if you’re on MySpace now, you’re a cretin. And you’re not only a cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.
Month: November 2008
Kill The CRA
The CRA coerces banks into making loans based on political correctness, and little else, to people who can’t afford them. Enforced like never before by the Clinton administration, the regulation destroyed credit standards across the mortgage industry, created the subprime market, and caused the housing bubble that has now burst and left us with the worst housing and banking crises since the Great Depression.
the moral hazard of “everyone needs to be a homeowner” needs to be stopped.
libferris
allowing you to mount sql, xml, ldap, ssh etc
US Innovation
Companies and countries that really play offence vis-à-vis technology and innovation are going to come out ahead
no shit sherlock.
SearchWiki Steganography
It appears that SearchWiki also provides an interesting platform for the global distribution of secret messages. By allowing users to attach publicly viewable, arbitrary comments to virtually any URLs returned in Google search results, SearchWiki can be used as a gigantic “spread-spectrum” secret message transmission medium.
Stanford Laptop Orchestra
this unique ensemble comprises more than 20 laptops, human performers, controllers, and custom multi-channel speaker arrays designed to provide each computer meta-instrument with its own identity and presence.
Terrorists strike in Mumbai
At least 100 people are killed as terrorists—apparently Islamists—strike in Mumbai
i predict fishing expeditions and drones with payload in northern pakistan.
What Sun Should Do
“put a GNU toolchain on solaris”. it is 2008 and solaris still has a default shell where the arrow keys don’t work.
Better Brew
wherein we learn why dogfish rules, and why the large brewers have no taste
Dogfish is something of a mascot for this unruly movement. In the 13 years since Calagione founded the brewery, it has gone from being the smallest in the country to the 38th largest. Calagione makes more beer with at least 10% alcohol than any other brewer, and his odd ingredients are often drawn from ancient or obscure beer traditions. The typical Dogfish ale is made with 4x as much grain as an industrial beer (hence its high alcohol content) and 20x as much hops (hence its bitterness). It is to Budweiser what a bouillabaisse is to fish stock.
Globalization definition
A UN canteen in Liberia. Spanish soccer on TV. Belgian beers on hand. A Korean, a Kenyan, an American, Pakistani peacekeepers, and… a karaoke machine. Pakistani belting out Madonna’s La Isla Bonita, a trio of Africans singing We Are the World.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 