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"dormando’s awesome memcached top A flexible ‘top’ like utility for viewing..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:22:51 -0800

“dormando’s awesome memcached top A flexible ‘top’ like utility for viewing memcached clusters. See —help for full information. Requires ‘AnyEvent’, and ‘YAML’ libraries from CPAN:
http://search.cpan.org/ ‘AnyEvent’ depends on ‘common::sense’ (also at CPAN). If you have a large cluster and want higher performance, find
and install ‘EV’ from CPAN. AnyEvent will automagically use it
and use epoll, kqeueue, etc, for socket handling. Pester me for questions/bugs/ideas. As of writing the util is
in early release and missing many future features.”

- dormando’s damemtop at master - GitHub

"This sort of behavior against interest is not peculiar to our era. Here is Mark Twain, looking back..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:27:42 -0800

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This sort of behavior against interest is not peculiar to our era. Here is Mark Twain, looking back on the mid-nineteenth-century equivalent of today’s Tea Partygoers:

“In those old slave-holding days the whole community was agreed as to one thing—the awful sacredness of slave property. To help steal a horse or a cow was a low crime, but to help a hunted slave, or feed him or shelter him, or hide him, or comfort him, in his troubles, his terrors, his despair, or hesitate to promptly to betray him to the slave-catcher when opportunity offered was a much baser crime, & carried with it a stain, a moral smirch which nothing could wipe away. That this sentiment should exist among slave-owners is comprehensible—there were good commercial reasons for it—but that it should exist & did exist among the paupers, the loafers the tag-rag & bobtail of the community, & in a passionate & uncompromising form, is not in our remote day realizable.”

”

- What’s the Matter With Kansas Dept.: Hendrik Hertzberg : The New Yorker

"“Remember some of the other battles: Lexington and Concord, Hamburger Hill, Pork Chop..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:44:06 -0800

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“Remember some of the other battles: Lexington and Concord, Hamburger Hill, Pork Chop Hill?” said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). “We’re not going to leave this hill until we kill this bill!”

“Who will kill this bill?” asked Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.). “You will!”

“Let’s kill this bill,” proposed Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio).

“This bill will be killed,” agreed Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).

”

- No one said freedom was pretty

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The San Francisco Panorama...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:49:33 -0800

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The San Francisco Panorama Press Release.

(via dukeofcrydee)

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:46:53 -0800

(via dukeofcrydee)

Emails From Crazy People » So, If God Existed He’d Keep...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:51:04 -0800

Emails From Crazy People » So, If God Existed He’d Keep Dogs Quiet?

Safeway Fail « FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:11:57 -0800

Safeway Fail « FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

"The reason the press is doing better is that it’s not faced with the same extraordinary challenge..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:58:01 -0800

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The reason the press is doing better is that it’s not faced with the same extraordinary challenge presented by the Bush administration. This administration, I’m happy to say, is not unprecedentedly and spectacularly dishonest, incompetent and secretive, and therefore doesn’t require the kind of courage to cover that the Bush-era White House press corps, to its shame, failed to summon.
…
Do you think the media should strive for objectivity in its reporting?

Mr Froomkin: No. Journalists should strive for accuracy, and fairness. Objectivity is impossible, and is too often confused with balance. And the problem with balance is that we are not living in a balanced time. For instance, is it patently obvious that at this point in our history, the leading luminaries on one side of the American political spectrum are considerably less tethered to reality than those on the other side. Madly trying to split the difference, as so many of my mainstream-media colleagues feel impelled to do, does a disservice to the concept of the truth.

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- Seven questions for Dan Froomkin | Democracy in America | Economist.com

"Neoconservatism has become a set of attitudes that might be summed up as, “somewhere, shaggy kids..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:37:06 -0800

“Neoconservatism has become a set of attitudes that might be summed up as, “somewhere, shaggy kids might be having sex or smoking dope—so let’s cut interest rates and invade Iraq!””

- The American Conservative — Kristol Reflections

"Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It,..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:35:09 -0700

“Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices.”

