January 2012
24 posts
“> 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.
“Reports surfaced this morning that the gentlemen over at The Cartoonist Studio...”
– PvPonline » Archive » Yes, We’re Serious
“Furthermore, though ‘desktop collaboration’ is a positive message,...”
– Re: Desktop Summit Planning
“I’ve been told that things will change in time, I just have to wait. Really?...”
– It’s not just one joke, it’s all the jokes. « Zero Light Seeds
November 2011
25 posts
“A large-scale clean-up operation is under way after a tanker carrying more than...”
– BBC News - M1 shut after ‘Marmite’ lorry crash in South Yorkshire — the difficulty in this cleaning operation is finding enough butter and toasted bread on such a short notice
“I’m not against change per se. What I find distasteful is for these...”
– Re: One very unhappy Linux user | and that is why every commit in GNOME is passed through a community poll to decide if it should be merged into the mainline development tree or discarded… oh, no, wait — it doesn’t.
chalk it up to another one that thought that open source development...
“Recognizing the role of churches in the movement, Ms. Bey still takes issue when...”
– African-American Atheists - NYTimes.com
“Anyone can post questions to the mailing list. However, people’s questions...”
– Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the “LIVE555 Streaming Media” libraries — honest, these FAQs are the gift that keeps on giving. kudos to RP for finding this little gem.