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Off to The Happy Berry to gather some materiel for a (hopefully) tasty and nutritious contribution to this afternoon's cookout.

July 4 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Downloading Windows 7 RC. This alpha geek business may be more trouble than it's worth. #windows7

May 4 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@aarmstrong128 Thanks for the input. From what, it does seem to be the consensus that Hg is the way to go in a windows environment.

May 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@djco Thanks for the info re mercurial. Windows compatibility a plus, and since Bespin 0.2 rolled out full integration, looks like Hg it is.

May 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I just noticed that @rww has posted some screenshots of soon-to-be-live Wolfram Alpha in (demo) action: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... #wolframalpha

May 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Best Video I've Seen Today Will Make You Smile [Virtual Studio] - http://gizmodo.com/5231112...

April 29 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

I almost passed this one over as 'Up With People', halftime-show schmaltz. Then I listened. You should, too. - Derrick Burns

Calling all fanboys: Can someone please answer the following in 20 words or less: "Git or Mercurial?"

April 23 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Compound interest, coffee roasting, professional wrestling, and the epistemology of a temporally non-local collective mind: Good morning.

April 20 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Urgent Mission - http://xkcd.com/567/

April 10 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

A kindred spirit. - Derrick Burns

MIT builds battery from bacterial virus, humans to power machines by 2012 - http://www.engadget.com/2009...

April 3 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

High-efficiency, high-density batteries that are nearly self-assembling and can be produced at or below room temperature: yeah, I'm sure we'll find a way to do something foolish and short-sighted with this technology. - Derrick Burns

Robot Makes Autonomous Scientific Discovery for First Time [Science] - http://i.gizmodo.com/5196845...

April 3 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Of course, the true test of any research-oriented AI is going to be how [he/she/it] navigates the subtle--and not-so-subtle--politics of publishing academia. - Derrick Burns

MIT lab unveils bacteriaphage battery, speculate that scale, commercial production perhaps on horizon: http://is.gd/quWd (via engadget.com)

April 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Pint Night @ Delaney's with J-Mar and the Wailer

April 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@sohmer So are the protesters, for the most part.

April 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@baldheretic Re: 'conficker snicker': they must think there's a special Mac internet, one that can't be crippled by huge zombie botnets.

April 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Nmap source and binaries incorporating Conficker detection are now available: http://insecure.org/

March 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Via @rmogull: Tillman Werner and Felix Leder of the Honeynet Project release paper on Conficker as well as a PoC scanner: https://www.honeynet.org/papers...

March 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

RT @dakami Just posted Windows Executables for Tillmann/Feder Conficker scanner, and docs for nmap on both Unix and Windows. www.doxpara.com

March 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Nothing makes for a shorter party than a bunch of bored teenagers standing around pretending to be interested in a kung fu panda birthda ...

March 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Following Clemens' immortal advice and not letting school get in the way of my education: Academic Earth is awesome! http://is.gd/n7mx

March 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I think it may be a bad sign that I'm not all that nervous about this interview.

February 25 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Today's math lesson: open sunroof + rainy night = not a good way to wake up.

February 18 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I just caught a raccoon snooping around one of my garbage cans. He disappeared before I could find my camera.

February 16 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

[ganking @wilw] me: Pandora, there's more to music than Hendrix and Nickelback. Pandora: ... me: Seriously. Pandora: How about some Wings?

February 11 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@rahsheen in that case you should just go ahead and publish something deeply embarrassing. Get it out of the way so you can relax.

February 11 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

How many Pandora stations is too many? Rhetorical question. I'm so compulsive about grooming a station that even one will kill productivity.

February 11 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Adobe Wave (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki...) is either going to be the future of desktop information assimilation or a truly disturbing marketing tool.

February 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I ♥×∞ Growl, so as long as I have micro control over what content comes in, I'd definitely consider using Wave. - Lynn Garris

Comedy Central Insider Blog » Jon Stewart Nails O'Reilly on Right to Privacy - http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009...

February 10 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Futile ideological face-slapping by Jon Stewart, once again directed at Bill O'Reilly, principally because he makes it so damned easy. - Derrick Burns from Bookmarklet

@czarphanguye: I'll have sausage, homefries, two eggs over medium, and keep the coffee coming.

February 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Morning, Interntet. An observation: People aren't wearing enough hats. Discuss.

February 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share