2008

Jul

Rush Plays Rock Band Backstage at Colbert |...
Jul 24th
Berlin crowd cheers Obama
Jul 24th
“Maybe it didn’t have to be an actual war, though....”
— Fafblog Interviews: HILLARY...
Jul 23rd
Fafblog! the whole world's only source for...
Jul 23rd
“I would like to know why is Steve Jobs using a BlackBerry...”
— Real Dan Lyons Web Site »...
Jul 23rd

Single-issue voters

If you are a single-issue (or even a two-, three-, or four-issue) voter in any part of the political...
Jul 22nd

2nd Amendment

The Second Amendment is 27 words in length. I often wonder what people that wrap themselves in the...
Jul 22nd
“There’s just more competition. I think that’s an...”
— Fox, FX, ABC execs tell it...
Jul 18th
Kieran Healy’s Standard Model of Sociophysics
Jul 17th
Friday Squid Blogging: Rising Squid...
Jul 15th
Buy Me Some Peanuts and- Oh, What the F@#$?
Jul 15th
Tim Goodman. The Bastard Machine : A few...
Jul 15th
Kurt Vonnegut on Writing Better | 43 Folders
Jul 15th
Corporate Socialism « Jon Taplin’s Blog
Jul 15th
Cat and Girl
Jul 12th
“This is all a canard, orchestrated by the US airline...”
— View from the Wing » Blog...
Jul 12th
"Iranian missile photoshop"...
Jul 12th
Apple Remote: Remote Control Done Right
Jul 12th
[audio] Stripper From Future Jumps Out Of...
Jul 11th
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal...
Jul 10th
“The proposed high-speed rail system would whisk travelers...”
— Environmental study, alignment...
Jul 9th
Condoleezza Rice: ‘I Am Proud Of The...
Jul 7th
Giants telecasts should just play ball
Jul 7th
Just how do Californians perceive their...
Jul 5th
Just how do Californians perceive their...
Jul 4th
“So while we have spent six years getting our ass shot off in...”
— China’s Oil Strategy...
Jul 3rd
Right-Wing Apoplectic Over Pixar’s WALL-E:...
Jul 2nd
The “Crisis” In Venture Capital
Jul 2nd

Jun

Wall-E–A Hollywood Miracle « Jon Taplin’s...
Jun 29th
Calvin and Hobbes for June 28, 2008
Jun 28th
“…unencumbered capitalism is not a substitute for...”
— The Wire (TV series) -...
Jun 26th
“Sabrina Poirier, a student at Pensacola who withdrew in...”
— TBogg » “Optical...
Jun 26th
Sarah Milstein on urban hiking - Boing Boing
Jun 25th
Warch Watch
George Carlin: Toledo Window Box - 1974 (Part 1 of 5) (via DiavoloDiAno)
Jun 24th
America’s Religous Tolerance « Jon Taplin’s...
Jun 24th
Clutter: Extreme Lifehacker Home Office...
Jun 22nd
ZSFA -- 2008-06-21
Jun 21st
Paraguay inmates riot for more sex
Jun 21st
Smoking, Drinking, Writing, Womanizing,...
Jun 21st
MyDD :: Obama Electoral Myth Debunker
Jun 20th
always write roman number 3 in the space...
Jun 20th
Continental Airlines and United Airlines...
Jun 19th
“The historically temperamental owner did not hold back his...”
— Fantasy Baseball Owner Rips...
Jun 19th
“But really, I just rent space from the media. I don’t...”
— Bogus narratives
Jun 19th
“One time, I caught a guy who was running around stealing...”
— How Cops Really Want to Police...
Jun 18th
"On the TV, the closed caption...
Jun 18th
“Not me. I’m going to keep using it. I will copy and...”
— Daily Kos: More on the AP...
Jun 17th
“Ed White, Alaska’s VP of corporate real estate, assembled a...”
— Alaska Airlines saves millions...
Jun 17th
A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country - The Lede -...
Jun 17th
Warch Watch
High School Tony Awards Honor Schools’ Biggest Nerds, Losers | The Onion - America’s...
Jun 17th
Malthus Redux? « Jon Taplin’s Blog
Jun 17th
When McCain Drops Out - Yahoo! News
Jun 17th
Trying to solve the long-term nuclear waste...
Jun 14th
Teachers Matter - Home - "You Can't Spin on...
Jun 14th
Interactive Media for Higher Education: The...
Jun 12th
Sabotage manual from 1944 advises acting like...
Jun 11th
Big Brown & Steroids « Jon Taplin’s Blog
Jun 8th
Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US...
Jun 6th
Subtraction: Go Speed Racer Go
Jun 6th
The Bump Heard Round the World
Jun 5th
Talking Points Memo | Transition
Jun 5th
“Um, Gary? I’ve got something for you to bite. But...”
— The Secret Diary of Steve...
Jun 5th
Talking Points Memo | TPMtv: McCain Leaves...
Jun 5th
Barack’s Grand Slam
Jun 4th
“Select first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation;...”
— Dee Hock
Jun 4th

