I ran across danelope through a series of events that don’t really bear posting here, but it seems to be chock full o’ goodness. I owe the blogger a beer for the article about userContent.css alone. No more blank spots on the BBC News site where ads would go for me!
April, 2008
...now browsing by month
All kinds of useful stuff
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Like maybe Carnivale, you could watch it in an hour
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008There are a lot of works of art that I would like to be so elegantly crystallized, but for now, here’s Batman.
And I'm betting the book won't be any more edifying
Monday, April 7th, 2008A very odd story of a guy who defected to North Korea because he was drunk and afraid, and spent decades in the same state in that same state until he was freed to work in a Japanese cookie shop.
(4/14: link fixed)
Open-source (mostly) on the plane
Saturday, April 5th, 2008On a recent Delta flight (I believe we were on a B737-800), the seat-back entertainment system needed to be rebooted, so everybody on the plane got to watch the startup messages scroll by. It was a Linux system booting with Redboot, running on a single-processor system (to judge from the single Tux graphic on boot). I was entertained by the warning that the kernel was being tainted by non-GPL code.
Trademark Luv-Я-Us™
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Where to buy sheet music
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Putting the band back together? Get your charts here.
You got your math in my literature! Yum!
Saturday, April 5th, 2008My librarian sent me this review of math-related literary works some time ago. I’m putting it here so I don’t have to keep it in my inbox.
So hard and plastic-ey!
Friday, April 4th, 2008I had my first mouth guard related dream: “This bread is terrible!”
