And you know what, it’s a great date for me, for America, for Alaska
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Christopher Cox, who’s organizing an event headlined by Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck on September 11. The date, much like Beck’s million moron march, is “coincidental” and was chosen so as not to get in the way of the Alaska state fair.
The real kicker, though, is the entry fee – 4,500 people are paying between $75 and $225 to attend.
We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don’t need any more Fart apps.
—From Apple’s new app store review guidelines. I love the direct, decisive, unsucked language. Try to imagine such straightforward talk from any other company, let alone a company of Apple’s size and influence.
Confessions of a Hipster
By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor… It’s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.
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Taliban operative Zabihullah, on how the mosque controversy is benefiting the Taliban. (via officialssay)
Add that to the already substantial list of ways in which Palin, Beck, Boehner and company are more like the Taliban and Al-Qaeda than they are different.
This is so gorgeous [via my beautiful future wife who said she’d marry me under those very stars and meteors]
Ruby enVironment Manager looks a lot like Python’s Virtualenv
I’m a huge fan of Virtualenv, nice to see something similar come to Ruby
MPEG won’t charge a licensing fee for H.264
The codec is still patented, of course, but the patents’ owners will never charge a licensing fee for free video. I wonder if this will mean Firefox will natively support H.264 now and what this will mean for VP8 and WebM.
Five Thirty Eight all set up at the New York Times
Sharp looking site, love the intro post. “There seems to be something about politics that can make the rational parts of the brain turn off. FiveThirtyEight was designed to be the antidote to that.”
One more addition to the almanac of awesome juxtapositions of content and bot-generated-ads-based-on-the-demographics-of-your-users.