January 2008
Finally we leave Birmingham
Reports state transportation will resume shortly.
iPhone Sux, part 1.1.3 →
Part 1 covered the size of the disk from 1.0 to 1.1.2. In 1.1.3, things have changed.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s1 267M 264M 0B 100% /
devfs 18K 18K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/disk0s2 7.3G 6.1G 1.2G 84% /private/var
That’s right, somehow I lost 33M of space on /.
The horror of subreddits →
Well, aside from the fact they’re not tags, everybody wants to own a subreddit. So right when they got announced, one of the first was ‘Apple’ and I, a macfag, joined immediately. But now there’s ‘mac’ and ‘osx’ subreddits. There’s also a ‘video’ to the earlier ‘videos’ (I joined videos when it appeared, video did not exist, it does not), and a ‘webcomics’ to the earlier ‘comics’ (which...
@factoryjoe Get a neti pot
Chicago Basketball →
When I was leaving my hotel in Chicago in 2006, this black dude came up to me and basically asked for money because they needed uniforms for basketball at the ymca and their coach was having them go raise money
I gave him like a few dollar bills because I thought this was a hilarious story to buy some crack, and because I’d lose in a fight with him
The Houston Chronicle deleted article 5374328 →
Thanks for deleting your article. A google for chron 5374238 will help you find people referencing what is called a “hit piece”, and since you might be one of them here is the now deleted article (news a month old is not important for archiving, I guess they don’t want to be called out in a couple years for being wrong, not necessarily on this but on anything):
Dec. 13, 2007, 11:14AM
On the...
Awesome Bullshit.com rewards linkjacking →
The plan as is is to check the content of the page vs all pages ever submitted to awesomebullshit.com. Not only is this hilarious because it will slaughter his database, but he’s going to ban people who submit dupes. This rewards linkjacking. What is linkjacking?
Let’s say someone shoots up a school, and I know this is big news. I copy paste an Associated Press article to my blog, post it,...
Baltimore, the new Florida? →
There’s a reason Fark has a “FLORIDA” tag: Florida is home to a lot of just plain fucked up news stories. But I’m starting to see Baltimore attempt to take that label away:
From the SA’s office: Just before his scheduled rape trial was scheduled to begin today, Baltimore Police Officer William Darrell Welch, 41, of Quiet Stream Court, Timonium, Maryland, pled guilty to misconduct in office.
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I love when the weight watchers meetings get Sarah to learn she can cook foods I like
