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{ Monthly Archives } February 2007

links for 2007-02-28

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? » Blog Archive » v bunny
yep. that’s me.
(tags: rabbit humor)

SSRN-Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence by Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson, Marshall Van Alstyne
(tags: statistics productivity MIT)

Child-Safety Experts Call For Restrictions On Childhood Imagination | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
According to McMillan, children can suffer broken [...]

* tarheelcoxn breathes a sigh of relief

mysqlshow –status -u root -p [dbname] > foobar.txt

Not the right line to answer my question, but I was tired, and I answered the question. [dbname] is okay. [dbname] means a lot to me.
Note to self: take the extra 30 seconds and construct a proper grep string to actually answer the question the first time around.

links for 2007-02-27

YouTube - OneVoice Movement: Eye-Opener!
via MeFi
(tags: UN video palestine israel)

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Huge polar study about to begin
(tags: polar environment research)

bilingual advertising

I just got the first targeted advertising that I’ve ever actually appreciated. It’s a piece of snail mail from Sprint, and the whole pamphlet is completely bilingual–but not in the normal way. Most such advertisements have absolutely everything repeated in both languages. This one has about half in one language and about half in the [...]

links for 2007-02-25

Monty Pythons Spamalot ™ - Presented by AddictingGames
(tags: montypython flash humor)

Show Us The Code: Contribute
(tags: microsoft linux ballmer politics)

Hey dude, you’re getting Linux on that Dell
sweet!
(tags: dell linux)

links for 2007-02-24

Mom’s Mad. And She’s Organized. - New York Times
Maybe we’ll make today about women and gender politics instead of just rape.
(tags: momsrising gender women motherhood)

iTWire
Google goes for the jugular.
(tags: google webapps microsoft)

Medieval Muslims made stunning math breakthrough | Science | Reuters
(tags: mathematics islam)

Vim Regular Expressions 101
damnit. I want to stick with emacs :/
(tags: vim regex [...]

interesting coincidence

MeFi ran this, which is help for designers wanting to do development, while slashdot ran this, which is a book for developers wanting to do design. Ko-inky-dink.

Where did my week go?

I can’t figure out where my week went. I’ve looked around the office, but nobody seems to have seen it. If you know where my week went, please do send me an email. My cellphone is dead, so call my work line and leave a message.
Thanks,
CMP

links for 2007-02-23

BBC NEWS | Americas | US soldier admits murdering girl
The headline omits the rather important “gang rape” phrase. This is war. This must end.
(tags: iraq rape)

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi soldiers charged with rape
Odd that the word rape does show up in this headline but not the one involving Americans.
(tags: iraq war rape)

Slashdot [...]

Cory Doctorow at UNC

Hopefully I’ll have a link to video of the talk this afternoon soon. For now, here’s a writeup that I started during the talk:
Firstly, Paul Jones intro was hilarious. He listed the “sponsors” and then said, “And paid for by Duke,” since Cory was paid to come to the triangle to talk at Duke. Erin [...]