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thomas jefferson's list of differences between the north and the south 2010.09.02 
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Notherners      Southerners
coldfiery
sobervoluptuary
laboriousindolent
independentsteady
jealous of their own liberties, and just to those of otherszealous for their own liberties, but trampling on those of others
interestedgenerous
chicaningcandid
supersitious and hypocritical in their religionwithout attachment or pretensions to any religion but that of the heart

--via "One-Night Stands with American History", Shenkman + Reiger

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"If you can't make fun of yourself, then you are terrible at making fun of people."
--http://twitter.com/unclesamkent
Started riding my bike to Alewife. Besides saving a bit of time it's just fun and kinetic.
To quote a friend, "Another oil rig explosion in the Gulf? Yeesh."

aloning 2010.09.01 
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--via JZ

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http://www.slate.com/id/2265067/ - the more I know about Max Headroom the more I like.
Dig the idea of built-in HDR on the iPhone camera. Wonder when/if Canon Powershots will have that (oh, duh, need to check out CHDK firmware replacement, maybe I can get it already)
I like how Netflix is the whore of streaming now. I can watch on laptop, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360.. yet Apple TV is still tempting.
Apple Store is now themed with a "fingerprint rainbow" as title backdrops. Like that they're embracing how smudge-y these things get.
You can't spell "success" without "u"! But in fact, I can't really spell "success" all that well, all those weird "s"s and soft "c"s...

metroid speed run 2010.08.31 
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--For me it's less about the speed and ways they've found of "breaking" the video game Metroid to get the best possible time than the view of the game that shows more than the room Samus is currently in... it's like those old Nintendo Player's Guide maps come to life...

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http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/1035451042/fuzzy-little-boy - on old color photos. It is sometimes a bit hard to remember that the world wasn't b+w from 1800-1950 or so, and that old Roman statues were originally in garish colors, not the "classy" monochrome stone colors we now see them in.
"if you laid all the cups of tea I've ever drunk end to end it'd be a big mess and a terrible waste of tea."
--http://twitter.com/llamasoft_ox
I'm always weirded out how Photoshop et al crop out transparent pixels when you try and copy and paste- does that feel 'right' to designers?
Amber's Turkey Meatloaf of Love

american bandstand 2010.08.30 
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Too more from the Rockport Legion Band last night... kinda cute how the kids were all running circles around the bandstand...



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http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html - I should a link to this for "mortality for skeptics" ( http://mortals.be )
The other week I found out my dad sometimes used the family name "Dyke" as a kind of second middle name. Snicker-worthy, but interesting.
So many headhunters are looking for roles all over the country. Are they just lazy or is there a whole subculture of migrant coders?
"What is the speed of light? As far as you're concerned, it's nine inches per nanosecond."
--RossumsChild's electrical engineering professor, via this Slashdot story
Friend Indy's Hypothetical Drink idea -- Gin, Curacao for Blue Coloring, and Peach Rings (Yellow Side Up) -- it's a Gin + Sonic!

Just watched "The Big Chill" for the first time. Good flick, good soundtrack, good wishing for group of friends that cohesive(ish) and big.

atlantic city construction a few weeks ago 2010.08.29 
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Alien Seed Pods for sale at Fresh Pond Whole Foods under the brand name "Maxixe"

Nice evening for a Rockport Legion Band concert by the shore! Amber took this next one:


the baby elephant walk swim 2010.08.28 
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--originally via archmage's friday photos but I found this animation somewhere... maybe gifanime?

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Eyes are so crazy good at adjusting for your head's movements! Watch yourself in a mirror, shake and bob your head, they stay locked- weird!
"Improper Bostonian says brine-based garnishes are the new thing."
"Like brine.... shrimp?"
"Dude that's sea monkeys."
"Ew, never mind."
--cmg and me

run run as fast as you can 2010.08.27 
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Web design folks: any statistics on typical browser widths? (as opposed to screen resolutions- people don't always run maximized...)

pigeon catch 2010.08.26 
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Finished Runyon. Love the names; Regret, the horseplayer, The Sky, Brandy Bottle Bates, Horse Thief, Sorrowful, even good ol' reliable Nathan Detroit...

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
--George Bernard Shaw
"If Sir Mix-A-Lot has taught me anything, it is that the anaconda wants what the anaconda wants."
--http://twitter.com/rstevens
Wild Turkey at Alewife!

that darn cat 2010.08.25 
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what a wookie! 2010.08.24 
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--Savage Chickens has all of Chewbacca's lines from Star Wars- click for more panels. I love the art style.

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i don't blab any drab gab-- i chatter hep patter 2010.08.23 
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--Man, I love Nancy's stylized an anchronistic oddness! via Princess Sparkle Pony's Photo Blog

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Notes synching on iPhone 4 is f'in broken. I lost data - notes WEIRDLY reverting - to a broken "feature" I barely knew I had. Sucks.
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
--Frank Zappa
http://www.slate.com/id/2264312/ - cool piece on Quicksand: it's decline and fall in popculture, and the people who fetishize it...
I cry a little on the inside when I see a super slow site with a ".jsp" URL. Friendster was the worst. Now Bank of America? Yeesh.

discapede 2010.08.22 
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To view this content, you need to install Java from java.com
discapede - source - built with processing
Made with Amber's videogame interests in mind, it's a classic Arcade game in circular form... more of a toy than a game, there's no score, no dying... just lots of centipedes and mushrooms to shoot at. Space resets everything.

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http://kisrael.com/java/ - just updated my java page, mostly KotMK. Man that's a lot!

one more twilight joke 2010.08.21 
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Just kinda liked this thing from cracked.com...

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"Great film makers know how to give us lines to read between."
--http://twitter.com/MrTeller
http://www.youtube.com/user/CeeLoGreen#p/u/2/CAV0XrbEwNc - Gnarls Barkley returns with an F U kinda song...

we can sort it out 2010.08.20 
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Making the rounds (JZ sent me a link but I think I saw a reference to it somewhere) is this eye and ear and mind candy for computer geeks: what different sorting algorithms (routines for ordering giant bunches of numbers) sound like... Not sure why Heap Sort gets its own, but here it is:
A bit more of a writeup at the geek.com article. So the sound is cool, but I admit I'm getting more information from the visual part-- it's the sound that makes it compelling, though...

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http://gizmodo.com/5617755/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient-greek-statues-really-looked "The color? Always something tacky."
http://howbigreally.com/ - kind of a neat webapp to overlay big structures historical and present over a map of your zipcode.
The other night Alewife there was a guy with a Decepticon symbol on one calf, Autobot on the other. C'mon dude, pick a side!