A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.
Milton Friedman’s TV series, Free to Choose, is now on Google Video. It’s got an introduction from Arnold Schwarznegger. (Via Hit and Run).
Ophelia: “Humans don’t share one big brain, no matter how communitarian they are, and it’s not possible to turn all those billions of brains into one big collective shared brain simply by dint of endless repetition of the word ‘community.’ And a good thing too.”
Over on YouTube, JonDonnis has lots of great videos of (alleged) psychics and sceptical clips.
Media Matters has ample evidence of Coulter’s lies.
Finally got Azureus working on my Intel Mac. This version seems to be working. Why aren’t Azureus distributing a working Intel Mac version on their homepage, I do not know. All I do know is that, compared to Transmission, my torrents are running much quicker (10x improvement).
Something that’s very, very cool - Azureus SMS. Sends you an SMS when your torrents are done. It’s ยค10 for 100 messages. I’m not sure that I’ll use it, but it may be useful for some.
Yesterday, I coded up a new way of browsing digg using Grazr (or OPML browser of your choice - Grazr is good because of the slider view, though).
If you load up http://tools.opiumfield.com/digg/tommorris, you get an OPML file with all the RSS feeds of my digg activity, as well as include links to all my friend’s OPML. Graze it.
Here are the known issues: performance degrades for users with more than 15 friends. You’ll probably get some odd errors for users with more than 150 friends. Digg could easily remedy this by making an API for access to public user data - currently, I’m having to screen scrape digg to do it. I will also hopefully add caching, so it doesn’t hit digg too badly.
Logoworks has a post about why people quit their jobs. The last time I saw someone quit, it was because they were being dealt with like they were a child, despite being the backbone of the organisation. There were other issues too.
I went apeshit for about a week. I wanted blood. I eventually found an e-mail address and sent a message. They told me that they were just fine without the job and that I shouldn’t bother getting angry. I hope they got a better job without all the bullshit that this particular organisation gave them.
