Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
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Long time Pythoneer Tim Peters succinctly channels the BDFL’s guiding principles for Python’s design into 20 aphorisms, only 19 of which have been written down.
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Pretty much everyone on the planet already knew of your ruling the musical realm with a crazy new-age type battle ax, but I just gave you a listen yesterday.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Python
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
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Where Did Kilo, Mega, Giga and All Those Other Prefixes Come From?
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The 20 SI prefixes used to form decimal multiples and submultiples of SI units are given in Table 5.
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A look at college enrollment trends, demographics, faculty pay, tuition and fees, and more.
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When you mention the word “technology,” most people think about computers.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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The evil surf guitar riff of “Deadbeat” is hypnotic as the guitar tones bounce back and forth between wire tight and eardrum shattering fuzz.
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A Place To Bury Strangers played Covington, KY (Greater Cincinnati) last night. They were tremendous live, and loud!
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
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What did APTBS want to accomplish by playing the music that loud? I don’t know, but what they did accomplish was to create a space where there is no distance between you and the music, it is all-encompassing. A space where you can’t talk to the person next to you, or even hear yourself cough.
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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Wondering how to evaluate a newly found website for trustworthiness and credibility? Is there a pragmatic and reliable way to do it?
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How do you organize the content of a new web site or blog? Do you really need to spend specific time ahead of launching to organize the content sections and hierarchy of your web site? Can’t one simply identify the key content categories of his future site and be done with it?
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Subtle changes in driving habits can produce significant benefits, such
as saving money at the gas pump and reducing CO2 emissions. Here are best practices for green driving:
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Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found in all parts of the body. Your body makes some cholesterol, and some cholesterol comes from the food you eat.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days?
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This course is meant to introduce you to computer science not as the mundane activity of computer programming, but as a branch of mathematics. If you have studied `computer science’ in high school, you’re about to experience something rather different. If you’ve never studied high school computer science, maybe you’re better off.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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A Place to Bury Strangers (a vaguely familiar mix of early Sisters/Joy Division elements, minus the clever lyrics), who looked very odd with their minimal equipment and being squeezed into the center of the stage.
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New York trio A Place to Bury Strangers opened up, playing for a little over a half hour to a disinterested crowd that was still slowly filing in. For only three guys they had a big sound, but a big arena was not really the place to appreciate their dense, feedback-filled rock.
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Common McCain - don’t make me laugh
Sunday, August 24th, 2008Two recent political cartoons about McCain’s ridiculous attempts to make him seem to be attractive to “the common man”
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