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Sat Jan 05 2013 15:53 Girl Geeks and Boy Kings | Dissent Magazine:
Women, Facebook, unpaid emotional labor, and selling ourselves
Mon Dec 31 2012 16:31 http://captainawkward.com/2012/12/26/411-frozen-out-by-a-relative/#comment-39557:
"I never found out what her problem was. (I never contacted her again, obviously). The couple of former colleagues I asked refused to tell me either. It killed me for a bit, until I finally had the epiphany that it doesn’t become my problem until she’s prepared to at least tell me what the problem is. Up until then, the problem is 100% hers and I have better things to think about."
Tue Nov 20 2012 23:19 https://latticeqcd.net/fedorasocial:
A conversation recently in the fedora-social IRC channel.
Wed Jul 18 2012 03:40 How we ran the first Khan Academy Healthy Hackathon - Ben Kamens:
emphasis on health -- no alcohol! Friendlier to some populations than the brogramming-style hackathons
Mon May 14 2012 21:50 Software Carpentry » What I’ve Learned So Far:
"Online teaching isn’t as effective as in-person teaching." & tools suck, and more
Tue May 08 2012 13:43 TRK - Getting more women to your meet-up :
personal invitations, advertise somewhere new, have a clear harassment policy & enforce it
Wed Feb 08 2012 01:09 Requiem For Astronaut Janice Voss:
"Requiem For Astronaut Janice Voss" "As payload commander of two shuttle missions, Janice was responsible for paving the way for experiments that we now perform on a daily basis on the International Space Station" Dead at 55.
Thu Feb 02 2012 16:02 Open Source for America | Resources:
Open source in government: papers, policies, presentations, case studies, and other resources
Sat Jan 14 2012 01:18 proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy:
Wikimedia Foundation works towards adding an anti-harassment policy for technical events and discussion goes pretty well
Sat Dec 24 2011 04:16 The Future of Academic Research | eaves.ca:
Rosie Redfield a top 10 science newsmaker of 2011 for doing open collaborative science (blogging about trying to replicate results)
Sun Nov 27 2011 11:17 Writing Like a White Guy:
"When I say �privilege� here, I mean the condition of not needing to consider what others are forced to consider...Writing is as much the process of arriving at the point of composition as it is the act of composition itself."
Sat Nov 26 2011 21:27 http://olegvolk.net/blog/2011/04/23/women-in-computing/:
"He asked me for suggestions on how to proceed without creating additional discrimination against boys in the process. Any advice?"
Thu Nov 03 2011 18:06 Internet misogyny — Crooked Timber:
discussion of the disproportionate share of ugly attacks & harrassment women get when they write online
Wed Oct 05 2011 00:14 a schemer at jsconf.eu -- wingolog:
a male attendee at a conference expresses discomfort with sexuality-related elements of the conference
Tue Oct 04 2011 23:51 Conversation - Identi.ca:
discussion/flamewar on Identi.ca over the alleged demerits of the GNOME Women's Outreach Program (according to its detractors, it's sexist)
Wed Jun 29 2011 16:05 Project Dash - Dashboard Queries:
Eclipse's dashboard of statistics regarding community activity
Wed Jun 29 2011 15:59 Open Source Community Metrics « Fast Wonder: Online Community Management:
Dawn Foster's opensourcebridge presentation on collecting & analyzing statistics from FLOSS projects - check out MLStats & irssistats
Tue Mar 01 2011 12:21 Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a Precocious Scientist - NYTimes.com:
Remember all those Slashdot trolls who talked about Natalie Portman? Did they know she was a supergeek?
Sat Nov 20 2010 06:03 vito_excalibur | thinking out loud:
"I play best in stolen amounts of time from required interactions, in imitation and opposition."
Wed Nov 10 2010 03:21 pandagon.net:
on hipsters, Tea Partiers, and the danger of pronouncing others inauthentic
Fri Nov 05 2010 07:28 deborah: authorial intent:
"yay equality" in the book, "except for you" online
Mon Oct 18 2010 15:19 http://kieran.healy.usesthis.com/:
many choice quotes, incl "I resent the way its preferred means of solving your problems is first to have you surrender to it completely."
Thu Oct 14 2010 11:23 staranise: Automated bingo cards, get 'em while they're hot :
sweet! 'I wrote that program with a little under a month of first-year University-level computing science under my belt. I was in that class at all because fandom, Dreamwidth and the AO3, said, "Coding isn't scary. Anyone can learn it." That's something I've tried to carry forward with this code.'
Thu Oct 14 2010 09:25 Bitch Ph.D.:
goodbye. *sniff* But deciding to end is better than never closing the parenthesis
Wed Oct 06 2010 12:21 poesy galore: Being Visibly Queer-Friendly: Please Consider It:
Thinking about how to embody this. Not as necessary in NYC, but in India maybe? A button would be a start
Sat Sep 11 2010 04:56 Scott versus Hayek — Crooked Timber:
price is a lossy indicator, we knew that, but what about standardization as lossy?
Wed Aug 25 2010 19:28 Kung Fu Monkey: LEVERAGE #311 "The Rashomon Job" Question Post:
in which I get weirdly intellectually schmoopy about "Leverage"'s "The Rashomon Job"
Mon Aug 23 2010 05:32 Going Hollywood. In the Pipeline: :
On where the pharma/Hollywood analogy works or breaks down. I really like this + the linked article about the uniqueness of medicine as an industry.
Mon Aug 23 2010 05:31 http://www.benjaminrosenbaum.com/blog/archives/2010_07.html#000831:
" In the real world, the labor that the bored sysadmin contributes to Apache is surplus created by the hyperefficient operations of state-mediated market capitalism..."
