January 2009
48 posts
Jan 30th
Jurassic Park
mollylambert: I’m watching Jurassic Park, which still has the most seamlessly realistic CGI of any movie to date. Which is getting embarrassing, since it was made in 1993. I said, “You can still tell what is computer-animated and what is a puppet but it is edited so well that you can just accept that there are fucking DINOSAURS” In the words of This Recording columnist and bloggeuress Sarah...
Jan 30th
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Where's the best place to get tacos in LA?
drned: i’m askin’. I had good experiences at Grand Central Market downtown.
Jan 30th
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“Three Sunni candidates were assassinated Thursday, just two days before...”
– Three Candidates Are Killed in Iraq - NYTimes.com
Jan 30th
Jan 30th
i'm wondering how long it will take someone to... →
(via drned) Reverted already. (Revision comment: “good luck with that”). Ned realizes that Wikipedia has a feed of recent changes that gets watched like a hawk, right?
Jan 30th
Jan 28th
“white folks stress about some crazy shit.”
– Mission Mission (comment by zinzin)
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Jan 23rd
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USPTO overturns patent for virtual subdomains →
Another trophy for the EFF’s wall.
Jan 23rd
Obama names Tony West Assistant AG, Civil... →
Tony, by all accounts, is a really good guy.
Jan 23rd
Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
The California Air Resources Board is planning to... →
Jan 20th
Jan 20th
“[Obama] knew that what Washington pundits really craved was not the truth, but a...”
– Andrew Sullivan: “Can Barack Obama fix it? Yes he can” - Times (UK) Online
Jan 20th
Jan 19th
@legislate →
Jan 19th
Voters may be asked to end state budget impasse →
Proving, yet again, that California is worthy of your contempt.
Jan 19th
MARS!!! →
(via goldenfiddle)
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
Op-Ed Contributor - Dear Sir Obama - Presidential... →
I know a bunch of these kids, and they are all awesome.
Jan 16th
WatchWatch
goldenfiddle: bar planet
Jan 16th
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Peter Berg and Buzz Bissinger are cousins?
Huh.
Jan 15th
Jan 14th
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The Prisoner →
Full episodes of the original series on the AMC site, in honor of their upcoming 6-hour miniseries remake. In related news, Patrick McGoohan dead at age 80.
Jan 14th
Word is that some of the 826 kids may be both in the New York Times and on NPR’s This American Life inside the next week. Keep your eye peeled for Giselle, Jennifer, Adrian, etc. DEVELOPING.
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Jan 10th
“The burst of invention and commercial success which was initiated by the...”
– The Twilight of Venture Capital: The Primacy of the New Tool This analysis is fundamentally flawed. From the perspective of venture capital, there is a logic to it — it is possible the revolutionary ideas in the software industry are largely played out, and there are no more massive paydays...
Jan 10th
Jan 9th
Minh Tran →
Google Reader is recommending that I read this high school kid’s blog. This is like when the TiVo decides you only want to watch shows about tonsillectomies, or something.
Jan 9th
Jan 9th
East Coast Bias: Famous Unibrows →
via Deadspin. Apparently I’m going to have to start rooting for the Ravens.
Jan 9th
Baldelli signs 1 year deal with Boston - Sons of... →
The pride of Woonsocket, RI returns to the mothership.
Jan 9th
“There are lots of reasons it doesn’t work. The first couple of reasons...”
–  The “Double-Checked Locking is Broken” Declaration
Jan 9th
Profitable Until Deemed Illegal →
Swoopo is an incredible scam. I’d like to start a youtube meme of filming game theorists looking at it for the first time. Then I could splice it together into a “Jizzed in my pants” parody.
Jan 9th
Jedediah in Love →
My favorite thing ever published on McSweeney’s. Every time somebody name-drops Jed Purdy, I go read it again.
Jan 8th
Jan 8th
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Jan 3rd
Cause of the Zune bug →
In ConvertDays() (line 249), an infinite loop results if days == 366 and IsLeapYear() returns true.
Jan 3rd
Slow news day at ESPN →
Jan 3rd