excellent article: anatomy of a disaster #
roll your own multiple select listbox
with a standard html select box, you can select multiple options if the “multiple” attribute is set, but you’ve got to hold down the appropriate modifier key (ctrl on windows) in order to do so. standard html select box dill…
photos in cobra beer calendar
got an email from someone today asking to use two of my photos (one from outward bound, the other from pilot mountain) in a calendar for the indian beer cobra, available in the UK. sweet! the calendars are going to…
disorienting blog experience
so i go back to boingboing which i’d opened in a tab (in firefox) earlier, reload the page, and start reading, like ya do. there’s this interesting post about the world’s largest book, which i send to the SILS students…
proud father of a new baby
name X23 T42 processor Pentium III-M 866MHz512KB L2 Cache, 133MHz FSB Pentium M 745 1.8GHz2MB L2 Cache, 400MHz FSB memory 256MB 1024MB hard drive 30GB 60GB screen 1024×768 (12″) 1400×1050 (14″) video integrated 64MB ATI Radeon 9600 networking 10/100 ethernet/802.11b…
rediscovering making art
i got the coolest present from my parents this christmas, a wacom drawing tablet, but i haven’t had a chance to play with it until this afternoon because i was waiting for my new baby to arrive (see previous post).…
stories from the weekend
thursday got to happy hour pretty late, which enabled us to stay longer, closing down karaoke (it seemed) before heading home after 1am. which was interesting in and of itself, as i drove my car over and almost into the…
grocery shopping project
i became an owner of weaver street back when i was applying for in-state residency for tuition purposes. nowadays i find myself frequently surfing the web at the cafe and listening to music on the lawn, and occasionally i’ll buy…
dynamic blogroll
i’ve alluded to it several times, but for the past two weeks i’ve been working on a blogroll plugin for wordpress that sorts blogs from the most recently updated to the least recently updated. sounds simple enough, right? i started…
Internet Explorer all displaying job listings from Monster.com…
excerpt from one of the sweetest achewood’s ever: story line starts here with ray discovering the blue toilet bowl cleaner he left in the toilet the night before. but you also have to know that roast beef used to be…
arcade fire!
just got back from the arcade fire show. started the night out at reservoir, the new bar where go! studios used to be. in fact the bar is where the stage once was. they’ve got a single red pool table,…
how to upgrade php on debian
after making and eating chili with jane, i came back to my place on the way to catch the tail end of a poker game, only to discover it had been postponed due to the wintry mix. so it’s around…
activerecords and closures and ruby, oh my
stumbled onto ruby on rails the other day–but i can’t retrace how (yet). which led me to some o’reilly article on ruby on rails that like everybody (err, every programmer) in the blogosphere seems to be simultaneously linking to. and…
stumbled upon this, written by dr. newby (a former and excellent SILS professor): How UNC Screwed Me #
my theory of hair color corroborated: assortative mating (also see the wikipedia article on assortative mating) #
cute video: Get My Stuff Done #
maybe it’s not so bad not having asperger’s syndrome: On the virtues of idleness #
quote of the day: Leisure is permissible, we understand, because it costs money; idleness is not, because it doesn’t. (ibid) #
apparently i’m not the only one who thinks asperger’s sounds like ass burgers #
link love from ruby over at OrangePolitics.org #
on the demise of strong’s: Strong’s was not able to stay in business because although it “looked full all the time,” the customers inside would stay for long periods of time and spend little money. #
to read: Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism (by larry sanger, co-founder of wikipedia) #
this scares me: One recent hire had 14 interviews before getting the job – and that was in the public relations department. #
ok, i concede, arcade fire is the shit (i mean, look at the brilliance i conjured while listening to it) #
fun with post-its: mario mosaic #
perhaps the worst (or the best) thing to come to mouse pads in recent memory The breast mouse pad ever! #
seeing our alphabet in a new light:
| a | b | c | d | ||
| e | f | g | h | ||
| i | j | k | l | m | n |
| o | p | q | r | s | t |
| u | v | w | x | y | z |
long live free culture!