Mon Aug 23 2010 05:29 Andrew Jackson's America - National - The Atlantic:
"They claim to fear the immigrant clinging to his language. No. What they fear is the immigrant learning theirs."
Tue Aug 17 2010 16:18 On fathers and daughters and illusions and strength:
"... It is full of wonders, even though they are illusory, sometimes because of that...." one of many awesome sentences from this thoughtful essay
Thu Aug 12 2010 04:11 http://lyrics.wikia.com/Oscar_Brand:Presidential_Campaign_Songs_1789%E2%80%931996_%281999%29:
includes lyrics to "Get on a Raft with Taft," "Huzzah for Madison, Huzzah," "If He's Good Enough for Lindy," "Harding, You're the Man for Us," "Buckle Down With Nixon"; my heart sings to see this
Tue Jul 13 2010 18:41 Open source is NASA's next frontier -- Federal Computer Week:
open source at NASA -- takes organizational, structural, cultural change -- no surprise
Mon Jul 12 2010 15:59 Dr. Rivka - Life and Death Situations:
"My job, when I meet a suicidal person, is uncomplicated. It is my job to stand with the part of the person that wants to live.....Why is it that there is literally no disaster, no tragedy, no collection of problems so severe that our society argues that a person ought to be allowed to die rather than suffer them – EXCEPT for physical degeneration?"
Wed Jun 30 2010 18:59 Yatima » Blog Archive » a chimpanzee manifesto:
You knew I'd bookmark this. Status play, compromise, imagining the possible, the endless joyous struggle.
Wed Jun 02 2010 08:56 coraa: Wiscon Panel Notes: Must Pleasures Be Guilty?:
"By the end I was intermittently laughing too hard to take good notes."
Fri May 21 2010 14:50 There are 12 people who…:
Watch out for the 12 people who love everything you do without justice or reason.
Fri May 21 2010 14:49 raffertyesque:
Pat Rafferty's one of the most underrated humor writers in NYC.
Sun May 09 2010 23:09 How to Manage Your Boss When Working Remotely :
This is a good 101; a 201 of "how to deal with an uncommunicative remote boss" would be fantastic
Mon Apr 26 2010 16:55 Quahogcon-Day1 175 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!:
My Hacker Jeopardy! team from QuahogCon, night 1: Mary (lastname unknown), me, Noah Bedford
Tue Apr 20 2010 14:30
wrkng » The Board :
easy-peasy "who's doing what" magnet-style board
Tue Apr 20 2010 13:04 http://terriko.dreamwidth.org/28709.html:
"The best women's groups aren't about separation and segregation: they're about providing an incubator for people who need a leg up to be part of the wider community."
Tue Apr 20 2010 13:04 A rant about humans:
"Maybe we can figure out how to make the workplace work for lots of different types of people...."
Fri Apr 16 2010 16:02 http://innovators.vassar.edu/innovator.html?id=67:
Dr Asprey - student, then friend of Grace Hopper. Turned Vassar into "one of the first liberal arts colleges in the U.S. to establish a computer center and to offer courses in computer science... and the second college in the country to acquire an IBM System/360"
Fri Apr 16 2010 15:59 http://collegerelations.vassar.edu/2007/2497/:
CS pioneer Winifred Asprey wrote in 1967: "Familiarity with a computer will be as commonplace a demand as familiarity with a foreign language presently is."
Wed Apr 14 2010 19:43 epub-tools - Project Hosting on Google Code:
epub-tools is a project aimed at software developers who need reusable toolkits to produce ePub files from various formats. This project includes Python libraries that convert from the DocBook and TEI XML formats and epubjs, a lightweight pure Javascript ePub reader
Sun Apr 11 2010 13:21 BBC News - Twitter used to predict box office hits:
Aha! search queries do as well as existing methods, but add semantics and you get more predictive power
Thu Apr 08 2010 22:24 Yahoo! Labs Research Presentations, February 2010:
a Columbia Women in CS trip to Yahoo! Labs NYC; female researcher Sihem Amer-Yahia presented
Wed Apr 07 2010 16:54 Ventilations Or Revelations?:
Munmun De Choudhury, Indian-American woman doing interesting CS research on homophily
Wed Apr 07 2010 14:34 garran: March novel-reading:
I need to think about what it is to be Hugo-esque, plus a welcome reminder of Walton's note on magical realism vs fantasy
Wed Apr 07 2010 14:29 garran: March novel-reading:
I need to think about what it is to be Hugo-esque, plus a welcome reminder of Walton's note on magical realism vs fantasy
Tue Apr 06 2010 21:48 Jimbo Matison:
several Uncle Morty's Dub Shack clips
Tue Mar 23 2010 15:48 Connected Histories project plan:
"All code and technical developments generated by the project will be available as an Open Source, and governed by a Creative Commons Licence." Also, source control referred to in one place as CVS and in another as Subversion
Tue Mar 23 2010 05:34 "Make True on that Promise" | The White House:
Lincoln, then Obama playing with the word "bound" something fierce
Tue Mar 23 2010 05:33 TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect:
via Real Adult Sex. Personal excellence talks louder than bigotry, given a big juicy opportunity.
Sat Mar 20 2010 20:24 Ten Influential Books — Crooked Timber:
oh dear, another very expensive Crooked Timber book thread
Sat Mar 20 2010 17:11 British Fantasy Awards 2010: the Longlist:
We're on the longlist for Thoughtcrime Experiments! resiak, is that you?
