September 2007
“Don’t wait until the weekend when you have time, do it now, before you so...”
– PSA: Backups (jwz)
Creative Commons sued for deception (The Register) →
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“The music was unbelievably loud — so loud, in fact, that the sound waves made...”
– Heady Metal (New York Times): an article about Sunn O))). This quote really sums up what I love most about the band, and drone doom music in general.
“On 9 March 2006, Riches filed his most famous and largest lawsuit. The civil...”
– Jonathan Lee Riches (Wikipedia)
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quotes.netsoc.tcd.ie/122
KBKarma: I remember my first site.
KBKarma: I made a Geocities site when they still had neighbourhoods and their ilk.
KBKarma: The HTML didn't work.
KBKarma: I was 8.
KBKarma: Even then, I was messing up online. :D
eoinmcl: no, back then the internets were mostly 404s
nosmo: and Doom .wad files
eoinmcl: and animated gifs
eoinmcl: of skulls or torches
nosmo: Then around 1994 some innovator made gifs of Doom characters
nosmo: and thus the internet was complete
I’m getting some great spam today.Yo yo yo apache Voted no.1 schlong enlargement product 2007
Source code is worthless (Marco.org) →
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“He was left with a memory span of only seconds—the most devastating case of...”
– A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss
“We think there’s no such thing as unsigned anymore; that’s an old distinction...”
– Now Form A Band – the campaign for better music (Last.fm)
Noise is More Metal than Metal →
Amazing facts about Video Games →
(via yum9me)
The Case for Minimalist Web Page Design →
(via cubicle 17)
“When you’re looking at nothing but numbers — a numerical field painting of sorts...”
– I Luv Helvetica (via nostrich)
“As a German, I imagine [AdBlock Plus developer] Palant simply doesn’t...”
– WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com shoots itself in the foot: Godwin’s Law in action.
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13 months of GG, and counting
$ grep -irE '\<[bv]?gg+\>' ~/irclogs | wc -l 10419
vgg
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“The web has more potential than any other medium in human history, and here we...”
– Push Things Forward
Linus Torvalds on C++ vs C →
10 Easy Arithmetic Tricks →
John Campbell facerub meme →
this is THE BEST
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Where to get anime & manga in Ireland →
Finally, something on Boards.ie that isn’t total rubbish.
Do You Recognize These Mental Blocks to Creative... →
(via cubicle 17)
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Coding Horror: Everything Is Fast For Small n →
“Extra security, fine. I don’t mind it. But let’s get serious. I never met my...”
– Wish-It-Was Two-Factor (Worse Than Failure)
I absolutely despise security questions.
Man urinates on dying woman, declaring it 'YouTube... →
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Ph33r my 5k1llz! (Worse Than Failure) →
“[A] system that could be hacked by anyone that’s seen the trailer for ‘Swordfish’.”
Student Tasered After Asking John Kerry Questions... →
This is just sick. (BBC article)
Coding Horror: Was The Windows Registry a Good... →
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“I have a secret for you. There already is an offline version of GMail. You can...”
– uncov: Good Lord, Make It Stop
Winamp goes where iTunes doesn’t dare →
I can’t wait for this! (via All Along the Watchtower)
Handy little C definition
#define fail(x, y) if (x) { fprintf(stderr, y); exit(1); } Example:fail(y == 0, "Oh crap, you divided by zero!");
answer = x / y;
“George Orwell’s novel 1984 is not science fiction, it is just one more...”
– CipherSaber
“The earth can’t be billions of years old because it is slowly spinning...”
– FSTDT: Top 100 Quotes
The level of utter stupidity on this page is both hilarious and extremely worrying…
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kiffer: they should monitor absolutely everything and everyone, at all times.
kiffer: that way they'll have too many data and never be able to find any thing...
kiffer: that was the problem that the east germans had... Too much data. They Recorded all phone calls... Then couldn't actually listen to them. Or even file and cross ref them
kiffer: they had unsorted rooms full of post that they had copied and never had the man power to check...
nosmo: yeah
nosmo: but you see
nosmo: a while ago
nosmo: this man
nosmo: his name was turing I believe
nosmo: he invented something
