packing tape. he does this with packing tape. I’m going to just go and drop out of school, develop a heroin addiction, and die young, because i’ll never measure up to what this guy can do with the mundanest of office supplies.
http://www.khaismanstudio.com/
That’s Sen. Russ Feingold (D-MI) talking about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is being debated in congress currently. The contentious bit he’s talking about is telecom immunity, which pretty much (like he says) means that the government has access to the records held by the telecommunications industry, and the telecom [...]
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
– Sir Arthur Eddington
and we do have speakers mounted, but I’m not looking forward to seeing what the fine will be for the holes, if patching them doesn’t do the trick. but these mounted planters are pretty snazzy, if you ask me. and coming to this page is just as good as that.
The Economist names Vancouver, BC as best city to live in, worldwide. I can definitely get behind that assertion.
because when a country as (until recently) stable as Kenya still has this many distinct ethnic groups, all with centuries of grudges, alliances, and individual histories, the problems that develop are fucking complicated.
and is it just me or is the line, “low-level ethnic violence,” at the same time the most surreal and depressing turn of [...]
apparently now “canadian” is a choice code-word used by people with a racist bent, and has a meaning pretty far from our polite, hockey-loving northern neighbors. I really don’t know what more to say about it, other than the fact that canadians are really cool.
really interesting interview with the manager of a large hedge fund, covering the current state of the dollar, the subprime mortgage crisis, etc…
n+1: So the Moody’s ratings were like [taking for granted] the water running…
HFM [hedge fund manager]: Exactly. Triple-A is triple-A. But there were people who made a ton of money in the sub-prime [...]
“and now we will learn this programming language—which I think is very fun to learn!”
this is supposed to be an introductory, not-for-majors class on ubiquitous and mobile technology! what the fuck? we don’t need to learn C to understand how cell phones, pocketpc’s, etc etc work!
okay I swear, this will be the last cmps80u bitchfest.
George Bush: “I will have left behind a mechanism — and a structure for the next president to better protect America.”
mechanism:
structure:
arrogant prig
