...and Jack came tumbl'ng after

Jack Baty's collection of found quotes and such

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Archive

Apr
15th

Wed

For weeks on end, the leadership of the Republican Party, together with key figures in Right-Wing radio and cable TV pushed the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama—and everyone who supported him—was a secret socialist. In other words, every other socialist revolution in history was advanced by actual socialists who called themselves ‘socialists’ in public, but Barack Obama’s socialist revolution was a conspiracy, a plot by socialists who dared not say the word. The only people using the word socialists, where the conspiracy theorist conservatives determined to cast light on the plot and stop it before it was too late.

— FRAMESHOP: Conspiracy Theory Conservatives

Apr
12th

Sun

Instead of cursing the darkness, Light a candle for where we’re going, There’s something ahead, worth fighting for.

— Neil Young

Lindy Hop Showdown

Apr
10th

Fri

…conservatives can only be conservatives by fighting to maintain their ignorance and then bragging about it.

— A Conservative Movement to Replace “Reason”? - Mick Arran - Open Salon

Apr
3rd

Fri

Bobby Yang plays Van Halen - on the Violin

Mar
28th

Sat

Extreme Sheep LED Art

Mar
26th

Thu

Q: What if markets never recover, the assets are not fundamentally undervalued, and even when held to maturity the government doesn’t make back its money?

A: Then we have worse things to worry about than government losses on TARP-program money—for we are then in a world in which the only things that have value are bottled water, sewing needles, and ammunition.

— The Geithner Plan FAQ

Mar
24th

Tue

Don’t make response time too fast, though: the mouse should remain stationary for 0.5 seconds before you display anything that’s hover-dependent, such as a mega drop-down or a tooltip. Violating this guideline will make the screen flicker insufferably when users move the mouse. Only after 0.5 seconds of resting the pointer on a navbar item can you assume that a user actually wants to see its associated drop-down.

— Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

Mar
22nd

Sun

A thousand kisses deep

Confined to sex, we pressed against

The limits of the sea:

I saw there were no oceans left

For scavengers like me.

I made it to the forward deck.

I blessed our remnant fleet

And then consented to be wrecked,

A Thousand Kisses Deep.

— Leonard Cohen

Mar
21st

Sat

Super Cool

Mar
20th

Fri

One Laptop Battery Later And I'm A Django Fan

One Laptop Battery Later And I’m A Django Fan:

“To people who come from a bounded language like Java reading Python is like having your eyes fly off a cliff at every turn of a dark road”

Mar
19th

Thu

Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace

Mar
18th

Wed

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

NEWSPAPERS AND THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE: “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.”

(Via 3quarksdaily.)

Mar
16th

Mon

Later I’ll type up a poem and also write it out by hand to see which is the better medium. I’ll need to enlarge both 100% of course to make sure.

— perkeleellinen: Discussing Slide Shooters in I Shoot Film

One Inch Holes

One Inch Holes: “

Michael Gartenberg on the role of operating systems:

The head of Black and Decker once said, folks don’t buy our products because they want one inch drills, they buy our stuff because they want one inch holes.

‘★’

”

(Via Daring Fireball.)