Boston’s Berkeley Building
Steady blue, clear view
Flashing blue, clouds due
Steady red, rain ahead
Flashing red, snow instead
Tumbly goodness, page
5 
Kottke
says a tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream
of consciousness… with more than just links.
Anarchaia was the first, but there are many copies. And they
have a plan.
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Pieces of Eight
Adventure and glory await in Pieces of Eight, a pirate ship combat game played with minted metal coins.
I would be remiss in my pirate duty today if I didn’t point you all toward this lovely game, the brainchild of my former co-worker and all-around good guy Jeff Tidball. Even Wil Wheaton loves it. What more can I say? ¶
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I haven’t been showing up on Planet Emacsen since closing my Emacs blog. So I’ve created an Emacs-specific feed for my emacs posts here. I’ve set up the appropriate redirect, so if you were subscribed to
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Today, hardly any economist believes what the Keynesians believed in the 1970s and most accept the basic ideas of supply-side economics — that incentives matter, that high tax rates are bad for growth, and that inflation is fundamentally a monetary phenomenon. Consequently, there is no longer any meaningful difference between supply-side economics and mainstream economics.
— Bruce Bartlett (emphasis mine. via Will.)
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I’ve removed Technorati’s Link Count Widget from this site. I love the idea, but sometimes it takes way too long to load.
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… Taking matters into his own hands, he simply bought a Wii on Amazon and had it shipped to me.
It showed up last week. It was like Christmas but better because at Christmas time I didn’t have a Wii and now I do.
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Red Figure Chucks, by jere7my.
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Quick Emacs tip:
`comment-dwim'got you down? Try changing`comment-style'. I have mine set to`indent', and am very happy with the result. -
Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades
- It’s more fun, in the most serious existential sense.
- Diversity of intellectual playgrounds breeds confidence instead of fear of the unknown.
- Boredom is failure.
- In a world of dogmatic specialists, it’s the generalist who ends up running the show.
- “Jack of all trades, master of none” is an artificial pairing.
Sounds good to me. Somewhat related reading: Will on what philosophers are good for, and Stephen Stich on where philosophy and science meet. ¶
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Whoo-hoo!
We have papers for nXML. Would someone like to install it?
— Richard Stallman, on emacs-devel
If you don’t already know of it,
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Romantic Coding?, by credmp.
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Good software makes its developers proud: they want to show it off to everyone and shout its praises from the mountaintops. Bad software makes its developers embarrassed and scared: they know any competent programmer could improve on their functionality in no time. Those TOSes that forbid competitors and benchmarking seem like coded messages from the developers saying “our software sucks!”
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Hops. Malt. Water. Yeast. So simple, yet so complex. God’s own recipe.
— seen at Beer Haiku Daily
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Three people are working on [Google] Reader’s backend, and three plus one intern are working on the frontend.
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Atlantic Coast, by sharkbait.
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Does anyone actually understand SWiK? So far as I can tell, its only purpose is to clog up Google search results with bizarre, useless pages.
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Car inspections and repairs take a small fraction of our total spending on cars, gas, roads, and parking. But imagine that we were so terrified of accidents due to faulty cars that we spent most of our automotive budget having our cars inspected and adjusted every week by Ph.D. car experts. Obsessed by the fear of not finding a defect that might cause an accident, imagine we made sure inspections were heavily regulated and subsidized by government. To feed this obsession, imagine we skimped on spending to make safer roads, cars, and driving patterns, and our constant disassembling and reassembling of cars introduced nearly as many defects as it eliminated.
This is something like our relation to medicine today.
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Laurel is so sneaky.
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