links for 2007-12-18
99 problems (or) read ‘em and weep <
art? therapy?
(tags: psychology book scan art)
The best music of 2007 | The A.V. Club
last-minute gift-shopping ahoy!
(tags: list music theonion)
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December 2007
oracle uninstall relief
I just finished giving a demo for a database class, and I was very happy to do this as soon as I was done:
root@kant:~# dpkg -P oracle-xe-universal
(Reading database … 121041 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing oracle-xe-universal …
Purging configuration files for oracle-xe-universal …
root@kant:~#
When it works, it seems to work fairly well, but there were FAR too [...]
google reader widget and COinS metadata
I’m in the middle of finishing up some work that’s still crushing me, so I’ll make this quick.
See the bottom of the left sidebar for a new google reader widget I added yesterday. Google is getting more social, it would seem. If you use blogger they make it push-button simple for you to add [...]
the Internet is mostly cats
I haz a burrowing cat. Generalizing a bit (and building on previous work), here’s my hypothesis in graphical form:
And to help guarantee that I’m right, witness:
links for 2007-12-15
Language Log: The Etiology and Elaboration of a Flagrant Mistranslation
hilarious, vulgar chinese -> english translations. (possibly NSFW)
(tags: languagelog mistranslation china english)
Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
What’s more, brain-imaging evidence showed that the subjects’ parietal lobes, involved in spatial reasoning, were more active during approximation problems; while the left inferior frontal lobes, involved in verbal reasoning, [...]
links for 2007-12-14
Cat and Girl
Graduate School. Yessss.
(tags: comics education)
SSRN-Copyfraud by Jason Mazzone
These false copyright claims, which are often accompanied by threatened litigation for reproducing a work without the owner’s permission, result in users seeking licenses and paying fees to reproduce works that are free for everyone to use.
(tags: copyright internet copyfraud)
Imageline Overview
We have had to enforce our [...]
links for 2007-12-13
Mr. Green’s Web-Only Mailbag - November/December 2007 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
In any case, the study indicting the Prius has been discredited by a number of reliable sources since its appearance early this year.
(tags: cars energy environment)
Buxfer: Take a Tour
Know your financial health - at a glance!
(tags: finance tools)
links for 2007-12-12
YouTube - Drunk Monkeys
(tags: YouTube video monkey humor genetics)
links for 2007-12-11
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Carebearstare.
(tags: xkcd myspace)
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
why ibiblio has its lesser priests
(tags: xkcd perl lisp humour)
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
or not.
(tags: xkcd lisp perl [...]
BIRGing that bugs me
I may be abusing the term BIRG here, but I just saw two people BIRGing by wearing Harvard shirts while going to get coffee. If I had more time I’d try to articulate why this annoys the crap out of me, but fortunately I’m rather busy getting ready for a graduate level database systems exam. [...]
