Stuff like this makes you wonder. How accurate are the ratings in the AppStore?
Clearly this is a positive review, but the reviewer only assigned one star! So the rating paradigm is not as clear or intuitive as I would have though.
It’s a mystery.
Fascinating podcast from NPR, Intelligence Squared US. A panel of experts is chosen and these experts argue for or against a certain proposition. The ones I’ve listened so far were Is Bush (43) the worst president of the last 50 years? and the ever popular Who’s to blame for the financial crisis?. This is apparently [...]
There’s a new vehicle in our future and I’m currently trying to decide which way to go. Small SUV (like a RAV4)? Large (RAM 1500) or medium (Tacoma) sized truck? Sensible choice like a Forester? One of the biggest factors is running costs, which primarily means fuel economy. Two useful sites are US Government’s Fuel [...]
Waiting for presents on xmas (or new year’s) day has been replaced by waiting for IMAP support on gmail. I know some people have it, so I keep refreshing the page every few minutes. Where is my access? Refresh. Nope.
..sad.
Where have I seen Jeff Bezos’ new spacecraft Goddard (pic on the right)?
Maybe in Kin Dza Dza, possibly my most favorite soviet movie. How can you say no to this beauty:
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I’ve been using vim for years but I’m still learning new things:
< C-X >< C-L> : Line complete
< C-R >< C-W> : Pull onto search/command line
Since I’m talking about vim, here are the plugins that I use for my daily life (perhaps in order of importance):
bufexplorer, a plugin to handle [...]
Retro stuff is cool. I’m convinced that if we lived in Artzybasheff ’s future, zeppelins would still roam the skies and all of our “business machines” would be Nixie tube based.
Wikipedia has a pretty good explanation of what Nixie tubes are. Basically, nixie tube consists of a conductor suspended in some gas in a glass [...]