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jacobdavies

  1. @starchy Just remember stuff.
  2. Dear @facebook, I don't want to make you my home page, now or ever. about:blank has worked well for me since the beginning of time (1995)
  3. @wigglezzz er i did that.
  4. Article from last year that gives some good background on energy & climate's biggest problem, coal: http://is.gd/cUsI8 Summary: we're boned.
  5. @mpk One thing I like about the early Doctor Who is that they repeatedly flub lines and keep going anyway. Film was expensive!
  6. @ebertchicago BLM fact sheet on solar: http://is.gd/cTq6p "217 applications for projects...that involve more than 1.5 million acres."
  7. @ebertchicago They are leasing substantial amounts of it to solar energy companies, in fact. They are not building solar themselves though.
  8. @ObWi The 60-vote opportunity to reduce the filibuster might be a (lost) once in a lifetime chance if popular policy keeps getting killed.
  9. @ObWi Re: filibuster, the vain desire that a few D Sens have to preserve their own personal veto power cripples their collective power.
  10. It is completely insane for a Democratic President to be calling for deficit reduction with unemployment at 10%. Insane. http://is.gd/51B4t
  11. The healthcare bill is paid for, will prevent about 42,000 deaths per year, and costs about 1/10th what Iraq & Afghanistan cost us. #hcr
  12. The NYT Freakonomics blog is really embarrassing. There are dozens of more interesting, more thoughtful economics bloggers out there.
  13. Wishing Java had a way of returning multiple objects from a method: public <Hostname, Path, Query, Anchor> parse(String urlFragment) e.g.
  14. Writing a URL parser. "Doesn't Java have a URL parser?" Yeah, but GWT doesn't have one that does what I want. Also: NIH.
  15. Bill Clinton to Senate Democrats: don't screw this up or you'll be screwed (I paraphrase) - http://is.gd/4S61d
  16. Gotta say, getting a tweet from the @whitehouse providing a correction to a NYT story is a cheering development. I like my news unfiltered.
  17. @xtraslky Likely it's from spyware on one of your computers. Which may mean they have all your passwords :( Reinstall + change PWs... yuck.
  18. @xtraslky Change your twitter password, at the very least. It won't be twitter doing that but someone else with your password.
  19. The six Democratic Senators threatening to obstruct the passage of healthcare reform, and what they want: http://is.gd/4Re4O
  20. @ebertchicago NY Times article this morning was describing the woes of the low dollar, but for most actual workers it is very good news.