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• Clickable Culture - Gnomes Rain From Azeroth’s Skies
  wjw
  (tags: funny advertising gaming wow)

Posted by Patrick at 12:17 AM | Permalink

• The University of Tennessee: Accessibility
  that's a lot of access keys...
  (tags: accessibility usability)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• Duke Portlets
  (tags: jasigdenver07)

Posted by Patrick at 12:17 AM | Permalink

• scottberkun.com » Blog Archive » Asshole driven development
  I've unfortunately seen a lot of these in action. It isn't pretty.
  (tags: development)

Posted by Patrick at 12:16 AM | Permalink

• The Dugout :: Mark Prior Just Plain Sucks with a Cherry On Top
  WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG I'VE BEEN YELLING AT YOU FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS
  (tags: comics baseball)

Posted by Patrick at 12:20 AM | Permalink

• Recipes : Sangria Perea : Food Network
  (tags: recipies sangria wine)

Posted by Patrick at 12:17 AM | Permalink

• Oracle AppsLab » Why Ruby on Rails is the perfect framework for building next generation Enterprise Apps
  PeopleTools developer thinks Rails is "ready." Nice.
  (tags: java rails rubyonrails webdev)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• Color Oracle
  awesome colorblindness tool
  (tags: accessibility software tools)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• Climate change: A guide for the perplexed - earth - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist Environment
  beware, climate change deniers!
  (tags: climatechange globalwarming toread environment)
• The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found | Salon News
  How many people need to get screwed by Microsoft Word before this stops happening?
  (tags: microsoft iraq politics)

Posted by Patrick at 12:20 AM | Permalink

• Get Off My Machine, Old Man - The Dugout :: MLB Official Chatroom AIM Log
  Wherein Farns is almost rendered speechless
  (tags: comics)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• 10 Lessons from My Speaking Coach | Common Craft - Social Design for the Web
  must re-read over and over and over until June
  (tags: tutorial tips howto presentations communication speaking)
• Seven Steps to Better Presentations, by Jeffrey Veen
  Re-read again and again until June
  (tags: presentation speaking presentations)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• Atlassian Developer Blog: Fedex V: Staging Plugin
  If/when this gets done, it will be handy
• Craig Ambrose. A Rake Task to Grab Data From Your Production Site
  is nice
  (tags: deployment rails rubyonrails)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• Servlets.com Weblog: The Innovator's Dilemma: It's Happening to Java
  Another good "Ruby is where Java was 10 years ago" article
  (tags: research rails java development)
• Riding Rails: Hi, I'm Ruby on Rails...
  Full stack web development, indeed...
  (tags: research java rubyonrails video)
• Reuters/Second Life » Second Life Sketches: Shipwrecked And Abandoned
  hahahaha, second life is empty. go figure.
  (tags: warrenellis secondlife)

Posted by Patrick at 12:23 AM | Permalink

• City of Gold Triathlon - a photoset on Flickr
  (tags: photos triathlon)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• Magic Multi-Connections
  potentially useful if we ever need to make rails apps talk to lots of databases
  (tags: rubyonrails webdev ruby rails database)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  nice map of the interwebs
  (tags: wishlist maps)

Posted by Patrick at 12:17 AM | Permalink

• Revision 56: /timlucas/plugins/accessible_form_builder
  easy accessible forms for rails. yay.
  (tags: accessibility plugins rubyonrails)

Posted by Patrick at 12:17 AM | Permalink

• Books Like Blogs
  (tags: research)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• 41pounds.org - Saving the environment 41 pounds at a time
  I hate junk mail.
  (tags: environment)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• Patrick Berry - Yosemite fine art prints at ImageKind.com
  get prints
• Freakonomics Blog » A Reluctant Note on the Virginia Tech Shooting
  They become instant platforms for people with all sorts of motives to opine and rant against their pet targets — media, guns, mental illness, privacy, etc. — when in fact what happened was a tragedy and an anomaly that, in a perfect world, would be re

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• Mars Needs Moms!
  The Official Berkeley Breathed Website
  (tags: books)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• Google AJAX Feed API
  Might come in handy
  (tags: ajax api javascript programming webdev Google)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• ActiveScaffold :: Demo
  wow...this is way better than streamlined
  (tags: ajax rails scaffold rubyonrails)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• Rails extends warm welcome to PHP developer (Loud Thinking)
  a little early history of rails
  (tags: research)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• rc3.org: When deployments go wrong
  yup...
  (tags: research java deployment)

