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“I’m not against manipulating feelings. The whole job is about manipulating...”

– Ira Glass, of This American Life (via O’Reilly Radar). I appreciate his clear-headed and pragmatic approach, and though I know it’s true, I don’t necessarily enjoy this portion of the tour of the This American Life sausage factory.

Jan 30th

“type the following command into the shell prompt: :(){:|:&};:”

– snarky reply to a n00b question on a technical mailing list. it’s not line noise and you definitely do not want to try it. :() { # start defining a shell function with the name : : | : & # call the function recursively, piping output to itself, then immediately go to...

Jan 30th

Pussy Galore - Tumbling Dice (Rolling Stones...

Jan 30th

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continuing the answering machine message theme, started by andy with a message left by mike watt for thurston moore, here’s a (um perhaps less ‘real’) message kathleen hanna left for watt, in answer to his request for her participation on his first solo record. her message starts around 2:20, full text on watt’s site. But ummm. Mr. Watt. Dude. Babe. Sir. Uh, you need to...

Jan 29th

Flying Saucer Attack - A Silent Tide. I want a...

Jan 29th

“Once you get to that level of load, the ability of the scheduler to not do...”

– Poul-Henning Kamp on the varnish mailing list talking about resource starvation in high-load web apps.

Jan 29th

Sir Victor Uwaifo - Ekassa 32 (Votumamuoga)....

Jan 28th

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C’était un rendez-vous. today’s vicarious adrenaline fix. french director claude lelouch’s unbelievable single-take film. he attached a camera to the front bumper of his car (there is some argument over whether it was a ferrari or a mercedes) and drove across paris at ridiculous speeds one early morning in 1976. the blur of pavement and engine sounds are simply intoxicating.

Jan 28th

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ah, morphine. so good. great quote. ...

Jan 27th

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