October 2008
129 posts
How many countries can you name in 5 minutes? →
shutupinternet:
onemoretimewithfeeling:
I’m all about testing you tonight.
I could only name 57. But I blame baseball for distracting me.
I got 44.
96, but I did it with Rob
2001: A Google Throwback →
Google puts up their database from 2001…
(via Gruber)
September 2008
95 posts
The Lake Woebegon Distribution →
dailymeh:
This is a recurring joke on Prairie Home Companion, broadcast from the fictional town of Lake Woebegon, where “all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.” And indeed, they can’t all be above average. But they could nearly all be above average. And this is actually an extremely common situation.
My heavens, I just realized that what...
A wedding gift for Marco →
App Store reviews now require download or purchase!
(via Gruber)
The RIAA vs. Muxtape →
Great write up. What a bummer.
Professors with a sense of humor...
This is the header file for my first systems programming problem set. We’re using GDB and objdump to extract passwords from a binary.
/**************************************************************
* Dr. Evil's Insidious Bomb, Version 1.0
* Copyright 2002, Dr. Evil Incorporated. All rights reserved.
*
* LICENSE:
*
* Dr. Evil Incorporated (the PERPETRATOR) hereby grants you
* (the VICTIM)...
Women in prison film →
No idea this subgenre existed… thank you Molly + your exploitation film class for making my life so much more meaningful.
On Palin and Words
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? ... Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.
JohnBrissenden: The Governor appears to suffer from what we doctors call Magnetic Poetry Speech Syndrome.
the office is starting to get to me/ironically, i...
literagation:
* * *
like phyllis. i am jealous of phyllis in a way, as i have told GC. she’s an economist/accountant who works with the trade group, and she may be the plainest woman in the world. she wears gigantic velour scrunchies or beaded glittery hairnets in her very long wavy and fading blond hair, and denim skirts that go down to her ankles. she stands at her desk most of the day...
“Drunken girl in the hallway: You guys, you guys! I need your help!!!
Girls in...”
– Overheard in Weld hallway
(via Overheard at Harvard)
evanwalsh:
“I Believe In A Thing Called Love” by...
Straylight Run - “Existentialism on Prom...
Steatopygia →
Reading about the Badonkadonk as an evolutionary adaptation
“Dumb jewels in their silent kind More than quick words do move a woman’s...”
– Two Gentlemen of Verona via Why Sex Matters (which I’m reading for my “Paternity, Fidelity & Parenting” human evolutionary biology class)
Markdown →
Using Markdown as my default Tumblr editor and really liking it. No surprise, given Gruber’s brilliance.
Bibliophilia, of a sort
Spent the past half hour scouring Harvard’s libraries for a book that Amazon is taking far too long to ship, and I realized how much I love the libraries here. I’m not really a bibliophile, but I am in love with the oddities and atmospheres of Harvard’s billion libraries. A few highlights:
The Warren Anatomical Museum at Countway Library - The collection includes historical...
SAI Weddings Page: Alley Stars Get Hitched →
marco:
Thanks, Dan Frommer!
*Congratulations*, Marco!
The Ups and Downs.
liinmiami:
When my best friend quit, she did so because she has a lot going on in her personal life, her school is putting really insane and unnecessary amounts of pressure on her, and she was sleeping like 3 hours a night and becoming physically unwell. And, sadly, when I heard about it, I was secretly jealous of her (the quitting, that is, and having a good excuse to do so). I think that is...
Should a computer science degree require learning... →
marco:
You can get along just fine without knowing C and its concepts. But your skills and knowledge reach an entirely new level when you fully understand what the computer is really doing.
Marco captures why I’m taking CS 61 this semester.
“The framing of Apple’s ads is not about either/or. Not Mac or Windows, a choice...”
– “Digging Deeper” - Gruber on the “orthogonal” marketing competition between Apple and Microsoft
“Xanga is for AZNs. Blogger is for generic people who post 3 times and then quit....”
– HIPSTER RUNOFF
“It is like ‘The Game’ at Harvard versus Yale. It seems like every...”
– LSU QB Andrew Hatch, a transfer from Harvard
(via ESPN)
“Oh, how I long for the 80s when every Ivy just wanted to be an investment...”
– JeanBrodie on Gawker re: the disasterous debut of “Diamond” magazine (no link to spare your eyes)
Google Labs - Forgotten Attachment Detector →
I think I almost got fired this summer for sending so many emails without attachments… hoping this will save my ass a few times during the school year (or I’ve learned to attach things first, THEN write the email).
Also, written by an intern - awesome.