Posted by Patrick at 12:22 AM | Permalink

• The Dugout :: MLB Official Chatroom AIM Log
  April fools we're the Diamondbacks and we suck.
  (tags: baseball comics)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• err.the_blog.find_by_title('rake remigrate')
  this could come in handy
  (tags: rails ruby rubyonrails tips database)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• The Dugout :: MLB Official Chatroom AIM Log
  Kids these days...
  (tags: baseball comics)
• Rails Log Visualizer
  looks very cool
  (tags: osx rails rubyonrails tools statistics)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• Sopht Square - CleanArchiver
  A better zipper upper
  (tags: osx software tools)
• YUI Theater — Doug Geoffray: "From the Mouth of a Screenreader"
  Nice videos from yahoo...no "where are the transcripts" jokes please
  (tags: accessibility yui)

Posted by Patrick at 12:22 AM | Permalink

• Cook's Thesaurus
  find this when you need that
  (tags: food cooking reference)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• Scribd - Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy
  ouch
  (tags: business education happiness)
• Joyeur: Joyeur: Joyent Slingshot
  I have no idea what to make of this "VM for Rails apps"
  (tags: rubyonrails software)

Posted by Patrick at 12:19 AM | Permalink

• Daring Fireball: Deal With It
  measuring cognitive load of a HUI
  (tags: usability webdesign)
• Andres’ thoughts » Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me
  If everything is equally important, then nothing is important
  (tags: advice development work software)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• Pennypacker - The Penny Arcade Firefox extension
  I've needed this since I started reading Penny Arcade
  (tags: comics firefox penny-arcade tools)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• Subtraction: Oh Yeeaahh!
  One of Scott's favorite SXSW presentations
  (tags: layout design webdesign usability grids css)

Posted by Patrick at 12:20 AM | Permalink

• 11/10/97 COMMENTARY: JAVA IS HOT ENOUGH TO BURN BILL GATES
  10 years ago Java was just like Ruby today. Kinda.
  (tags: research java)
• Start your Revolution - Revolution Health
  Going big with rails
  (tags: research rails)

Posted by Patrick at 12:22 AM | Permalink

• Hack MySQL :: Exploring the world's most popular open source database
  great nitty gritty mysql info
  (tags: mysql reference work)

Posted by Patrick at 12:20 AM | Permalink

• Lost/The Flame - The TV IV
  Damn I love the internets
  (tags: tv)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• CMS Showcase - UWeb
  Texas A&M put a wiki up to talk about picking a CMS.
  (tags: work cms)
• HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST)
  An activity diagram to describe the resolution of the response status code, given various headers.
  (tags: cheatsheet webdev http)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• The Dugout :: MLB Official Chatroom AIM Log
  JetersNeverProsper makes his first appearance
  (tags: comics humor)
• WIRED Blogs: 27B Stroke 6
  A web-based "expert system" that helped users prepare bankruptcy filings for a fee made too many decisions to be considered a clerical tool, an appeals court said last week, ruling that the software was effectively practicing law without a license.
  (tags: law software ai)
• Wikipedia Founder Says Intends to Challenge Google, Yahoo - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
  Everything I've seen so far about online community says this can't scale. Unless you only focus on one area...like porn. Then it would work.
  (tags: internet search)

Posted by Patrick at 12:18 AM | Permalink

• The Obvious?: The 100% guaranteed easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0?
  GET OUT OF THE WAY
  (tags: work)
• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  (tags: guitarhero comics)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  DAMNIT FEYNMAN!
  (tags: comics funny science)

Posted by Patrick at 11:19 PM | Permalink

• Penny Arcade! - It Is A Sensitive Topic
  is it? is it really?
  (tags: penny-arcade comics humor)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Rails Date Kit
  help with date fields? I'll take two.
  (tags: development rails rubyonrails webdev)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Media Matters - "[B]arbarian" O'Reilly: "[I]n a lot of places, women have formed cabals to terrorize the men"
  luckily somebody is fighting the oppression of men in this country.
  (tags: stupid punditry)

