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Procrastination
While procrastinating packing, I was looking through the marketing material for my new shoes and found (in regards to New Balance) "For us, Committed to American Workers is more than a slogan or viewpoint - it is the heart and 'sole' of our company ( Read more... ) -
BP and numbers
From BP's web page:
In the first 12 hours of June 9 (midnight to noon), approximately 7,920 barrels of oil were collected…
This is BP trying to put its best foot forward. It sounds really impressive, but when one remembers that for the past month and a half at least 500 thousand barrels a day have been escaping, 8 thousand seems, well, a drop in ( Read more... ) -
Incorrect assumptions
From an e-mail today:
Ever since you received your trial subscription to SIRIUS Satellite Radio with your new car, you've gotten over 130 channels of the best music, sports and entertainment around. But in the next few weeks, your subscription is coming to an end.
That you've gotten line is pretty funny! -
Useless protests
Hey, I forgot I had this. You probably did too... anyway. I noticed in a SciAm article the following tidbit:
In New Orleans, about 200 people holding banners saying "Clean It Up" protested on Saturday against BP, the spill and its environmental consequences.
So, they're protesting that something happened that nobody wanted and everybody is working ( Read more... ) -
For some reason
This snippet overheard on IRC fills me with fear:
it works! i should add "|"(pipe) to the command, and i can execute it!
print((new File("|curl http://google.com/")).readAll());
Only SpiderMonkey people will understand why, exactly. -
Awesome poem
Why I Did Not Reign ( Read more... ) -
Google, still not as evil as Apple
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/01/2224244 tells a story of Google having to ban an application. Slashdot says Maybe Android and the Android Market aren't so open after all. But the difference is that Google is pointing to a ToS with a clear reason ( Read more... ) -
A really unfortunate sentence
Seen at this YouTube video: Movie remake coming in 2008 starring Keanu Reeves.
I cannot think of a more unfortunate sentence for a movie (with all due respect to Keanu Reeves, he should really stick to "whoa" characters who don't know what's going on and/or are high). -
What you *don't* want to see working on your project
mrbkap@screwdriver:~/tmp/430proj$ bin/example input/nodes15density2size100.txt >/tmp/output
*** stack smashing detected ***: bin/example terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
Fortunately, the cause here was easy to spot and easy to fix.