February 2012
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One's a Crowd →
By ERIC KLINENBERG NY Times Published: February 4, 2012
MORE people live alone now than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities — Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis — 40 percent or more of all households contain a single occupant. In Manhattan and in Washington, nearly one in two households are occupied by a single person.
By international standards,...
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Penis Regex →
tylr:
Can’t believe I’ve never thought of this before. A regular expression to match penises.
/[u|B|8]{1,2}[=\-]+[d|D|B|b][\-\.]*/
Here’s a ruby example:
ruby> "Eat B--b a bag of uu===D! 8===D---...".scan(/[u|B|8]{1,2}[=\-]+[d|D|B][\-\.]*/) => ["B--b", "uu===D", "8===D---..."]
Run against this text:
Cray twee butcher 8===D photo booth, trust uu---D---... fund mlkshk post-ironic seitan...
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January 2012
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(6) Things I (Deeply) Care About
# clarity of thought
# context
# aesthetics
# being a human
# my impeccable collection of electronic music
# the quality of orange juice I’m about to consume
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How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work →
Over the weekend NYT published an engrossing article, laying out in fascinating, sometimes depressing and heartbreaking detail China’s role as the manufacturing superpower at the cost of middle class jobs in the U.S. by way of dissecting Apple as the primary case study. Those details have profound and far reaching implications for the future of global economy and America’s tech...
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year of the giltch | 025/366
“While...
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The President's Challenge →
by Nat Torkington
There’s an old joke. Heavy rains start and a neighbour pulls up in his truck. “Hey Bob, I’m leaving for high ground. Want a lift?” Bob says, “No, I’m putting my faith in God.” Well, waters rise and pretty soon the bottom floor of his house is under water. Bob looks out the second story window as a boat comes by and offers him a...
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I hope they've been drinking so they can get loose... →
WSJ has an interesting, albeit somewhat hilarious “behind the scene” look at famous bands and their lucrative yet publicity avert corporate gig racket :
The standard contract stipulates the rocker spend 20 minutes greeting people, with a limit of 50 hands shaken, says SAP’s Mr. Giampaglia. To get it over with, producers sometimes line guests up in groups of two before the...
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