July 2007
23 posts
$ sudo port install rb-rmagick
“I want to assume the TSA is both intelligent and motivated to protect us....”
– Bruce Schneier: Conversation with Kip Hawley, TSA Administrator (Part 1)
Ideas are not property
When is the world going to realize that ideas cannot be owned, and thus cannot be stolen? from the Jerusalem Post: The owners of a rival social networking Web site are trying to shut down Facebook.com, charging in a federal lawsuit that Facebook’s founder stole their ideas while they were students at Harvard. What matters is the execution, not the idea. A lot of people have good ideas, but...
Sony Spyware EULA performed by a choir →
“Hundreds of Sderot citizens inquiring which services were working in their city...”
– Jerusalem Post
“When the Journal of Economic Literature asked me to write a review of The World...”
– Edward E. Leamer
“Software that forces you to think twice before you do anything is software you...”
– Assaf Arkin
“If one of the major goals of the Iraq war was to get rid of Saddam Hussein,...”
– Freakonomics Blog
“…it’s like the 70s woke up from the dead and barfed on my screen”
– Daniel Morrison
Really random message that someone left me about... →
Bush administration reaches new heights of... →
druggie == terrorist
New Yorker: Sick and Twisted →
Buy back the Alaskan legislature →
“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
– Otto von Bismarck
InfoQ: The Beauty of Ruby →
As Edd Dumbill wrote, “the subtle elegance of the Ruby idiom is a slowly appreciated and highly satisfying flavour.” It’s true that some of the best things about Ruby aren’t obvious to newcomers. In this talk Glenn Vanderburg demonstrates some of the subtle beauty that experienced Rubyists know and love.
“Great movies and documentaries raise people’s latent indignation levels—for a...”
– Nader.org
“Cocoa has EIGHTEEN YEARS of design and evolution behind it from some of the...”
– Wil Shipley
“I would think that, even during the Stone Age, if a man had to resort to judging...”
– Stephen J. Dubner
“The best kind of design isn’t necessarily an object, a space, or a...”
– Donald Norman - Emotional Design
