October 2008
23 posts
Go Phillies!
Only time you’ll ever see me mention sports but holy shit. Been waiting my whole life to see this day…
Spy Fears: Twitter Terrorists, Cell Phone... →
Despite owning one of the most blogged about Twitter mashups, I have to admit I’ve stopped Twittering much of late. But I’m always fascinated by the power of micoblogging, particularly its use in mission-critical applications and its effect on the real world. This wired article about a government report on using Twitter for terrorist activity points out the obvious flip-side to the...
10 Reasons Why Joost Fails →
Haha, after using the new Joost for about 10 minutes I was so annoyed I was almost about to write this exact same blog post.
If you don’t know what Joost is, don’t bother checking it out, its just some really badly executed web video startup (that came before Hulu) with WAAY too much funding that should have just been put to death after the 1st month it came out.
I think Joost will...
There’s a difference between “smart” and “visionary”
WatchWhile I found this amusing it kind of disturbs me. I have a really bad feeling this is how most of my generation views the impending economic doom.
benstein:
Thanks ladies, Economic Crisis solved.
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Django Forms Hidden Fields in Custom Templates
For Django programmers - when you are creating a custom form template (possibly in an inclusion tag, as I am), while looping through fields, you will notice that your hidden fields come up as well. Very annoying, and no where in the documentation does it explain how to keep these hidden.
Just discovered that every “field” element has a property “is_hidden”. I had to dig...
Flash Of Genius: Patent System Propaganda Made... →
This link is a good take on this new movie that basically glorifies the concept that if you come up with a big idea you should have the right to sue anyone else who comes up with the same idea.
One thing that needs to change is the silly mythology in the American Dream we’ve been taught since childhood is that if you have a great idea, you are entitled to make a million dollars off of it...
