September 2007
97 posts
“The initiation of force is arguably unjustifiable by any organizaiton, whether...”
– Tim Swanson, Antiwar.com Blog · Will The Real Terrorists Please Stand Up
“You have to see it to believe it, the effect that Fred Thompson has on certain...”
– Matt Taibbi, Make-Believe Reagan : Rolling Stone
“I’ve heard some politicians say that Ahmadinejad has “blood on his...”
– US Politicians, Not Ahmadinejad, Have Blood on Their Hands - by Charley Reese
You Humped Me All Night Long (mp3) →
Enigmeta | Blog: Acorn scripting using Python →
“My position is that all heads of state of all countries at all times should,...”
– Jonathan Schwarz, A Tiny Revolution: This Is Where We Disagree
Alice In Wonderland Book Easter Egg : "Base"-ic... →
stevenberg: http://tinyurl.com/3dwh27 Lil Mama’s remix of Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend.” “Embedding disabled by request.” WTF, RCA? (via Twitter / stevenberg)
Alsumaria Iraqi Satellite TV Network | Iraq News |... →
What, you Iraqi MPs thought you were the government of a sovereign nation?
“For a while I’ve been saying that this whole national ID debate will be...”
– Schneier on Security: The Technology of Homeland Security
“The extraordinary din of catcalls and pure hatred that greeted Ahmadinejad upon...”
– Dress Rehearsal for War- by Justin Raimondo
“A government that has the power to save you also has the power to kill you.”
– Arthur Silber, Once Upon a Time…: Cui Bono? — and Bush’s Monstrous, Deadly Dare
stevenberg: Eastern Promises. Don’t find out about the plot if you haven’t seen it yet! It’s amazing. (via Twitter / stevenberg)
“If you at all doubt that imperialism warps the brain, just listen to the charges...”
– Dennis Perrin: Booga! Booga!
“US soldiers are luring Iraqis to their deaths by scattering military equipment...”
– Kim Sengupta, Weapons left by US troops ‘used as bait to kill Iraqis’ - Independent Online Edition > Middle East (via Jason Ditz)
instant_fanzine: Vurt essay →
QuarkRuby: Ruby on Rails Security Guide →
Ruby on Rails Security Cheatsheet →
phpsimpl - Google Code →
A PHP framework for rapidly creating classes that mirror MySQL tables. The Simpl framework comes with the basic functions to list, display and edit records from the database.
Once Upon a Time...: Let's Make It About You: Can... →
WatchDarth Vader Blues - CollegeHumor video
“There’s a set of people obsessed about the privacy implications of linking...”
– Julian Bond, Voidstar - Social Graphs (via Shelley Powers)
“Ahmadinejad also called the holocaust a “myth.” Fuck him! A myth is...”
– Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog: A Feeling I’m Being Had (via Eric Garris)
nextthing.org » robots.txt Adventure →
New Orleans - Restaurants - Bistros & Brasseries →
My photo of the Mr B’s Bistro sign in New Orleans is included in this guide.
Antiwar.com Blog · Does Anti-Nuke Mean... →
The UN passed a resolution calling on all Middle East nations to renounce nuclear weapons. The US, Israel and most of the EU are opposed to renouncing nuclear weapons, Iran is in favor of renouncing nuclear weapons.
“In fact reading this timeline, I feel like I’ve been transported back in...”
– Shelley Powers, The Jena 6
Convert Unicode text to HTML Entities and Vice... →
ANTHONY BOURDAIN’S OVERRATED MENU →
Jobs I didn’t know exist: water sommelier???
“Indefinite imprisonment without judicial review is unconstitutional — and...”
– WorkingForChange: What if they came for you? [Well, guys? I have some bad news about that “constitutional democracy” of ours.]
StaticMatic →
Tool for building static web sites in Ruby with Haml
awesome unicode codepoints
♨ U+2668 HOT SPRINGS
☃ U+2603 SNOWMAN
〠 U+3020 POSTAL MARK FACE
“To recap, the first workaround addressed by the iTunes 7.4.1 update was to take...”
– WiseWeasel, commenting on Apple releases iTunes 7.4.2, breaks some custom ringtones again (Updated) [wtf is apple doing with these arbitrary trivial changes? obviously not trying very hard to make it harder to circumvent the restrictions on their idiotic ringtones feature.]
err.the_blog.find_by_title('Automatically') →
automatic migrations from schema.rb
err.the_blog.find_by_title('Sexy Migrations') →
makes rails migrations look nicer with helper methods
bcrypt-ruby →
An easy way to keep your users’ passwords secure.
Matasano Chargen » Enough With The Rainbow Tables:... →
stevenberg: Strunk and White were a couple of punk-ass motherfuckers, and their book sucks. (via Twitter / stevenberg)
stevenberg: This human art game show is brilliant. Sort of like a full-body puppet show. Youtube vidoes of it: http://tinyurl.com/ysr26u (via Twitter / stevenberg)
“DailyKos, for instance, is full of loudmouth Bush-haters who, though they...”
– Who Is IOZ?: Timocracy
