February 2012
10 posts
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“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Prop. 8 overturned in California, court says state can’t ban gay marriage | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
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“I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. The belief in it...”
– Letters of Note: On the Meaning of Life
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“if there is one thing HR knows how to do, is pushing you away.”
– Nick
January 2012
30 posts
“Every time I’m asking for advice you’re making it harder, ebassi”
– Such is the problem with asking the Master of GLib Knowledge a question (via robsta). (via rossburton) — Ross forgot my reply:
hey, I don’t make the rules you like to break
Dolphins are gay sharks: mosymoseys: Where have... →
mosymoseys:
Where have all the space operas gone? Where are all the shows I grew up with filled with spaceships and lasers? Where are all the scifi shows that weren’t ashamed to be scifi shows?
I miss those shows. Because being an unashamed space opera filled with spaceships and lasers…
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“Don’t get me wrong, [the 2012 GOP primary is] a fun sideshow, but I don’t...”
– Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America — as usual, Warren Ellis nails it.
“> I’m also dissatisfied with the name of the distro.
> Linux is the...”
– Ciaran McCreesh, gentoo-dev list. (via rossburton)
from the same thread:
I’m wondering how much cognitive dissonance it takes to
complain about the possibility of using proprietary software in a mail
sent via gmail.
— Re: Free Gentoo
“As supernatural creatures in Indonesia can often take on terrifying forms – such...”
– Indonesian man arrested for kicking woman he thought was a ghost | World news | The Guardian — this is probably the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard.
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Wat — Destroy All Software Talks →
Charlie Brooker: How to realise David Cameron's... →
British film-makers! Put down those clapperboards and pay attention because David Cameron, who happens to be a huge fan of your work – assuming you’re making The King’s Speech II – wants you to focus on films likely to be a “commercial success”. Which presumably is the last thing you want.
Cynics say Cameron knows squit about British films. When that photo of SamCam and Michelle Obama having a...
“Whenever we encountered some findings that certain traits had been identified...”
– Profiling Doesn’t Work? More Profiling! - The Criminal Lawyer - Commentary on Law and Policy
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“xkb is the simplest solution people could come up with to the keyboard problem...”
– it’s funny because it’s true.
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emacs. pretty sure you never heard of it.
Company: xkb is the tool we use to stop people from mucking with their keyboards
meegee: my emacs pinky tends to disapprove
* ebassi wonders why did he just know that meegee was using xmodmap with emacs
ebassi: well, maybe because only emacs users are still using xmodmap
meegee: why is that?
ebassi: because you emacs users are trying to use an editor that was written on a lisp machine keyboard with a pc105 one. it's never going to work
meegee: well I'm *the* input hipster
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“But [the series 1 cliffhanger] became such a big deal that we actually had to do...”
– ‘Sherlock’ Steven Moffat interview: ‘Holmes might not survive’ - Sherlock Interview - TV - Digital Spy
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December 2011
19 posts
“And it doesn’t take a science fiction writer to understand why regulators...”
– transcript.md at master from jwise/28c3-doctorow - GitHub | watch Cory’s talk at 28C3 on YouTube
“When software — or idea-ware for that matter — fails to be...”
– I never got around quoting this section of the epic Steve Yegge rant about Google; it’s possibly the most important part of an enormously enjoyable and well written rant (you, know, like the other epic rants Steve published over the years, and I’m not going to link them all); the vast...
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“It’s like the ADA has forced its way into GNOME: businesses beingforced to...”
– GNOME 3 killing interface consistency - Tanguy Ortolo — sometimes I feel the need to reassess my stance on the open source software community. luckily for me, the Debian community provides me with a service with which I can successfully recalibrate my hatred for these people.
Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits - Mad Art Lab →
“Jefferson’s approach to redacting the Bible involved something more radical than...”
– Religion in America: The faith (and doubts) of our fathers | The Economist
“Now comes evidence from the blog Android and Me that Google’s answer to Siri is...”
– Google Working On Siri Alternative ‘Majel’ | TechWeekEurope UK — I am honestly surprised that this hasn’t happened already.