November 2009
Malcolm Tucker’s Bohemian Rhapsody threat was comic genius: scaling new heights in profanity and hilarity…
RT @nzlemming: RT @elpie: Why Paul Henry is Right to Stand Up for Free Speech http://post.ly/Dkaq
RT @xmonad: Interesting. WinSplit Revolution http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/ An xmonad-alike for windows?
Literary scholarship using the web to amazing effect: Stendhal’s manuscripts http://www.manuscrits-de-stendhal.org/
RT @allanjenkins: Hey #TweetCloud generators… no one gives a shit. Seriously. No. One. Cares.
Gee, I’m enjoying all this tweetcloud spam… You’d think an option to pump it in to the stream would be available.
Note to self: when using Google Docs to judge websites, remember to turn javascript back on _before_ trying to enter scores. #fail
Spent the morning sharpening my pencil over the ONYAs entries http://www.onyas.org.nz/
RT @juhasaarinen: Disappointed to note that I’ve read most of the stories in the Herald tech section as press releases… :\
The history of the Internet in a nutshell http://j.mp/7TZf7T (Bonus nerd photos)…
Free wifi as collaterol damage in the war on copyright breaches? http://j.mp/5LujI3 What is the social cost here?
Google Wave is a UX car crash.
The dark side of the Internet: search engines only indexing 0.03% of the web http://j.mp/8IVhjQ
Adding another entry to Karmic’s new Grub2 setup… #ubuntu
The Book Cover Archive http://bookcoverarchive.com/ Gorgeous.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
Mark Simmonds (14)
Ornette Coleman (5)
Horace Silver (4)
Herbie Hancock (4)
Baecastuff (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Paranoid’s guide to the command line http://j.mp/4wQBw6
The _really_ traditional Socratic method http://j.mp/747PLk
.@vodafonenz Any reason that the !archlinux mirror is no longer synching?
Grub2 - Community Ubuntu Documentation →
Notes on the new Ubuntu Grub2 setup…
Wonderful papercraft animation for the NZ Book Council http://j.mp/5qcVG2
…and if you like that sort of thing, more exquisite papercraft http://j.mp/6rmO5r
Citizen Rupert’s latest strategic brainwave (MySpace,anyone?) http://j.mp/6Ofvfz The last line is brilliant…
:mailto is a valid uri protocol. Thanks @swhitley for setting me straight…
Dzen2 and Conky-cli in dwm
I struggled over the last couple of days to pipe conky into a Dzen2 status bar alongside the default dwm bar.
Here is how I sorted it.
First, I installed conky-cli and dzen2. Conky-cli is in AUR, and dzen2 is in Community:
pacman -S dzen2 yaourt conky-cli
Then it was a matter of setting up the relevant files.
.xinitrc #!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp...
For the doomsday merchants out there: http://j.mp/7GZGpT LHC to be fired up this weekend…
OpenId server which allows you to use a WebID to log into OpenId sites http://openid4.me/
Series of pictures of the LHC (aka the DoomsDay Machine) http://j.mp/6btB7y !lhc
If you are looking for hard bop, Horace Silver delivers…
When I was at University it was called ‘intertextuality’ - now it’s like taking steroids? http://j.mp/ghdx7
Given studio profits this year (another record), is copyright worth all this fuss? http://j.mp/76Cf5 & http://j.mp/3qgH5s
Arch Linux Forums / August 2008 Screenshots →
dzen, conky-cli, status scripts and dwm
Arch Linux Forums / dzen & xmobar Hacking Thread →
Conky-cli and dzen2 scripts (including a nice network one)…
New Zealand, again, ranked as the least corrupt country http://j.mp/114eag #govt1.0
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Art Ensemble of Chicago (10)
John Coltrane (7)
David Murray (7)
Cannonball Adderley (6)
Mark Simmonds (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Donald Barthelme’s list of books you should read http://j.mp/2bktV4 Omitting Gaddis aside, it’s spot on…
trayer for dwm « afterstep13 →
Add a systray to dwm, visible across all tags…
…and you thought Wellington was windy http://j.mp/3mpf38
Open govt data in practice - recycling blog content http://j.mp/2QXqM6
