October 2007
CSS 3: A Giant Serving Of FAIL →
September 2007
“Women don’t understand how men can differentiate so easily between love and sex....”
– The biggest sex mistakes men and women make
More Health Care Professionals Involved In Design,...
DOUGLAS JOHNSON: I think it’s important to understand -- and this is an example of it -- that currently in today's world there are more healthcare professionals involved in the design and structuring of torture than there are those who are involved in providing care for survivors.
AMY GOODMAN: Say that again.
DOUGLAS JOHNSON: There are more healthcare people involved in the design and the instrumentation of torture than there are involved in providing healing for the survivors.
AMY GOODMAN: In this country.
DR. STEVEN MILES: No, around the world.
DOUGLAS JOHNSON: In the world.
AMY GOODMAN: Around the world.
DOUGLAS JOHNSON: In the world. And it is, in many times, because healthcare people get engaged and confused by the same ticking time bomb theories that fuel 24 and other fantasy programs, which have unfortunately seem to be the basis of learning for many of our policymakers. It’s fantasy-driven, and it causes people to do stupid things.
AMY GOODMAN: Dr. Miles?
DR. STEVEN MILES: About 130 countries torture, but of the survivors, somewhere between 20% and 50% report seeing a health professional directly involved in supervising the torture. And that doesn’t count the ones who never see the physician who falsely certifies the cause of death as natural causes. So it’s actually around 40% of survivors actually see the health practitioner involved in the torture. And, you know, as Doug said, about 1% of the torture victims in Minnesota are actually getting treatment.
Nigeria Elects Black President →
Tales of The Wiz: A Web 2.0 Wizard! →
I mean why use an API and let others handle the presentation layer when you can build an all-in-one AJAX application that handles too many tasks very poorly?
How Hard Could It Be?: Unfocused and Unabashed →
Chuck Norris's Tears Might Solve Credit Crunch →
via a coworker!
Scientists Abandon AI Project After Seeing The... →
“I saw Revolutions with my 12-year-old son Eric,” Markovitch said. “He saw the look of worry on my face and said, ‘Dad, don’t be scared. It’s only make-believe.’ I had to tell him, ‘No, son, it’s what your father does for a living.’”
“A head of state, preparing to act alone in starting a preemptive war, will need...”
– Wendell Berry
Explaining the Excel Bug →
“since I don’t work there I’m free to tell you that the chance of this bug actually mattering to you as an individual is breathtakingly small.”
Chemical generation →
Give up technology and go back to the basics. It’s that simple.
Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume →
Thanks to my Tumblr friends. So many people need to read this. Seriously.
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender →
The Standard PHP Library (SPL) →
A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss →
Learn Apache mod_rewrite: 13 Real-world Examples →
Ayn Rand, foresight 20/20
RAND: No, not yet. But before I explain, I must correct one part of your question. What we have today is not a capitalist society, but a mixed economy -- that is, a mixture of freedom and controls, which, by the presently dominant trend, is moving toward dictatorship. The action in Atlas Shrugged takes place at a time when society has reached the stage of dictatorship. When and if this happens, that will be the time to go on strike, but not until then.
PLAYBOY: What do you mean by dictatorship? How would you define it?
RAND: A dictatorship is a country that does not recognize individual rights, whose government holds total, unlimited power over men.
PLAYBOY: What is the dividing line, by your definition, between a mixed economy and a dictatorship?
RAND: A dictatorship has four characteristics: one-party rule, executions without trial for political offenses, expropriation or nationalization of private property, and censorship. Above all, this last. So long as men can speak and write freely, so long as there is no censorship, they still have a chance to reform their society or to put it on a better road. When censorship is imposed, that is the sign that men should go on strike intellectually, by which I mean, should not cooperate with the social system in any way whatever.
Amazon.com MP3 Downloads →
That’s it, after all the good things I’ve heard, I’m never bothering with iTunes again. Either I get it from Amazon or I don’t get it at all!
Bleach on fabric tutorial →
Death From Above →
For some reason not so difficult to guess, dropping explosives on people from commanding heights served as a great place to develop a world view compatible with the management of a large post-war corporation.
“This comment cracks me up, “What keeps me scratching my head is that all...”
– friskybeaver
“According to O’Connor, the new features in Halo 3 are partly the result of...”
– The Halo 3 Effect
A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto... →
While that may seem like a lot, I remind you that it is a savings of $137 over Progressive and $98 over State Farm. Please have your check into our main office by the end of July.
Central Park lovers get engaged, mugged →
He said the night could have been much worse: After he proposed, Nagase could have said no.
“According to the DMV, Ms. Spears was never issued a California license –...”
– Britney Spears never had a driver’s license? What an interesting development!
Silverlight Announcements - 1.0 Live, Linux... →
Silverlight on Linux! Hoping for much better support than what Flash currently offers!
On self-publishing →
robots.txt Adventure →
o_O;;
Machine bomb: Real programmers don’t have blogs. All the fruity little webby-databasey html-ly javascript-y tripe that runs these sites has precisely diddly sh!t to do with real programming.
CynicalTyler Says: Wow, someone’s bitter.
else Says: Machine bomb has a point, though I wouldn’t completely dismiss scripting systems. There are some very serious development paradigms that use nothing but scripting. OTOH, html, et al, do kind of open up the Wonderful World of Programming to any hack with a website.
me Says: The webby datebasey .netISH web developer I married is not at all fruity. Lots more money in web development than the client server stuff anyway. Geeky males are yummy. I am a non developer who went to work in a dev shop as designer girl. I married the senior developer/boss a few months ago. I highly recommend those .net C# men…
Buy a Laptop for a Child, Get Another Laptop Free →
“Why is there this huge coverage by all the news outlets of 500 monks protesting...”
– dlet
Extensive collection on ‘travel habits’ of... →
But new details about the information being retained suggest that the government is monitoring the personal habits of travelers more closely than it has previously acknowledged. (thanks CultrVultr)
“I saw women and children jump out of their cars and start to crawl on the road...”
– Hassan Jabar Salman, a lawyer “shot four times in the back, his car riddled with eight more bullets” as he attempted to escape a fusillade from Blackwater hired guns guarding a U.S. convoy in the middle of Baghdad
101 Free Games 2007 →
Download Apache Web-Developer Server Suite for... →
Web-Developer Server Suite, for Windows… a WAMP stack! Perfect!
Compiz-Fusion no cube [Archive] →
This simple fix was all I needed -.-
Beryl Keyboard Shortcuts →
Really good to memorize these :)
XAMPP for Linux →
HOWTO: Setup each web development environment... →
Install XAMPP on Ubuntu →
For easy-peasy setup of a web development environment.
Install Beryl on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn →
Make sure you install your video card drivers *first*.