January 2008
Egad Pit's Soldier Boy - Team Fortress 2 video →
“We should treat personal electronic data with the same care and respect as...”
– Cory Doctorow (via inky)
Something Rotten at the NYT. Or Not. →
nostrich: The New York times contains a brief article entitled One Pot describing the Spanish dish known variously as cocido or olla podrida literally “rotten pot” According to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española, podrida may have an admiring connotation, similar to the use of “filthy rich” in English. Curiously, instead of the correct podrida, the article gives...
Five Geek Social Fallacies →
ext/mysqli: Part I - Overview and Prepared... →
MySQL AB :: Prepared Statements →
Something your mother and I would like to tell... →
“But we aren’t called to be revolutionaries by acting like pagans who pin...”
– The Insignificance of Governments and Armies
How to Add an API to your Web Service →
Game Advertising Online →
PHP upgrade by Atomic Rocket Turtle →
“Ruby On Rails: Your Time Is Over. Go Back To The Pan You Flashed In.”
– Uncov
“Everyone is reporting election irregularities on the part of the Hillary...”
– Widespread Cheating & Vote Suppression by Clinton Campaign in Clark County, NV. Hey, she stole the election in New York when she was running for Senate. Let’s face it, people like Obama but that’s not the person the powers that be want in office. It’s that simple.
aggregated thinking: plesk won't start after... →
Chris Shiflett: The Truth about Sessions →
10 Creepiest Old Ads →
This Peanut Looks Like A Duck →
“Apple says that the updated machines combine two of Intel’s 45nm Quad-Core...”
– 8 Cores? 32GB of RAM? 4TB of storage? How much will this cost? $10,000?
“The New York Times published a piece about Om Malik’s heart attack which blamed...”
– Elliott Bäck
How to create CSS layouts without using FLOAT →
Slave labour that shames America →
Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed for f
Crucifixes Made Under Horrific Sweatshop... →
This is why we need to bring our factories back to the US!
"Shared Space" Traffic Calming:... →
“Computer people love computers — so when computer people tell you “don’t use...”
– John Gruber on computer voting machines
“Among those supporting the Afghans (in addition to the U.S.) was the rich, pious...”
– An Imperialist Comedy And people are out there watching this stupid glory-fest (Charlie Wilson’s War) of a corrupt government at work.
Cursor*10 (nekogames) →
P4A - PHP For Applications - PHP Framework →
Looks like it offers a lot more features than the run-of-the-mill Rails clones.
“Some of you may have taken that freedom so much for granted that you forget how...”
– Andrew O’Hagan
Takahashi: 2007's tech highlights →
Warbook!
“Take, for instance, 20-year veteran of the National Guard Zakariya Muhammad Reed...”
– How Bush Took Us to the Dark Side
“Some European writer once explained that the reason Europe and the rest of the...”
– mastershake
“Jeremy and Sam discuss a customer’s problem exporting contacts from Highrise....”
– Behind the scenes at 37signals: Support That’s right, folks. Those fine kids over at 37Signals log into your account, download your data and then share it with their entire team. Are you kidding me!?
“The MBA attitude is best summarized in this statement, “I demand all of your...”
– Zed Shaw