September 2008
18 posts
My letter to my house represenative
Dear Representative Pelosi:
I write to you today not to ask you to vote for or against the current financial bailout bill, but rather to ask you to slow down. Congress was not built to act quickly. Conversely, Congress was established to slow down the process of the law: to act precisely and with great judgment. That is not what I have seen from Capital Hill in the past week.
The only thing...
“To blame the people who lent the money for the real estate boom is like blaming...”
– Michael Lewis Michael Lewsis’ Mansion
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A while ago I remember seeing John Nunemaker’s live search with quicksilver in jQuery and I remember thinking how cool it was that someone had finally ported Quicksilver over to Javascript (ported…
“I don’t torture myself over decisions. I make them as quickly as I can,...”
– “Worth the Fighting For” - John McCain, 2002. Do we really want a president who doesn’t torture himself over decisions? It pisses me off that we have so many Americans who value “judgment” like this over careful planning and consulting with experts.
“Congress has an obligation to protect the taxpayer.
Congress has an obligation...”
– Before DC Gets Our Money, It Owes Us Some Answers - Newt Gingrich
Redonkulously catchy remix of The Black Kids -...
Zero Punctuation Reviews Spore →
Zero Punctuation may not be you typical game review site, but it’s probably my favorite. Every week Yahtzee throws together a quick review for a game in his usual snarky style. Today he posted up…
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“Lehman was only incompetent enough to blow up and destroy themselves, where as...”
– Kids, the lesson here is: If you’re going to fuck up, fuck up so bad that you’ll screw up everyone’s life.
HAPPY SPORE DAY →
Well, the day has come. Spore is released. I don’t know what to say. How’s it feel? Don’t have spore yet? Get it now!
“How did “USA” become a term of defiance and division? It sounds ugly, like...”
– CNN (I’d give credit to a person, but CNN doesn’t see fit to credit their quotes any longer)
Why I am so cynical towards new browsers →
The talk around town today was all over Google Chrome. It’s a new browser from Google that does have a lot of very good ideas. A lot of ideas that are going to push other browser manufacturers…
