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Monday, April 7th, 2008

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Behind Bars

Behind Bars

Behind Bars by Robby Edwards

Bureaucracies are built by and for people who busy themselves proving they are necessary, especially when they suspect they aren’t. Ricardo Semler (via marco)

Coding Horror: Setting up Subversion on Windows

Coding Horror: Setting up Subversion on Windows How to setup a Subversion server and repo on Windows.

Great Fountain Geyser Reflections: Yellowstone National Park, September 2003 Clouds are reflected in the surface of Great Fountain Geyser.

Apr 7
2008

∞ What does someone do when their internet gets too full? Write a snail mail request to be removed from the internet.

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Wikipedia Beats Major News Outlets

“The change to Heston’s Wikipedia page could have come from his own people, or it could have come from a fan. But the fact that it occurred ahead of major news outlets is a stunning example of how people are able to sidestep the gatekeepers in the quest to be informed.”

—Terry Heaton: Informing each other of Heston’s death

Ignoring Reality

“Ignoring reality in favour of what we would like to be true doesn’t actually work. This simple axiom probably underlies almost everything the WHATWG has done so far, and it has so far served us well. I don’t see a reason to change course now.”

—Ian Hickson: A comment on HTML5: the foreign lands (mathematics and graphics) – Anne’s Weblog
(via Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Watching Tennessee vs LSU