November 2010
We buy our way out of jail, but we can’t buy freedom
We’ll buy a lot of clothes when we don’t really need em
Things we buy to cover up what’s inside
Cause they make us hate ourself and love they wealth
That’s why shortys hollering “where the ballas’ at?”
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack
And a white man get paid off of all of...
The Municipal Device — Forgotten Chicago →
This is one of those things, that, when you learn about it, you won’t be able to stop seeing everywhere in old Chicago structures.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →
The Beatles (103)
Rihanna (87)
Glee Cast (50)
Feist (45)
Kanye West (26)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Safari on iPhone & iPad 4.2: Accelerometer,... →
iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSockets and Accelerometer support, print support, new JavaScript data-types and better SVG support.
“Plants don’t blog. They don’t post stupid comments. They don’t have follower...”
– Plantgasm - I love plants too much.
Building a single page app with Backbone.js,... →
“It is no accident that women have been complaining about being pulled out of...”
– elusis
Warren Buffet: Pretty Good for Government Work →
Just over two years ago, in September 2008, our country faced an economic meltdown. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the pillars that supported our mortgage system, had been forced into conservatorship. Several of our largest commercial banks were teetering. One of Wall Street’s giant investment banks had gone bankrupt, and the remaining three were poised to follow. A.I.G., the world’s most famous...
“Mr. Leiberman called the pat downs “awkward” and “unusual,” but ultimately...”
– Airport Pat-Down Procedures Defended by Security Officials - NYTimes.com
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-14) →
Daft Punk (16)
All Time Low (13)
The Academy Is… (10)
The Academy Is (10)
Forever the Sickest Kids (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Git: The Stupid NOSQL Database →
A presentation from RubyConf
Mapping the Impact of Traffic on the Livability of... →
In a groundbreaking study conducted in 1969, Donald Appleyard provided the first emperical evidence of the impact of traffic on neighborhood streets. In particular, he investigated 3 different streets in San Francisco that were chosen to be as identical as possible in every dimension except for one - the amount of traffic on each street. The study was able to show that just the mere presence of...
“House Republicans have calculated the fund’s annual cost, $2.5 billion, and...”
– $25 Billion in Cuts, if the Math Worked: These are the “fiscally minded” people who have a death grip on our government now. Guhhhh.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-7) →
Avey Tare (48)
Sleigh Bells (47)
Gayngs (23)
Röyksopp (20)
Eddy B & Tim Gunter (19)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Ronald Reagan was, indeed, a second rate actor who starred in a whole slew of...”
– The Deconfuser
Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5... →
I’m just gonna go on the record here and state that in 5 to 10 years people are not going to be using passwords or only passwords for their sensitive, run-of-the-mill online stuff.
I’d hope that most places have begun to transition already (my ING accounts have, for example. I think Google is moving this way too):
One article in March of this year stated that the technique using...
Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald's... →
The problem with coming to that conclusion, of course, is that if you are a believer in science (and I certainly hope you are!), in order to make a conclusion, you must first start with a few observable premises as a starting point with which you form a theorem, followed by a reasonably rigorous experiment with controls built in place to verify the validity of that theorem.
sjs: 37signals' Chalk Dissected →
A great breakdown of the app. Gives you a feel how all HTML5 apps should (and will be). It’ll be great when we get more tablets/mobile devices other than the iPad that support this stuff:
37signals recently released a blackboard web app for iPad called Chalk. It includes Thomas Fuchs new mobile JS framework Zepto, a few images, iOS SpringBoard icon, and of course HTML, CSS, and...
Reddit: Now that the Republicans have control of... →
I was just wondering the same thing this morning. Pretty disappointed so far.
“Many people thought this bail-out (and a smaller one involving Chrysler, an even...”
– General Motors: Government Motors no more | The Economist
