@hawx: Archive

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May 23rd

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Yahoo! to Acquire Tumblr →

Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. David Karp will remain CEO. The product, service and brand will continue to be defined and developed separately with the same Tumblr irreverence, wit, and commitment to empower creators. This will be great. Everybody’s harping on about how Yahoo! killed Flickr ⇒ Yahoo!...

May 20th

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May 14th

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May 8th

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Apr 30th

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Tama (cat) →

Tama (たま?, born April 29, 1999) is a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan. It gets better… A study estimated that the publicity surrounding Tama has contributed 1.1 billion Yen to the local economy. In January 2008, Tama was promoted to “super station master” in a...

Apr 29th

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Apr 26th

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Apr 19th

Apr 18th

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Man in a stool

Apr 14th

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Apr 11th

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Emacs Redux →

While many people consider Emacs(and vim for that matter) a remnant of the Dark Ages of computing, we (the crazy Emacs devotees) know better! It’s time to bring Emacs under the spotlight once more and showcase its unique advantages over the more “traditional” (conventional) text editors and integrated development environments. Welcome to Emacs Redux! In this blog dedicated to the One True...

Mar 29th

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How To #Tag

I saw this quote on Daring Fireball yesterday: I’ve heard before: What’s the harm? Why not at least try to include #SuperBowl if every little bit helps? Somewhat of a fair point. Using a hashtag does no harm in the same way wood paneling does no harm to your station wagon, or a misspelled tattoo does no harm to your bicep. Here’s where I’ll join the rest in unquantifiable hoodoo: I...

Mar 29th

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Mar 27th

Mar 25th

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Mar 22nd

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Mar 21st

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“The Internet is a surveillance state. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not,...”

– Opinion: The Internet is a surveillance state - CNN.com

Mar 18th

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Mar 12th

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Mar 3rd

Feb 19th

Feb 18th

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subtilitas: […] Pedestrian stair tower.

Feb 14th

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Mark Zuckerberg's Hoodie →

It is June 2, 2010 and Mark Zuckerberg is sweating. He’s wearing his hoodie—he’s always wearing his hoodie—and he’s on stage and either the lights or the questions are too hot. His hosts are asking him about the privacy overreaches of Facebook. He’s uncomfortable. He’s mopping his brow. He apologizes. It’s very warm. Late 20th/early 21st Century culture distilled into an patchwork-essay...

Jan 28th

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Watch

The Critic was way ahead. From Miserable (1994).

Jan 15th

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Jan 9th

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Jan 5th

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“Any sufficiently advanced society is able to rewrite any statement to fit the...”

– Clarke’s ∞th law (infiniteth? infinitest? infiniterd‽)

Jan 2nd

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“Any sufficiently complicated iPhone app contains a partial, bug-ridden...”

– iGreenspun’s tenth rule

Jan 2nd

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Guard →

onethingwell: Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications. Combine with Guard::Shell, which “allows you to run shell commands when files are altered”. In which something I made (Guard::Shell) is linked to on onethingwell. My day has officially been made.

Dec 19th

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“Gun” “Control” →

If we as a country, and indeed we as a global community, are going to seriously address the question of gun control, we need to address the issue of fabricated weapons and weapon plans, or else the discussion will be moot. This is because the proliferation of 3D printed weaponry changes both the definition of “gun” and of what it means to “control” it. Related to...

Dec 18th

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Extrapolation on the theme of drugs

So let’s take it as a given that in the “near” future we will all have some kind of home chemical synthesis tool (as we will “soon” all have 3D printers). And of course we will be able to share blueprints/recipes online, with websites and forums growing communities who share and invent new drugs. At this point — when you can make whatever you want at home, within...

Dec 14th

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Tablature For (Almost) Everything Ever Played by... →

Dec 1st

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The Up-Goer Five Text Editor →

There was a man. He had hair on his face. A short line of hair: left to right. He liked to put his arm in the air: Up, up, up. And everyone else did it too. They all shouted the same thing, together. A funny cross was their picture on a stick, which they waved. One day, they decided to kill people they didn’t like. Other people didn’t like this, so they said “we will kill...

Nov 30th

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Nov 27th

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Nov 26th

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Nov 16th

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A Short Lesson in Perspective →

Now of course we are all suffering from the same affliction. Our technology whizzes along at the velocity of a speeding electron, and our poor overtaxed neurons struggle to keep up. Everything has become a split-second decision. Find something you like. Share it. Have a half-baked thought. Tweet it. Don’t wait. Don’t hesitate. Seize the moment. Keep up. There will be plenty of time to repent...

Nov 13th

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Nov 6th

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What if we could grow humans, in artificial wombs, from some DNA. What if there was a website where you could upload the DNA you wanted, and in nine months time a baby was delivered to your house. What if there was a Github like website for DNA. A site where you could share hidden features, tricks and tips, problems of DNA. Where you could fork somebody else’s child’s DNA, edit it,...

Nov 5th

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Nov 4th

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Oct 24th

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Felix Baumgartner + Tramapoline

Oct 15th

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Oct 4th

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“It was redolent, he said, of the days when “a dark veil” hung over...”

– Deadmau5: Album Title Goes Here – review

Sep 24th

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“Costolo’s response? First, he said he didn’t want to be “flip.” Then he said,...”

– Twitter’s Dick Costolo Wants You (And IFTTT) To Stop Blaming Twitter’s API Changes For Everything First, this is a definite candidate for quote of the week. Second, someone needs to work that homework excuse into a sit-com, it’s perfect.

Sep 22nd

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Sep 18th

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...And All The Essential Mixes →

Seriously who is +dB, because wow.

Sep 12th

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The John Peel Shows on Soundcloud →

This is arguably the greatest music event this year. Over 450 full Peel shows have been uploaded to Soundcloud. This is going to take a few months/years.

Sep 12th

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Watch

Can not wait for this. September 25th: Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1.

Sep 3rd