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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:50

What a colossal waste of everyone’s time

Here at Indiana University there’s been a controversy brewing for years now over the name of our Intramural Sports building.  The building happens to be named after one of IU’s most prestigious trustees, Ora L. Wildermuth, who contributed quite a bit to IU and, at first glance, rightfully deserves to have a building named after him. But …

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Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 00:20

And I didn’t think anything could top the exercising poodles

Dancing jailbait? check. corporate sponsorship? Check.  Lipsync? Check.  Simultaneous Lomo, hue/saturation, bluescreen and slow-mo effects? Check. Tay Zonday on the face of a $100 bill? check. As I was watching it I said, ‘wait, did he just say *life is good with turbotax, we keep the money we make*? no, no, that couldn’t have been …

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 15:33

My favourite iPhone apps

I have a number of iPhone apps now, and here are some of the ones I like the most: Pandora – Great for listening to Pandora music Google – Voice search is amazing. Pano – Takes panoramic photos. Rooms – IRC client FStream – internet radio Public Radio – internet radio Wikipanion – wikipedia WordPress …

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Monday, November 24, 2008 at 00:43

Virgil, Virginia, and Shit Journalism

The hacker high life — girls, notoriety, White Russians — can be hard to resist. —Virginia Heffernan If you watch Colbert, read the New York Times magazine, Alternet, or the Washington Post, you may have heard of an old acquaintance of mine, Virgil Griffith.  I was sitting at my kitchen table reading the Time magazine and …

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Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 02:25

XSLT == bollocks

The other day I was doing some work on a WordPress site that involved importing some data from an XML file and displaying it on a page (in a sidebar). Naturally, there were two ways to go about doing this. Since this was already a PHP site, we could have whipped up some sort of …

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