“No facts to me are sacred. None are profane. I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 2009
16 posts
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Radiohead: Harry Patch (in memory of)
i am the only one that got through
the others died where ever they fell
it was an ambush
they came up from all sides
give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselves
i’ve seen devils coming up from the ground
i’ve seen hell upon this earth
the next will be chemical but they will never learn
“In an ecosystem, it is never possible to do only one thing; for every action there are chain reactions of causes and effects. The continued survival of the world depends upon developing more precise models of the environment so we can predict and prevent actual catastrophe without being immobilized by the risking of it. Perhaps no one could have foreseen that the aerosol sprays we used to apply everything from paint to anti-perspirant would degrade the earth’s ozone layer, but no one seems to have asked. That drums for burying toxic waste would eventually corrode and leak seems so obvious that millions ought to have been able to predict the risk, yet no one seems to have had the desire or the clout to deal with the problem of hazardous waste before it became a crisis. In pursuit of progress, we have been content to ignore the ecological consequences of our technological decisions because, until it was pointed out to us, we did not realize that there was an environmental context surrounding the tools we use.”
—Corlann Gee Bush: Women and the Assessment of Technology: to Think, to Be; to Unthink, to Free. In Rothschild, J. (1983): Machina ex dea: Feminist perspectives on technology.
PHI@NYM: Bruntlett's unassisted triple play ends game →
mlb.mlb.com
I want to hear the manager explain this.
Install multiple versions of IE on your PC →
tredosoft.com
Works as advertised - I had IE6 and IE7 running side by side on my Windows XP box in minutes. Compare this to Microsoft’s ridiculous “solution.”
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
—William Morris
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Radiohead: These Are My Twisted Words.
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Anatomy of a Feature →
inessential.com
Brent Simmons discusses the considerations and implementation of adding software features, even if they’re “20 second” programming changes. Great read.
