September 2010
17 posts
The End of XMarks →
Today Marks announced that they will be closing their doors soon. They had a great bookmark syncing service for Firefox which made it possible to share bookmarks across multiple computers and…
Tea & Crackers | Rolling Stone Politics →
A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can’t imagine it.
Wherein I Continue to Fret for the Bears Even as...
It’s good to see that the Bears are 3-0 but I still worry about the offensive line. While Jay Cutler has improved with every game, becoming ever more confident and resourceful, he is getting hit a lot. And the Bears running game is weak.
It looked pretty bad for the Bears for a while but thankfully, the Packers made a lot of dumb mistakes. The Packers made 18 penalties, including several...
Malicious Links on Twitter
twitterstatus:
A malicious link is making the rounds that will post a tweet to your account when clicked on. Twitter has disabled the link, and is currently resolving the issue.
UPDATE Sun Sep 26 18:41:49 UTC 2010: We’ve fixed the exploit and are in the process of removing the offending Tweets.
Watchdanpatterson:
John Berman with a Very Brief History of: The Tea Party Movement /via @abcnewsradio & @nightline
A pretty good segment but it feels rushed and tailored for the short attention span crowd (a very brief history indeed). I haven’t watched Nightline in a long time in part because it has been dumbed down pretty badly since Ted Koppel left (or was he fired?). It’s a...
Portable Apps—Now With Updates! →
Once upon a time, it was possible to just drop a program on to your hard drive and just run it. At worst you might have to unzip a group of files into a folder and just run your program….
“Itunes is the center of this entire teetering system they they have. The store...”
– Paul Thurrott of Windows Weekly on iTunes and the Apple ecosystem.
Lab Rat: Xtreme bacteria! - SGM series →
Award for: Best attempt at mimicking a B-list Sci-Fi alien
I’m not sure whether this should be given to the bacteria, or the people who wrote the abstract, but to give you a clue the talk is titled “Dark life in the fracture labyrinth of deep hard rock”. Bacteria have been found in rock fissures living in complete darkness with hardly any organic minerals, and using hydrogen as...
I'm Worried About the Bears
Speaking as a life-long Bears fan, I’m happy that they won their opening game against Detroit. But it’s hard to feel optimistic about their prospects this season. They barely defeated the worst team in football only after a last minute touchdown by Wide Receiver Calvin Johnson was ruled incomplete. A better receiver on a more disciplined team wouldn’t have tried to get up before...
Why George, Why?!
saddondraper:
The Fountain at Daley Plaza →
Facing City Hall Facing the Picasso Sculpture
Rainy Day Flowers →
It’s amazing what can get your attention sometimes. Last week it was this the water in these flowers following some morning rain. Zooming out….
