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"I’m a big fan of the NMR genre, but this book was really just phoned in. I mean,..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:05:34 -0500

“I’m a big fan of the NMR genre, but this book was really just phoned in. I mean, “Chemical Shifts of P-31 Compounds” had me on the edge of my seat, and “Hyperfine Coupling Constants of the Pnictogens” had a little something for everybody. I can say this with the conviction that only comes with love when I say that “Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29” is total crap.”

- Amazon.com: Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29 (Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology - New Series) (9783540452775): R.R. Gupta, M.D. Lechner, H. Marsmann, B. Mikhova, F. Uhlig: Books

"I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:56:18 -0500

“I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it’s gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.”

- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.

webcomics @ chainsawsuit by kris straub for Thursday, October 1,...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:54:52 -0400

webcomics @ chainsawsuit by kris straub for Thursday, October 1, 2009

"Joe Armstrong (Erlang) once said “The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got..."

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:11:16 -0400

“Joe Armstrong (Erlang) once said “The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.””

- The problem with OOL is not the OO.

Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:28:33 -0400

Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly

Why are objects so unintuitive? | Lambda the Ultimate

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:36:25 -0400

Why are objects so unintuitive? | Lambda the Ultimate:

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aloha! - The Yelp Augmented Reality Monocle is so last...

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:21:38 -0400

aloha! - The Yelp Augmented Reality Monocle is so last...

"Mac OS X Snow Leopard cuts in half the launch-time overhead of starting the Objective-C runtime, and..."

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:54:59 -0400

“Mac OS X Snow Leopard cuts in half the launch-time overhead of starting the Objective-C runtime, and simultaneously saves a few hundred KB of memory per app. This comes for free to every app, courtesy of one of the few pieces of Mac OS X that lives below even the Objective-C runtime: dyld.”

- Hamster Emporium: [objc explain]: Selector uniquing in the dyld shared cache

Total Crisis Panic Button, Creative Alterations of Crosswalk...

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:54:37 -0400

Total Crisis Panic Button, Creative Alterations of Crosswalk Instruction Signs

Kunstrad EM 2009 Carla und Henriette Hochdorfer (via...

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:46:58 -0400

Kunstrad EM 2009 Carla und Henriette Hochdorfer (via FaszinationKunstrad)

"This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock, powered by electricity generated by the public power..."

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:08:14 -0400

“This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock, powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.”

- quaranto // This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock,…

"I understand his complaints. He has identified some situations where dot notation can lead to..."

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:21:05 -0400

“I understand his complaints. He has identified some situations where dot notation can lead to confusion. In practice, however, I don’t personally find the use of properties confusing in the slightest and think telling people to never, ever, ever use them is misguided imposition of a personal preference rather than sage advice. If there is anything close to a consensus on dot notation in the Objective-C developer community, it is that dot notation is a positive addition to the language.”

- iPhone Development: The Dot Notation Controversy

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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:55:31 -0400

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"Palm, which has reinvented itself with a business model that basically involves doing whatever Apple..."

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:05:56 -0400

“Palm, which has reinvented itself with a business model that basically involves doing whatever Apple does, only two years later, announced today that its CEO, Jon Rubinstein, is planning to receive a liver transplant. No official date — they just say it will happen sometime in the next 12 to 18 months. Palm says Rubinstein’s liver will have features that my liver lacks, though they won’t say what those features are.”

- The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Jon Rubinstein now says he’ll get a new liver, too

multiwolve (via wheatley_e)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:28:40 -0400

multiwolve (via wheatley_e)

keep being awesome! (via passiveaggressivenotes)

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:29:15 -0400

keep being awesome! (via passiveaggressivenotes)

CSS IS AWESOME Mug from Zazzle.com

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:49:08 -0400

CSS IS AWESOME Mug from Zazzle.com

It’s Only a Matter of Time Before These Frightening Creatures...

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:13:33 -0400

It’s Only a Matter of Time Before These Frightening Creatures Invade Park Slope — Daily Intel — New York News Blog — New York Magazine

Scene 360 Illusion » Creatively using Dumpsters

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:05:09 -0400

Scene 360 Illusion » Creatively using Dumpsters

"A programmer is to the blue screen of death what Mikhail Kalashnikov is to a loaded AK-47: just as..."

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:51:36 -0500

“A programmer is to the blue screen of death what Mikhail Kalashnikov is to a loaded AK-47: just as helpless a victim as any other mortal, except for having a profound understanding of the mechanisms of his execution.”

- Pearls of wisdom