Art and Commentary

Why so many Americans waste their lives researching and evangelizing various conspiracy theories eludes me. I understand the appeal of wanting to believe that you’ve stumbled upon the truth of what really happened in a given scenario and are therefore smarter than the rest of the “sheeple,” but you won’t learn much second-guessing history.

Git repository of MIT-licensed and fully-documented Ruby code for many of the computer science basics: sorts, search, trees, etc.

• @hooobs Actually, Firefox has just 26%. Safari/Webkit has about 7%. IE has the rest. 26% is a lot of users though. #
• Surprised Google Chrome doesn’t rely on Google Bookmarks to hoard more internet love all for itself. It would be been convenient. #

• @hooobs Site title should be “The Mojave Experiment: Microsoft has feelings, too!” #
• CNN headline, “Cops confirm: Tot probably dead, body was in trunk” #

• Learned of iTerm’s existence thanks to Ruby meetup. How did I live with Terminal.app for so long? #

• What happened to the Point-Counterpoint archive on the The Onion? #

• Beautiful Sunday afternoon. Hanging curtains, shooting hoops. #

I read the The Onion regularly in high school. The wry, pertinent humor appealed to me at the time. I eagerly awaited new articles, especially in the point-counterpoint series. In college, I forgot all about The Onion, and only discovered it again when it made a brief splash in internet news by making its archives freely available on its website. While the site is a treasure trove of sarcastic, pithy articles, the older pieces are harder to find as the The Onion has largely transcended simple text in favor of trendier video clips.

I will be adding links to my favorite articles from The Onion’s archives as I run across them.

The List

• Black Guy Asks Nation for Change
• Nigeria May Be A Developing Nation, But It Is Rich In Culture vs. Get Me Out Of This Godforsaken Hellhole
• Teen Who Just Discovered Led Zeppelin Starting To Piss Off Friends
• Alzheimer’s Sufferers Demand Cure For Pancakes
• New Strip Mall Of America Stretches Over 1/6th Of North Dakota
• Thin, Attractive Woman Accepted For Who She Is

The concept behind Dig This is as novel as it is successful. Charge people a lot of money to play with giant earth moving equipment in a ten-acre gravel pit? Genius. I find the service’s website amusing, too — each page is an enormous Flash movie, embedded in an HTML file of the same name. The poor accessibility of this approach is compounded by the company’s two domains, which link to the same content. Dig This has received a lot of big-time press over the years, but the company is still missing a lot of sales opportunities with its amateurish web presence.

I do like the bulldozer sounds, though.

Climate Change Isn’t Real