Posted by Patrick at 11:19 PM | Permalink

• TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac
  A book on a text editor that isn't vim or emacs. Amazing.
  (tags: mac osx software wishlist books programming textmate)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• ActiveAcl: Home
  This looks handy
  (tags: rubyonrails ruby rails security ACL)
• Penny Arcade! - Les Mots Dangereux
  this is so what it's going to be like for me at the end
  (tags: comics penny-arcade)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• caboose the fabulous spider fuzz plugin
  might as well be called lazy testing. I'll take two.
  (tags: rails rubyonrails testing webdev)
• caboose new controversial default rails session storage: cookies
  what not to do with sessions
  (tags: rails rubyonrails sessions)

Posted by Patrick at 11:21 PM | Permalink

• Penny Arcade! - Now With Aromax
  penny-arcade does happy fun ball
  (tags: comics penny-arcade)
• Rails Envy: Acts_As_Ferret Tutorial
  wow, this is amazing stuff
  (tags: rails search tutorial webdev)

Posted by Patrick at 11:20 PM | Permalink

• 'SNL' recruits Dwight - Pop Candy - USATODAY.com
  Fact. This is awesome.
  (tags: funny tv)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Joyeur: A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels
  again, that's a lot of mongrels...
  (tags: hardware loadbalancing mongrel rails webdev rubyonrails)
• Wow, just...wow
  I got "inspired" and started this as another place to throw up AdSense
  (tags: wjw)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Ruby Forum - SSH, Capistrano, PATH, Mac OS X
  Help sshd help you run commands not in the default PATH
  (tags: capistrano rails rubyonrails deployment)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Daring Fireball: Command, Option, Control
  The race is on to see who can say the most jackassed thing regarding Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music".
  (tags: apple music drm itunes)

Posted by Patrick at 11:19 PM | Permalink

• Top 10 Ruby on Rails performance tips
  interesting tips on getting the best performance out of rails
  (tags: rubyonrails performance rails)
• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Since Linux keeps coming up
  wow...
  (tags: linux osx funny)

Posted by Patrick at 11:19 PM | Permalink

• The Dugout :: MLB Official Chatroom AIM Log
  wherein we explain the use of the slash to denote an action
  (tags: funny comics humor baseball)
• The Dugout :: MLB Official Chatroom AIM Log
  it's true, Nolan Ryan is immortal. It's best not to mess with him.
  (tags: funny humor comics baseball)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Load-balancing Mongrel with Apache 2.0
  just what I've been looking for
  (tags: apache deployment rubyonrails mongrel howto)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• An Inconvenient Skyline on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  I think I totally just got delicious to infringe the copyright on this photo
  (tags: photos)
• Mongrel Cluster and Monit - pmade inc.
  handy way to manage mongrel clusters
  (tags: deployment rails rubyonrails)

Posted by Patrick at 11:17 PM | Permalink

• Secure Remote Disks - plok
  manage those sshfs connections with style
  (tags: osx fuse)
• James Duncan Davidson: Reverse Proxying SSL Connections To Rails
  we'll need this
  (tags: rubyonrails rails ssl deployment)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Alamogordo Daily News - Republicans: Stop thinking about gay sex
  It seems to me Republicans spend more time thinking about gay sex than any other group of people in the known world even more so than gay people trying to find other gay people with whom to have sex.
  (tags: gop politics repu)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Linear Algebra
  because everybody needs a book about linear algebra
  (tags: math books)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Scaffolding's place
  interesting scaffolding rant from jamis
  (tags: rails rubyonrails ruby webdev)
• Keeping Rails running at Dreamhost Part 2
  it would be awesome if this works
  (tags: deployment rails rubyonrails dreamhost)
• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: War expands: Now all of Europe
  Screw you, Europe!
  (tags: funny drm apple humour)
• Rolling Stone : Why Gore Should Run -- And How He Can Win
  I think Al Gore would make a great preznit
  (tags: government democrats elections)
• News: Nerd of the Week!
  excellent video clip with a Mike and Jerry interview
  (tags: comics penny-arcade)
• ThinkGeek :: Penny Arcade Birds are Weird Poster
  sweet
  (tags: penny-arcade comics)
• Slyck News - Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD
  there is no unbreakable drm
  (tags: drm)

