November 2011
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The Burzynski Clinic gets PWNED
Rhys Morgan wrote a blunt post about the Burzynski Clinic’s unproven antineoplaston therapy. Unfortunately they couldn’t respond with peer-reviewed articles proving the efficacy of their treatment, because there aren’t any. So Marc Stephens, acting as a “representative” for “Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, Burzynski Clinic, and Burzynski Research Institute” (but never actually verifying he’s a lawyer),...
Nov 28th
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Nov 10th
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October 2011
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Simplicity
It is a thousand times harder to make simple things than complicated ones — Михаи́л Кала́шников (Wikipedia entry for Mikhail Kalashnikov)
Oct 21st
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Good artists copy, great artists steal
One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet...
Oct 21st
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June 2011
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Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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May 2011
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“原発震災”
– Genpatsu-shinsai, or nuclear power plant earthquake disaster
May 24th
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“Unless radical steps are taken now to reduce the vulnerability of nuclear power...”
– Why Worry? Japan’s Nuclear Plants at Grave Risk From Quake Damage, by Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi, published August 11th, 2007
May 24th
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March 2011
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WatchWatch
The Children of the Clone A music video for a Jim Guthrie song by superbrothers
Mar 24th
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February 2011
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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January 2011
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“You must love what you do, if you no love what you do, no do it”
– Domenico DeMarco, the godfather of Brooklyn pizza, in “The Best This I Ever Done” National living treasure. Awesome
Jan 20th
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December 2010
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Dec 15th
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ListenTime Traveler Show 10 — Asimov Speaks! on...
Dec 13th
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“More is not always better. In fact, more is almost never better.”
– The inevitable decline due to clutter, by Seth Godin
Dec 2nd
October 2010
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Oct 23rd
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Oct 15th
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September 2010
2 posts
Sep 7th
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ExpressionEngine 2 upgrade/install notes
preflight check server is capable if new install… create database if necessary if upgrade… backup database save all templates as files backup files double-check your backup confirm any plugins have EE2+ compatible versions (they’re automatically disabled, so any essential ones will stop your site from working) install download EE2 (“new EE”) to where you want it (same place as before...
Sep 5th
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August 2010
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Aug 23rd
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July 2010
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Jul 22nd
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June 2010
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Jun 21st
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May 2010
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“Talk - Action = Shit”
– Brendan + Action photo on Flickr of Brendan Dawes, presenting at FOWD 2010
May 21st
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HTML5 Watch →
HTML5 Watch, by Neven Mrgan My goal is to collect examples of creative, innovative, and unexpected use of emerging web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. It’s an itch I need scratched for myself, and something I expect others will find useful too. Via Matthew Buchanan
May 21st
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“The job of serious web developers today is to ignore the siren call of Facebook,...”
– Facebook Is My New Boatcar by Blaine Cook
May 15th
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May 10th
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April 2010
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Apr 29th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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RadiantCMS, rack-1.1.0 & rails-2.3.5
I recently came across the incompatibility between the rails-2.3.5 and rack-1.1.0 gems by getting this error: can't activate rack (~> 1.0.0, runtime) for [], already activated rack-1.1.0 for [] The suggested workaround is to uninstall rack-1.1.0 and use an earlier version (1.0.0, 1.0.1), but uninstalling got me this un-Googleable error: $ sudo gem uninstall -i /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8...
Apr 3rd
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March 2010
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Mar 31st
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“the desirous of a characters handcuff agreement; Creative hallucination asexual...”
– Pirates ripped my content and munged it, and all I got was a laugh The original text was “fulfill the requirements of a font license agreement; Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license” ;-) Why Creative Commons, you and your kinky vaguely drug-induced bondage references! For shame! :D ...
Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 4th
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February 2010
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Feb 24th
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“All this argument over whether the iPad is too simple — if anything it’s...”
– ‘Facebook Login’—John Gruber Too simple is a beautiful goal
Feb 11th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
January 2010
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Jan 28th
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Jan 6th
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December 2009
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“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham, Chicago Architect. (1846-1912) via The Tablet, by John Gruber
Dec 31st
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Dec 8th
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Dec 1st
November 2009
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“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
– Clark’s Law Via Adactio’s “Burge Pitch Torrent”.
Nov 5th
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“The craftman’s spirit, I think, imbues people with a sense of beauty, as in...”
– Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics Kenya Hara, creative director of MUJI and professor at the Musashino Art University, talking about 職人気質 (taking pride in your work) felt by Japanese people. Translated by iA for a New York article “Beauty and the Bento Box”.
Nov 3rd
October 2009
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Oct 30th
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Troubleshooting MySQL installation on Snow Leopard
I installed MySQL 5.1.39 via Hivelogic’s “Compiling MySQL on Snow Leopard” and got the dreaded $ mysql ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2) I eventually tracked the problem down, but MySQL doesn’t make things easy. This error can be from a bunch of things, so here’s what helped Check Console.app—this was showing MySQL...
Oct 27th
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Installing gibak on Snow Leopard
Gibak is an OCaml wrapper for Git to make it easier to use Git for backing up your hard disk, or parts thereof. I probably should just start paying for DropBox already, but I still feel a little worried about moving eg ~/Library/ into the Dropbox folder and symlinking it. Unfortunately the original author Mauricio Fernandez hasn’t been maintaining it recently, but the wonders of Github mean it’s...
Oct 22nd
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Installing omake-0.9.8.5, ocaml-fileutils-0.4.0 on...
For omake I was getting the error: Undefined symbols: "_caml_sync", referenced from: _camlOmake_exec__28 in[==================================================================================== exec.a(omake_exec.o)01161 ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status File "caml_startup", line 1, characters 0-1: Error: Error during linking I commented out the reference to...
Oct 21st
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Oct 15th