June 2010
1 post
Places matter, or all of East Nashville is divided...
Places matter, and that sense is less common that you might think. For the past 60 years this city, like our nation at large, has willfully ignored the effects that quality of place have on us. Beauty and its absence have powerful effects on people, yet we have placed so little value on beauty that we have built whole neighborhoods, cities and a nation that dehumanize and demoralize us. The...
December 2009
1 post
Ghosts of Shopping Past - The Morning News →
June 2009
4 posts
Demolished! 11 Beautiful Train Stations That Fell... →
MySpace CSS Music Player, Mp3 Player, Media Player... →
Garrison Brothers Distillery - Welcome - Texas... →
Southern food restaurant Monell's files for... →
May 2009
6 posts
“If they differ, you fail.”
– Me, Re: rspec
“Any male outfit that includes both a white patent leather (or plastic) belt, and...”
– Urban Dictionary: full cleveland
Bill Moyers Journal: Juan Cole & Shahan Mufti on... →
“With its ample production budget, SUPERTRAIN attracted a rich array of period...”
– Watch: SUPERTRAIN! Express to Terror!! » INFRASTRUCTURIST
“The aforementioned Montreal Limited, for example, circa 1942, would pull out of...”
– Why trains run slower now than they did in the 1920s. - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine
“In any case, the credit fiesta is over, and the “consumer” economy...”
– Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : The Bottom
April 2009
12 posts
“So let’s face it: any President who sought to destroy the political power...”
– charles hugh smith-Obama’s Secret Plan
“Now, former Merrill Lynch chief John Thain — of thousand-dollar...”
– Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : The Joker
Using imapsync to backup / archieve your Gmail... →
REGex TESTER v1.5.3 - test/validate regular... →
AJAX Regex Tester is damn handy.
“ Mr. Obama looked to be the man-on-a-white-horse — on the exhaustion of...”
– Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Note: Hope = Truth
“It will be interesting to see, for instance, if there is any uproar over the...”
– Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : The Coming Siege of Austerity
“The Spurs said tests showed Ginobili had an increased narrow edema and stress...”
– San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili out for remainder of season - ESPN
Tumblr should let you embed videos of an... →
WatchPrague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“Coming together to share resources is the basic premise of Smith’s vision...”
– A Social Experiment: Communes In Cul-De-Sacs : NPR
Mostly Harmless: MySQL Lock Contention →
It’s 2009 already, right?
Apache PHP MySQL and Runaway Scripts | MySQL... →
This is depressing, and still true.
March 2009
10 posts
Is surgery an option? →
Scroll down for the goodness.
Exciting moments in perldoc
\033 octal char (think of a PDP‐11)
OK, I’m thinking of it. Now what?
MJ’s heir apparent leads prep team to state title... →
Marcus Jordan, son of the Bulls’ six-time champion, scored a game-high 19 points to lead Chicago Whitney Young to a 69-66 victory over Waukegan in the Illinois Class 4A championship Saturday.
Restoring the Real New Orleans |... →
Somehow the building culture that created the original New Orleans must be reinstated. The hurdle of drawings, permitting, contractors, inspections – the professionalism of it all – eliminates grassroots ‘bottom up’ rebuilding. Somehow there must be a process whereupon people can build simple, functional houses for themselves, either by themselves, or by barter with professionals. There must be...
Hugging lion’s owners recall final farewell -... →
WatchHong Kong’s mass transit system rides to prosperity | Worldfocus
Actor Ron Silver, 62, dies of esophageal cancer -... →
Heat Vision and Jack finally safe.
First corporate band challenge is a hit |... →
This event was awesome. Go ABC Nashville!
“He does, from time to time, enjoy more mainstream music as well (including the...”
– Richard Stallman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 2009
11 posts
Bank pays lavish bonuses to ... all employees -... →
While other bank CEOs passed out million-dollar bonuses to their cronies as their institutions failed, Abess kept City National profitable and received no money from the federal bank bailout. When he sold an 83 percent stake to a Spanish bank for $927 million, he decided to share the bounty with his 399 employees and 72 retirees. “Those people who joined me and stayed with me at the bank...
Miles of Idled Boxcars Leave Towns Singing the... →
Railroads, which have seen shipping volumes drop by double-digit percentages in recent months, face a particularly vexing problem. The nation’s five largest railroads have put more than 30% of their boxcars — 206,000 in all — into storage, according to the Association of American Railroads. Placed end-to-end, the cars would stretch from New York to Salt Lake City.
MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 3.6.4 The... →
Command Line Basecamp →
Sweet holy moses I was -><- this close to writing this myself.
Add more power to 10.5's screen sharing | Mac OS X... →
ColorZilla for Firefox - Eyedropper, Color Picker... →
The Almost-Perfect Video for Celebrating Unix Time... →
Shared by Brandon D. Valentine
Make it so, Number One!
If it weren’t for the fact that the 0 isn’t at the end of the sequence, this Sesame Street video with The Count and Patrick Stewart would…
“You can understand how much it bubbles me up when…”
– Jeremy Holland
ShowIP :: Firefox Add-ons →
January 2009
5 posts
Jeremy Holland: I just got through to the bacon explosion recipe - sweet Jesus.
Brandon Valentine: heheh yes
Jeremy Holland: I am totally making this.
Brandon Valentine: let me know, i'll bring the rolaids
Jeremy Holland: hahah - with those, a few lazy boys, and some consumer reports videos about lawnmowers, we'll be all set.
Speaker Kent Williams splits House power |... →
“I think the state of Tennessee is going to see that Kent Williams is here to govern, and that Kent Williams will be cleared of any charges, and this is the only charge out there,” Williams said.
I, for one, welcome our new creepily-speaks-of-himself-in-the-third-person Speaker of the House.
Bathsheba Sculpture - Klein Bottle Opener →
What is the central problem of beer? That it is contained in a bottle, which is to say a boundaryless compact 2-manifold homeomorphic to the sphere. Since beer bottles are not (usually) pathological or “wild” spheres, but rather smooth manifolds, they separate all of 3-space into two unconnected regions, viz. the region inside the bottle, containing beer, and the region outside the...
When I play trumpet air leaks out my nose.? -... →
Obama's biggest problem:
Getting people to stop fucking saying “Obama’s biggest problem”.