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Once again, I fucking love zefrank. (via A Show)

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:47:55 -0400

Once again, I fucking love zefrank.

(via A Show)

Tex Velvet strikes again! Honestly, I’m loving this...

Mon, 14 May 2012 11:02:07 -0400

Tex Velvet strikes again!

Honestly, I’m loving this guy—videos are really well made, and the whole concept is pretty funny.

Fantastic talk urging more simplicity in programming. It’s...

Fri, 11 May 2012 09:27:58 -0400

Fantastic talk urging more simplicity in programming. It’s from PyCon and so of course the examples are about Python code, but the ideas are far more general.

The flip out over Dan Savage is part of a larger agenda to silence pro-gay discourse.

Mon, 07 May 2012 18:47:24 -0400

The flip out over Dan Savage is part of a larger agenda to silence pro-gay discourse.:

Good article on the recent goofiness around religious groups’ outrage over Dan Savage accurately quoting the bible.

The American right is undertaking a huge project of trying to put right-wing politics beyond criticism by shouting “religious bigotry” any time someone gets in the way of their political agenda.

So, uh, this exists now. (via Fast Company)

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:45:28 -0400

So, uh, this exists now.

(via Fast Company)

I hope you have heard about the “real” superheroes...

Wed, 02 May 2012 09:43:43 -0400

I hope you have heard about the “real” superheroes movement going on in various cities. One of the big ones is in Seattle, going by Phoenix Jones.

And now he has a nemesis.

This may be the best thing ever.

The is a god I could deal with.

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:40:00 -0400

The is a god I could deal with.

Interview with Michael Graves About the Design of Wheelchairs

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:42:32 -0400

Interview with Michael Graves About the Design of Wheelchairs:

Fascinating interview with the architect/designer Michael Graves about his new work.

So the next day when my surgeon came by, I asked him to get in a wheelchair and come to my room. I strapped him into the chair, and he couldn’t reach anything. I asked, “Who designed this?” And he said, “Experts.” I said, “Am I the first one to tell you this?” He didn’t answer me.

An earlier constitutional amendment on marriage.

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:04:47 -0400

An earlier constitutional amendment on marriage.

So. Amendment 1. Nasty stuff. Setting aside that the intent of...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:54:23 -0400

So. Amendment 1. Nasty stuff.

Setting aside that the intent of this bill is one of simple bigotry, the impact of this bill goes far beyond gay North Carolinians. Even those opposed to gay marriage have a lot of reasons to vote against Amendment 1.

My new favorite thing. (via kottke).

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:59:16 -0400

My new favorite thing.

(via kottke).

Paintballing with Hezbollah

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:28:00 -0400

Paintballing with Hezbollah:

We figured they’d cheat; they were Hezbollah, after all. But none of us—a team of four Western journalists—thought we’d be dodging military-grade flash bangs when we initiated this “friendly” paintball match.

A really interesting article—a group of Western reporters set up a paintball match with Hezbollah in an attempt to break down some barriers to reporting. And it sort of worked.

Lattice up and pole beans in the ground! (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:39:29 -0400

Lattice up and pole beans in the ground! (Taken with instagram)

Cha-cha-changes!

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:56:09 -0400

Periodically I get this overwhelming urge to redo the way I exist on the internet. The last time this happened I tore down an aging textile install and switched over to tumblr for pretty much everything.

This time?

Tumblr will remain; or at least, the tumblr account will remain. I will continue posting links, videos, pictures, &c on it. Textual content of any substantiative nature is going to be migrated to a statically generated blog managed via nanoc. That’s going to live at the current subdomain for this tumblr, in all likelihood. If you follow this via the dashboard, you’re going to be fine. If you follow this by RSS, well, all my rss shit is likely to be changing. I’ll keep you apprised.

1fp is going to be archived. I’m pulling all of the content out of tumblr and will be putting together static pages that keep it all together. That’s likely going to happen a goodly while after the initial reordering of subdomains, rss feeds, &c.

This is still some weeks off.¹ But since things may fail in unexpected ways as I try to roll stuff out, there’s a good chance I may not realize I need to warn you of a change before it’s too late.²

So, I guess you’ve been warned.

And knowing me, may very well never actually happen. ↩
Also, it helps for me to blather on about things like this to help me sort out what I’m actually doing. ↩

Lighten Up

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:31:30 -0400

Lighten Up:

One django developer shares her experience in the coding industry.

In short, I got tired of being told to ‘lighten up.’

This industry is one of subtle sexism. I almost prefer outright sexism, because at least that you can point out. The subtle barbs are usually dismissed as something I need to not care about. It was a joke! Sheesh. Why are you so sensitive?! All I did was make a joke about you needing to be in the kitchen!

Lighten up.

I feel like the python community is pretty good at this stuff, but it still has a long way to go.

A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:58:02 -0400

A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds:

John Scalzi gave an anonymous doctor friend the use of his blog to make an important point about the role of doctors, this horrible legislation, and the use of civil disobedience.

Where Is The Physician Outrage?

Right. Here.

Colocation with Bazaar (the glorious fix!)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:36:11 -0400

Last I blogged about bzr, I complained about screwing up my use of bzr lp-propose. As suspected, this was entirely my fault, and there is one line to fix it.

In my locations.conf file I added the following.

[/home/jc/Code/launchpad/devel/.bzr/branches/devel]
public_branch = bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/devel

The public branch for your trunk is pretty important, as it turns out. So, bzr becomes a little bit closer for me, and if you’re following along and using it, hopefully for you too.

Lauren Orsini: Here’s what the magazines tell me

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:49:26 -0500

Lauren Orsini: Here’s what the magazines tell me:

laureninspace:

No fiance—“this wedding isn’t about him. It’s about you”—and who am I to argue?

When my wife and I got married, we were fortunate¹ enough to be largely paying our own way, which meant we planned the whole thing. That meant we went to all the vendors. And every time, it was assumed I was a friend of Heather’s, not the groom. And every time, they acted like this one day would be the only important one in Heather’s life.

There’s two fucked up things here, in accordance with Ozy’s Law. 1) It is assumed that this is the only thing the bride should ever care about. 2) It is presumed ridiculous that the groom would care about anything. It is her day. It is not his.

I’m so very tired of this crap. We’re living in a world that is hitting me with serious cognitive dissonance. A world in which, on the one hand, I’m seeing every woman I know kick ass in amazing ways—higher education, financial success, career goals, &c. And yet, at the same time, there’s this ongoing regressive back-to-leave-it-to-fucking-beaver bullshit.

I don’t know what to tell Lauren about this. I don’t know that there is anything to tell her. The situation sounds terrible, and all too common. I know Heather and I were incredibly lucky to not be stuck in the same old same old. But I do know it sucks, and I do know it’s bullshit that needs to end.

Yes, fortunate; it was a major financial burden, sure. But we had no obligations to anyone. ↩

Tom Morris: Oppression, identity and sexuality

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:18:03 -0500

Tom Morris: Oppression, identity and sexuality:

tommorrisdotorg:

I’m not coming out because I’m courageous. I’m coming out because I’m angry.

I’m angry and I want you to be bloody seething-with-rage angry too.

Just go read it. Because you should be angry too.

thepatches: “specialization is for insects.” — jaycee So, actual attribution is to Heinlein....

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:44:25 -0500

thepatches:

“specialization is for insects.”

—
jaycee

So, actual attribution is to Heinlein. Just so everyone knows.