Thu Mar 18 2010 16:27 Artistic New Directions - Calendar:
"Boxers," starring a guy I met on the subway last night, is on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th, & 28th of March 2010
Thu Mar 18 2010 16:24 Good Suppliers - And The Other Guys. In the Pipeline: :
talking trash & recommending the reliable -- in chemical supply houses
Thu Mar 18 2010 14:51 Southern California Review:
in case I want a paper copy of the excellent "Shit Went Down" by a pal
Wed Mar 17 2010 21:15 http://intro-to-cs.dreamwidth.org/:
working through intro to CS together, using MIT's open courseware
Fri Mar 12 2010 17:14 Edge 314:
missiology, science-based field research, and jihad
Tue Mar 09 2010 22:59 http://skaredykat.livejournal.com/1083.html:
note to self: use this to find that awesome Stargate "what else are you missing?" fic
Mon Mar 08 2010 13:28 http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm:
via resiak -- on scurvy, how hard science is, and the forward-and-back cycle of knowledge
Sat Mar 06 2010 03:54 Murray’s Blog » Blog Archive » Openismus Wants More Trainees:
German software development firm wants to hire, mentor women & minorities, train them to develop FLOSS
Fri Mar 05 2010 17:10 Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Michael Whelan, an appreciation:
"I read that book in one day. It wasn’t like anything I’d ever tried reading before. (I had never been introduced to fantasy novels.)... I remember a severe bout of disappointment upon finishing the book because I thought surely there couldn’t be anything else like it in the entire world."
Thu Mar 04 2010 20:25 Open 311 | The White House:
San Francisco, 311, API sharing, pushing far too many of my buttons
Mon Mar 01 2010 16:04 On 1:1s :: dria.org:
as rands says, you will always learn something during your 1:1. Prep work for the win. Richardson's format mirrors that of the liaison chats from the performance appraisal system I developed
Sun Feb 28 2010 22:21 For The Community (Long) - Personal - The Atlantic:
for the interaction designers in the room. Communities sneak up on you, and they care about convenience and branding
Sun Feb 28 2010 00:24 Google and Italy — Crooked Timber:
on Italy, rule of law, & differing conceptions of what the law should be - read the comments
Wed Feb 24 2010 15:45 Majikthise : Of course it was terrorism:
"Stack said he hoped that his spectacular act of violence would galvanize others to rebel against the government."
Sat Feb 13 2010 19:09 Damien Katz: Thoughts on an Open Source Company:
I'm especially curious about how the anti-manager bias and the allergy to performance/productivity criteria will end up working
Sat Feb 13 2010 17:05 Character Actors:
Useful list of character actors. Also a visual argument for more gender & ethnic diversity in film & tv.
Thu Feb 11 2010 18:40 Your Science Fiction Award Nomination Suggestions « Whatever:
note to self: remember/calculate wordcounts for TE stories so as to suggest appropriate nomination categories
Thu Feb 11 2010 18:12 Report From Staringintospacecon 2004:
Seth's advice: be frank, gossip, use clear and specific examples, tell an interesting narrative.
Thu Feb 11 2010 17:54 Chrome support for Greasemonkey:
your favorite greasemonkey script likely already runs in Chrome!
Thu Feb 11 2010 17:42 Official Google Blog: 2010 Super Bowl: Some search touchdowns:
"Behind every team is a great coach, and behind every coach is an engaged online community." This is not technically true.
Thu Feb 11 2010 17:19 http://rickscott.posterous.com/paying-off-technical-debt-ftw:
tech debt is like financial debt: pay it off at the time of your choosing or it'll come due when you can ill afford it
Wed Feb 10 2010 21:03 http://mediactive.com/2010/02/02/the-future-of-journalism-education/:
this is the kind of journalism that could send graduates into industry as managers & facilitators, writers of many sorts
Wed Feb 10 2010 21:01 http://scholarsarchive.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/11355:
Answering a newbie's question within 48 hours correlates strongly with them staying around & contributing
Tue Feb 09 2010 14:26 The professional masquerade - The F-Word:
SO GLAD tech isn't entirely like this (or maybe I just haven't risen high enough to see it)
Tue Jan 26 2010 17:15 A short follow-up on work at Hugo Schwyzer:
"putting one’s relationships first, or at least making sure that they aren’t jeopardized by one’s livelihood, is something that those who are fortunate enough to choose their livelihoods ought to strongly consider"
Sun Jan 24 2010 04:38 Why ask for an unskilled, not-yet-involved comaintainer?:
Christine Spang requests entirely new contributors for some FLOSS maintainer mentee work, gets far more responses than expected
Fri Jan 22 2010 19:16 MathFiction:
Female mathematicians in fiction, as catalogued by Alex Kasman's great MathFiction project
Wed Jan 20 2010 13:02 Mercurial « UCOSP:
my old employer is sponsoring/leading some Mercurial development
Tue Jan 19 2010 15:31 Maia's Eclectic Ministry of Introspection :: The Zoo of Rampant Sexism :
Maia Kozheva says: A Russian Linux site permits & approves horrendously sexist, demeaning, and objectifying comments, & the community at large doesn't notice because of language barrier
Thu Jan 14 2010 22:25 General Transit Feed Specification - Google Code:
How many of the eight route_types have you experienced? I'm at 7, I think.
Wed Jan 13 2010 16:29 DebianNYC/Workshops/3 - Debian Wiki:
Debian packaging for semi-beginners, NYC, 21 January 2010
Tue Jan 12 2010 21:56 http://blog.lebedel.net/index.php?post/2010/01/12/WoMoz-at-FOSDEM:
The nascent Women in Mozilla group will be at FOSDEM, are figuring out their roadmap & plans, and need your suggestions
Thu Jan 07 2010 22:44
On public discussion and safety » philosophical geekess :
why we need #ubuntu-women, & how to balance needs for privacy, safe-space assistance, and transparency
Thu Jan 07 2010 13:49 Women in Open Source – Q&A with Myself « Marina'z Blog:
a roundup of benefits to women & to open source to getting more women involved, activities in FLOSS, barriers, TODOs
Thu Jan 07 2010 13:46 Ill-mannered Grandiloquence » Blog Archive » Diversity at what cost?:
talking about diversity in FLOSS for its own sake as opposed to for instrumental goals, + worries about taking the fun out of the community
Wed Jan 06 2010 15:18 http://www.kramm.com/blog/?p=175:
to contact re encrypted videoconferencing (Farstream?)
