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  1. via @michael_nielsen: scriptment for Avatar, from the wayback machine: http://icio.us/ibwwoa - I'd see this movie! Even in 2D...
  2. @wycats Is it a timing change or a code path change? Can you enable/disable verbose halfway through the test? Either way its gonna be ugly.
  3. @defunkt very cool DSL! You're either a genius or a guy with just too much time on his hands.
  4. RT @nk: RT @Jason: Is Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky? http://bit.ly/4WZmtL @techmeme
  5. Grilling swordfish in December. Because we can.
  6. My wife, listening to the news, remarks that she hopes the Kurds are getting their way. Bad puns are why I married her.
  7. A long day of learning jquery - good stuff!
  8. Ren & Stimpy are a cat and dog? I did not know that. I just thought they were badly drawn surly teens. I don't watch them much.
  9. @hcatlin and @defunkt - please tell me if I'm reinventing the wheel here: http://www.johnbaylor.org/2009/12/10/scrappy/
  10. Yak shaving. What is the origin of that phrase? That's what I did today - tedious hurdles in front of what I really wanted to do. &tomorrow
  11. There is *snow* in them thar hills! (California - Mount Diablo). For my Canadian follower: feel free to ignore this.
  12. @gedeon thanks for the free ramp champ trial - it recreates that type of game well - but some of us have just never liked that kind of game.
  13. Watching a line of rain slowly advance on san Francisco.
  14. Cleaned gutters and solar panels. Not bad for having a yucky cold. Now to nap like an old man.
  15. @sightglass does have good coffee. And is larger than I expected. Other things were... Uh... Not as expected. But I like it - & the @square
  16. Huh. I now have some (8) Google Wave invites if anyone wants it and doesn't already have it. I'm underwhelmed so far but YMMV.
  17. "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced" - Barry Gehm's corollary to Clarke (via @mdreid & @michael_nielsen )
  18. Retweeting @carllerche: I rather work with open minded bad programmers than stubborn mediocre programmers.
  19. Dubai sounds like a !fun !fun place: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html
  20. RT @timbray: "a terrible exhilaration": http://bit.ly/77t8n6