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  • 1 Sep
    Harpoon Grateful Harvest debuts this fall
    Yum, cranberry. Bet it'll go great alongside Oktoberfest.
  • 1 Sep
    A Look at the Mid-Term Rally
    I don't think we're going to do that well this time around.
  • 1 Sep
    Windows 7 Family Pack to cover three machines for a measly $150
    I tell everyone who cares to listen how much I like Windows 7. I wish I could upgrade our laptop as cheaply as I did the desktop, but this might be as close as I can get.
  • 31 Aug

    "We just finished watching Arrested Development. So sad."

  • 31 Aug
    Boston Molasses Disaster
    Photos posted to Flickr by the Boston Public Library
  • 31 Aug

    Since April 19, the Yankees are 71-47, Rays are 72-47, and the Red Sox are 70-48. It’s not that the Sox have been bad. In fact, in 2009 between games 13 and 131 they were 70-48, and in 2008 they were 69-49. They have been just as good as in previous years. The problem is that the team fell to a quick deficit and has been trying to catch two other extremely good teams. There’s a good chance the AL East will finish the year with two teams with 100+ wins, and Boston with 90+ wins. I’m almost certain this hasn’t happened as long as there have been divisions (1969). The closest I can find is 1977, when the top three teams in the AL East finished with 100, 97, and 97 wins respectively. But remember, that was a six-team division, not four.

    To look at this season and draw the conclusion that we’ve had a bad year is to ignore the actual facts. We just haven’t had as good of a year as we needed to have in order to make up our losses in the first couple of weeks.

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  • 31 Aug

    Recently listened to: Echo & The Bunnymen – The Fountain, Weezer – Pinkerton, Magic Magic. – Magic Magic. LP

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  • 30 Aug

    "I think I tripled my battery life by not having my battery widget update every second. #whodathunk"

  • 30 Aug
    Stephen Strasburg’s career stats
    Strasburg, the most highly touted MLB rookie in generations, and a surprisingly dominant pitcher in his 12 starts, is out for the rest of the season and needs season-ending (and potentially career-ending) Tommy John surgery. How do his current stats stack up?
  • 30 Aug
    Pomplamoose with Ben Folds and.. Nick Hornby?
  • 30 Aug

    "Pretty sure there's a dozen more videos pending, but here's Matt firing an M1919A4 Browning machine gun http://t.co/9onyVVs"

  • 29 Aug

    "Weekend full of campin', drinkin', and shootin'. So tired."

  • 27 Aug

    "My barber just recognized me at CVS. So weird."

  • 27 Aug
    3 Rules of thumb for Bloom Filters
    Bloom Filters are probably the coolest data structure I didn't learn in college.
  • 27 Aug

    "More bash fun: `f () { awk "{print \$$1}" }` -- To use: `ls -l | f 6`"

  • 27 Aug
    Vampires (Programmers) versus Werewolves (Sysadmins)
    As a programmer and a former sysadmin, my opinion is that programmers with access to production are ticking time bombs.
  • 25 Aug
    StarCraft 2 Muscle Memory Trainer
    Such a great idea.
  • 25 Aug

    "Hm, I should go. RT @jquery: jQuery Conference 2010: Boston, Oct 16-17, 2010 http://bit.ly/a5NqOG"

  • 25 Aug
    Welcome (and Welcome Back) to FiveThirtyEight
    I hope their move and relaunch on nytimes.com doesn't change their always insightful (and sometimes impolitic) analysis.
  • 25 Aug

    "@jlet Nice. Or just put it in your .bashrc: "quietly() { $* >/dev/null; }""

  • 25 Aug
    Readability
    I've been using this bookmarklet for the last couple of weeks. It's really handy for so many poorly-formatted websites.
  • 25 Aug
    User Agent string changes coming in Firefox 4
    Sniffing for User-Agents is a) fraught with danger, and b) a bad way to detect browser features. But so much of the Internet still does it, so this is probably going to break a bunch of stuff.
  • 24 Aug
     
    The Gus Show
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  • 24 Aug

    Recently listened to: Röyksopp – Senior, Silversun Pickups – Swoon (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version) [+video] [+digital booklet], Passion Pit – Manners

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  • 23 Aug

    "@Tigerbeard I was thinking Picard. Sorry, Tasha!"

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