The Tumblelist (tumblelog directory)
A collection of Tumblelogs ive found on the Interweb
operated by Reyhan Dhuny — Nice list of tumblelogs… and Rey has a blog
The Teaching Assistant for your OO-101 class has instructed me to approach you directly about the D-minus grade I got on my term paper “An evaluation of the proposed Unified Modeling Language (UML)”. I hope you will consider changing it to something better – a plain D perhaps? – as it would be a real blow to my Grade Point Average, already not in too good shape after that “Fail” you gave me in your last class. (You may remember that in the final exam I wrote “there may have been other things between sliced bread and Java”. I now realize how ill-advised that comment was and sincerely apologize if I hurt anyone’s feelings.)
Bertrand Meyer — This 10 year old satirical essay by Bertrand Meyer came up in the little languages mailing list recently (and that I read this morning). I had forgotten about it. Worth a read. I think it is funny. I don’t know about the disclaimer at the top of the page – is that satire too?
WYMeditor - web-based XHTML editor
WYMeditor’s main concept is to leave details of the document’s visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible (at least as WYSIWYG editors). … WYMeditor has been created to generate perfectly structured XHTML strict code … the code can’t be contaminated by visual informations
This has some really interesting potential. It is snappy and I find it easy to use. It isn’t WYSIWYG. It does the basics and after a quick look appears to be easily configurable. I think I’ll add it to Raconteur at least as an experiment.
Millions More for a Failed Anti-Drug Propaganda Campaign? Ridiculous!
It’s no wonder that a $2 billion anti-drug campaign which included suggestions that smoking pot supports al Qaeda and causes pregnancy completely failed. So why are Republicans throwing another $130 million at it? … Indiana House Republican Mark Souder: “The fact is, I believe in results and conservatives believe in results.” … “Just because some study comes to some conclusion that the liberals doing the study wanted to have, doesn’t mean the study is accurate. Results are results.”
by Paul Armentano at AlterNet — It is at least four studies in fact, not one, and not liberal. Claiming smoking pot causes pregnancy, supports al Qaeda, or causes thousands of deaths annually seems… I don’t know… misleading maybe… stupid for sure. BTW, Paul Armentano is the senior policy analyst for NORML, just so you know.
Two dollars bought mugger 17 years in jail
Tyrone Brown was 17 when he and a friend pulled a gun on a man in Dallas and demanded his wallet. They took $2 and gave the wallet back. The pair were soon caught and Brown was sentenced to 10 years’ probation. When he tested positive for marijuana the same year the judge, Keith Dean, changed the original sentence to life in prison, commenting: “Good luck, Mr Brown.” The court-appointed defence lawyer failed to object. … The jailing of Brown, who is African-American, became notorious after it emerged how lenient the same judge was with a well-connected white man who was given probation for murder. The man repeatedly breached probation, including by using cocaine, but Judge Dean sent him to a private treatment centre rather than jail and gave him “postcard” probation whereby he wrote to the court once a year.
Guardian Unlimited — Maybe this is the real problem with pot?
Confession triggers appeal in Daniel Pearl case
Lawyers for British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who is under a death sentence for the murder of the US journalist Daniel Pearl, are planning an appeal based on a confession last week by a top al-Qaida figure.
Guardian Unlimited — So either we have someone wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death, or we have an invalid confession by a tortured terrorist. I wonder which way things will go?
Daily Show and Colbert Report RSS Feeds
When Viacom pulled its clips from YouTube, they began posting them at Viacom-owned iFilm … I pulled together these two feeds:
Idealog — We’ll see how long this lasts.
The guy who deliberately tied in Jeopardy
Oh, you want to know about the Final Jeopardy! wager? It was an intentional bet. I counted on Anders and Jamey betting rationally and wagering everything. I thought it would be really cool to be a part of Jeopardy history. I knew that meant I’d be playing seasoned opponents, but it didn’t matter to me. I had already won a couple of games myself, and I thought it would be neat to share the money.
His Blog — I wrote something yesterday about this.
The Role of the CBC in the 21st Century
If committee members are following recent CBC developments, they might want to ask why the CBC has chosen to use DRM as part of its latest plunge into online video.
Michael Geist — Sigh.
C-47 Undermines Olympic Spirit
Canadian Olympic organizers have pledged to “own the podium” in 2010, yet Canadians might ask whether they must own words such as “winter” in order to do so.
Michael Geist — There are a bunch of words like ‘winter’ that the Canadian Government saw fit to reserve for the Vancouver Olympic Committee. That’s really going to cut conversations short. Can you buy winter tires any more?
I haven’t released a new gem of Merb for a month or more now as it has been going through some great changes.
Brainspl.at — I’m using Merb in the tool that I wrote that builds this tumblelog. Pretty advanced tool for such a low revision number – don’t be fooled.
The end result of my small effort is VacuumMail, which can be used as a regular application or automated through the included LaunchAgent for use with Launchd
Musings from Mars — Wrote about the technique that Vacuum Mail implements in my blog – it makes a huge difference.
We keep getting bigger; the last few events have had well over 30 people!
Unspace — This is the first time I’ve managed to make it to one of these. It was a lot of fun, and lots of interesting people. Anybody in the Toronto area into Ruby, Rails, or just sharing the mind-set will fit right in.
How Many Categories Does Your Blog Have?
How many categories does your blog have?
I’d also be interested to hear how people determined what categories to use and whether you can have too many categories (I was reading a blog the other day that had 60 and wondered whether there comes a time when there are too many).
Pro Blogger — I haven’t read all the responses to this post but it seems to me that this is the fundamental problem with all metadata. It is impossible to remain consistent since your point of view changes as you learn, and this just piles up categories. On top of this you start being able to split an idea many many times. The result is too many categories with a growing suspicion that you don’t really need any.
My web log has about 15 categories and I’ve been thinking that they should be reduced. I deliberately avoided categories in this tumblelog.
In 2006 Thiago Olson joined the extremely sparse ranks of amateurs worldwide who have achieved nuclear fusion with a home apparatus. In other words, he built the business end of a hydrogen bomb in his basement. The plasma “star in a jar”—shown at the left—demonstrated his success.
DISCOVER Magazine — Hmm.
