October 2009
Schadenfreude? Indubitably. Damien Hirst’s paintings reviewed http://j.mp/3JPf9U Quite the perk up, really…
7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 →
Bram Moolenaar video on using Vim effectively…
has the #Ubuntu 9.10 alternate iso and will be embarking on a fresh install in the morning…
RT @doublesided: Okay, so just what we needed. Another dick measuring metric… how many lists a person belongs to.
Friday lulz: Personal branders - the bottom feeders of social media experts? http://j.mp/3qXbri
After you grate your fingers into the parmesan, do you pick the pieces of flesh out — or start again?
Configuring Alpine →
How to conifgure Alpine for mulitple email addesses…
How a blogger predicted the econaclypse http://j.mp/4yWtLs Good read from Wired on South Korean pundit’s travails…
After months of shamelessly spruiking Windows 7, do you think the Dominion Post will even mention #Karmic Koala?
What is it with telephone hyperbole?
Advaita + physics = holograms http://j.mp/rbVDj “all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected…”
On the train next to a woman whose perfume smells like mosquito repellent. It is disturbingly attractive…
*Another* social media site to track sexual activity? http://www.bedposted.com/ At least the tagline is amusing…
YouTube is down for maintenance? In my lunch hour? Outrageous…
Wonderful animation of a This American Life story http://j.mp/3WaxMV
I’m with you if you include sloth. And do all the work…
Good fisking of Sony CEO’s whinging about piracy http://j.mp/1QbS6N (Eventually, you run out of credibility…)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
Art Ensemble of Chicago (12)
Pavement (11)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (9)
Sonny Sharrock (7)
Archie Shepp Quartet (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Downloading new This American Life episode, ‘Devil on My Shoulder.’ http://j.mp/DJOvu
National Front dickheads at Petone. They could dispense with the swastikas & just tattoo ‘Loser’ on their foreheads…
What does it say about society that the _only_ avenue for any success a National Front member has is a career in politics?
Boot with GRUB →
Good article on multi-booting: particularly helpful for the menu.lst arguments
Good god, Kim Hill is insufferable. @nzlemming, however, is very good talent #ACTA
Waiting for @nzlemming to come on to Radio National to talk about #ACTA…
“A lot of people are dying… because of copyright.” @nzlemming on #ACTA
Pavement in the morning and Al Green in the afternoon. That’s a Friday trajectory…
What Stormtroopers do on their day off http://j.mp/b9LIs
Nabokov’s genius confirmed (if there was any doubt): he predicts Palin http://j.mp/21hALA
Sixty seven percent of New Zealand public sector agencies hold some information that they can no longer access…
Dual boot, 2 hard drives, using BIOS - Linux... →
More good pointers. Note - grub MUST be installed on the first sector of the drive…
[SOLVED] dual boot 2 harddrives 2 linux distros -... →
Grabled, but perhaps informative account of one users travails in this space…
Might give Raindrop a crack over the long weekend http://j.mp/1MkhUk Looks promising…
Linux.com :: Dual-booting multiple Linux distros →
How to add a bootable second drive to Grub…
Thanks to @maupuia I’m having a Pavement morning…
Lies and betrayals, fruit covered nails; electricity and lust won’t break the door…
The last thing you want to take into an 08:30 meeting is a sense of hope…
Setting up an !archlinux test box - so I can break some stuff…
Just. Dazzling. http://j.mp/3l2LL1
Mitch Kapor on why open source will prevail http://j.mp/S0fFw “Empires come and empires go…”
Wondering when the anti-piracy crusaders will go after www.bookcrossing.com
So AP releases a hNews microformat http://j.mp/2P3aQZ (it looks a little thin compared to #hrelease)…
Unsubscribing, sadly, to “If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger, There’d be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats.”
195 days since I booted into Slackware. How did that go by so fast?
Against (some) Transparency: Lawrence Lessig’s thoughtful essay on open govt, the network et al… http://j.mp/1tUC06
Against Transparency →
How could anyone be against transparency? Its virtues and its utilities seem so crushingly obvious. But I have increasingly come to worry that there is an error at the core of this unquestioned…
FSJ on how the Borg became a total joke http://j.mp/4bfbqd
“This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.” http://dwm.suckless.org/
Why do they still make keyboards with a ‘Caps Lock’ key? Do we really need to encourage SHOUTING?
In shock news, 70% people are against having their internets cut off on an allegation http://j.mp/3GOw5i