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"V for Vendetta" is like four movies in one! It's a vengeance movie with redemption. It's a love story. It's a critique of current political trends. It's a 1984 rework with moderately creepy fascist imagery. It's a super-hero film ( Read more... )

It's the end of an era: I have new speakers. This is a big deal, because I (or people helping me move) have been lugging the same pair of 1970's particle board boxes around with me since 2nd or 3rd year of university. I say boxes, because the original drivers were blown out during one infamous all-night "rave" party at the infamous "house of ill- ( Read more... )

Electricity is awesome.

Exciting times! I have myself a new laptop! I got one of those tablet deals. It was a total last minute decision too. We had best-buy money, it was on sale, and the sales guy offered me a deal. So now all my live-journal posts will be handwritten. Kick-ask! One handed computing is here!

What the heck happened on Jan 2nd?

I recently read this article that talks about a recent debacle on digg. A quick summary: Digg (like reddit) is a link sharing system. Anonymous users give links they like a quick "thumbs-up" and a heuristic is used to rank links based on popularity/freshness. Recently, digg users voted up a story about digg IP being stolen by another web site. That ( Read more... )

Ack! My brain!

Here's a neat technology indicator graph: Ruby vs. Lisp. It shows the precentage of job postings that reference given technologies. I chose Ruby and Lisp just to stir things up.

"Even secularists talk about Jewish, Catholic and Muslim children. There's no such thing. Children aren't born with a particular religious gene. What they are is children of Jewish, Catholic and Muslim parents. If you started to talk about monetarist or Marxist children, everyone would consider you abusive." Richard Dawkins

BTW: Reddit is the bomb ( Read more... )