Saalon Muyo

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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Awesome.  NSFW language ahoy, but awesome.

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.

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.

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…

Thanks to @paulkies & xkcd for this one.

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.

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

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

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