- Jan. 1984: How critics reviewed the Mac - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech

I tried to cross-reference this with the way Fox News asked the...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:12:53 -0700

I tried to cross-reference this with the way Fox News asked the question during the Bush administration’s seven years of muddling through in Afghanistan. Surprisingly, it never got asked. (via Fox News Poll: Do You Think the Taliban Wants Victory More Than Obama? « The Washington Independent)

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:19:58 -0700

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Cell Size and Scale

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:23:30 -0700

Cell Size and Scale

Shep Smith Apologizes For “Lack Of Balance” In Fox...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:58:20 -0700

Shep Smith Apologizes For “Lack Of Balance” In Fox News Report (via News1News)

"For anyone unfortunate enough to be charged with a capital crime and lacking the resources or..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:42:40 -0700

“For anyone unfortunate enough to be charged with a capital crime and lacking the resources or reputation to defend themselves, the Texas justice system is essentially a well-lubricated execution machine: the overzealous prosecutors, the half-hearted (or in Martin’s case, worse) defense attorneys, the slipshod investigators, the psychiatric “experts” who attest that every defendant is a criminal psychopath, the judges and juries and politicians—and ultimately, of course, the voters who don’t seem to care. It is a national disgrace.”

- Presumed Guilty | The New Republic

Nasa Ares 1-X rocket blasts off in Florida (via itnnews)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:22:26 -0700

Nasa Ares 1-X rocket blasts off in Florida (via itnnews)

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:36:34 -0700

via img.wonkette.com

"Newt Gingrich appeared on talk shows this Sunday and flirted with the idea of a 2012 presidential..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:18:21 -0700

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Newt Gingrich appeared on talk shows this Sunday and flirted with the idea of a 2012 presidential bid.In a glaring example of just how wide the schism between Republican Party moderates and conservatives has become, pundits on the right were quick to shoot Gingrich down. The man who led the GOP to a 1994 revival is now dismissed being by some on the right as a RINO — Republican In Name Only.

Palling Around With Liberals Michelle Malkin imagines the administration Gingrich would have if he were president. “Picture the cabinet: Al Sharpton as education secretary. Scozzafava as labor secretary. Al Gore as global warming czar. Noooooo, thanks.” she says. According to Malkin, “the conservative base is wising up and pushing back,” and it won’t need Gingrich’s services to retake the party. “Constantly invoking Reagan isn’t going to erase the damage Gingrich has done to his brand over the years by wavering on core issues and teaming up with some of the Left’s biggest clowns.”

”

- Grassroots Right Rejects Gingrich 2012 | The Atlantic Wire

"Libertarianism is the plaything of cossetted white Americans. That is a fact. In its relentless..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:53:08 -0700

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Libertarianism is the plaything of cossetted white Americans. That is a fact.

In its relentless insistence on state-supremacy, it commits precisely the sin that Kerry identifies: it reifies that which it claims to seek to undermine. It is narrow and parochial, American. What has libertarianism got to say about life within failed states, or clerical democracies, or about Japan, or China, or Myanmar, or Nepal, or occupied Palestine, or Israel, or South Africa? What has it got to say about the construction of community, the nature of cooperative endeavor in the absence of coercion? Most libertarians aren’t even willing to accept that property, their central fetish, is itself a cultural artifact, not a constant of nature.

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- Who Is IOZ?: Renouncing Libertarianism Is Cuter than Kittens Riding on Puppies In Wagons Pulled by Miniature Ponies

"Before getting to my relative affection for Ailes, let me note that he will be 73 in 2012; he’s..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:49:16 -0700

“Before getting to my relative affection for Ailes, let me note that he will be 73 in 2012; he’s vastly overweight (and sensitive about it); he has health problems and can’t walk very well; he’s ghoulish looking; he’s deeply and nuttily paranoid (he discusses freely, albeit in lowered voice, the plans of radical Muslims to storm his house in New Jersey); and he may not be capable of doing 15 minutes without an offensive utterance.”

- Have Fox News and Roger Ailes Goofed?