July 2008
19 posts
Priyamvada Gopal: Black women have little to gain... →
Jul 31st
“when you read a novel, really read it. Invite the characters into your life....”
– How to Read a Novel
Jul 29th
“The Dominican government uses indio as a skin color descriptor in the national...”
– Haiti: Antihaitianismo in Dominican Culture
Jul 28th
Jul 27th
Criminal Searches - FREE criminal searches on... →
:( . a huge violation of privacy: your sealed records and address (among other things) are all available for the world to see
Jul 25th
Mercurial hosting — bitbucket.org →
I can stop salivating over github now
Jul 22nd
The End of White Flight →
Jul 22nd
“it’ll be about Halloween before someone gets the bright idea of picking up an...”
– pandagon, on people trying to make fun ob Obama, without being racist
Jul 20th
Colbert Bump - Firefox 3 Proves its Existence  →
Jul 18th
“Computers and networks finally offer us the ability to write. And we do write...”
– Edge 250
Jul 16th
Jesse Helms, you left quite a legacy →
This could not end too soon
Jul 5th
“The effects of the neoliberal global order that has been put in place in recent...”
– Naomi Klein: What Does Obama’s ‘Love of Markets’ Mean for Our Economic Future? | Election 2008 | AlterNet
Jul 5th
“if the corporation says “I’m not going to be evil,” and the...”
– Giles Bowkett: “Don’t Be Evil” Was Always Doomed
Jul 5th
1 tag
Visual Basic .NET: not that bad
2 things: Because MS standardized on .NET, there are less awkward ways to write VB code. Believe me, there are a lot of ways to do weird things in VB6 (like copying structs via a side-effect of a string function. Really!) and I’m glad MS has suppressed many of them. Variable declaration is very nice. Let’s declare str as a String: dim str as String This is great: we get to...
Jul 3rd
“A 36 ans, Carl-Alex Ridoré entre doublement dans l’histoire. D’abord...”
– > Le premier préfet noir
Jul 2nd
President Bush Boosts Porn Industry With Economic... →
“Stimulus”, “package”, “relief”
Jul 2nd
Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Books →
Jul 2nd
32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read →
“Where is the Bible?”, asked someone.
Jul 2nd
“How can I express this? You seem not to be recognizing something … this is...”
– Two-Year in Hell
Jul 1st