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drcairns:
San Francisco is a fine place to live (via pblair).
June 2011
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Boring Old Raphael: All seven Michael Cera movies,... →
boringoldraphael:
BY MICHAEL CERA’S VIRGINITY
Movies in which Michael Cera loses his virginity: Juno
Year One
Youth in Revolt
Movies in which Michael Cera almost loses his virginity: Superbad (is about to, but girl is too drunk)
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (gives girl her first orgasm, but…
February 2011
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I want to do all of this and take pictures. →
Hacker Meditation
There have been a number of posts around the internet about meditation and how a nerd may begin. I meditate almost everyday now and it has really made a difference in how I focus and work. I am noting a few sites here so that I have somewhere convenient that I can point people.
This Ask Hacker News post has a number of good resources if you are still on the fence about meditation.
Hivelogic...
Attack Moderates
A common political tactic used by members of extreme...
– A glossary of new terms for a messed-up future - The Globe and Mail (via Instapaper)
December 2010
4 posts
Then a boy’s voice said, calmly and quietly, “What.
– Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability, a Harry Potter fanfic - FanFiction.Net
It’s hard not to think “death drive” every time I go on the internet. Opening...
– n+1: Sad as Hell
November 2010
6 posts
Until then, Fight Club is pretty awesome. It’s gorgeous, technically...
– FIGHT CLUB - 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION BLU-RAY DISC
15-minute writing exercise closes the gender gap... →
The notion that science will save us is the chimera that allows the present...
– The Danger of Cosmic Genius - Magazine - The Atlantic
Homage to hip-hop →
bobulate:
Sam Anderson, admittedly illiterate in hip-hop, reviews the new Anthology of Rap:
See also: A History of Rap As Literature
[It shows] one of the great paradoxes of rap: The toughest, coolest, most dangerous-seeming MCs are, at heart, basically just enormous language dorks. They love puns and rhymes and slang and extended metaphors; they accuse enemies of plagiarism and brag...
For my sixtieth birthday, I promised myself this: I will take one last shot at...
– Sixty
October 2010
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So what appears to us as “too much information”... →
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Securing my browsing
The Firesheep brouhaha has made me think more about my security and the websites I connect to. If you have not heard of this, Firesheep is a Firefox extension that will listen on your connection for plaintext cookies to Facebook and a number of other sites. Once a site cookie passes Firesheep by, it is able to use it to access that site as the intended user.
Let me make this clear: Firesheep...
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Trick a Macbook into thinking it is closed
Up until now, I have run my laptop at work with the lid closed and everything on an external monitor on my desk. However, I was starting to get really concerned about the heat (60C idle and 95C under load) and how the little fan was struggling to keep up.
So, I started looking around for tips about how to leave the lid open, but trick my MacBook into thinking the lid was closed and leave the...
Today, I got hit with a $15 data overage fee, had a massive headache all day due to missed coffee, all my experiments failed at work and my underpants ended up in the toilet.
Day ends now.
The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed....
– Powerful Thoughts From Paul Graham
nementia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the post-distraction effort to recall the reason why you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, in which you retrace your sequence of thoughts like a kid wandering across the neighborhood gathering the string of a downed kite, which was likely lost in a romantic storm or devoured by that huge carnivorous tree that is Things Your Parents Have Said.
The article, titled “The weirdest people in the world?”, appears in...
– Westerners vs. the World: We are the WEIRD ones