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ftrain

  1. @shabbychef See that's the thing. He truly can do no wrong after Sqwubbsy, and yet he does so much right. flickr.com/photos/russell…
  2. Julian Cope explains post-punk: "Women! Blacks! Gays! Synthesizers!" tinyurl.com/7hjcjnl (via mefi)
  3. @michiexile @quinnnorton @kevinmarks whoa
  4. In theory parsing out political speech is sort of like inverse NSA monitoring.
  5. @quinnnorton @kevinmarks So you're saying that we used regular expressions and now we have two problems?
  6. @kevinmarks Right, but if we block "/it's .*, stupid/i" we'll have blocked about 50% of Maureen Dowd's columns, which is AWESOME.
  7. @amitorit True. There is absolutely no escape.
  8. New Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/28/the…
  9. Phrases to block between now and November: "think about it"; "the real america"; "have a beer with." ".*crats", "repub.*", others.
  10. @danbri @edd @mattb XML.com/occasional pants lurking.
  11. @jackrusher actually yes. I'd be arrested if anyone saw my org-mode file.
  12. @anecdoted Is "gurgitate" a word? As in "I gurgitated for 18 minutes"?
  13. Amazing sentece: “As far as we know, polyethylene glycol is safe.” (For kids.) nytimes.com/2012/05/26/us/…
  14. A virus that would send out all of the emails in your DRAFT box would change the world.
  15. Saturday midnight our phones switch to NUMBERS. youtube.com/watch?v=ansOPs…
  16. @yoni Yep--Louie, Good Wife, Law & Order, bunch of others. See it on the way to the train--they love the Victorians.
  17. @yoni And when they need suburbs, Beverley Square West.