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“We are the town with Manny Ramírez, Tom Brady, Kevin...”
— Dan Shaughnessy

License Afghanistan's opium for pain-killing...

Kevin Garnett interviewed by John Thompson. Gives this Celtics fans the chills.

Modules vs. Classes in Ruby

From David Black’s excellent Ruby for Rails tome: Entities or things are best modeled in...

Kevin Garnett to become the newest...

Marc Stein says Kevin McHale and Danny Ainge are resuming talks over trading KG to Boston. The...

Copenhagen Consensus

“When we look at the evidence, we discover again and again...”
— Bjørn Lomborg

Quick overview of opposing sides of death...

“His campaign says he won’t increase the deficit, but...”
— Steve Chapman

50 redheads protest Wendy's, ride the subway...

This is the craziest god-damn thing I’ve ever seen.

“Hi. I have a tape I’d like to play for you.” ~ Talking Heads, “Psycho...

“In health care, as in so much else in modern life, financial...”
— James Capretta, What’s Ailing...

Political ads stage a comeback in newspapers

“Medicare is on track to single-handedly bankrupt the federal...”
— James Capretta, What’s Ailing...

“Seek peace, and follow it. Defend ourselves by all means we...”
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Hobbes is the teacher of Locke, and Locke is the teacher of...”
— Leon Kass

Strategy, not technology, creates a...

The term disruptive technology was coined by Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The...

“The critical economic problem is scarcity. Money is scarce,...”
— Tyler Cowen

Hillary looks good in her mandarin orange clothes....

New England Bartending School

“When you can’t poll anywhere near Fred Thompson, and...”
— William Wolfrum on Senator...

Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran

“Isn’t it weird how chairs exist even when you’re...”
— Ben Stone in Knocked Up

Ron Paul profile in Sunday New York...

There’s an excellent profile of Ron Paul in today’s Sunday New York Times. It included...

Ruby Application Archive

Microsoft is eating into Apache's market...

10 reasons why Christianity is wrong

“I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I...”
— Kent Beck

“Use it then close it or quit it” isn’t the metaphor on the...”
— Daring Fireball ~ iPhone first...

Michael Jordan vs. Len Bias, 1984. Wait for Jordan’s dunk to end the game…

President of Red Sox Nation

Yahoo! Answers ~ Politics & Government

“In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines, lived...”
— Ludwig Bemelmans

American programmers guild

I’ve always thought that a programmers guild would be a great idea in the modern political and...

The mint way to manage your money

Idea for a bricks-and-mortar laundry...

Laundry service like Toots. Except, jurisdiction is restricted to the areas of Boston that the T...

“I’m the guy who does his job. You must be the other...”
— Mark Wahlberg in The Departed

“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no...”
— Sigmund Freud on the Irish

“You got any suits at home or you like coming to work dressed...”
— Matt Damon, The Departed

Widespread Panic setlist ~ last night

07/18/07 (Wed) Fleet Pavilion ~ Boston, MA Set 1: Chainsaw City, Little Lilly > Walkin’...

“I like any music with its own sound. you musicians are...”
— Noah

The Basketball Jesus

Doug Flutie, Miracle in Miami

ShortURL ~ Ruby library

sudo gem install shorturl Robby Russell has some details on usage.

A general montage that Project Blue Book needed to put together for various submissions to contests,...

God ~ Linux monitoring in Ruby

“Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in...”
— Robert Frost

Calculate hourly rate from yearly salary

A friend and former colleague in the web industry asked about the current hourly rates for user...

“Give it a minute and you’ll have a whole new set of...”
— Boston Herald

Generate your own Ajax spinner graphic

How to make a live search box with Ruby on...

The new internet etiquette ~ maps

My brother, a friend, and I want to go to tonight’s Widespread Panic show in Boston and pay...

National Gazette in the ICA?

What would National Gazette look like in Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art? Screens of...

"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" ~...

“You’ve painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair. Ruby, are you...

RFK documentary

The deal with the website title

I just re-named the title of dancroak.com (redirects to dancroak.tumblr.com). how.then { |shall|...

Meditation

This YouTube video series made me so interested in seeing “Penn & Teller: Bullshit!”...

Current paintings

From personal experience, I believe Paul Graham is correct that Hackers and Painters are cut from...

How to be a one-person company:

Get someone to pay you to work alone, building a website. Use your creativity, charm, and wiles...

“Attention is the tangible measure of love.”

"Electioneering" ~ Radiohead

“I will stop. I will stop at nothing. Say the right things When electioneering I trust I can...

Google Search for small websites ~ $100/year

Facebook is the new AOL

UTF-8 in Rails, MySQL

Coding without ifs

Mike Davidson talks about Newsvine

Hpricot documentation

Heuristics in computer science

All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

“Honest rock and roll can indulge in various genres, while...”
— Glide Magazine review of Earth...

Widespread Panic?

Do I want to see Panic this week in Boston? … I think I do…

Carnegie Mellon West ~ Master's in Software...

“If you wished to hide a map giving Osama Bin Laden’s...”

Meta-programming explained with Rails

Modern-day poets

Businesswomen, students, and artists are walking around in this new century, tapping and typing on...

Get number of days between two dates

require 'date' puts Date.new(2008, 1, 1) - Date.today

“Ron Paul’s campaign bus has a license plate. It also uses...”

Nested resources

I’m in the process of DRY’ing up National Gazette by implementing some RESTful routing,...

Hillary Clinton on equal pay for women.

One of Keith Olbermann’s better commentaries skewering the Bush-Cheney administration.

“We shouldn’t have profit involved when we talk about...”
— Michael Moore, CNN