Ian Murdock (of Debian Linux fame) has joined Sun to head up “operating system platform strategy.” Nice hire for Sun. He describes what is an almost universal experience with Sun hardware among geeks of a certain generation:
Everything I know about computing I learned on those Sun workstations, as did so many other [...]
Donald Knuth, the perfectionist computer science professor and author, writes to his former Stanford boss, Condi Rice, on the subject of the war on terror. The content of the letter isn’t particularly interesting, but the fact that reasonable, otherwise occupied people find themselves in Knuth’s state of mind, is.
Greg Beeman’s Heroes blog had an interview with writer Chris Zatta called “Living the Dream.” Zatta has worked as a writers assistant on the show this season, and wound up getting a writing credit for episode 18 of the show, which is apparently quite unusual. He broke in, as many do in the television [...]
Jason Kottke posts about a recent study that shows that when presented with a picture of a baseball player at bat, men check out the guy’s crotch. Women do not. Let a thousand jokes bloom.
The Washington Post has an infographic that explains how the subprime mortgage industry works, but it doesn’t explain why it’s failing right now. It worked fine as long as the people who subprime mortgages were being sold to could keep making their mortgage payments, but suddenly many of those customers are getting behind. The real [...]
Everybody’s talking about Twitter, so I’m giving it another shot. Feel free to add me to your friends list if you like, as I think the best way to get a feel for this sort of thing is to see how other people are using it.
To be honest, I’m still not exactly sure how much [...]
Jimmy Carter’s book Palestine Peace not Apartheid has to have entered the hall of fame of books most discussed by people who have not read them. I’ve discussed the book with several people myself and haven’t read it. That discussion mainly focuses on his characterization of the current situation in the Palestinian territories as apartheid. [...]
It all stated with Talking Points Memo noting the unusual firing of the US Attorney for Arkansas. It has since grown into something much bigger. Next we learned that 8 US Attorneys had been fired, then we learned that Congressional Republicans had unethically leaned on some of them to convict Democrats. Now two [...]
Last week I left my Motorola PEBL in the pocket of my pants and laundered it in the washing machine. I took the battery out and left the whole thing out to dry for a few days, and when I turned it on this morning, everything actually worked, including the camera. I’m not sure [...]
Denver Westword has a huge article about World of Warcraft celebrity Leeroy Jenkins, the foolhardy adventurer with the infamous battle cry. The first time I saw the video A Rough Go, I thought it was the epitome of humor. I kind of still do.