Tue Dec 29 2009 17:14 "Coverage in Philadelphia has been good....":
"A big man with a big hurt, [Mike Daisey] sucker punches the newsy macabre in the face..." Probably my favorite phrase of the year.
Sun Dec 27 2009 14:47 soc - Project Hosting on Google Code:
possible to use Melange to keep interns' FLOSS contributions visible & monitor progress?
Thu Dec 24 2009 15:13 Black Oak store reopens across town:
Apress cofounder Gary Cornell resurrects Black Oak Books
Thu Dec 24 2009 14:18 YouTube - Batman Parody: The Dark Knight is Confused. Key of Awesome #8. :
via Jed. Batman is confused about the plot of the Dark Knight. Spot-on, funny, lovely touches, especially Alfred's first couplet to the Joker.
Sun Dec 20 2009 21:27 Pass the Popcorn. In the Pipeline: :
Leonard: book & movie recommendations based on realistic depictions of research chemistry!
Thu Dec 17 2009 21:44 Damian Kulash and Kermit the Frog:
Meeting Kermit is like meeting a god. A really friendly god.
Sun Dec 13 2009 03:25 Industrial Research: More Grounded in Reality, or Not?. In the Pipeline: :
sunk-cost fallacy, metrics-driven perverse incentives, mistaking easy for right, bandwagon
Sun Dec 13 2009 03:22 Real Electrons. In the Pipeline: :
"As always, I react to these things with interest, excitement, and a tiny bit of terror at seeing something that I assumed would always be hidden."
Sun Dec 13 2009 03:22 More on T2, and Degrees. In the Pipeline: :
"And what experience gives you, among other things, is a sense of knowing what needs to be worried about."
Sun Dec 13 2009 03:17 Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git - Boing Boing :
Leonard uses Tiddlywiki for worldcreation; I'd be curious whether any authors are now using Flashbake
Sun Dec 13 2009 03:17 Anacrusis › Senji:
“You’re beginning an argument that leads into a distrust of all information from your senses,” says Senji.
Fri Dec 11 2009 14:19 Charity Navigator - Suggest a Charity:
If your favorite 501(c)3 isn't listed in Charity Navigator, you can suggest it for their evaluation
Fri Nov 20 2009 17:24 How do I deal with information? — A non-tech Zeitgeist background « Another ugly blaaahg:
"The history items in my web browser are just as important as a random file on my computer! So are my chat logs, my future and past tasks in my preferred task manager, my search history..."
Tue Nov 17 2009 20:24 [M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og » Blog Archive » The Invisible Traceback:
"blockers that make potential contributors drop out (and how to fix them)" looking forward to the transcript
Tue Nov 17 2009 20:18 Rupa MFA dt thesis blog:
Rupa DasGupta's MFA blog - she's going to use eye-tracking technology to investigate & reveal the male gaze, partially as internalized by women
Tue Oct 27 2009 21:20 Call For Participation | fosdem.org:
a month left to submit most talks to FOSDEM 2010 (Brussels)
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:52 Making Light: Permission to suck:
Freedom to look stupid leads to getting smarter, part 2.
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:37 how many roads? « style over substance:
"Tomorrow I will go to the church and the library. And something else will happen, the day after that."
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:36 http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/15/sonia-sotomayor-pop-culture-maven/ :
the comments include people speculating so as to make Perry Mason's always-losing prosecutor opponent not quite such a failure
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:31 vanilla_pride: Badges.That's where the future lies. Bad:
"No dancing round the subject of whether they have a large collection of significant others and merely wish to add one, as they were only missing a grey haired grumpy bastard to complete the set."
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:24 » Tidying Up the Law VoxPopuLII:
Stuart Sierra on law as prose rather than code: "Imagine the economic value of knowing, with mathematical certainty, exactly what the law is." & some IA/CS thoughts
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:21 The SALLY FORTH Dude Analyzes Television:
"Part of my own ambiguous attitude to serials is that I think they can sometimes privilege plot mechanics over the creation of individual moments"
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:18 Interprete » Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers:
"...developers reconfigure central tenets of the liberal tradition—and the meanings of both freedom and speech—to defend against efforts to constrain their productive autonomy..."
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:15 Interprete » Biella’s Guide to PR: Memorable Events, Monumental Caves:
"I first went on this very trip when I was 16 and it was one of those momentous, memorable events that struck like lightening."
Sat Oct 24 2009 12:12 Making a John Q Public account on Google:
'please help me create a fictional identity for use in my job'
Thu Aug 13 2009 12:58 The Limits Of Our Dialogue On Race And Beyond - Ta-Nehisi Coates :
"It'd be as if our thoughts of sexism revolved strictly around honor-killings and rape. Perhaps they do."
Fri Aug 07 2009 03:50 Aca-speak:
Pretty sure I've used these
Thu Jul 02 2009 15:03 Bitch Ph.D.:
list of criteria there - scary
Tue Jun 23 2009 11:57 Strange Horizons Fiction: Another End of the Empire, by Tim Pratt:
fun short fantasy piece about a dark lord who's read the "when I am a dark lord I will not..." list
Fri Jun 19 2009 22:48 Calvin & Hobbes fanfic (Teen Susie & Calvin slash):
via vito_excalibur, and SO INCREDIBLY GOOD. Moving and sexy and aching.
