December 2008
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“What if I did rent a homosexual for the evening…and pay him with rare...”
– Taylor Townsend, Season 4 Episode 6 of The OC (Summer Bummer)
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“In any large corporation, the average shareholder, weighted by percentage of...”
– Double Standard | The Distributed Republic
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Palin's daughter gives birth to son named Tripp -... →
Okay, fine. I’m done with my conspiracy theory. It was fun while it lasted.
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“Bernanke, Geithner, and Paulson were hailed as saviors, even though they could...”
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Bailout Rage, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is...”
– Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption - The New York Review of Books
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“I feel the same way about comments in code as I feel about adverbs in writing....”
– Comments, Code Smells, And Clients
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“It’s well known that I tried to kill Smalltalk in the later ’70s. There were a...”
– A Conversation with Alan Kay
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“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but...”
– Alan Kay
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“Maybe a big enough push to aggregate demand could stimulate useful, productive...”
– Marginal Revolution: More niggling on fiscal stimulus
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“Obama has been writing Lincoln/Obama erotic fan fiction on his secret...”
– alt text from xkcd - A Webcomic - Google Trends
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8-bit Jesus Full Album Release
Free 8-bit Christmas music!
We Three Konami
8 Days of Master Robots
Ryu, The Red Nosed Ninja
We Wish You A Merry Faxanadu
Silent Knight Man
Carol Of The Belmonts
Contraland
Little Drummer Nemo
Joy To Commando
Super Jingle Bros.
Bubbles We Have Heard On Bobble
What Guardian Is Legend?
Deck The Kremlin
Icarus! The Angels Sing
The Legend Of Noel
O Come, All Ye Vampires
Kraid, Rest...
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“How could the executives of banks pay themselves all of this money? I would...”
– Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Why wouldn’t a bank pay out 100 percent of TARP money as executive bonuses?
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My newest favorite catchy song
“The Geeks Were Right,” by The Faint
Some lyrics:
Egghead boys with thin white legs
they got modified features with software brains
but thats what the girls like, the geeks were right
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Palin soap opera: Drug in Levi's mom's case is... →
You, my friend, were right.
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“Excuse me if I’m being overly recursive, but wouldn’t the logical...”
– Eliezer Yudkowsky, Overcoming Bias: ‘Futarchy’ is NYT Buzzword of ‘08
“The deductible bribe was true in much of Europe until the mid 1990s, not just...”
– ckinnan, Hacker News | The deductible bribe was true in much of Europe until the mid 1990s, not just Ge…
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Gossip Girl Continuity
I was just rewatching the second episode of Gossip Girl, “The Wild Brunch,” and I noticed that Chuck totally wakes up with twins from room service! I remember Blair talking about Chuck’s twins from room service in the most recent episode, but I had completely forgotten that they were around from the second episode.
On the other hand, I can’t get too excited about...
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“Excuse me for stifling your encouraging enthusiasm, but “excellent”...”
– Leslie P. Polzer, on open…: Why is the BBC Running Microsoft Ads?
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“The charge, which has been nicknamed the iTax, will also cover ebooks and other...”
– New York hits iPod users with tax on downloads | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“One campaigner who did not want to be named welcomed the move and said:...”
– Gay penguins expelled from zoo colony for stealing eggs are given their own to look after following animal rights protest
| Mail Online
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“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to...”
– John Updike
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SimCity iPhone Now Available | Game | Life from... →
As it happens, I just bought the Katamari iPhone game yesterday, so I already have enough to do on my phone for now. SimCity is definitely next on my list though!
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“It’s easier for Kurzweil to present a model of the Singularity in which...”
– Eliezer Yudkowsky, SL4: How Kurzweil lost the Singularity
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“When we were kids I used to annoy my sister by ordering her to do things I knew...”
– Paul Graham, in After Credentials
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Aegisub: If programming languages were... →
My favorite part, obviously:
Lisp would be Zen Buddhism - There is no syntax, there is no centralization of dogma, there are no deities to worship. The entire universe is there at your reach - if only you are enlightened enough to grasp it. Some say that it’s not a language at all; others say that it’s the only language that makes sense.
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Underground Fighting Event
My brother took me to an underground mixed martial arts event last Sunday, and it was awesome. There were about forty people watching, and there wasn’t a ring, just mats. The judges would try to move the fighters when they got too close to the edge, and whenever something interesting was happening on the ground, everyone would crowd around to get a better look.
My brother took real...
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“You don’t get output to be higher by making it lower.”
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Scary Words from Bernanke, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The real Princess Unicorn backstory:
Princess Unicorn is from a distant land on a distant planet far away in the future. She came from her father, king of the unicorns, and her mother, queen of the princesses. Sorcerissa, the evil witch, cast a spell on Princess Unicorn’s parents, forcing them into another dimension, and doused Princess Unicorn in radiation. The radiation did not...
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“How does that happen? A king has sex with a unicorn? A man with a horn has sex...”
– Dwight Schrute, Season 5 Episode 10 of The Office, on the subject of Princess Unicorn
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“They don’t give out black belts for things that are stupid.”
– Dwight Schrute, Season 5 Episode 5 of The Office
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“If you go through the aforementioned Overcoming Bias sequence, you should...”
– Overcoming Bias: You Only Live Twice
“In part, people buy insurance so they don’t ‘look stupid’ when...”
–
Don’t Call Me Stupid, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The wild boar (Sus scrofa), or colloquially simply called the boar, is an...”
– Wild Boar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“[Obama] actually used the term “moral hazard” correctly. Have you...”
–
Obama’s Economics: Bad and Good, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Actually, the Dish went out and interviewed eight of the leading obstetricians in the country and laid out all the facts of the case and asked the experts for their take. While none would say that this pregnancy could not have happened, and none would comment on a case they hadn’t examined personally, all of them said it was one of the strangest and unlikeliest series of events they had...
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“It used to be thought that you could judge someone’s character by looking...”
– On Lisp by Paul Graham
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“Rufus is a doofus.”
– My mother, while watching Gossip Girl
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“If you are not someone who likes to read documentation, you can avoid 99% of the...”
– Bill Clementson’s Blog: Understanding SLIME (Using Emacs and Lisp Cooperatively)
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Austenbook →
Like that Hamlet thing, but about Pride and Prejudice and just as entertaining. An excerpt:
Lydia Bennet and Kitty Bennet joined the group 1,000,000 Strong Against the Officers Leaving Meryton!
Lydia Bennet is going to Brighton with Colonel & Mrs. Forster!!!!1!
Elizabeth Bennet, Edward Gardiner, and Mrs. Gardiner are attending Trip to Derbyshire.
Elizabeth Bennet became a...
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“Furthermore, I am a computer programmer who has read far too much science...”
– 2blowhards.com: The Mencius Vision