Sean’s Mental Walkabout

• qwantz.com - dinosaur comics - March 05 2008
  "crawling sucks"

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• VIDEO: Touchscreen fun on SNL. (Hulu = US only)
  The MSNBC folks have actually gotten nearly this bad playing around with their MS Surface computers
• Schneier on Security: Barack Obama Discusses Security Trade-Offs
  I like the schneier highlighted such a nuanced and balanced description of security tradeoffs made by one of our presidential candidates.

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Bluish Coder: How to publish a Git repository
This is really handy

A new programming language for cloud developers | IT Management and Cloud Blog
I laughed.

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NBC Edits SNL Bailout Skit Following Legal Concerns Over “People Who Should Be Shot” Chyron
Interesting. This is one of the reasons you should be watching SNL live, because the archives have this editted out. Revisionist history wins the day.

Dynamic Periodic Table
Just because it’s awesome.

Dutchess Wine Trail - Discover the Premium Wineries of the Hudson Valley
Our local wine trail

Storm King Art Center
Giant Art on 1000 acres of beautiful land

Viscount Wines & Liquor
Wine tastings every saturday. It’s like an amusement park for adults.

Dutchess County Tourism
dutchess county tourism page

Stanford CS Ed Library
If you or a friend are trying to cut or re-cut your teeth on basic C stuff, I found this site years ago that’s actually quite good. Especially as they don’t seem to teach pointers in college any more.

Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool: Table of Contents
For whatever reason the GNU.org docs here suck, and this has always been my reference page for this.

Quick Reference Cards
A bunch of great quick reference cards for various technical tasks.

Advanced Search—The Tree Guide at Arborday.org
In case you are looking to plant a tree, and want to find the right one for your area

Giles Bowkett: Lightbulb Joke: Bad Ruby Programmers
If you follow things in the community, it’s pretty funny. It doesn’t change that I love ruby and ruby on rails, but it’s still funny.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed
The Astronomy Picture of the Day is a wonderful web site that puts up a different astronomy-related picture every day. However, the site does not have an RSS feed. This page fixes that deficiency.

Improbable Research
ignoble winners for this year, really great list of awards

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And you should read it every day, as it’s been this awesome for weeks.

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Radio Paradise played this late this afternoon, and I was hooked.  You can even see it in clamation glory on youtube:

Cows With Guns (music by Dana Lyons, www.cowswithguns.com)

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Overlook Drive-in Movie Theatre   :-: movies schedule :-:   Poughkeepsie, New York - NY
3 miles from our house. So nice to leave a movie theatre and be home in 5 minutes.

The Fail Whale Fan Club
It would be great if we got fail whale and friends, with a different fail creator for every service that is out at twitter.

PC World - Google Under Pressure as App Engine Requests Rise
“Outsourcing to Google is a calculated risk that takes into account my startup’s constraints on cash and available programming time.”

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