April 2011
2 posts
It’s Judgment day. Amazon is down. Coincidence? I think not. TERMINATOR IS REAL.
November 2009
1 post
Be mightier →
From now on, you may refer to me as CZAR DEREKTOR, The Oracle of Valor - Mecha-Omnitron, The Ultra-GigaBot.
February 2009
1 post
January 2009
2 posts
NIN:The First Open Source Band →
I said this a couple years back actually, when Reznor began intentionally leaking tracks. I remembered all the way back to his “donation” of Closure. I respect this guy for more than just his music.
December 2008
1 post
November 2008
16 posts
101 Failures →
Wow. 101 companies from the S&P 500 are trading below $10 a share. Even worse, a third of the index is at low enough levels to not even qualify to BE on the index. Sweet.
End the Adolescence Experiment →
Here’s an excellent write up by Newt Gingrich on the “experiment” of adolescence. I’ve been advocating this for years. As a bright kid, I was bored to death by school, and saw the futile nature of the “learn by rote” education system we have in place from a very early age. I decided to drop out, take some college courses, and start working instead of going...
Saul Williams - One Year Later →
An interview with Saul Williams reflecting on the success of Niggy Tardust, working with Trent on another album, and how the transformative period that America is going through is changing Saul’s lyrical approach from one of anger and politics to a sense of “connection and exuberance”. Great read. This guy is one my musical and lyrical idols.
FCC approves "whitespace" broadband →
Once in a while, the FCC makes an appropriate decision. They happened to make this one on election day, which is why I’m so late to noticing it. This opens up a path for members of the White Space coalition to begin providing high speed access using frequences previously allocated to television to prevent interference. This is a great move, and could be instrumental in finally allowing a...
Identifying Disease and Flu trends via Google →
This is really impressive. I’ve always felt that even as far as Google has brought it, we’ve only barely touched upon the benefits and implications that search and data mining can bring to society. Early identification of disease, far earlier than the CDC is capable of, is just one example of the huge untapped benefits of data mining. Of course, there’s huge privacy concerns...
Social Interaction 101
golfshoegetaway:
If you are attempting to start a conversation and your fellow interlocutor replies with the statement “Get away from me, you junkie bitch,” it is generally safe to assume that they are uninterested in engaging in further discussion with you.
At this point, you have a few options available to you. You could, in order of ascending preferability:
Cause a scene and subsequently...
“They did it. They really did it. So often crudely caricatured by others, the...”
– The Guardian
An Important Request
Many of you know I’m extremely conservative, but that I’ve been careful and always ensured that my ideology is consistent with my belief in individual rights and equality nationwide. So yesterday, I cast my vote for what will most likely a pretty liberal candidate, and I’m proud of what I did.
So now, my request. If you’re an Obama support,...
October 2008
40 posts
Here’s the new Eminem track,...
WatchPretty cute and well done. Probably even more amusing if you’re as conflicted as I am. I mean, I know my decision, it just feels like the devil’s choice.
Lehman CEO punched in the face →
Thank you, anonymous stranger. You’ve done what we all wish we could do. I hope the CEO took his just payment, and isn’t pressing charges, because he deserves another 699 billion blows to the head as it is.
AJAX Effects →
Pretty cool stuff here. Really, I’m tumbling this so I can find it later on…but it’s got some really cool plugins and snippets.
It's a bad day to be a creationist →
And an AWESOME day to love science.
“In what could be a first in the world, a fish species known as cichlids has been observed by scientists in the act of splitting into two distinct species in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake and one of the world’s biggest fresh water bodies.
This may be remarkable because what is causing them to diverge are adaptations to their vision as animals and...
Neil Gaiman gives away novel - The Graveyard book →
From Wired:
“The Graveyard Book follows the misadventures of a young orphaned boy named Nobody who lives in a graveyard. All of Nobody’s friends are dead (or undead), so he’s bound to get in a bit of bother here and there. By the end of Gaiman’s tour, the entire story will be told in the video clips.”
Apparently, The Graveyard Book is an adaption of Rudyard...
Did Antidepressants cause the mortgage crisis? →
I’m not arguing for or against this theory, but certain parts of it are extremely appealing. We’ve suppressed or warped so many of our feelings as a nation with pharmaceuticals to try to get through the day…what if our ability to assess risk has been affected in the process? What if our reliance on modern psychiatry to solve our mental health problems has led to this crisis?
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Oyster Smart Card Hacked →
Free UK transit, all around!
Watch“To throw away the pen and pad and simply be the poem”
For some reason, this is striking me as extra insightful tonight.
Underground Female MC's →
This is pretty cool. Listened to a couple tracks from all of them, and there’s some really good stuff in there. Better than a lot of the new hip hop shit I’ve been hearing lately.
Deus Ex 3 Announced →
Yes, please. Seriously, Deus Ex 1 was one of the best games ever made. They’re moving away from some of the original systems and using some more common place modern mechanics instead, and that worries me a little, but I’m going to go ahead and hope this is insanely awesome.
