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a network is a directed graph where each edge has an associated weight [internet]

Fucking Tumblr

Tumblr recently changed its posting interface again. Here’s what it looks like now: The new interface was inspired by the “super-constrained environment” of mobile apps, and with it they tried to compact Tumblr’s “years of features,” as one might “[move] a suburban house’s worth of furniture into a tiny New York apartment.” What does that […]

Checking out from Newegg

I was considering using PayPal, but, uh, I guess that doesn’t seem like a particularly smart choice.

Tynt Insight: The worst thing in the entire world

<@Crash> China’s Wang wins third gold medal at short track <@Crash> Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2010/?eref=sinav#ixzz0ghvk2qyP <@Crash> WTF? <@Crash> I didn’t even copypasta that part! <@Crash> I was all hooray for China’s Wang, but that came out too <@Crash> That shit’s just fucking rude now. More and more companies are integrating software called Tynt Insight (formerly Tynt […]

Google search suggestions for “messiah”

The longest word that can’t be expressed as a URL hack

Colin and I were playing Domainr, which is a pretty fun and fantastic site for generating domain hacks. Of course, I already own the best one (wait what), but there’s still a ton of joy in finding out, among other things, that quiteajo.lt is available! (although I’m sure it won’t be five seconds after I […]

What the hell, Slashdot

Slashdot, you’ve heard of Slashdot, right? You’re on the internet, of course you have. News site covering the latest developments in hardware, software, programming, video games, copyright laws, and so on. The first clause of the tagline summarizes it well: “news for nerds.” I was cleaning out my inbox today, when I found a year […]

This “Cuil” thing

This isn’t going to be about how Cuil is fantastic or terrible or anything. At least directly. Actually it’s about their most fantastic feature, the image association with search results. From the FAQ: We know from our research that people can make better and quicker decisions about relevance and quality when they can see an […]

The greatest reason to do anything, ever

I was reading this fantastic e-mail dialog between biologist Richard Lenski and Wikipedia-killer Andy Schlafly, when I decided to poke around the intertubes for stuff about Conservapedia. I eventually landed on this article, originally published in the Los Angeles Times a year ago: Andy Schlafly was appalled. He was teaching a history class to home-schooled […]

nostrangerstolove.java

Submission to the practice problem of the 17th Annual University of Evansville High School Programming Contest:

Atom feed for Folklore.org’s Newton stories

I mentioned last post that ten stories were added to Folklore.org’s hidden Newton section. Well, since then, another one has been added. I’m kind of annoyed by the fact that the feed for that section still doesn’t work, so I need to remember to go the index myself to check for new stories. So, I […]