February 2010
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Sucessfully patched #dwm with pertag and cycle… #sundaynighthacking
The money quote: “The danger is, you’ll become something like a moron.”
Bureaucratic gold! Daniel Ellsberg telling Kissinger about the limitations of top secret info http://j.mp/8ZYx3J
BBC blocks open source users (read taxpayers) from accessing content they paid for http://j.mp/dxFDrw
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Using uzbl
A couple of weeks ago, I switched my default browser from Conkeror to uzbl. It wasn’t that I was dissatisfied with Conkeror per se; more that as I was almost exclusively using vim-like applications, it seemed almost perverse to be browsing with an application that used Emacs-style keybindings. Over time, the simplest operations seemed—in comparison to Vim— to demand ridiculously complex...
Linux.com :: Vim tips: Using tabs →
God, how did I miss *this*?
When it comes to logos, you can’t go wrong with constructivism. The judges decision is final etc…
Behold! The Alien Queen in all her junk metal glory http://j.mp/bSaf4O
Thomas Gideon, of The Command Line, on the issue of Wikipedia discrimination against FLOSS http://j.mp/cWBqa1
“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.” Santayana (the philosopher, not the guitarist…)
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Wikipedia discriminates against FOSS
There is currently an interesting debate on Wikipedia about deleting the article on dwm.
According to the Wikipedia notability guidelines, only
significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject
constitutes notability.
So 300 words by the likes of Randall Kennedy counts for more in terms of “notability” than the hundreds of thousands of lines of code...
Witnessing, first hand, idiotic Wikipedian reductionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dwm#Dwm
If I patch a C file and some of the chunks fail, is the file corrupted with the successful chunks?
See Tatooine and die. Star Wars travel posters http://j.mp/d1ZARh Beautiful…
OH “I haven’t checked my email in a couple of days” (I’m calling bullshit on that one…)
Big content unveils a new, C21 business model http://j.mp/de5w4h (Well, it worked for Wall St…)
Arch Linux Forums / Updating packages compiled via... →
Ataraxia’s IgnoreGroup solution. Perfect…
This headline about MySpace is misleading. It’s MySpace that’s dead… http://j.mp/96I9Tf
David Bowie, in 2002, on copyright and the web http://j.mp/apfa3O Prescient…
Randall Kennedy. Fabulist. http://j.mp/cM2sGq This whole fiasco has been extremely entertaining…
The ongoing saga of an industry in denial http://j.mp/aLxjaW Studios try to hold back DVD rentals from their customers…
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Mapping Caps Lock to Escape in Ubuntu
The Caps Lock keys is one of the best examples of persistent usability failure; it continues to appear on just about every English-language keyboard, despite the fact that —aside from no-one ever uses it— it is an active hindrance to both the average typist and the sedulous coder…
As a matter of course, I remove it in my Arch machines with an entry in my .xinitrc, but in Ubuntu (Gnome),...
…and on the seventh day, he created the imbeciles http://j.mp/92xpHt
Possibly the best (and the saddest) example of how copyright is broken http://j.mp/ahHwEF #borges
Regular Expressions In grep →
Nice list of patterns & operators…
The Mariana Trench, to scale http://j.mp/aVfayG nice infographic…
James Cameron to write an ‘Avatar’ novel? http://j.mp/acNZiC Shouldn’t that be sponsor, or commission?
Well, this has a certain poetic inevitability about it http://j.mp/cKOQPj Goatse meets chatroulette…
uzbl bookmark script →
Pat Brisbin’s ingenious script to generate a HTML page of uzbl bookmarks. Very cool…
Finally got around to upgrading to TTYtter v1.0 Congrats and thanks @doctorlinguist for a damn fine app…
Googling “disable caps lock” yields 607,000 results. How many keyboards ship without this feature?
The sound of Sly Stone yodelling pretty much erases all ills…
‘Governance’ invariably sounds a lot more interesting than it is…
Just had Vista training. Bloat nirvana…
Watching the #uzbl presentation at FOSDEM http://j.mp/bxRpUz
A Jameson’s and the final episode of The Wire…
With Buzz, Google takes another giant step towards turning into Microsoft http://j.mp/aPsfZi
Finally: I got to click the “Turn Off Buzz” link…
Dante’s Internet http://j.mp/9SVb1u
Amazing new research: only idiots click on ads http://j.mp/9PEg1E
Replacing Conkeror with uzbl http://uzbl.org/
The Internet of ghosts http://j.mp/ayz6zf
Great piece on Ars about the ontology of data persistence http://j.mp/9m4f2U
Watching a corporate showreel: like mainlining bad TV…
Google buzz: spam just metastasized. Be afraid…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →
Mark Simmonds (2)
Ornette Coleman (1)
Art Ensemble of Chicago (1)
Sly & The Family Stone (1)
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Using Mercurial to share dotfiles
I posted a couple of weeks back about using Dropbox to host your dotfiles, and while I am pleased with how well that works, I had always intended to see how well a version control system would handle that (relatively trivial) chore.
I chose Mercurial only because it is the system used by the suckless community and, as their philosophy and the products they produce are of such exceptional...