Category Archives: General

37signals coder Jamis Buck has a nice post about returning to Vim after a few years of using TextMate. He also developed an extension to the awesome fuzzyfinder.vim script to make it more like TextMate.

NYTimes covers meat consumption and greenhouse gases. Growing meat (it’s hard to use the word “raising” when applied to animals in factory farms) uses so many resources that it’s a challenge to enumerate them all. But consider: an estimated 30 … Continue reading →

I forgot to mention I was going on vacation, but now I’m back. I went to the British Virgin Islands with some friends and sailed around for a week. My pictures are here, there are more to come.

Amanda from Rhapsody in Blog has painstakingly reproduced Rhino Records’ 90′s box set Whatever: The 90′s Pop and Culture Box as a Rhapsody playlist. There were only six tracks missing from Rhapsody and two buy-only tracks. Nice!

Here’s an excellent article in which Natalie Angier takes scientists to task for having a double standard when it comes to religion and supernaturalism. Consider the very different treatments accorded two questions presented to Cornell University’s “Ask an Astronomer” Web … Continue reading →

Woohoo!

Time to start working on my link backlog. Most of these will be self-explanatory with redundant titles.

MSNBC has a comprehensive list of charities providing aid to the tsunami victims. Amazon also has 1-Click Red Cross donations. [via rc3.org]

Cyber-Claus by William Gibson.