Entries from August 2006

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

GEEK: Ruby scripts to compare the contents of directory to svn

A pair of functions I wrote that compare the contents of a configuration directory on a remote server with the expected contents in SVN. compareDir is the first draft and compareDirTwo is the second draft. compareDirTwo compares all of the files in all the directories below, whereas the compareDir only goes one level and doesn't [...]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Fallen Art

Via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC2pBMJLUCo Some other good stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ8tHyPkovQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_zREAGnLqQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcdQZ8MV5BY

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Little Miss Sunshine

Saw Little Miss Sunshine last weekend. I haven't laughed so much during a movie in a long time. Full of black humor, and characters that you love despite (or because of) their flaws. Although the movie occasionally gently pushes against the bounds of plausibility, it felt emotionally real throughout. Fans of The Daily Show or [...]

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Femtroopers

Femtroopers. Heck, I'd join the empire. Via

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

A new strategy to strip gun ownership rights

http://www.gunlaws.com/Decommissioning%20Scheme.htm “Decommissioned” Guns Nearly As Good As Confiscation by Alan Korwin, Author Gun Laws of America The Brady group and its congressional supporters are proceeding, and making headway, with a below-radar effort to ban operating firearms from the general public, without having to actually disarm America's 95 million gun owners. The plan is now evolving [...]

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Next step in the march to Skynet

http://www.defensereview.com/article846.html “DefenseReview.com has received video footage of a weaponized version of the AutoCopter self-stabilized unmanned mini-helicopter being tested for the first time in sunny Huntsville, Alabama (The download link for this video is further down in this article.). The AutoCopter is made by Neural Robotics Incorporated (NRI), and the weapon portion of the package is [...]

Friday, August 25th, 2006

How to tell you're a fundamentalist Christian

Probably old to some of you, but new to me: 10. You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9. You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem [...]

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Grand Theft Auto: Coca Cola

GTA: Coca Cola

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Edouard Martinet

Via : Edouard Martinet's mechanical sculptures Awesome stuff.

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Alien My Little Pony

Via : Alien My LIttle Pony