Is IOZ?: Nothing Is Certain but Death
“In that part of British society that will for ever be built around strange vowel...”
– John Harris on what the weekend’s events tell us about the class minefield that is Britain today | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
“The current (2005) United States military budget is larger than the military...”
– Military budget of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [the official military budget doesn’t include spending on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars or secret spending that isn’t publicly disclosed.]
The End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business →
via Boing Boing
Johny Derbyshire: VA Tech survivors not manly... →
“The nerd factor is huge,” Dr. Cuny said. According to a 2005 report by the...”
– Cornelia Dean, Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold - New York Times [yeah, and a lot of people hate math because they think of it as doing stuff with numbers. who knows where they get these crazy ideas.]
“Terrorism used to be hard. Now all you have to is hang backpacks from trees near...”
– Bruce Schneier, Another Boston Terrorism Overreaction
“The VaTech massacre will throw another layer of delusion over the American scene...”
– Dennis Perrin, See How We Are
“To get people to pay for your software, you need to put some barrier in place...”
– Charles Miller, The Fishbowl: Newsfire Aftermath
Clocky →
The alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don’t wake up.
Design of the New U.S. e-Passport →
“This design will reflect the varied landscapes of our country and each page will include a quote reflecting the hope and success that is the United States of America.”
“There are two 21st centuries, that of the Osprey on which Cheney is depending,...”
– Juan Cole, Dick Cheney and the Two 21st Centuries; On Nukes, Vice President Confuses Television with Reality
“How many times must we repeat ourselves: the war in Iraq was an act of...”
– IOZ, Hessians