October 2008
2 posts
For One Business, Polluted Clouds Have Silvery... →
Eventual epitaph for humanity: “we were so awesome we mined the residual dust from our earlier mining.”
Stay on Target: Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs →
This rules.
September 2008
2 posts
Unqualified Reservations: Maturity transformation... →
lhc →
June 2008
1 post
Katahdin →
“Katahdin is a programming language where the syntax and semantics are mutable at runtime.” So awesome!
May 2008
5 posts
Third Education Group Review →
Must-read for fans of public education.
Modern Mechanix: THE NATIONAL DATA CENTER AND... →
It’s hard to convey how difficult it is to see the future this clearly. Amazing.
Hoover Institution - Policy Review - The... →
Cute Creeps From Pop Culture: Show No Mercer →
April 2008
1 post
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to... →
Ancient history of infocom revealed, with many principal showing up in the comments. A must read.
March 2008
1 post
s y b e r p u n k . c o m - Gameboy Shoes →
Don't Become a Scientist! →
“I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs.”
February 2008
3 posts
Let Bathboat Take You On A Trip To Fantasy Land... →
This was built for me.
Bookshop Memories (George Orwell) →
This essay is even better from our seventy-year-later vantage point.
January 2008
31 posts
Tim May, The Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto and Modern... →
Where’s my cryptoparadise!?
#10919 (incorrect pluralization) - Rails Trac →
+1
Futarchy: Vote Values, But Bet Beliefs →
Count me in!
The Science Creative Quarterly » A DIALOGUE WITH... →
Exclusive: The Cruise Indoctrination Video... →
Nutty!
Unqualified Reservations: A straightforward... →
Another newly discovered and instantly beloved blog.
Who Is IOZ?: Ron Paul →
IOZ nails it as usual. Favorite blog.
Waterhobo →
This guy seems like a dick, but I applaud his devotion to the cause.
Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia, the free... →
Katrina's victims ask for huge checks - Yahoo!... →
Significant because they stumbled upon the relevant unit conversion: ”A stack of one quadrillion pennies would reach Saturn.”
Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In... →
I expect to need this any day.
I'm posting from a tumblr dashboard widget
I’m sure you’re thrilled.
Slim Shady Algorithm - Uncyclopedia, the... →
First I’ve heard of the brilliant-looking “Developers” language.
“Friend: I watched a television show last night about these people who had...”
– Which is Worse: Sextuplets or Prison? - Violent Acres
YouTube - Treadmill jogging in Second Life →
Not that I’m into second life, but conceptually I’m so ready for this.
The Rinspeed sQuba Concept: “Attention Guaranteed” →
We’ve all been wasting our time waiting for flying cars. From now on it will be the absence of scuba cars that reminds me the freaking future still isn’t here yet.
Clover's $11,000 Single Cup Coffee Maker →
Stands out for having the guts to close with “Can you afford not to?”
The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World →
Billionaire denies building secret sex lair →
I’d just like to state for the record that should I ever become a billionaire, and should you ask: yes, that is my secret sex lair.
Lego Art →
I gotta get me one of them yellow dudes.
Paleo-Future →
Neat blog on the future as envisioned by the past. Very useful for becoming properly skeptical about predictions.
Home emptied after hoax online ad →
Wow - is it that easy to screw someone this badly? I hope all my enemies have forgotten me (and my address.)
While You Were at War ... →
Lessons on the surge from economics 101 →
The dollar auction metaphor is painfully apt.
Bike sex man placed on probation →
The poor guy is having sex with his bicycle in the privacy of his own room and ended up on the sex offender registry. Kind of sucks, I’m sure you’ll agree, even if you’re one of those too-uptight-to-make-it-with-a-bicycle prudes.
Record Industry Suicide →
FBI heats up search for skyjacker D.B. Cooper -... →
Pleased to hear the FBI has so little to do that they’ve put a team on this.
Shallow water blackout - Wikipedia, the free... →
I think from now on, every time I learn about a new way to die or otherwise be immersed in suckitude, I will tumble it. If I’d been doing that since I found the internet I’d have thousands under my belt.
December 2007
2 posts
Courting stupidity: why smart lawyers pick dumb... →
Illuminating, if not surprising.
Beatnik →
Scrabble playing programmers only! Fortunately that’s about 30% of my readers.