February 2011
Official Google Blog: Some weekend work that will... →
Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection. We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality....
1 tag
1 tag
January 2011
There are two things I use to measure how sleepy I...
When my eyes are open, how much do I want to close them
When my eyes are closed, how much do I NOT want to open them
Right now, these two forces are in perfect balance.
“Jesus says: turn the other cheek, bitches.”
– Undercover Nun
“Besides, the main Wikileaks site was hit with a DDoS attack first; are the...”
– How The FBI Raided Anonymous
Share this around because it won’t be mentioned in the mainstream news. (via montoya)
“IS this what drugs is like?”
– TJ
“This world is older than you know, and contrary to popular mythology, it did not...”
– Rupert Giles
FUCK TUMBLR WTF
weselec:
The new mobile dash was great until I realized private blogs have no bylines and once you click “standard view” there’s NO WAY BACK. Except, presumably, deleting cookies.
Everything here gets done half-assed. Like, literally everything. Lots of good ideas with apparently no actual use case testing.
I’m way too lame of a software developer to be put in a position of judging a website...
A UDP packet walks into a bar.
fuckyeahcomputerscience:
The bartender doesn’t acknowledge him.
Good Code vs. Bad Code
dustyprogrammer:
My Important Thoughts: New internet rules (for... →
ronbailey:
dulltrev:
1. Everyone on the internet is a stranger.
You may think you know someone online. You don’t. The internet provides only a glimpse of who that person is, a highly edited view that they make themselves. Some are more open than others. Some hold back from shyness. Some hold back…
No disrespect intended, but that’s not a life I care to live. Fear does nothing but make...
1 tag
Yes
Today needs more puppies
1 tag
“We are deeply concerned about the use of violence by the British Army and their...”
– — Queen Of France
Who clearly had no understanding of a revolution
(via un)
History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes.
“With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith...”
– The House GOP’s Plan to Redefine Rape | Mother Jones (via The Washington Monthly)
I’m gonna be kind and suggest that Smith was probably just practicing the standard incurious and simplistic governance popular with Republicans these days and didn’t realize that statutory rape would also be affected...
2 tags
Lawmakers end ‘civility,' attack babies →
And so on Thursday Arizona lawmakers introduced bills that will challenge the 14th Amendment birthright citizenship of children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.
Fuck my state and the fucktards who run it. Seriously.
“But you don’t need to read the papers to see what has gone wrong. The filth and...”
– Robert Fisk (via azspot) Until the end, I really thought this was about the US, not Egypt.
But that’s not fair because actually our sewer systems are pretty good.
“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a...”
– Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (via psychotherapy)