Fri Jun 19 2009 14:16 The Left and the Living Dead | The American Prospect:
"if you're a zombie lover, this is the time to be alive." Arguably. "This one goes out to all you zombies."
Thu Jun 11 2009 19:15 Scattershot, Desperate, and Sleazy | n+1:
on craiglist you speak desire; on nerve you say who you are
Sat Jun 06 2009 02:33 SeeLight: How Do Editors Reach Out to Writers of Color?:
In case we ever repeat the anthology experiment: reach out to nonwhite authors!
Tue Jun 02 2009 20:17 pfenixwings: Let me be really clear.:
interesting articulation: "I have this marvelous experience, this huge beautiful easy experience... and then I have to find a way to integrate its memory and its absence in my life, hopefully without falling into my patterns of disengagement and stoicism."
Tue Jun 02 2009 20:14 pfenixwings: The streamers of my heart...:
great phrase: "rubbing smooth my memories of what we'd already done"
Sun May 10 2009 02:31 fine lines - Jezebel:
evidently there are a few redeeming pockets in the Gawker empire
Tue May 05 2009 22:51 gtrout: Today's Thing That Is Crazy:
we got off our asses and did something, and amazing things happened
Tue May 05 2009 18:37 World Fantasy Award Judges:
to check in a few months for submission info
Tue Apr 28 2009 23:08 Daisy Owl - Hey Now:
there are not enough Smashmouth references in my webcomics? Daisy Owl remedies that
Wed Apr 22 2009 06:39 EST FON:
Leonard, you want to get involved?
Tue Apr 21 2009 17:28 EST pandagon.net - review of Pledged:
why would the nat'l force conformist reorgs on offbeat instances of the franchise? because admin officials are the ones who LOVE the old ways & old people-pool, & new/diff people contaminate that. cf marriagestuff
Sat Apr 18 2009 16:37 EST FutureMe.org: Gudday from a younger you:
I like how he refers to past & future selves together as "us"
Wed Apr 08 2009 16:38 EST Hark, a vagrant archive:
Yay! Kate Beaton has archives by category!!!!
Wed Apr 08 2009 10:08 EST Tom the Dancing Bug | Salon Comics:
you can sing "brain in a beaker" to the tune of "smoke on the water"
Wed Apr 08 2009 08:23 EST yatima: fell off:
"...feeling the years and years of riding behind me - the teenage bolting around like a lunatic and learning how to land on my feet, the years in my twenties.... As if those years weren't wasted after all; as if all is not lost." see: me & customer service
Tue Apr 07 2009 19:43 EST http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/24/labor-struggle-in-a-free-market/:
"And I believe that when workers fully realize the potential of the incomplete labor contract, and become as willing to exploit it as the bosses have all these years, we’ll mop the floor with their asses. And we can do it in a free market, without any “help” from the NLRB. Let the bosses beg for help."
Tue Apr 07 2009 18:46 EST on friends and trolls:
translation: "I will say racist things and resist if you critique them."
Mon Apr 06 2009 14:46 EST WLA?! | Weekender:
There's the week, the weekend, and the weekender!
Tue Mar 24 2009 10:14 EST Waiter Rant » Blog Archive » Fear and Loneliness in Las Vegas:
the emotional intelligence to self-interrogate after strong or inappropriate feelings or behavior
Tue Mar 17 2009 10:05 EST The importance of stupidity in scientific research -- Schwartz 121 (11): 1771 -- Journal of Cell Science:
Do would-be scientists get hung up more on envying their peers' skills/knowledge, or on the massive pile of ignorance we all share?
Mon Mar 16 2009 14:18 EST http://lls-mutant.livejournal.com/225486.html:
to read in lieu of watching the finale at the same time as everyone else
Thu Mar 05 2009 12:41 EST http://pculture.org/devblogs/mirotesting/:
can i get set up and submit a bug today? or at least do some tests?
Tue Mar 03 2009 17:54 EST flycon2009 - Community Profile:
Leonard, we're editors and authors! Should we participate?
Thu Feb 26 2009 10:06 EST footnotes:
Leonard tends to dislike primary sources in fiction, but how about *citations* of primary sources?
Wed Feb 25 2009 23:57 EST Saturday's walk:
while listening to Moxy Fruvous's "you can't be too careful."
Mon Feb 23 2009 09:58 EST ccfinlay.com - extras :
Leonard, have you seen this funny CC Finlay stuff?
Sun Feb 22 2009 10:53 EST Apex Book Company » Slush Lessons:
Soon to come: Leonard's & Sumana's slush lessons for narrative
Fri Feb 13 2009 13:15 EST Clark And Michael:
like the Face of the Enemy webisodes, something to watch when I'm bored
Thu Feb 12 2009 14:04 EST Kung Fu Monkey: Waid Wednesdays #10: The Job of the Comic Book Editor:
lessons for Sumana the editor - get out of the way, offer solutions, don't just add would-be-cool
Sun Feb 08 2009 10:56 EST Derek Powazek - Unsolicited Advice is a Valuable Clue:
Thanks, Derek, for offering me a more neutral way to hear otherwise maddening unsolicited advice
Sat Jan 03 2009 10:18 EST Obsidian Wings: Andy Olmsted:
Now that I've watched B5, Olmsted's quotes and pseudonym mean more
Thu Jan 01 2009 15:41 EST Palonis, Estelle V. English (ca 8-45) [13 l.] [re language problems]:
"Particularly in the Social Sciences, it was difficult to counteract the obvious fact that we had not abided by the rules of the game in our treatment of the Nisei."
