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Volubilis
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volubilis, originally uploaded by bantic.
Someone named John wrote me the other day to ask permission to use this pic of Volubilis on his myspace page. Cool.
Hatred in America
Talking Points Memo posted a video of Bill Moyers explaining Hillary’s LBJ quote from a while back. It’s worth watching if you haven’t seen it, although it seems the flap has mostly died down now. At the 1:33 mark there’s a photo from the fifties of some teenagers holding a sign that I’m not [...]
Bobby Fischer, dead at 64
Bobby Fischer died today. What an interesting iconoclast.
A related side note: For the past week, Choire Sicha (pronunciation mp3), formerly of Gawker, has been guest-blogging for kottke.org all this week. Jason did this before, and both times I’ve found it interesting how the particular interests of the guest blogger take the blog [...]
Kerfuffle only has one L
I always, always thought it was kerfLuffle. Huh. Thanks, A Word a Day, today I am one letter smarter than yesterday.
St John 2006-2007
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St John 2006-2007, originally uploaded by bantic.
Here’s my “life poster” from my family’s holiday travels in ‘06 and ‘07. Click through to see the whole slideshow.
Bearduary: A True Gentleman Grows a Beard
It’s not too late to start your Bearduary beard.
In March of 2006 I assisted Sai in the making of this documentary:
Here is a clip of John Hodgman, from his book The Areas of My Expertise, to get you in the mood on March 1st when it comes time to shear your cheeks.
One Laptop Per Child XO
My dad bought an XO, the One Laptop Per Child $100 laptop and I had a chance to play around with it today. It’s really cute. Looks very much like a Fisher Price toy, with the big green plastic charger and the green antenna ears on either side of the screen.
The OS looks [...]
List of Places Slept, 2007
At the end of every year I publish a list of all the places I spent at least one night in during that year. Here’s the list for 2007. The ones marked with asterisks are places where I spent multiple, non-consecutive nights. Here’s the 2006 list and the 2005 list.
*Brooklyn, NY
*Logan, UT (Jan, [...]
Secret Santa w/ Ruby
For our office secret santa pool, I wrote a quick little ruby script to generate the pairings and email each of the people in our office with their result.
Here’s the salient code:
pool = ["person1@email.address.com",
"person2@email.address.com",
"person3@email.address.com"]
avail = pool.dup
pairs = []
pool.each do [...]
Gomboc Self-Righting Object: Created!
The Gomboc, a special object that has only a single point of balance, and thus is self-righting, has been created. Read more about it in NYT or visit the (hungarian) website for a short visual demo. I can’t wait to see one of these things in real life.
