Archive for the 'Randomness' Category

Jun 27 2009

Who Is Sarumon the White?

Published by saalon under Randomness

Thanks to Kevin of Ghost in the Machine for pointing this one out to me.

– There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

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May 20 2009

Possibly The Best Thing I’ve Seen In Years

Published by saalon under Randomness

Submitted without comment.

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Apr 19 2009

We Didn’t Start The Flame War

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Awesome.  NSFW language ahoy, but awesome.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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Apr 05 2009

You Too Can Search for @planetmoney

Published by saalon under Randomness

I was challenged by @aimeesblog to help her prettify the Planet Money chatter page she had built onher blog. Needing some more experience in PHP and mostly just liking a challenge, I accepted.  Below is the code I came up with after reading through the work of people much smarter than I.

There’s still one problem with it: any replies that are followed immediately by a comma are not turned into links.  Also, I should probably make this more generic to allow a search term to be passed into it and the appropriate feed to be returned, but with it being built to be a Wordpress plugin and not really knowing their API very well, this was what I settled on for the first version.

As you might have guessed, I’m calling it PlanetTwitter. Oh and if you aren’t already, listen to Planet Money.

You can find the code here.

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Feb 12 2009

My President, Bitches!

Published by saalon under Randomness

First president to be remixed into a profanity laced techno song? Almost certainly. Thank you to Remutefor giving us all the best parts of Dreams From My Father set to a thumping bassline.

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Jan 15 2009

My Spoon Is Too Big

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I was so tired this morning that I had to reach back to something I haven’t watched in years to perk me back up. It’s called Rejected and it’s a classic work of offbeat animation. Maybe not classic yet. Yet.  It will be.

I am a banana…


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Jan 13 2009

No, Just Hitler

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Thanks to @paulkies & xkcd for this one.

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Jan 09 2009

Way Down in the Hole

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It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of The Wire.  Between that show, reading Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and reading The Corner, I’ve developed an affinity for the workings of the real Baltimore.  When news hits about its murder rate or about its political scandals, it feels a bit like hearing about a place you used to live.

So when I found out that the Baltimore Sun has a Google Maps hack that tracks the location and nature of homicides in the city I let out a morbid little laugh.  I mean, I’ve spent more time in books and television shows about Baltimore than I have in the actual city, but I see something like that and I can’t help but thing…yep.  That’s B-more.

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Jan 08 2009

Deflation Exuberance

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So we’re excited about deflation, now?  Is there anything marketers won’t try to spin?

Rhetorical question, guys.  Rhetorical question.  (via Planet Money)

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Jan 06 2009

But Where’s Flying Raul Julia?

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I’m afraid this film may be the result of being Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

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