Wed Dec 31 2008 20:12 EST Another Day of Death - TIME:
Contemporaneous account of the Moscone & Milk murders
Wed Dec 31 2008 11:10 EST Merry Christmas, Jeeves:
getting to meet the Jeeveses -- refreshing change of scene/content/characters
Sun Dec 28 2008 15:42 EST Square One TV.org - Mathnet Guide:
That episode you remember? With the gorilla, or Weird Al, or the Rear Window ripoff, or the Fibonacci-repeating parrot?
Sun Dec 28 2008 11:06 EST Lorem Ipsum: My sink is empty:
I am no stranger to The Piles. My sympathy is with Jed.
Wed Dec 24 2008 13:13 EST BBC - WW2 People's War - A Woman Doctor (Part One):
a five-part recollection of a British woman who worked in military medicine in WWII - hilarious
Tue Dec 23 2008 06:04 EST Lorem Ipsum: Not taking offense when offered:
"if I hear your culture-specific insult of me, but I don't feel insulted, am I disrespecting your culture?"
Fri Dec 19 2008 10:34 EST xkcd - A Webcomic - 11th Grade:
PAINFULLY true? including the title tag?! I comfort myself with knowing that I actually did learn a fair amount in the social and hard sciences that formed a foundation for later importance
Thu Dec 18 2008 09:15 EST Crazy Local TV Commercials - Funny Christmas Ads - Esquire:
Leonard pronounces the storage rental ad as one of his fave commercials of all time
Thu Dec 18 2008 06:44 EST YouTube - Lakshya Main Aisa Kyon Hoon hruthic roshan:
The weird straitjacket dance from Lakshya, starring Hrithik Roshan. Innovative and eye-catching.
Sat Dec 13 2008 03:13 EST Weight loss strategies | Ask Metafilter:
"The best path to fitness or athleticism is finding a program that builds a skill. Something that sparks your competitive spirit, fulfills a social need, or your desire for physical expression in some way." we can start with 15-20 minutes at a time, 2 days a week....
Thu Dec 11 2008 10:08 EST DeCal : Frequently Asked Questions:
"At DeCal we emphasize that students are facilitators and not teachers." Not in my day! I TAUGHT those classes with no faculty supervision, and I'm glad I had none.
Wed Dec 10 2008 08:12 EST:
Movies Sumana wants to see: Were The World Mine, Quantum of Solace, Rachel Getting Married, Milk, Synecdoche NY, Frost/Nixon
Sun Dec 07 2008 21:24 EST Lorem Ipsum: Mary Anne's online writing classes start tomorrow:
"one for beginners (both fiction and nonfiction), one intermediate (also both fiction and nonfiction), and one on writing about sexuality."
Sun Dec 07 2008 03:20 EST http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/04/studying-the-emotion.html:
I have been lucky enough to enjoy admiration, awe, and elevation several times in my adulthood. Connected to Bolt-Taylor's right-brained thinking?
Sat Nov 22 2008 11:28 EST Early look at startup valuation data [May 2008]:
This blog overall is a useful resource for recon of Seattle startup scene. Rachel, how kooky is this [self-reported] data?
Tue Nov 18 2008 12:21 EST New Relic: Gold Days are here!:
Free Rails performance testing for the next few days
Thu Nov 13 2008 05:16 EST Give Up and Use Tables:
Scientifically determined period you should spend avoiding using tables: 47 min
Sat Nov 08 2008 14:16 EST Hulu - Mr. Patel:
maybe I should just wait for Sepia Mutiny to tell me whether this is any good
Sat Nov 08 2008 12:12 EST Zoo | Blog:
I think peanut butter balls sound great!
Wed Nov 05 2008 08:35 EST Kevin Drum - Mother Jones Blog: 11 PM Update:
My emotions: relief that the election wasn't stolen, sadness/anxiety over Prop 8/Franken/Burner/Tevis, getting my head around "Pres Obama"
Tue Oct 28 2008 09:05 EST MTV Music - Search for Pop Up Video:
92 Pop Up Videos on demand. Will I get anything done today?
Tue Oct 28 2008 09:02 EST MTV MUSIC - Queen - Under Pressure:
MTV has music videos on their site? Rock! Also, yes, this is a freaky video.
Tue Oct 28 2008 09:01 EST http://www.timwu.org/log/archives/313:
how many of the things you do are, in fact, exactly this category?
Mon Oct 27 2008 09:07 EST Swampland - TIME.com » Blog Archive The Full Obama Interview «:
He just came up with "lurch from crisis to trance" off the cuff, what beautiful phrasing. Kevin Guilfoile is right about Bartletry.
Wed Oct 22 2008 08:48 EST Muslim McCain Fans Confront Intolerance At Rally | American News Project:
Makes me glad that the Republican Party has at least a little diversity to help moderate the worst elements...
Mon Oct 20 2008 12:40 EST Linda Adams: Author, Editor, Singer/Songwriter: Withdrawing my support of Google.:
"There is absolutely no place for a public and free service, like Google, to attempt to sway people on very personal and religious issues- and use their public and free service to do so." Are they suggesting nationalizing Google?
Fri Oct 10 2008 13:50 EST States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal - NYTimes.com:
it is hella important, not just to register to vote, but to check whether your registration went through, or has been challenged
Fri Oct 10 2008 13:48 EST nass.org:
voter registration deadlines for each state; California's is Oct 20th
Fri Oct 10 2008 12:19 EST PHP Paginator 1.01 - majordojo:
PHP Paginator is an open source PHP library which makes it trivial to create a list of pages to navigate between.
Fri Oct 10 2008 09:33 EST “Whisper Campaign” Hit-Job against Madia - Sepia Mutiny:
"now [Republicans] are hinting that because [Ashwin Madia] is ~30 and single he might be gay. Geez, and you thought desi parents were the ones putting on the marriage pressure!"
