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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Jo Hovind Update
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 … Continue reading
Science’s Rightful Place
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 … Continue reading
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Mark Your Calendars
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 … Continue reading
Who Flubbed the Oath?
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 … Continue reading
Slow News Day
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 … Continue reading
Answering XKCD
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 … Continue reading
Continuity at the Onion?
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 … Continue reading
Google Maps and Metro: So Close, and Yet, so Far
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 … Continue reading
LOLcale
If you’re writing Engrish, you should probably set $LANG = en_CN.UTF-8, right?
Cleaning a Nokia N810 Keyboard
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 … Continue reading