July 2009
38 posts
Why Cash for Clunkers isn't worth it
PREFACE: I updated total vehicles and figures from the initial post. I mistakenly thought the program had ended after only 22k vehicles trades, and there appear to be many many more in the system still.
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So, NPR is reporting that the Cash for Clunkers program is ending because of a fund shortage after only 4 days and 22,782 certified trades, with an expected 250,000 trades to take place...
Web developers are amazed by the simplest of...
So, we were laughing at this stupid post on IRC, and I actually decided to blag about it.
I couldn’t even bring myself to read the entire post I’m linking, because it was all this cruft about how Anil Dash installed Movable Type for some guy. What a waste of electrons. I hope Anil raped his wallet.
ignore the code » Creating New Documents →
Great writeup about how we work with documents and how we can improve our workflows. Article is mostly Mac-oriented, but mentions other operating system interfaces.
Jindal takes credit for stimulus, presents... →
needtherapy:
thesmarttart:
“Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) reemerged on the national stage yesterday, penning an op-ed in the Politico to slam efforts to reform health care and declaring the Economic Recovery Act a failure… However, less than 24 hours before Jindal published his op-ed, Jindal traveled to Anacoco, Louisiana to present a jumbo-sized check to residents of Vernon Parish. The funds...
Clean Coal! →
“<lysol> it’s basically garfield except it’s some slut”
– #mefi link log: While discussing the merits of a linked web comic.
Man burst into flames after Taser strike →
A MAN was engulfed in flames after a police Taser hit him on the bridge of his nose while they were investigating claims of petrol sniffing.
Google Code Blog: Apollo 11 mission's 40th... →
“To commemorate this event the Command Module code (Comanche054) and Lunar Module code (Luminary099) have been transcribed from scanned images to run on yaAGC (an open source AGC emulator) by the Virtual AGC and AGS project.”
“Some argue” is Wikipedese for “I think”. It is a convenient way to bypass NPOV...”
– Encyclopedia Dramatica (via rafeal)
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears →
Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.
It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker’s gold.
Helen Keller Simulator →
