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The Magpie Developer
Jeff Atwood is one of the best programmer/writers around. I love reading his stuff, some I agree wholeheartedly with, other stuff we disagree, but this post is about a dead-on as they come. This idea has been floating in my head for a long time, but it is hard for me to conceptualize it in words, Atwood does a brilliant job at it. Must read for any developer. |
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Andy Olmsted's Last Blog Entry.
(Warning: Pretty rough) No matter how you feel politically about the war, this reminds you that each number people throw around as statistics is a human life. This is extremely well written, and pretty rough on your soul towards the end, but something everyone should read. Its a shitty situation all around, but there is always a human face behind the statistics and I want to make sure I never forget that. |
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Drinking stories that put yours to shame
Via Keith
To preserve his body during the voyage home, the second-in-command stored Nelson's body in the ship's vat of rum and halted all liquor rations to the crew. Not a bad idea, but when the ship reached port, officials went to retrieve Nelson's body and found the vat dry.
Disregarding good taste (in every sense), the crew had been secretly drinking from it the entire way home. After that, naval rum was referred to as Nelson's Blood. |
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making vodka pills in 24 hours
Recently, Chef Fabian was experimenting further with the Adria/Torreblanca technique of making 'vodka pills.' I use this word to describe the process of making liquid-filled candies by pouring flavored alcohol syrups into cornstarch and letting it set until a hard outer shell forms. |
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Strategy Letter VI - joelonsoftware.com
As a programmer, thanks to plummeting memory prices, and CPU speeds doubling every year, you had a choice. You could spend six months rewriting your inner loops in Assembler, or take six months off to play drums in a rock and roll band, and in either case, your program would run faster. Assembler programmers don’t have groupies.
Entire Article is Dead On. A must read for anyone in the software biz. |
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(Monday, March 19)
Memory Man & Under The Influence of Giants
2 parts Scissor Sisters + 1 part Fountains of Wayne+ 1 part Parliament = Under The Influence of Giants [Self Titled]
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Strange and Beautiful was really a dark horse album in 2005, it released to little or no fan faire (at least here stateside) and seemingly came out of nowhere to be one of the best albums of 2005 in my opinion. Well written, well played, mellow Thom Yorke-ish voice. Some electronics, but not too much. I think it got some radio play and was on some WB show, but overall it really was a great album. The release hoopla (or non-hoopla) surrounding it is very similar to Aqualung's second release Memory Man which came out last week, and to me the album is just as good. Pressure Suit sounds like it could have been strait off The Bends, and I imagine it will probably be the first single from the album. The back of the album is much more somber than the front, but all is great. Certainly pick it up if you like Strange and Beautiful, not much of a different recipe (except a little more added guitar), but when the first album was so great they probably didn't want to change much.
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Album @ Amz
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Disclaimer
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
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