Posted by Patrick at 11:19 PM | Permalink

• Free Quicksilver user guide ebook - Lifehacker
  the best quicksilver manual so far
  (tags: books osx reference quicksilver)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Schneier on Security: Information Security and Externalities
  We are paying to mitigate the risk rather than fix the problem.
  (tags: security)

Posted by Patrick at 11:23 PM | Permalink

• Custom Maintenance Pages
  for use with capistrano
  (tags: rails ruby rubyonrails webdev capistrano)
• asshole
  Media Matters - O'Reilly: Abducted child "liked ... his circumstances," had "a lot more fun" than usual
  (tags: asshole stupid)

Posted by Patrick at 11:19 PM | Permalink

• The Green Cone System
  this looks handy
  (tags: wishlist environment gardening recycling composting)
• Caloric Values of Alcoholic Beverages, Alcohol calories
  say it ain't so, Sierra Nevada!
  (tags: beer)
• Newt Gingrich in 2008
  Will Newt run? I doubt it.
  (tags: politics gop elections)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• RubyForge: FasterHTMLEscape: Project Info
  I like faster
  (tags: rubyonrails ruby rails)
• Protect Your Web Server From Bad Robots
  So doing this on the campus web server
  (tags: work webdev)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Architecture and airport security
  via bruce
  (tags: security airport travel)

Posted by Patrick at 11:19 PM | Permalink

• Schneier on Security: Choosing Secure Passwords
  Bruce on passwords
  (tags: security computers)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Sympa - mailing list software
  (tags: work software email mailinglist)
• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  via warren, a cute little comic about the joy of knowing perl
  (tags: funny humor comics perl)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• The Science Creative Quarterly » A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT IF YOUR DAD IS A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR, ASKING “WHY” CAN BE DANGEROUS
  Why is oxygen more electronegative than carbon and hydrogen?
  (tags: education science chemistry humor funny)

Posted by Patrick at 11:19 PM | Permalink

• BBC NEWS | UK | 'Infomania' worse than marijuana
  Those distracted by incoming email and phone calls saw a 10-point fall in their IQ - more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking marijuana, said researchers.
  (tags: internet email productivity research work infomania)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• NRA Pressured To Resist Bush Energy Policies - washingtonpost.com
  cutting the baby in half
  (tags: politics environment gop bush)
• TheStar.com - sciencetech - In praise of an alternate creation theory
  Pastafarianism is on the SURGE!
  (tags: fsm pasta pastafarian pastafarianism)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Schneier on Security: ID Cards to Stop Bullying
  It's important that schools teach the right lessons, and "we're all living in a surveillance society, and we should just get used to it" is not the right lesson.
  (tags: security identity education)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

Fuck off you damned charlatan. Gay people aren't what's wrong with this country. The ACLU isn't what's wrong with this country. Secular humanism isn't what's wrong with this country. Rap music isn't what's wrong with this country. But one thing that is wrong is that you still manage to get people to listen to your hateful, sorry-ass excuse for preaching. God told you that there would be an attack on the USA, eh? Well, did you ask for details so you could call Jack Bauer and have it stopped? No? You're just going to sit there and let "it" happen so you can sit back and bask in your God-given rightness. You fucking useless clown. I don't know how you live with yourself, spewing all the crap that you do. Please, do us all a favor and go crawl back under whatever rock you came from.

Love,
Pat

Posted by Patrick at 6:56 AM | Permalink

• Ugly voices tarnish debut of Congress' first Muslim
  USA Today smacks down Goode and his bigoted opinions.
  (tags: bible quran editorial)

Posted by Patrick at 11:21 PM | Permalink

• How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Ruby
  free ruby book
  (tags: books programming ruby toread)
• Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book
  another ruby book
  (tags: books programming ruby)

Posted by Patrick at 11:18 PM | Permalink

• Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You | Archives | codablog | Coda Hale
  best mongrel deploy I've read so far
  (tags: work rails ruby rubyonrails webdev)
• Canon Rebel XTi Review
  I should get those lenses
  (tags: photography)

Posted by Patrick at 11:20 PM | Permalink

• Fear of Fish Acts As Activity Logged
  logging, it's what we do
  (tags: ruby rails plugins)

Posted by Patrick at 11:17 PM |