links for 2010-03-31
31 Mar 2010 No Comments
in General
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. – William Hazlitt
29 Mar 2010 No Comments
in Vice Tags: 42, douglas adams, fiction, HGTTG, hitchhiker's guide, humor
Today is the day we learned the answer to Life.
The Universe.
Everthing!
(It’s 42, by the way.)
On March 29, 1978, the BBC Radio series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” aired the episode that revealed the answer.
And we still miss Douglas Adams.
19 Mar 2010 No Comments
in Cool!, Photography, Video Tags: astronomy, awesome, Photography, Video
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.
12 Mar 2010 No Comments
in Signs of the Horsemen, Technology, Uhm... yeah, Web Tags: cruft, idiocy, rss, slashdot
Slashdot recently began embedding this ridiculous comment section in their RSS feed. To get rid of it, add this to your favorite ad blocking extension:
http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&id=*
I’ll click through if I feel the need to read or spend karma.
11 Mar 2010 No Comments
in General