August 2007
31 posts
“U.N. weapons inspectors stumbled upon evidence of Saddam Hussein’s elusive...”
– Washington Post
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“A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience.”
– Larry Wall
“LO-basen Wanja Lundby-Wedin är orolig för att den borgerliga regeringens politik...”
– Wanja Lundby-Wedin, Medlemmarna får det bättre - LO oroligt
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“Avtalsrätten är enligt lagen fri. Er ombudsman har sagt att vi skall tvingas...”
– Federley - “Ett brev om rättvisa och rimlighet”
“But the insanity didn’t stop there. For the release of the game Pac-Man,...”
– A history of the Amiga, part 2: The birth of Amiga
“This series of articles attempts to explain what the Amiga was, what it meant to...”
– A history of the Amiga, part 1
First-Person Shooter BioShock Owes More to Ayn... →
”The architecture is all Albert Speer does art deco”
The Lost War →
We’ve Spent 36 Years and Billions of Dollars Fighting It, but the Drug Trade Keeps Growing
“My favorite story of the week, if not my entire life, involves China passing a...”
– The Dilbert Blog: Slap the Monk, eh?
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Disable Windows Update restart nag
To stop this service, open [Command Prompt] (Start>Run>cmd>Enter) and type the following command sc stop wuauserv. This will not prevent Automatic Updates from starting at the next boot. So don’t worry, you’ll keep getting Windows updates. Just don’t forget to restart eventually. (via lifehacker)
Hands-on With The PSP Slim →
[Video]
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Locationbar² :: Firefox Add-ons →
* Puts emphasis on the domain * Decodes URLs for better readability * Linkifies URL segments
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Something Positive →
August 14, 2007
The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard →
Most websites are crammed with small text that is a pain to read. Why? – There is no reason for cramming information onto the screen. It’s just a stupid collective mistake that started in a time where screens were really really small.
Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create... →
In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that “not very many” American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.
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“Mnesia is a nice example of the power of Erlang: in how many languages could you...”
– Erlang Overview (via Making it stick)
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“In the case of the great circuit of Al-Hazred, the terminator was originally a...”
– Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
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“The average increase in productivity was a factor of 8. This factor and the...”
– A History of Erlang (via Making it stick)
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