September 2010
12 posts
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There's no "u" in social media →
Brilliant, brilliant article on the scaling of social websites.
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“Let me get a few things out of the way: having observed Rob Ford’s career for a...”
– When Rob Ford becomes mayor… - EYE WEEKLY via Tumbling Toronto
Well put. Click on the source for the whole article.
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Toronto the racist.
48.8 per cent of Ford supporters either disagree or somewhat disagree with the statement “Toronto would benefit from welcoming more new Canadians to the city.”
I guess the 4 years of school (at 10x the price, as an International Student) I paid for, and the taxes I’ve been paying for 6 years, and the bike I ride every day, and the organic meat I eat, and all the other things for the good...
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Remove Fridge Odours with BBQ Charcoal Briquets →
Crazy cool and cheap idea!
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Kill Whitey. It’s the Right Thing to Do →
A couple years ago, David Pizarro, a young research psychologist at Cornell, brewed up a devious variation on the classic trolley problem. The trolley problem is that staple of moral psychology studies at dinner parties in which you ask someone to decide under what conditions it’s morally permissible to kill one person to save others.
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Watchthedailywhat:
Talking Tree of the Day: EOS Magazine, in collaboration with Happiness Brussels, hooked up a 100-year-old tree to a fine dust meter, an ozone meter, a light meter, a weatherstation, a webcam and a microphone, and are funneling the data directly to a Twitter account, a Flickr account, a Soundcloud account, and a Facebook account, all for the purpose of answering the age-old...
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“Good, quick, and cheap. Pick two.”
– How I feel about web dev.
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Javascript + prototype new object/class definition
john = new Person();
var susan = new Person();
function load_div()
$('random_div').show();
john.say("Hello"); // doesn't work
susan.say("Yo"); // works!
}
Huh.
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Christopher Bird (again) summing up the mayoral...
That leaves Flounder [Rob Ford], who presumably decided that since none of his voting bloc watches TVO he could just let loose and be himself, which from a certain perspective is fine because Rob Ford is an asshole, and the more people who know that, the better. I really want to find a more eloquent way to say that, but there simply isn’t one: he’s just an asshole, a vile...
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“Venezuela arrests police in killing of Italian tourist.”
– Everything that is wrong with Venezuela in that headline. Source: AFP.
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