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- Nat on Col. Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D: F*** Powerpoint, Afghanistan edition
- ABDUL BASIT on “Letting Go” – The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande, on giving up life to live
- Rep. Ron Paul shows how conservatism is done, re: Cordoba House | Danwin: Dan Nguyen, in short on Ron McNiel (R-Fl. candidate) shows how teaching religion in schools is done
- lydia green on The Great Snowball Fight in Times Square
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RT @mariancw: Iraq has been deadliest war for the media since WW2, w/ 230 murders of journalists & media workers. http://bit.ly/a6AVtx
OKCupid has an awesome chart about "What xx people like": Among Asians, vietnamese food is tops. As it should be. http://gizmo.do/dBirN0
Google Instant Search does not live-refresh as you type in "fuck". Their fancy invention is useless to 90% of Internet users.
From the bottom of this CJR piece: TPM, using chartbeat, found that most readers quit before midway of long stories http://bit.ly/9YElPn
RT @ProPublica: Announcing the ProPublica Nerd Blog. http://bit.ly/bytJ4c
DailyFinance @jeffbercovici looks at media vs. Huff Po's obsession with balloon boy http://bit.ly/aXGuT2
Foreign Policy: How different is Obama from Bush on Terrorism? http://bit.ly/9Z7i5p
Movie Night at the U.S.S. Intrepid
Movie Night at the U.S.S. Intrepid
Williamsburg rooftop, into Manhattan
SoHo graffiti, near Thompson St.
East Village auto garage graffiti
From the deck of the New Museum
Wednesday 3:00
What happens when your rand() function sucks: http://bit.ly/hzIYF h/t @reddit
Slate's Tim Noah examines U.S. income equality with a visual guide: http://bit.ly/ancGwa
Awa Dancing Festival in Kouenji, Tokyo
...and one was playing his guitar at day break.
Thursday 4:51
Hm: @reddit says that media should stop calling it "small" when it has 40% more pageviews than Digg now http://bit.ly/cN0g9F
I love how this becomes notable only b/c of FB. This asshole would've killed were it the paper's wedding section http://bit.ly/aSeUDA
Study: old people like reading shit about young people http://j.mp/d6BENy
This bus-thief needs to be the next "Catch Me If You Can" movie http://nyti.ms/cllMZd
Is there any question why Metro deserves it's claim of being the highest circ daily newspaper in the world? http://yfrog.com/5u93010350j
Admins from @reddit tell redditors to stop with the internet vigilante lynch mobs http://bit.ly/9991IG
Glenn Beck vs. Martin Luther King Jr. Both of them have done more than I have (including owning a DeLorean) http://bit.ly/aqHxKS
OK New Museum, I will join you for now, thanks to Groupon. I just want to see the view http://bit.ly/bOVbh1
I love that there's a free collection of Google map icons, thanks to Nico Mollet & myBCN http://bit.ly/gXt6I #boredonaSunday
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Flickr photo: Vietnamese Rice Fields (Yên Bái: đường và mảng)
Yên Bái: đường và mảng, originally uploaded by Toan-IMV. This photo, from Flickr user Toan-IMV, makes me want to book a flight back to Vietnam pronto.
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Apple has 46& of Japanese smartphone market
From TUAW: Impress Corporation of Japan is reporting that Apple now controls almost half the smartphone market in Japan with over 3 million iPhones sold to date. Keep in mind, it has taken the iPhone little more than a year to accomplish this. Impress reasons that the major shift towards the iPhone is because of [...]
Using PDFTOTEXT to convert a batch of PDFs to text and splitting them by page
I can’t believe how hard it was to find this (also, I know basically nothing about bash scripting), so maybe the next person who Googles this will find this post and save themselves a few minutes: for f in *.PDF; do for i in {1..18}; do pdftotext -f "$i" -l $l "$i" -layout $f "${f%.PDF}_.txt"; [...]
22 million Bush White House e-mails found
From the AP: Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House [...]
NPR: Charles Babbage’s ‘Difference Engine’; a computer designed in the steam age
“I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam!” – Charles Babbage, the 19th-century man who, with better luck and political skill, could’ve brought the information age to the Victorians. This fascinating story from NPR (“A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself“): Charles Babbage, the man whom many consider to be the father of [...]
Just giving WordPress a go
About time to migrate to a more customizable platform. I’ve enjoyed how Information is Beautiful is laid out so I’m going to try out the Thematic theme they use.
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xkcd: More Accurate