Mon Sep 29 2008 11:34 EST Walltype! - Design Shop - Listing:
As the holidays approach, put your art on Walltype -- like Lulu for art prints!
Sat Sep 27 2008 11:30 EST Consular Holidays:
Indian consulate in NYC has outsourced visa processing to a place that is closed on multiple Indian holidays in October
Sat Sep 27 2008 11:29 EST Transfer of Tourist Visa - India Visa Requirements:
transferring a tourist visa to India to a new US passport costs $38, which is still way less than the 10-yr cost in the first place
Thu Sep 25 2008 00:37 EST Stephen McCamant:
If you have the chance to hang out with Stephen McCamant, you should. And he's moved back to Berkeley!
Wed Sep 24 2008 09:57 EST Mel Chua | Geek Speak Women:
Yay! People should totally get Mel to speak at their conferences!
Wed Sep 24 2008 08:58 EST Gimme a break:
Will link to John when my blog works again
Mon Sep 22 2008 13:31 EST Katie's Computing Stuff:
Kate (Katie) Lucas on software development, the tech industry, etc.
Sat Sep 20 2008 12:21 EST Downhill Battle Labs:
Looking for an open source project to join to hone your skills? Could do worse than a Downhill Battle app
Sat Sep 20 2008 09:45 EST What’s so great about the family anyway? — Crooked Timber:
What are the goods a family makes? Also in the comments a really civilized "how does that data work?" argument!
Sat Sep 20 2008 08:38 EST ~stevenf: Aerophobe:
Archived copy of Steven Frank on overcoming phobia
Mon Sep 15 2008 15:10 EST Internet Archive: Details: Behind The Mike:
recommended by OTR Antioch: "a radio show that gives us a peek behind the scenes of pre-war radio"
Fri Sep 12 2008 16:10 EST Internet Archive: Details: The Whistler:
Awesome! Hundreds of free-to-download episodes of the half-hour noir radio drama "The Whistler"
Fri Sep 05 2008 10:24 EST creepy:
My cousin-in-law is HomeFill!
Thu Sep 04 2008 12:20 EST Choose Your Manager:
Choose a smart and wise manager from whom you can learn. To do otherwise may stunt your career.
Thu Sep 04 2008 12:18 EST Career Calculus:
What are you learning at your job? How much longer will your job be interesting?
Mon Sep 01 2008 19:26 EST No Time Like the Present - WSJ.com:
Hey Leonard, Hal's review of an SF collection is in the WSJ. And he loves the short form.
Sun Aug 31 2008 18:53 EST viewing theinfo: tools (theinfo):
Reminder that Leonard should make sure his sparklines tools are all on 1 page for easy linking
Sun Aug 31 2008 18:38 EST My favorite books of 2008 (so far):
yet more reason for me to recommend what I've been reading
Sun Aug 31 2008 18:29 EST OSCON Keynote :: Revealing Errors:
to watch: Mako Hill's 16-minute presentation on what errors (in software) reveal
Sun Aug 31 2008 08:25 EST Coast to Coast:
May, June, and September are good times for the Coast to Coast. One wants to train substantially and wear very good boots.
Sun Aug 31 2008 08:24 EST A Walk Across England | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine:
In about 2 weeks you can walk across northern England, in what sounds like the perfect balance between wild countryside and a well-marked path full of B&Bs
Fri Aug 29 2008 10:30 EST BBC NEWS | UK | England | Shropshire | Man's 'pants' password is changed:
This is hilarious. "pants" makes everything better! Also the headline makes it sound as though there's DRM on trousers.
Sun Aug 17 2008 20:25 EST Big government, big IT — Crooked Timber:
"...when many stakeholders may have powers of delay or veto, but few have powers of initiation. It is not for nothing that some people claim IT as now a branch of applied sociology."
Sat Aug 16 2008 21:25 EST Anacrusis › Don:
Brendan deconstructs the amateurish infernokrusher wannabes
Wed Aug 13 2008 16:28 EST Main Page - Dancing Monkeys:
now that we have DDR workalike we should use this
Wed Aug 13 2008 15:27 EST Newseum | Today's Front Pages | Map View:
657 front pages from 63 countries. Compare and contrast on an ordinary day.
Sat Aug 09 2008 09:16 EST Brutal Women: The Tudors:
"One of the most despicable lies in history is that women were just always passive slaves to men. That, historically, women had no power and no voice and contented themselves with their lot in life. If that was true, nobody would have burned witches..."
Fri Aug 01 2008 07:57 EST » Negative externalities aren’t: some thoughts on networks and ethics:
Measure goodwill, not just as a catchall on the balance sheet, but as a force that magnifies or reduces the value of your communities. But even employees aren't on the balance sheet.
Fri Aug 01 2008 07:43 EST DoxPara Research:
hit Check My DNS to see if your DNS server is vulnerable to the Kaminsky exploit
Sat Jul 26 2008 10:52 EST http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/07/the-balcony-is-closed.html:
awww. And he links to that outtakes video! Check the comments; thousands of people learned about movies and intelligent argument from their show
Sat Jul 26 2008 10:50 EST YouTube - Siskel and Ebert Uncensored:
The international bankers! The Vatican! The commies! and Protestant jokes. and swearing.
Fri Jul 25 2008 19:27 EST Lifetime, Wow!:
rates Lifetime movies on real and ironic awesomeness, "hey! it's that guy!" and overall Lifetimeness
Fri Jul 18 2008 20:54 EST Communities Directory: Happytown USA:
Happytown, USA does not allow LGBT folks? Not Happytown to me!
