Click on the image if you don’t know what the hell is going on. This is one of my favorite memes and I’m surprised no one has done this yet. Made with Picnik and Splashup. Picnik you probably already know. Splashup is a lot more fully-featured and there’s no “Premium” paywall that I saw. ...

One who tries to prevent his ruminations from straying, by hewing to what can be observed, and proving things, when possible, by rules of logic. -from Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, Vol. 1 of the Baroque Cycle

About a week ago, Martha set me on the task of fixing up the SIMILE Timeline plugin so Prof. McClurken’s History of the Information Age class could add posts with BC dates to the timeline. (Previously, the plugin was only allowing posts for 1000 <= year <= 3000. For whatever reason.) In keeping with a (presumably) time-honored ...

Does anyone remember when Jim lost his mind during the Summer of Oblivion? I always thought of this song after that post.

I’ve done it! I’ve gotten the fortune plugin to behave exactly the way I wanted it to. Obviously there’s a ways to go on it – the randomization is not so random, it’s not as pretty as it could be (and I don’t know how it’d even look on another blog), there’s no custom fortunes ...

Begun this plugin war has.    

  EDIT: Since this is, indeed, a gauntlet-throwing, it would be unsporting of me not to provide you with an exploitable:  

This owl chick made it out, unharmed, a few days later.

Look upon my angry face, ye mighty, and despair. I should have let this go a couple hours ago, I know, but I can’t stop dwelling on it, so I’ll let it out. I’ll let it out here, where nobody listens or cares, instead of in a letter to the editor at the Bullet, where ...

For you WordPress users, if you screw around with plugins at all, you might have noticed the Hello, Dolly plugin and wondered to yourself what the hell it does. Here’s the official description: This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung ...

As you can plainly see. But it’s way too late for this kind of screwing around. Good night, folks.

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The slave and peasant knew exactly who was screwing them. The modern worker, on the other hand, feels a painful pounding sensation, but has only a vague idea where it is coming from. -Kevin Carson, The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand

I need to concentrate on Chinese and the GRE subject test. Then, in less than two weeks, school begins and my 18 credits will require almost all of my time, so I’ll be putting my distro project on an indefinite hiatus.

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m working with Linux from Scratch to get the base system up and running. So far it’s been proceeding very smoothly (better than I expected, given some of the difficulties I’ve seen people have with it), though I’ve been having to switch out hard drives on my laptop ...

Think of Google’s Chrome OS. Now think of what’s wrong with that – not least of which, security pitfalls which have already been noted less than two months after the official release of the Chromebook (until Chrome gets NoScript, I’m not touching it again). Google’s got everything now – your search, your mail, your navigation, ...

Truly, the impermanence of the world is like a dream within a dream. The men we saw yesterday are not here today, and the existence of those today will be in peril tomorrow. Man’s fate does not wait his breathing in and breathing out. The sun that rose in the morning sinks behind the mountain ...