September 2009
98 posts
Serious work with Javascript →
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been doing some serious work with the base code of the application. One of my main goals in the past week (maybe next week as well) has been to try an…
~ubuntuone-control-tower/desktopcouch/trunk :... →
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via sherry, danielholter) (via azspot) (via dalasverdugo)
Yes Men Want Scientists to Get Political →
With climate change legislation poised to crash and burn, popular activist pranksters the Yes Men want scientists to break their political silence.
“Scientists do need to stop being…
Work done in the past weeks →
Lost of work has been done in macaco-contacts. Most of it has been focused on improving the code base in two different ways:
Making code more Pythonic.
Making code cleaner and simpler for other…
* Life & style * Restaurants The 50... →
I’ve always said Spain has great food, The Guardian agrees since out of 50 places 6 are Spanish :D
Fuck Gary Thuerk
The first spam e-mail message was sent via ARPANET on May 3, 1978, to 400 users by Gary Thuerk on behalf of the now long-defunct computer manufacturer DEC, advertising a new line of minicomputers.
Installing CouchDB 0.9.0 Ubuntu Karmic Package on... →
Sublime Text: The text editor you'll fall in love... →
Sky burial
Sky burial or ritual dissection was once a common funerary practice in Tibet wherein a human corpse is cut in specific locations and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements or the mahabhuta and animals – especially to birds of prey. In Tibetan the practice is known as jhator
Wikipedia Very very graphic images
PS: I have nothing to do with the porn in the images site.
Where were you when the Death Star fell? →
Michael Jackson’s Black or White Illusion →
Here’s an original optical illusion based on the Best Visual Illusion of 2005.
Believe it or not, Michael Jackson is exactly the same on both sides, he didn’t change his hat, pants…
Too Beatuiful to Eat →
I was totally impressed at this watermelon carver in the Avignon market, June of last year. Then I saw this watermelon carving at Environmental Graffiti… wow! For more watermelon…
“A friend pointed out to me the other day that the market capitalization—the...”
– Doug Henwood (via azspot)
Hah! That’s a pretty funny angle.
(via dalasverdugo) (via plainclothesman)
Coming from Spain witch has an Universal Healthcare (called Social Security) and after being a resident in the UK, where the NHS rules, I cannot believe the USA has not yet moved towards the public...
Cube 2: Sauerbraten →
Py2exeAndPyQt - py2exe.org →
A simple event-driven plugin system in Python |... →
Lego Star Wars chess set →
Hollywood, CA Lego fan Brandon Griffith created this fantastic chess set out of Lego elements. I love how he broke free of the chess paradigm of one figure per piece. For instance, the…
Brian Jones: If You Code, You Should Write →
The Practice of Programming
Programmers are, in essence, problem solvers. They live to solve problems. When
they identify a problem that needs solving, they cannot resist the temptation
to study…
Literature and Latte - Scrivener →
