Anthology of Ideas

While it has limited practicality, this book demo, done in flash, is quite attractive and rather impressive.

The following text comes from an American Army guidebook that was distributed during the second World War to soldiers stationed in Iraq. (Emphasis added to some lines.) SOME IMPORTANT DO’S AND DON’TS Keep away from mosques. Smoke or spit somewhere else””never in front of a mosque. If you come near a mosque, keep moving (away) and don’t loiter. Keep silent when the Moslems are praying (which they do five times a day) and don’t stare.

How can you beat a line like: The good news is we understand a lot about the universe; the bad news is it makes no sense. I used the mysterious beauty of dark matter and dark energy as an excuse to make some didactic points about science and rationality and politics. (If I weren’t an atheist, I would have made a good preacher.) hat tip: cosmicvariance

I installed Fluxbox a while back, and played around with it enough to decide that I do–kinda–like it and to start customizing enough that it would be usuable in the event I decided to switch. Well in an exactly duplicate of what pushed me to move from Windows to Linux, Gnome decided to crash for no real reason (the first time in years) and it wouldn’t start up, so I switched my default session to Fluxbox, and spent a day or so customizing it enough to make it perfect.

It hasn’t happened yet, but soon maybe, according to The Conference Board of Canada who recently released their summer US economy report. Although the full CBoC report can be had for the princely sum of $900, they did provide this summary: For years, U.S. consumer spending has created a ready market for goods produced in other countries. The Japanese economy and many European economies, which languished in the early part of this decade, have begun to post stronger growth.

If you haven’t heard of it, Tiddlywiki is a single file, off-line, single user “wiki” that you can use to store notes and information in an easy-to-retrieve format. I found it and decided I loved it…for about 6 hours. Now I’m looking at the source code and trying to understand it so I can rip out all the stuff I don’t like and replace it. Tiddlywiki doesn’t allow any sort of XHTML and requires all code to be done in textile.

While it has limited practicality, this book demo, done in flash, is quite attractive and rather impressive.

The following text comes from an American Army guidebook that was distributed during the second World War to soldiers stationed in Iraq. (Emphasis added to some lines.) SOME IMPORTANT DO’S AND DON’TS Keep away from mosques. Smoke or spit somewhere else””never in front of a mosque. If you come near a mosque, keep moving (away) and don’t loiter. Keep silent when the Moslems are praying (which they do five times a day) and don’t stare.

How can you beat a line like: The good news is we understand a lot about the universe; the bad news is it makes no sense. I used the mysterious beauty of dark matter and dark energy as an excuse to make some didactic points about science and rationality and politics. (If I weren’t an atheist, I would have made a good preacher.) hat tip: cosmicvariance

I installed Fluxbox a while back, and played around with it enough to decide that I do–kinda–like it and to start customizing enough that it would be usuable in the event I decided to switch. Well in an exactly duplicate of what pushed me to move from Windows to Linux, Gnome decided to crash for no real reason (the first time in years) and it wouldn’t start up, so I switched my default session to Fluxbox, and spent a day or so customizing it enough to make it perfect.

It hasn’t happened yet, but soon maybe, according to The Conference Board of Canada who recently released their summer US economy report. Although the full CBoC report can be had for the princely sum of $900, they did provide this summary: For years, U.S. consumer spending has created a ready market for goods produced in other countries. The Japanese economy and many European economies, which languished in the early part of this decade, have begun to post stronger growth.

If you haven’t heard of it, Tiddlywiki is a single file, off-line, single user “wiki” that you can use to store notes and information in an easy-to-retrieve format. I found it and decided I loved it…for about 6 hours. Now I’m looking at the source code and trying to understand it so I can rip out all the stuff I don’t like and replace it. Tiddlywiki doesn’t allow any sort of XHTML and requires all code to be done in textile.