As swiped from museumgirl:
Here is a list of the top 110 banned books (of all time). Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of) [I'm not going to do this; if it's a book, assume that I'll want to [...]
Hardcore geekitude here: animation of insertions into an AVL tree.
[EDIT: And this interactive Java-based one is pretty cool, too.]
After class the other day, my classmate Chris was talking about writing a blogging board game. For example, “Blog about burnt toast — move back five squares!”
This inspired me to update Bullshit Bingo for blogging. Feel free to add to this list!
(cutinated for politeness)
Blog’s in development, but hey, I can post to it anyway: Color chooser and RGB to HEX/HEX to RGB converter.
Wow. I knew CSS was powerful, but didn’t quite appreciate how much so. Behold: Listamatic!
Well, after testing the waters with two other domains, I’m moving timestream.net to its new web host. Email shouldn’t be dropped (though if it goes to the new host before I can see it, it might be delayed briefly), but for the next few days, if anyone needs to get through to me fast, [...]
Reading through my psychology textbook, in the chapter on human visual perception, there’s a ton of fascinating stuff. But the part that might possibly have amused me the most was this:
“The context in which something appears often guides people’s perceptual hypotheses. [...] The power of expectations explains why typographocal errors like those [...]
I finally got around to emailing the administrator at my old web host to see if he might still have a backup copy of the database that had my old blog in it. Luckily, he did — so I once again have access to three years’ worth of blogorrhea. I *think* this is [...]
I am sick. With the same [nasty cold | polite flu] that was making fawnapril feel crappy about 12-24 hours ahead of me.
Worse, I can’t sleep. I took a bunch of TranQuil and went semiconscious for about two hours, then woke up and lay there sniffling and coughing and thinking about web sites [...]
My iPod Shuffle (512MB) arrived today. It’s very cute. Being unable to think of anything better, I named it ‘do_not_eat’.
Steer Madness, a nonviolent video game about a hippie cow.
No, really.
(Link via LYD’s mini-blog.)
I appear to be receiving email at my usual address again. (Of course, I never did hear back from my hosting provider, so I have no idea whether this was due to cosmic rays or their efforts.)
That is all. (=
Found by a Google search for the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil”: A Tirade Against the Cult of Performance. Looks like there might be a few other interesting nuggets on the site as well.
Searching for a new webhost (still haven’t heard back from my current host as to why my email isn’t working; this sucks), I ran across geekhosting.com. They got a lot of mileage just out of the name, but they’re actually offering a decent deal for my budget. (= (Translation: I am [...]
I had yet another frustrating experience with Zope this morning, which prompted an email vent and a reconsideration of my choice of platforms. This morning, I’d also sent a query in to the support address of our Zope web host to see if I could access the server using DAV (also known as WebDAV). [...]
Turns out LJ probably didn’t stop sending me comment notification — no, turns out my domain isn’t receiving email. In the meantime, use my gmail.com account (geeksam).
A few days ago, mentioned a commercial she’d seen for some new Keanu Reeves vehicle, with demons. “Huh,” I thought, and continued doing the dishes.
(Last night, I sort of saw the commercial.)
I just sat down to eat a very late dinner, and after the last ten minutes of a show with Alan Alda, I changed the channel to a different show with Alan Alda. And before the title sequence, one Professor Lawrence Lessig comes into the President’s office — portrayed by Christopher Lloyd, who is, [...]
LJ has apparently decided to stop sending me comment-notification emails. This is annoying.
Copying and pasting here because old content stops being available on their site:
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