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“The critically acclaimed animation (anime) director Shinichiro Watanabe will make a very special appearance at the Detroit Film Theatre,”
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Is it just me, or does this look like a GUI widget test demo? 3 different styles of buttons, in various colors, in seemingly random arrangement. Tabs squished in between other semi-related buttons. This is improvement?
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“One time my dad stole a roll of brightly-colored stickers from a butcher’s counter that said “BREASTS” and went to the video store and stuck them on all the movies that looked likely to contain nudity.”
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Hooray! “The Swedish home furnishings retailer is working toward a summer grand opening at its new location in Canton Township.”
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“Why does it smell? How does it react with landers, rovers and habitats? What surprises await?”
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When I grouse about PHP not having good meta magic, here’s a case in point: “Sort an array by values using a user-defined comparison function” My kingdom for an anonymous function or function reference or *something*
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Ansible communications, here we come: “Physicists have for the first time entangled two atomic quantum bits, or “qubits”, that are separated by long distances.”
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“The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these media are looking for ways to fight back.” …and in so doing, will cut their own throats.
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“Here are the quadratic easing equations.” Math for making things slide.
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“My God, they’ve made metal look good.” …and with a bonus quote and link to my link to the IE7 demo.
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“Before demolishing the building, the city couldn’t be bothered to remove these artifacts. All sorts of historically important ephemera, knowingly demolished.” As if I didn’t have enough reasons to despise the Super Bowl and the Mayor
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“How to install your own server”
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“A comprehensive HTTP client library, httplib2.py supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries.” Huzzah – some great updates beyond httpcache.py, a module from which I’ve gotten much mileage.
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Massively slick production values on this podcast trailer for Scott Sigler’s next upcoming run…
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“Got to force myself to sit down, sluice, educe the force that through these carpal tunnels drives the florid.” Such an awesome story, reads like William Gibson mashed up with Douglas Hofstader.
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About Me
Hi there! My name is Leslie Michael Orchard. I'm a serially enthusiastic, caffeine-dependent {web,mad,computer} scientist and {tech,scifi} writer working for the Mozilla Corporation and living near Ann Arbor / Detroit in Michigan.
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If you want a laugh, you should take a look at PHP’s create_function function…
Gagh… this create_function function makes me sputter and curse.