Reminder and/or public service announcement
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A dumping ground for miscellany; the amusing, the thought-provoking, the otherwise memorable.
Reminder and/or public service announcement. (via How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub)
“That, my friends, is what ended the terrorism of the south. Confronting your worst fears, living through it, and breaking out in a deep throated freedom song. The jailers knew they had lost when they beat the crap out of these young Negroes and the jailed, beaten young people began to sing joyously, first in one town then in another.”
– Daily Kos :: Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did
This New Yorker piece by Nathan Heller (“Bay Watched”) came across my radar within the past couple of days. This is the sort of thing that would normally show up here as part of a “linkdump” but I had just a little bit more to say about it than that, so… It took me a […]
so I think we had a nice day for foliage and stuff on Flickr.
Well, if I had been paying attention, I would have run this piece back in May. As it is… I’m running it now. I continue to love Prismatic, and at this point it has completely replaced the RSS reader(s) that I used to use for aggregating. 1 As I did at six weeks and six […]
vinyl record grooves headless browser test primer a fetish airline Also, I’d like to point out that while combing the data for this past month, I encountered the strangest (or at least most disturbing) search phrase yet: 3D dinosaurs fuck each other. Serious case of “what is this I don’t even” right there. “Search Term […]
As part of my “re-learn some statistics” goal for the year, I enrolled myself in the Data Analysis course taught through Coursera by Jeff Leek. It looked like a good survey of statistical and analytical methods and combined that with some R programming skills. So with that in mind, I signed myself up for the […]
Twitter archive 1 + R = nerdy charts! From my start in 2007 through approximately mid-February 2013. Six years![]
If you’ve been following along, I’ve become a huge fan of Prismatic, and have written about it twice: once after 24 hours, and once after six weeks. Now it’s been about six months of daily use, and I would like to reflect on it again. So: some thoughts, critiques, and praises; in no particular order…
To my dear friends Sarah and Joanna: I wish I was down there helping you to celebrate your union today. Circumstances conspired against us. I regret that I am not there, but I know that your wedding will be full of joy, and your lives together will be long and equally joyous. We’ll see you […]