Sat Jul 12 2008 08:28 EST Blue book essays and the Martha Complex: on time management, test-taking, and letting go of perfectionism at Hugo Schwyzer:
I am so lucky that I learned early in high school to spend a full quarter or third of my timed essay periods on prewriting/outlining. And always allot 5 min at the end for QA! A missing "not" can be quite embarrassing.
Sat Jul 12 2008 08:23 EST Crooked Timber » » Why Did The Fathers of the American Revolution Hate America?:
Another reminder of why I read CT. Also I didn't do enough talking smack about the British on the 4th of July.
Tue Jul 08 2008 08:21 EST The challenge is in the bones | Oakland Tribune | Find Articles at BNET:
ARGH that second paragraph. Count the SAT words. And I need to check on that copyright data...
Sat Jun 28 2008 00:05 EST » MythTV - DevChix - Blog Archive :
the article that got Leonard over the hump and building a PVR
Mon Jun 16 2008 07:46 EST How Angel of Sichuan Saved School in Quake - NYTimes.com:
“If I knew there was a hidden danger, and I didn’t do anything about it, then I would be the one responsible,” he said.
Sun Jun 15 2008 15:16 EST Making Light: Slavery:
WHAT THE HELL. Are any of these slaves my uncles?
Thu Jun 12 2008 08:44 EST Crooked Timber » » Some Of These Things Are Not Like The Others:
the comments are hilarious...like me, CT commenters are puzzling out the world with each other
Wed Jun 11 2008 08:27 EST Real Live Preacher:
Gordon embarrasses me by singling me out
Thu Jun 05 2008 10:02 EST NYPL, NYPL Express Information Services:
to get my PDFs/nice copies of all my articles from Oakland Trib?
Thu Jun 05 2008 06:11 EST Bitch Ph.D.:
"those who decry it as card-playing are annoyed by the fact that we all won't play by their rules of pretending that everything is equal now, since we can all vote and everyone will pay lip service to racism and sexism being Bad."
Wed Jun 04 2008 08:17 EST Yeondoo Jung:
SO COOL. Note how many people have arms akimbo or shrugging because that's how kids draw arms.
Sat May 31 2008 07:32 EST BBC NEWS | Europe | Swiss hold crunch citizenship vote:
Need to examine my reflexes that say "citizenship should be given via law, not vote"
Fri May 30 2008 11:48 EST Be gay, be anything -- just not single! | Salon :
It would be so mindbendingly great to be able to celebrate gay weddings among Indians
Wed May 28 2008 22:15 EST The Dissertation Office Deposit, Degree Conferral, Diplomas and Library Deposit:
It costs nearly $100 more to file an open access dissertation than to file a traditionally copyrighted one. Why?
Fri May 23 2008 14:23 EST Giraffe Heroes Project:
Evidently being named Jack Ryan makes you a hero
Sat Apr 26 2008 20:15 EST Real Live Preacher:
"Words are rusty, jagged, pig-iron tongs fumbling for purchase in the liquid silk of her soul."
Tue Apr 22 2008 15:40 EST valhenson: Supporting assertive women:
Support assertive women; acknowledge your sexist impulses and then try to overcome them. Includes useful link re: proactively encouraging women's job satisfaction
Tue Apr 22 2008 15:15 EST How much money do you make?:
another in the salary transparency rumination series
Wed Apr 16 2008 11:08 EST Spamusement :: View topic - Spamusement Mysteries:
Do you miss Spamusement? Try to figure out the subject lines for these strips!
Mon Apr 14 2008 00:47 EST Making Light: Could lead to goose-stepping:
Close reading of "the words with which once-free people talk themselves into tyranny" -- e.g., "it's only authorities who get the benefit of the doubt"
Sun Apr 13 2008 12:58 EST crabwalk.com // Joshua Benton:
DirecTV ads star Wayne Jarvis & Stan Sitwell & I think a 4th-tier continuing AD character. Also, Keith Olbermann looks like Joe Wahrhaftig.
Sun Apr 06 2008 11:26 EST MetaVid Archive:
"free and open archiving of the audio/video congressional record since 2006"
Wed Apr 02 2008 14:09 EST
This American Life
:
the TAL I love about what kids wrongly believe and then take into adulthood
Tue Mar 25 2008 08:28 EST 2008 Hugo Nomination List :
Webkeeper is adding links so I can read stuff online, including Chiang and Kress
Wed Mar 12 2008 09:12 EST Bitch Ph.D.:
If I had ever gotten into the makeup habit, this would be me.
Fri Mar 07 2008 23:32 EST Apple - Trailers - Iron Man - Trailer 2:
THE BEST TRAILER EVER. Put a huge freaking smile on my face after a hard day. YES!
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self.run()
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/plugin/entry/annotate/Categories/CategoryScreens.py", line 301, in run
self.displayEntries(edit, args)
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/plugin/entry/annotate/Categories/CategoryScreens.py", line 353, in displayEntries
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File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/Viewer.py", line 47, in render
self, self, out=out)
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out)
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/lib/TTM.py", line 187, in interpolate
res = method(o)
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/Viewer.py", line 69, in interpolateEntryTemplate
i.render(self, out=self.out)
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/Entry.py", line 556, in render
self, viewer, out, [viewer])
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/Notebook.py", line 1053, in interpolateTemplate
out)
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/lib/TTM.py", line 187, in interpolate
res = method(o)
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/Entry.py", line 194, in getFormattedDate
return self.getDateInFormat(self.notebook.getDisplayTimeFormat())
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/Entry.py", line 222, in getDateInFormat
tuple = self.getTimeTuple(localtime)
File "/home/leonardr/public_html/nb/nb/Entry.py", line 182, in getTimeTuple
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