Feb 16
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“ Today’s sysadmin todo list:
0. Get corporate membership with EFF.
1. Identify all applications with user-generated content.
2. Move all associated domains to a non-US based registrar.
3. Migrate DNS, web serving and other critical services to non-US based servers.
4. Migrate yourself to a non-US controlled country.
I’m sorry for US sites and users. Your government is hell-bent on turning the internet into a read-only device like TV, easily regulated and controlled. The population will be required to sit quietly and keep their eyes glued on the screen so they don’t miss the ads, with any infringers deemed terrorists and pedophiles and thus deserving of summary punishment by DHS squads.
Hopefully the internet will route around the damaged segment, and the rest of us can continue to enjoy the amazing interactivity it has brought our society.
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foxylad on hacker news

Today’s sysadmin todo list:0. Get corporate membership with EFF.1. Identify all … | Hacker News

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Shot Big Horizon - New Villager

reblog thursday brings a good one from Luke

luke-h:

Shot Big Horixon - New Villager - NewVillager

One of the recent iTunes updates totally hosed my ability to sort iPod playlists in reverse chronological order.  So instead of hearing newer tracks at the top of my playlists, I’m forced to wade through the older stuff.  One serendipity from this is that I am spending more time with some older stuff during my car time.  This is from last summer, but has been entertaining me again.  You will not hear anything else that sounds like these guys today (or tomorrow), because they are unique.  

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“ There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a wide public buy-in that leads to a product being overvalued because it’s linked to future expectations that are unrealistic. Education is similar to the tech bubble of the late 1990s, which assumed crazy growth in businesses that didn’t pan out. The education bubble is predicated on the idea that the education provided is incredibly valuable. In many cases that’s just not true. Here and elsewhere people have avoided facing the fact of stagnation by telling themselves stories about familiar things leading to progress. One fake vector of progress is credentialing—first the undergraduate degree, then more advanced degrees. Like the others, it’s an avoidance mechanism.
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i don’t always agree with Peter but he’s spot on about education

A Conversation with Peter Thiel - The American Interest Magazine (via pegobry)

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Feb 15
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Blue Blood Blues - The Dead Weather

didn’t know what to post to tumblr today

then Kirk posted this. thanks Kirk. I owe you one.

kirklove:

Blue Blood Blues by The Dead Weather

Jack White is arguably the greatest musician in the last 15 years. This is one helluva cut complete with a riff that mercilessly punches you in the face.

shared from exfm

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i got a little animated. not my calmest and coolest performance. tyronerubin: Thank goodness Fred Wilson is speaking out and solving problems. Watch now here or here

i got a little animated. not my calmest and coolest performance.

tyronerubin:

Thank goodness Fred Wilson is speaking out and solving problems. Watch now here or here

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yup. that.

garychou:

This.

Feb 14
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Love - John Lennon

happy valentines day everyone

happiness—is-a-warm-gun:

John Lennon - Love

=(

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Feb 13
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Joel Spolsky’s org chart from this guest post he did for me today. I love the marketing organization!

Joel Spolsky’s org chart from this guest post he did for me today. I love the marketing organization!

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Soldier - Harriet

it’s a weird thing but this band that my daughter turned me onto because one of her friends from college is in it, is the best new band i’ve heard in the past six month

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“ Most of what is written about the tech world — both in blog form and old school media form — is bullshit. I won’t try to put some arbitrary label on it like 80%, but it’s a lot. There’s more bullshit than there is 100% pure, legitimate information.
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http://parislemon.com/post/17527312140/content-everywhere-but-not-a-drop-to-drink

it takes a bullshit artist to know a bullshit artist

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