July 2009
35 posts
DAVE TAKE DOWN THAT PICTURE!!! OMG!!!!!
annicka:
I AM NOT KIDDING. TOO MEAN.
Anni, I don’t even know what picture you’re referring to, but I’ll say this: I really like that you don’t mind calling folks out on Tumblr when they pass the line of good taste. I remember reading you doing it a while back before I started a tumblr account and feeling really good about it too. So, thanks for helping keep folks...
1 tag
Damn!
Who knew that drinking too many beers could get you extremely drunk? Where are my roommates? Who will hold my hair? This is a doom night!
Friday night in Cambridge
Drinking Beers, listening to hip-hop and brewing iced tea. Life is pretty good tonight!
White Hip-Hop for Racial Diversity
I’m in this coffee shop called Dado Tea in Harvard Sq. right now and, no joke, these 4 “bubbly” freshman (I assume) women just sat down to me to work on what I think is their welcome week project. Their project is rapping about the importance of racial diversity. Its all cocked wrists, bouncing knees, and verses like “Don’t matter if you’re Asian, Caucasian or...
Yukon Ho! - Many Times
I don’t know how...
Release: ZipfTunes 0.1
ZipfTunes tests how closely your music listening habits follow Zipf’s Law.
Zipf’s law is a forumla that predicts that, in a collection of text, the most frequently occurring word will appear twice as frequently as the second most frequently occurring word, and that the second most frequently occurring word will occur twice as often as the third most frequently occurring word, and so...
Watchmaxhell:
3to1:
Josh’s Commute to Work: A Tribute to Michael Jackson on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Fucking. Amazing. Look at those SHOES!
My friend Josh made a Michael Jackson tribute video to the strains of Dirty Diana. I had heard about this but I really can’t believe it’s real.
Apples
I’ve been trying to eat healthier lately, and I’ve been doing an ok job of it. Part of this has been replacing my breakfast of a bagel-bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwich with apples. And while I’m sure this is good for my cholesterol or whatever, there is still some problem.
Specifically, apples are terrible. For two reasons:
They are boring. I’ve eaten literally dozens...
Beat The New-England Heat (or, how to make iced...
Everything is terrible right now. And you know why? Because everything is hot. Hot and filled with house centipedes. I found two in my room today already.
So, I’ve decided, I’m not going to take this sitting down. Its time to fight back. Any my weapon of choice is iced green tea. At first, I was young and foolish and bought bottles of iced tea from the grocer across the street....
OpenRegs in the media
jerrybrito:
OpenRegs.com has received some great attention in the press lately. Perhaps the most flattering review was from Personal Democracy Forum’s TechPresident, which has this to say about our site:
It’s refreshingly clean, it’s eminently navigable, and it’s intuitive for lay folk. Compare the polished results for a search on pending food regs on OpenRegs.com with the nightmare that you...
OpenAL and iPhone Development (or, a series of...
Complaining - Programming - Rant
So there is this app on the iTunes AppStore called ToneTune that I coded. Its a good app, I’m proud of it, it does exactly what it advertises, but one area where it could stand some improvement is in the audio generation department. The audio sometimes cracks and generally feels heavy, so this is once place I’ve been spending my time recently.
The...
Misc: jQuery.ColumnView Patch
Not huge news, but something that might be useful for some other web developer out there.
So, there is this cool jQuery plugin out there called “ColumnView” that basically makes a collection of lists and list items into a OSX Finder-style navigation extravaganza. And, in something that I’m sure will make sense to anyone who regularly uses opensource code, this plugin did...
State Dept. to Clinton: Please let us use Firefox →
jerrybrito:
From a recent staff Q&A session with Clinton at the State Dept:
Can you please let the staff use an alternative Web browser called Firefox? I just—(applause)—I just moved to the State Department from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and was surprised that State doesn’t use this browser. It was approved for the entire intelligence community, so I don’t understand why...
Digg Blog » Much Ado About IE6 →
jerrybrito:
“[W]e ran a message to IE6 users on Digg asking, “Have 45 seconds? Help Digg by taking a quick three question survey.” Sixty-nine percent of respondents said “I can’t upgrade because I don’t have administrator access on my PC” or “I can’t upgrade because someone at work says I can’t.”
Man, this is the truth. When I’m working on a project where I’m responsible for the...
Terrible First Dates (or, its not the you, its...
So, a couple of days ago I went on a date. It was sort of our second date and I was excited about it. I wanted to do something more exciting than break dancing or a dozen beers or whatever it is people do on dates, so I looked online for events going on that night. I found a free presentation at the aquarium about fisheries, climate change and all this stuff. I knew that ran the risk of...
Intro to the Semantic Web Presentation Slides
Here are my slides for a presentation I recently gave on how the semantic web works, on an implementation level. The presentation was part of my Information Retrieval class at NorthEastern in June 2009. If anyone is interested in how RDF and SPARQL and web-taxonomies all will hopefully interact one day to give us a more godly internet, maybe these will help clear the alphabet soup clusterfuck...
Robot Sneakers - Trash80
I know everyone...
Launch: OpenRegs.com
I’m happy and proud to say that one sites I’ve been working on, OpenRegs.com, is finally now live! This is another brainchild of Jerry Brito and is another awesome effort to make the mountains of data provided by the government into something usable by the public.
So, here is the site in a nutshell. Most everything the Federal Government does is published in a big book called...
The Past, Future, and Past-Future of Country Music →
Is it just me or does the 2010 country dancer have like 4 rolls of quarters in his pants?
Thanks Kate Negri for the link!
4th of July, 2009
I’ll just say this: after having a great day with new friends, seeing some great fireworks was a great chance to reflect and this how glad I am that, because tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people died over two hundred years ago, I can, with relativly few exceptions, do whatever I want an not be bothered. That’s awesome.
Release: FormBug 0.3
I’ve just updated FormBug to work with Firefox 3.5 and the 1.4.x branch of Firebug. No new features but works great.
Download here: FormBug 0.3
2 Great Reasons to End the FDA 2 Day, um, 4eva
Reason One
Extremely smart people disagree about whether the FDA does more good than bad. The good parts are obvious. By applying rigorous standards to drugs that are released in the United States, they keep people from taking things that might cause them to die. The agency is a big part why of why we can feel generally comfortable swallowing anything on the shelves at CVS (with the exception...
