Posts from: March 2010

16 Mar 2010

Hooray For Tuesdays

A.V. Undercover: The Onion’s A.V. Club invites 25 bands to record 25 covers, released each Tuesday. Ted Leo makes a nice start with “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (hat tip). I kinda see it going down hill from here but the cover choices look good.

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16 Mar 2010

IE9 May Raise the Bar

Wow. IE9 is coming, and it looks like it’ll get Microsoft back in the game. Full Developer Guide. The Good: New standards supported, hardware-accelerated canvas, SVG, Javascript speed on par with the other browsers, preview installs side-by-side with IE. The Bad: Not available on XP and no guarantee it will be. XP users will be stuck

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12 Mar 2010

It could always be worse

OccasionallyVery infrequently, with help from my caffeine addiction and Intense Focus On Writing Awesome Code For Employers Who May Read This, empty Coke Zero cans will slowly accumulate in my vicinity. I couldn’t say how many. In the worst of times enough to not want to know how many. This morning I stumbled across a

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11 Mar 2010

On the FairTax

I’ve not read the original FairTax book, and have only flipped through the follow-up written to answer the critics, but I have spent many hours reading about it online over the years, and back when I listened to Boortz of course he pushed it. At the moment, I don’t see it as workable and I

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9 Mar 2010

It wasn’t torture when America did it.

Suuure. Salon’s Mark Benjamin on what our last Vice President has described as “a dunk in the water”. Disturbing. Also looks like Obama’s (unsurprisingly) caving on civilian trials. Nothing says “rule of law” like pre-trial torture sessions and determining location and rule of court by political theater. KSM may be a mass murdering bastard, but

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9 Mar 2010

Cheers for Ruins

If you too love urban ruins, Opacity.us has awesome photography of abandoned hospitals, churches, libraries, factories—you name it—with all structures well categorized and documented. Don’t miss the wallpaper. A decent Gainesville find is in the woods directly South of where Shealy Dr. ends. My coworkers and I used to walk the mile along Shealy Dr. and

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