January 2009
6 posts
2009 US Movie Box Office →
Once you figure out how to read the chart, it’s pretty easy to see who the Academy Award nominees are—they’re the ones with the big jumps last week. (Well, other than “Hotel for Dogs.”)
Please tell me the author of this document has... →
Seriously. This is worse than the KJV Bible.
“Our people know great uncertainty.” Also, they know a lot of cliché turns of phrase.
“In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of…the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.” WTF? Even if you want to insist this horrid style is...
Is it worse to call someone a racist or to be one? →
This is a great elucidation of something I was trying to get across during the trans-racial adoption seminar I did on Saturday. Namely, that the absence of lynchings and assassinations (Oakland aside) does not mean the absence of racism. That there is subtle, institutional racism that continues to oppress people of color. See also one of my favorite quotes ever.
Software Engineer VAX / VMS / Ada / C Jobs →
Is it wrong of me to find the juxtaposition of VAX/VMS, Ada, Access, HTML, and ColdFusion odd? Should I be worried that this implies that our ICBM launch software is a CF web app, interfacing with a VMS mainframe, and an MS Access database? The Free World may be in much more danger than I ever imagined.
Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown... →
Anyone want to bet against me and assert that this will reduce the amount of panic about children online?
Cryo-SEM of Snow →
— via Electric Josh.