The scene is very much The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Wire. I am deep under cover, wired up and broadcasting every word spoken inside the mountain-top compound of these religious zealouts. So few babies are born, The Colonels have created harems for themselves, determined to beat nature’s pruning through statistically significant levels of progeny. But […]
Tip o’ the hat to Pete on this one: real good Beats In Space mix on 24-Apr by “My Cousin Roy“. Slippery funk industro house disco crunch. MP3 D/L here.
The conference hall is permeated by a smell; the only applicable adjective is evil. I have snuck in, stealing an ill-fitting Soviet officer’s uniform. Even though the attire helps me to blend right in, I still find myself dashing under table cloths whenever no one is looking. They have gathered for a training exercise in […]
fd’s Flickr Toys Producers of fine toys and amusements for your digital photographs (tags: Flickr hack visualization photography)
Burlington’s weekly Saturday Farmer’s Market starts today! Some of last year’s highlights: I’m serious: if you’re not going to grow it yourself, try and get it direct from the folks pulling it out of the ground. Apparently we have that a little easier here in VT than elsewhere. According to an article I read in […]
What a week… The kind of week where you think to yourself Man, do I need a vacation… And this week I get lucky because I do have a vacation! A. & I ship out tomorrow for what appears to be our first ever “real” vacation. Just me and her. A long way from home. […]
MacFusion brings a GUI interface to MacFUSE (tags: MacFUSE Mac google filesystem network software todo) Use text instead of graphics on your website (tags: science text usability web design work)
There is something extremely cathartic about this rain, this first downpour of the spring. currently playing: Junior Boys “Birthday”
I’m on the crew that is responsible for refreshing a Shaw’s every two-to-three quarters. It happens at night, secretly. So you’ll never notice. Some of it you might notice. The deep cleaning, fresh paint, floors mopped and waxed, the shelves reconfigured; sometimes it’s a little more obvious than not. The part that always bugs me […]
Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about via OS X Daily (via LifeHacker): yet another Top 10 Terminal Commands list (I’m in it for “lipo”…) (tags: OSX Terminal lipo todo)