Irrsinn.net: taking joy in human unreason

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Coding Horror: The Non-Programming Programmer - Unfortunately, I've worked with a programmer who truly could not program, and it wasn't pleasant. He talked a decent game and was crunk about technology, but he couldn't bang out solutions to problems, and we all paid for it. That said, I'm in ...

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My God—it's full of unicorns! - Meta Stack Overflow - This is hilarious. I'm going to have to play around with this in WP. Dynamic Dummy Image Generator - DummyImage.com - C/o my darling, this is a pretty cool way to generate placeholder images. Alex Payne — On the iPad - ...

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Román Cortés » Pure CSS Coke Can - Courtesy of a colleague; this is pretty awesome. Ubuntu 9.04 on Asus Eee PC 701 - Um, yes please. I'm totally doing this tonight or tomorrow. I'm unimpressed with Xandros on Tammy (my 701). Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic" | Video on TED.com ...

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A new “onload” scheme - Easy! Reader - This is a really clever way to avoid having page-specific JavaScript files (which I've done on larger projects). Tomorrow’s Women, Tomorrow’s World - A more British look at the decline of women in the IT industry. Clients From Hell : Of course I want ...

Tastee (del.icio.us) links!

These are my links for May 4th through May 27th: migrating email to Gmail - I just moved this domain's email to Google's hosted apps, including their gmail interface. The issue was, of course, that I had years of emails stored from IMAP that I wanted in gmail for searchability. ...

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Welcome! - Okay, nevermind on the link below. This intro provides some good insight into the Tiny Living thing, which is more than just 60 sq. ft houses. Not sure that I want to downsize my house in particular, but it's an interesting movement. Tiny House In Asheville - ...

“Ensuring Safety” posted

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted a story. No good excuse other than "what in the hell happened to my life?". "Ensuring Safety" follows the Transhuman Congress story "Expanding Borders". It's probably a good idea to (re)read the first part before jumping into the ...

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10 Weird Miniature Versions of Normal Animals - Weird Worm - These are quite adorable. Puppy! - Joel on Software - "Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in ...