Kent Hovind’s weblog, normally devoted to imaginary conversations, now has a bit of news: Kent’s wife Jo was sentenced at the same time as her husband, to a year and a day. Her sentence was stayed pending the outcome of the appeals. Well, the appeal has gone nowhere, so she is now in prison in [...]
In his inaugural address, president Obama said,
We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield
technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its
cost.
The hive overminds at Seed are
asking the obvious follow-up question,
“What is science’s rightful place?
They’re only soliciting answers from scientists, but I can still give
my reply here.
doc_quixote informs me that time_t (the number of seconds elapsed since Jan. 1, 1970, the standard measure of time under Unix) will be 1234567890 on Feb. 13 2009, at 18:31:30 EST, or 23:31:30 UTC.
Back on Sep. 8, 2001, when time_t rolled over to 10 digits, we were braced for a mini-Y2K. I don’t expect anything [...]
If you watched Obama
take the oath of office,
you probably noticed some hesitation and fumbled words. No doubt this
will become the next thing on which to attack Obama: that he flubbed
his oath.
As far as I can make out, the transcript goes like this:
John Roberts: I, Barack Hussein Obama
Obama: I, Barack
Roberts [over]: do solemnly swear
Obama: I, Barack [...]
CNN just gave a list of the coldest and hottest inauguration days.
I’m so glad to hear that the fighting in Gaza has ceased, that Europe has heating gas again, that no one is blowing anyone up in Iraq or Afghanistan, and generally that it’s such a slow news day that there’s nothing to do but [...]
The answer the character is looking for is
osascript -e “set volume output volume 100″
Of course, much like the character in the original strip, I first tried ssh-ing in to the laptop where I have this defined as an alias (nope; it’s asleep), ssh-ing in to the other Mac to see if I’d copied the [...]
Today’s Onion includes the story
“Spider Eggs Hatch In Bush’s Brain“.
This would be unremarkable, except for the fact that last week, the
Onion Radio News had the story
“Vice President Cheney Seen Dragging Egg Sac Through West Wing“.
Is the Onion introducing continuity between stories? Has this formerly
resolutely short-attention-span publication yielded to pressure to
introduce story arcs? Stay tuned. Unless [...]
Google Maps
now has a feature that allows you to specify whether you want driving
directions, or for public transportation.
This sounds great, but if you ask for
directions
from the College Park Metro station to the Metro Center Metro station,
it says to walk a mile and a half to the Riverdale MARC station (what?
Not the College Park MARC station?), [...]
If you’re writing
Engrish,
you should probably set $LANG = en_CN.UTF-8, right?
Posted in hopes that it’ll help someone somewhere:
A while ago, I spilled lemonade on my N810’s keyboard, then
accidentally closed it before I could wipe it clean. I did what I
could, but over the following days, the keyboard increasingly started
making squeaking and crunching sounds. So I thought I’d take it apart
to see if I could clean [...]