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HTTP or WWW

I don’t see why the Chromium developers decided remove the “http://” in the URL bar in favor of a globe icon. Clearly something in the URL should be replaced with an image, since images are what people get. But why the “http://”? What should have been replaced with the globe icon is the WWW in URLs. Since WWW, last I checked back in 1996, stood for World Wide Web,...

Apr 19th

Athens convered by snow →

Mar 21st

Feb 17th

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Backmasking on the Liars track We Live NE of...

Jan 12th

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My MacBook Pro Has Outputs I Didn't Know About

Something I didn’t know until a few days ago: MacBook Pros come with combo audio jacks. That’s right, both input and output jacks can take an 1/8” electrical or S/PDIF plug. You’re probably thinking …great. I assure you, this a good thing to know in case you’re ever in the situation I was in a couple days ago. I was listening to music on my headphones, when...

Jan 7th

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Dec 27th

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Who's Afraid of the Big Ol' unsafePerformIO?

A couple of months ago while in New York I got a call from a friend in need of some Haskell help. He was working on a project for a Comp. Bio course and he needed to implement the Knuth Shuffle, but he was having a bit of touble using Haskell arrays. His problem involved some type error that I couldn’t tackle over the phone, so it had to wait until later. Once I got home, I got onto...

Dec 26th

Dec 24th

Backmasking on the MSI track Backmask

Dec 24th

Lyrics for the end of a song

battery’s almost dead time to go to bed

Dec 24th

Dec 22nd

A trip to Lame Duck Books

I was out for a jaunt in Cambridge with Emily today. We stopped by a peculiar but alluring book store: Lame Duck Books on Arrow Street. While I was looking for some Wittgenstein, I ran across Eight Lectures on the I Ching by Hellmut Wilhelm. I was intrigued by it, as my only familiarity with the I Ching comes from reading The Man in the High Castle, so I bought it. While I was there, Emily and I...

Dec 22nd

Dec 21st

Dec 20th

Google Notebook →

Ever heard of it?

Dec 19th

A Question

What is it about scotch that makes you love everybody so much? — paulhope Malted barley, which is then fermented.

Dec 19th

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Dec 19th

“Here is what I think you would say about me, given the chance: “today, freddy...”

– Freddy

Dec 18th

Dec 17th

InkSpatter →

Exploring Apple’s awkward but entertaining Inkwell technology

Dec 17th

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My MacBook Pro is Shocking

I’m snowed in and sitting in bed with my MacBook Pro, wasting time on the internet and doing a bit of work when the fancy strikes me. Every once in a while, I feel a tingling sensation on various parts of my body. (Answer: Yes.) A few times now I’ve been shocked when I come in contact with my laptop. Mind you, these aren’t small static shocks, but socks that burn and last as...

Dec 16th