August 2010
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“At the University of California, San Francisco, scientists have found that when...”
– Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime (NYT)
did someone say infinite jest?
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“Taylor’s claim that “in almost 40 years of teaching, I have not...”
– From Brian Leiter’s post “Mark C. Taylor (Columbia Religion Dept.) is an Ignorant Menace.” Thank you, Prof. Leiter, for saying what would have only been curse words had it come from my mouth. (Taylor’s witless dismissal of Columbia’s philosophy department is a little...
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“What might help philosophy is the more widespread recognition that philosophy...”
– from ‘Where the smart kids are’ by brian leiter for nytimes.com
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“Here’s my theory: the problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy. I...”
– From ‘Creep Executive Officer’. (Daring Fireball) Read this.
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“`I don’t even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main...”
– Donald Knuth (via)
I’m super jealz.
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“When news of Shark Tank’s latest hire began making the rounds Monday, several...”
– from FORBES blog “Moneywood.”
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“Gary Vaynerchuk and Kevin Rose order whatever you’re drinking, Tony Hsieh calls...”
– hahahah via
“A programmer will eventually tell you to use Mac OSX or Linux. If the programmer...”
– Zed Shaw in “Learn Python The Hard Way”
Design by Committee
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Sometimes the cursor on our site is the standard arrow, and sometimes it is a hand.”
Me: “Yes, the hand appears when you mouseover a link.”
Client: “Well, we’ve discussed it, and we’ve decided that we’d like it to always be the hand.”
funny.
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Watch“Makerbot plays Lady Gaga”