Archive for December, 2006

Dave Barry’s year in review

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Heh. Check it out.

November:
[…]
As the campaign lumbers to the finish line, the Republicans desperately hope that the voters will not notice that they — once the party of small government — have turned into the party of war-bungling, corruption-tolerating, pork-spewing power-lusting toads, while the Democrats desperately hope that the voters will not […]

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

Christmas fun: Victorian parlour games

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Cool 3D pavement drawings

Wait a minute, Linux doesn’t have documentation!

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Wait a minute, Linux doesn’t have documentation!

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level

Cool photo of the Shuttle launch

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Cool photo of the Shuttle launch

Stevie Wonder and the Moro Reflex

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Have you ever heard of the Moro reflex? [NIH | Wikipedia] According to Wikipedia, the Moro reflex is “a response to unexpected loud noise or when the infant feels like it is falling. It is believed to be the only unlearned fear in human newborns.”
Well, starting around two weeks ago, Caroline has begun to […]

The Japanese Wii Safety Manual is Crazy

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

The Japanese Wii Safety Manual is Crazy

How to Remove Tourists from Your Photos

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

How to Remove Tourists from Your Photos

Is programming really like playing with Legos?

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

My main man Joel wrote a post yesterday about Lego Programming, the myth that you can make programming as easy as snapping together Legos:
Frequently, the mainstream media, reporting on computer programming tools, gets the story horribly wrong.
What happens is that some kind of vendor of programming technologies has come up with some product they are […]