September 2008
20 posts
Stylus Magazine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Kind of hilarious…
yayjessica:
while doing some work research..i came upon this wiki info about the stylus magazine. of course that isnt what sparked my interest. big deal another music magazine closes its doors…more impressive is that there is actually a magazine devoted to fountain pens. “This article is about the online music and film magazine. For the magazine about pens, see Stylus...
“You know about the first law of holes, don’t you? … When...”
– Dr. William Poole talking about the U.S. government’s decision not to bail out Lehman Brothers. via Bloomberg ‘On the Economy’ podcast
Why Am I Just Hearing About This?
Mechanical Turk is a service offered by Amazon for fulfilling HITs or Human Intelligence Tasks. These assignments skirt the void between AI and regular expressions. They are basically grunt work.
You specify a task, give fairly rigid parameters and specify how many workers you want to answer each question (for validation). My brain has sort of seized up thinking about this.
From waxy.org
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The Top 5 Clash Songs
On a massive Clash binge of late after finally getting my hands on Combat Rock, so heres my top 5 Clash songs…
1) London Calling
2) Rudie Can’t Fail
3) Guns of Brixton
4) Straight to Hell
5) The Magnificent Seven (first 2 or so minutes)
So basically the London Calling album could be their only and I’d still love ‘em.
Note: I was gonna call this list ‘The...
Cyclic Slums
In the face of much of the gendrification (of which I understand I do my part to perpetuate) of New York I can’t help think that one day the up and coming areas we live in will return to poverty. I have many times argued in favour of this idea that the whole thing is cyclic and it will happen many times again as its happened many times before. BLDGBLOG has a post about this exact thing,...
So much politics...
…I just want lunch.
No More Tears
After 5 years and over $1300 of having my unled.com domain hosted, sometimes poorly, with Gearhost, I’m free! All hail Dreamhost.
Surreal Moment of the Day
For a personal programming project I wanted to use a web service to provide real time weather for international cities. After being dissatisfied with many out there I decided to use the same one Apple uses for their weather widget on the dashboard. However I have to agree to certain terms of use, including…
* Display the AccuWeather logo with accompanying link
* Provide one other deep link...
I Found this Exchange Funny
Amy: sent you the menu...what ya want?
Robert Johnson: shrimp and asparagus bisque
large
Amy: what is your back up just in case
clam chowder?
Robert Johnson: shrimp bisque or death!
you tell them that
Amy: ok...sure np
Robert Johnson: if no death...vegetable beef