March 2009 archive

The Great Zucchini

"The Peekaboo Paradox:" The strange secrets of humor, fear and a guy who makes big money making little people laugh.
"This unmarried, 35-year-old community college dropout makes more than $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek. Not bad for a complete idiot."

Trey's aunt saw me taking notes. "You're writing a story about him?" Vicki Cox asked, [...]

Python script for backing up Twitter statuses

I was looking for a way to backup my tweets (I find that I'm reluctantly giving over to calling Twitter posts by that name, but I don't feel good about it) and found this "recipe" at ActiveState's web site:
Recipe 576594: Backup/download your tweets or anyone's tweets.
It's a nice simple Python script that saves messages to [...]

That's Bulshytt

This may be hard to parse for you layman extramuros types out there, with all of the made up language and history, but I encourage you to peruse the short definition and the second half of the usage note in order to learn about bulshytt and its "uncanny stability and resiliency."
From Neal Stephenson's Anathem (p134):
Bulshytt
Short [...]

Thru-You: Kutiman, the YouTube Maestro

I'm in awe. I'm awestruck. I've visited the land of awesome.
There is so much great stuff on the Internet that you might despair of all that you will never see. But then there are the gems you find.
For example: Thru-You.
Kutiman, according to Wikipedia, is an Israeli musician, composer, producer, and animator. And he has made [...]

Stuck in Customs: John Deere at the Ranch

By Trey Ratcliff ("Stuck in Customs")

Found at Stuck in Customs and also can be found on Flickr
Thanks, Trey, for sharing this and so many great HDR photos with theCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike License.