May

“Pointing to a 3-inch-thick stack of police reports that...”
— Tenderloin cop gets...
May 29th
Talking Points Memo | Scottie on the Loose!
May 29th
Movie review: 'Sex' improves with age
May 29th
The Multitasking Virus and the End of...
May 27th
A full rainbow rises over North Broad Street in Philadelphia...
May 26th
The Multitasking Virus and the End of...
May 26th
Eschaton
May 24th
Hillary as VP-WTF
May 23rd
The Hidden Benefits of The Avocado
May 23rd
Sacramento Real Estate Statistics: Sacramento Housing...
May 22nd
Twitter At Scale: Will It Work?
May 22nd
"Owning the launch too" and "The 2-week plan"...
May 22nd
“Muxtape had a database problem this afternoon and...”
— Muxtape downtime message,...
May 22nd
One Potato, Two Potatoes, Red Potatoes, Blue...
May 22nd
More reasons to love the British
May 21st
Don't be like that.
May 21st
Next Time You Email the World, Use BCC....
May 21st
Cat and Girl
May 20th
Robert Rauschenberg on process, change,...
May 16th
Talking Points Memo | Too Hard a Ball
May 16th
Grubulub: dirvish’s Blog » Blog Archive » ‘Tis but...
May 16th
Warch Watch
Woody Allen Interviews Billy Graham??!!! (via BoinBoing)
May 15th
Tax-Free Hedge Fund - Eschaton
May 15th
You don't create a culture - (37signals)
May 15th
I Detect FAIL. - Ted Dziuba
May 13th
Gecko DOM Reference - MDC
May 13th
Warch Watch
Little cat, big meow on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
May 13th
Weekend Project: Get Your Party On with the...
May 11th
Psychic Plague Panacea This is for all you STCPers. 
May 11th
“If you want me to help you find plane tickets, you best...”
— I’m The Denzel...
May 9th
Calvin and Hobbes comic on GoComics - Flash Player...
May 6th
5 Signs of a Stress Ridden Mind : The Change...
May 6th

Governance

This and this landed in my reader within minutes of each other yesterday.
May 4th
Cat and Girl
May 1st

Apr

Gas tax follies - Paul Krugman
Apr 29th
Area Kindergartner Tackles The Shit Out Of...
Apr 29th
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language -...
Apr 28th
The Speech Barack Can’t Give « Jon Taplin’s...
Apr 28th
If you’re working in a big group, you’re...
Apr 28th
Privatized Profits & Socialized Risk « Jon...
Apr 28th

Rules

Pretty sure only a very small number of people read this, so… Rule #1 Talk to the girl that...
Apr 27th
Geek to Live: The art of asking
Apr 26th
Rails HTTP status code symbols
Apr 25th
rails's Profile — GitHub
Apr 25th
HTTP/1.1: Method Definitions
Apr 25th
Is it Smart to Trade Time for Money?
Apr 22nd
“No one wants to buy security. They want to buy something...”
— Schneier on Security: The RSA...
Apr 22nd
Osmo Wiio: Communication usually fails,...
Apr 22nd
A Moment Of Zen « Jon Taplin’s Blog
Apr 22nd
Be Good
Apr 22nd
Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction - Boing Boing
Apr 19th
Hightower Lowdown | What 8 years of...
Apr 18th
Giles Bowkett: Build An ActiveResource Schema...
Apr 18th
“In a sense, method_missing is a lot like the iPhone when it...”
— Giles Bowkett: Autoload...
Apr 18th
WHFoods: Bell peppers
Apr 16th
Teachers Matter - Courage
Apr 16th
Ambercrombie & Dickhead « Jon Taplin’s Blog
Apr 16th
I was born in a big town - Paul Krugman
Apr 15th
Apple - Support - Discussions - Error message...
Apr 14th
“Let’s say you want men to stop accidentally peeing on the...”
— Nudge - Freakonomics - Opinion...
Apr 11th
Atari user’s desk, circa 1983 - Boing Boing
Apr 7th
Spirit Showdown: Scotch vs. Bourbon
Apr 6th
Grubulub: dirvish’s Blog » Factor military...
Apr 6th
BP Opens Multi-Floor, 1,000-Pump Flagship Gas...
Apr 6th
“We’ll be filing the lawsuit tomorrow along with a related...”
— Why We’re Suing Facebook For...
Apr 1st

Mar

Procrastination
Mar 31st
How-To: SSH tunnels for secure network access...
Mar 27th
Poor things.
Mar 27th
Ira Glass, entropy, and software development...
Mar 27th
§ 141. Make it short
Mar 26th
Almost $13 million bilked in alleged mortgage...
Mar 26th
NIT Still Has 10 Open Slots If Anyone Wants...
Mar 20th
FanBox Listens To TechCrunch Commenters
Mar 19th
Warch Watch
SCRAPER BIKE My cousin Spencer produced and directed this video, which was nominated for best music...
Mar 19th
Different Kind of Centerfold (via war2d2) That’s...
Mar 19th
Cellphone charms illustrate the six stages of...
Mar 18th
Atlassian Developer Blog - 20% time nuts and...
Mar 16th
“I like to think of what’s happening as a sort of minor-key...”
— A Crisis of Faith - New York...
Mar 15th
Grilling the Perfect Steak | The Art of...
Mar 15th
“What just happened? Lenders became de facto real estate...”
— Irvine Housing Blog »...
Mar 15th
“This threw me for awhile: Make sure you notice the...”
— HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer...
Mar 13th
How to Wake Up with Energy Each Morning
Mar 13th
Startups Must Hire The Right People And Watch...
Mar 13th
A Most Uncommon Man - Dick Cavett - Opinion -...
Mar 13th
The Vatican announces 7 NEW flavors of sin!
Mar 12th
You suck
Mar 12th
Health: If It Doesn't Rot, Don't Eat It
Mar 11th
via www.lonelydinosaur.com
Mar 11th
Beck: ‘Is Obama the Antichrist?’
Mar 11th
University Politics are so Vicious Precisely...
Mar 11th
And just like that, he was gone. (via war2d2)
Mar 11th
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist...
Mar 7th
Tax Topics - Topic 455 Moving Expenses
Mar 5th