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Tue, Sep. 1st, 2009, 12:34 am
Wal-Mart

This New York Post article by Charles Platt has one serving of pro-capitalism platitude, and a few servings of fascinating anecdotes about working at Wal-Mart, including a little bit about the application screening quiz anda little bit about the Telxon:

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Mon, Aug. 24th, 2009, 09:19 pm
Rudyard Kipling - "If"

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster read more...

Thu, Aug. 13th, 2009, 03:15 pm
Color Range Mapping in Gimp 2.6

The plugin formerly known as Map Color Range in GIMP 2.2 and Color Range Mapping in GIMP 2.4 appears to have been removed in GIMP 2.6.

One way to get it back is to just grab the plug-in file from a previous version.  For example, you can run:

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386.newkey/os/Packages/gimp-2.4.5-1.fc9.i386.rpm

rpm2cpio gimp-2.4.5-1.fc9.i386.rpm|cpio -idvm

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Tue, Aug. 11th, 2009, 05:37 am
Time lapse of a 4500 km walk

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Sat, Jul. 18th, 2009, 01:52 pm
Why etiquette is no good compared to rules

Because only the "in crowd" knows how to act

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Sat, Jun. 6th, 2009, 01:16 am
Toys

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Fri, Jun. 5th, 2009, 09:02 pm
The calories that Americans eat

An approximate intake of calories per person in the U.S. from 1970 to 2007, broken down by category:

Source: USDA

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Thu, Jun. 4th, 2009, 11:49 pm
Sulfur Miners in Indonesia

I doubt this is what Phil Gramm meant by "nation of whiners", but this memorable phrase of his sometimes to mind when I hear Americans complaining about their lot in news interviews.

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Tue, Jun. 2nd, 2009, 10:59 pm
Evolution and Homosexuality

From what little I know, gay rights activists seem to generally advance the imprecise meme that being homosexual is an inborn trait.  I particularly remember this hilariously uncomfortable interview:

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Sun, May. 31st, 2009, 09:46 pm
Vendor on bike cart

A vendor and riding home from the horse festival on a bicycle cart

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Sun, May. 31st, 2009, 09:09 pm
Vendor on bike cart

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Thu, May. 28th, 2009, 08:32 pm
Girl at Horse Festival

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Sat, Mar. 14th, 2009, 06:21 pm
Jon Stewart, Communist

During a recent descent into Wikipedia, I ran across this succinct description of Marxism:

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Sat, Feb. 28th, 2009, 09:55 pm
The Crisis of Credit Visualized

". . . the family buys a . . . BIG house" read more...

Sat, Jan. 31st, 2009, 11:21 pm
This site may harm your computer

At first, I thought I had been hacked:

 

 

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Wed, Jan. 28th, 2009, 01:24 pm
Show ignored files in Git

How do you see or find ignored, untracked files in your Git working copy?

Files which do not show up in git status because they match a pattern/line in .gitignore or .git/info/exclude with this command:

Git 1.6:
git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard

Git 1.4, 1.5:
git ls-files --others -i \
--exclude-from="`git rev-parse --git-dir`/info/exclude" \
--exclude-per-directory=.gitignore

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Wed, Jan. 28th, 2009, 12:50 pm
Google App Engine Helper For Django with App Engine 1.1.8

Google App Engine Helper for Django r52—the one that works with the Django 0.96 that comes stock with Google App Engine—no longer works with Google App Engine 1.1.8. It gives an error like:
cd mysite; /usr/bin/python manage.py runserver
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 18, in <module>
InstallAppengineHelperForDjango()
File ".../mysite/appengine_django/__init__.py", line 440, in InstallAppengineHelperForDjango read more...

Fri, Jan. 9th, 2009, 07:34 pm
Dried fruit shell helmet

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tire tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets. read more...

Fri, Dec. 19th, 2008, 01:00 am
Simple Tests in Drupal 6

There are two simpletest modules for Drupal 6.  The 2.x branch (currently at 6.x-2.5) is a backport of the unit testing framework that will be included in Drupal 7.

Unfortunately, error handling is not very good and it is possible to get inscrutable errors like this when running a test:

Running SimpleTests

An error has occurred.
Please continue to the error page
An error occurred. /batch?id=30&op=do

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Mon, Nov. 17th, 2008, 01:06 am
Who is BP?

This NPR podcast starts with, "Support for NPR podcasts comes from BP, who believes that we can achieve energy security by . . ."

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