January 2008
92 posts
http://tinyurl.com/yu7gn6 from http://jwz.livejournal.com/836845.html
watching larry brilliant TED talk
watching tsonga nadal
ie z index bug page on quirksmode http://tinyurl.com/2hkkmp
i sure hate IE
reading an economist article about the ad market: http://tinyurl.com/2lm6xx
reading an economist article about ctrip: http://tinyurl.com/3cll3n
looking at brian dettmers carved books
http://tinyurl.com/yrbcyv
watching nova optical tricks of the parthenon
read freakonomics
Pink →
The city of Kunming appears to have discovered Pink’s “Get the Party Started.” I’m completely in favor of other people being infected by catchy songs that previously in my life have been stuck in my head on infinite repeat. read more…
Pink http://wtanaka.com/node/7770
Pink
The city of Kunming appears to have discovered Pink’s “Get the Party Started.” I’m completely in favor of other people being infected by catchy songs that previously in my life have been stuck in my head on infinite repeat. read more…
looking at bookmooch http://bookmooch.com/m/bio/wtanaka
looking up efficiency wages http://tinyurl.com/p87s2
reading differences in html 5 http://tinyurl.com/2plk78
reading this james fallows article http://tinyurl.com/2txjuj
making dinner
the barracks nearby is playing some very loud, rousing communist music
Hotel maid weight and the placebo effect →
Interesting (but preliminary-sounding) experiment where explaining to hotel maids how much exercise they were actually getting seemingly causes them to get the effects of exercising.
… .Basically, almost every moment of their working lives is spent engaged in some kind of physical activity.
But Langer found that most of these women don’t see themselves as physically active. She did...
Hotel maid weight and the placebo effect http://wtanaka.com/node/7778
pancakes, laundry
@bpp bomb story reminds me of http://wtanaka.com/node/7777
Modern bombs don't tick →
1999:
Narrator: … Airlines have this policy about vibrating luggage.
Narrator: Wa.. wa.. was it ticking?
Airport Security Officer: Actually throwers don’t worry about ticking ‘cause modern bombs don’t tick. Narrator: Sorry, throwers?
Airport Security Officer: Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the thrower’s gotta call the police. read...
Modern bombs don’t tick http://wtanaka.com/node/7777
Hotel maid weight and the placebo effect
Interesting (but preliminary-sounding) experiment where explaining to hotel maids how much exercise they were actually getting seemingly causes them to get the effects of exercising. … .Basically, almost every moment of their working lives is spent engaged in some kind of physical activity. But Langer found that most of these women don’t see themselves as physically active. She did a...
Modern bombs don't tick
1999: Narrator: … Airlines have this policy about vibrating luggage. Narrator: Wa.. wa.. was it ticking?Airport Security Officer: Actually throwers don’t worry about ticking ‘cause modern bombs don’t tick. Narrator: Sorry, throwers? Airport Security Officer: Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the thrower’s gotta call the police. read more…
Join multiple adjacent lines into one line in... →
I’m looking for the opposite or the converse of GNU fold — a command line program that would join word-wrapped text into a single line per paragraph. In other words, something that would take input containing adjacent lines of text like this:
now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country
where adjacent paragraphs were separated with blank lines, and produce output...
Join multiple adjacent lines into one line in UNIX, Linux http://wtanaka.com/node/7776
playing with snubster http://www.snubster.com/wtanaka
Join multiple adjacent lines into one line in...
I’m looking for the opposite or the converse of GNU fold — a command line program that would join word-wrapped text into a single line per paragraph. In other words, something that would take input containing adjacent lines of text like this:now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country where adjacent paragraphs were separated with blank lines, and produce output with...
washing up
updating sites to drupal 4.7.11 and 5.6
snow!
invasion of the sovereign-wealth funds http://tinyurl.com/33y2xa
http://tinyurl.com/2vnqwy
http://tinyurl.com/yo9c8t
http://tinyurl.com/2lln5t
http://tinyurl.com/ywgtar
http://tinyurl.com/2dsgnh/01/18/0927230&from=wtanaka.com
http://tinyurl.com/2dsgnh/01/18/0927230&from=rss
http://tinyurl.com/278v6t
off to john taylors birthday party
tried making masala tea. too much ginger
updating fedora
baking
dishes
brute forcing a combination lock
preparing some pancake mix