May 2008

There aren’t enough men in fezzes who are present for reasons unclear to you.

I gotta try some of this when I’m in a country that has them. A chemical in them messes with your taste buds so as to make bitter/sour foods taste quite different…

You may find after upgrading your Ubuntu boxes to Hardy Heron that Selenium RC stops working with Firefox. Here’s how to fix it.

Luther sent through a Newsweek article on forbidden foods- foie gras, lobster, haggis, sassafras, absinthe, unpasteurized cheese, Fugu, Casu Marzu maggot cheese, – wait, what? Yes, cheese with live maggots. It’s a delicacy.

Clay Shirky made a great presentation on gin, TV, and the cognitive surplus that answers the “where do people find the time” question non-net people ask us about (say) Wikipedia – America spends on the order of 100 million person-hours a weekend just watching the ads alone. Put even a fraction of that towards participatory projects, and you get a lot of stuff.

• Whole libraries
• Perfumeries
• Persons described as “the most incompetent soldier who ever became general”.

(Citations needed.)