neat: arcade fire on NPR (thanks anton!) #
the interface is simple and effective: Tsunami before after pictures #
bill proposed in virginia: when a fetal death occurs without medical attendance, it shall be the woman’s responsibility to report the death to the proper law-enforcement agency within 12 hours of the delivery. Violation of this section shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor #
in case these arrive in your inbox, they are not Closeup shots of the killer waves #
quote of the day! Having enemy soldiers throw down their guns and start humping each other: Priceless #
gasp! 2nd grader at the nc museum of art told to stop sketching works by matisse and picasso because they’re “copyrighted” (which is incorrect) #
these day after party photos bear a striking resemblence to the photos from abu ghraib, which suggests to me that these photos are disgusting and that the actions at abu gharib can be understood in terms of cruel college pranks #
spencer dorm (where i lived for 3 years at UNC) to stay spencer dorm #
holy crap! dan gillmor is coming? #
hot damn! 1GB for $149!!! i gotta get me one of these: iPod shuffle #
in case you haven’t heard, there were no weapons in iraq a-duh! #
does anybody know this guy? apparently, David Feld is the news director for interactive media at the News & Observer (and he’s got a blog) #
the coolest thing EVAR! humanclock #
i’m not sure how to pronounce that, but ibiblio now has a staff blog called the ibiblog #
nice infographic: Apple’s Tipping Point? #
neat: factoids about google #
five days old but such a good picture: boulder in road #
photo of the day: yeah, baby. check out my OS. #
in the n&o: A chat with… Paul Jones, UNC-CH (nice photo) #
quote of the day: May 1,000,000 hardware hackers descend on your tent #
neat tshirt: inane! rambling! rarely updated! the blog #
the blogger in me wonders, “but what if there’s no news?” Metro reporters will be expected to write 10 stories per week under new “guidelines,” and the front page will feature three local stories each day #
unc begins digital music program where you have to pay to save music to a CD/ipod/hard drive #
does anyone know if there is a way to embed css pseudoclasses (e.g. :hover) in html inline style rules (e.g. <a href=’http://www.unc.edu/’ style=’color:white’>UNC</a>)? #
i find this scary: architecture of density #
PSA: According to reports, Wilson stated that he had consumed four bottles of Listerine and could not walk. #
another fine product from justinsomnia.org: a dynamic local blogroll that is resorted every hour based on when the blogs are updated (more details coming) #
quote of the day: The piece makes a point about the rentware world we’re fast approaching, where individuals are stuck in a kind of feudal relationship with commercial entities, who reach into our homes and track and bill us for the use of our household goods. (cory doctorow) #
co-worker (an economist) discovered to have a blog: Aging Disgracefully #
this is a fun read: Heavy metal umlaut #
a vulgar achewood i missed from a while back Excuse me, sir. Can you spare a moment to talk about the life of Jesus Christ? #
something i might have to try: Hostess Twinkies Sushi #
sun jan 30, 5:30pm: free screening of george lakoff’s How the Democrats and Progressives Can Win at Hanes Art Center (UNC) #
this is why people were linking to heavy metel umlaut: Jon Udell’s 8 minute flash presentation on the development on an article in wikipedia #
i am justin #16 #
this is worth a link: Stop the spread of Viral Link Skank today #
nice: Calvin & Hobbes snowmen #
wtf? Razor Blade Soap #
documentary that looks interesting: ‘We Are Dad’: Fighting a Gay Adoption Ban #
photo of the day: john vickery’s brand new baby #
damn! nice looking sweater, cory (what’s alice pointing at?) #
imagine a day when any table in an internet cafe could power any electrical device set upon it: One charging pad could power up all gadgets #
whoa: WEYCO, INC is a non-smoking company that strongly supports its employees in living healthy lifestyles. #
send an email to your state representatives telling them to Say “No” to Discrimination in North Carolina’s Constitution #
fun quote: Half were given perfume with…pheromone…isolated from a woman’s armpit sweat. #
sad story: Forte says now that he should have stayed at Chapel Hill for four seasons rather than two #
carl’s pictures of christy’s 29 and 1/12 surprise birthday update: more pictures from christy #
neat: PostSecret #
wow: serious icing #
news of the weird: Massive cow manure mound burns for third month #
family news: matthew and new girlfriend beth #
go united church of christ! Absolutely, the UCC extends an unequivocal welcome to SpongeBob #
email the newly confirmed secretary of education, margaret.spellings@ed.gov, to let her know how you feel about censoring diversity with respect to postcards from buster #
to read later: Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Cafe… #
nice rims: Michelin Tweel #
awesome: fantasy coffins from ghana #
whoops! unintended consequence of legalizing prostitution: Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job — including in the sex industry — or lose her unemployment benefit. #
good tech blog, nice name: StronglyTyped #
new fish: katie’s first “pet” #
is this for real? Flat-D: Flatulence Deodorizer #
holyshit. i should do this: Geekcorps.org #