Tom Lee's Internetting

Gunsmoke!

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:18:06 -0400

Probably the greatest part of the intersection between the late Sunday Chinatown bus and iPhone ownership is the ability to listen to WAMU’s weekly installment of The Big Broadcast without any…

selecting a compression standard for arbitrary data: also arbitrary!

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:18:05 -0400

selecting a compression standard for arbitrary data: also arbitrary!:

In keeping with this site’s new ambition to become a J. Sanchez metablog:

Randomly wondered when/why RAR supplanted ZIP as the default compression scheme. Internet knows: …

net neutrality, forever and ever

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:28:05 -0400

net neutrality, forever and ever:

Well, the FCC has announced its net neutrality guidelines, which means it’s time for those with institutional or philosophical obligations to oppose net neutrality to express some disappointment…

periodic existential assertion

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:12:18 -0400

periodic existential assertion:

I’m waiting for Windows to finish installing some IE8 debugging software, so perhaps now is a good time to take a breath, open Wordpress and note that I am not dead. I’m just busy. We’re…

that was quick

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:12:16 -0400

that was quick:

I think that this is great: an aspiring lunch vendor has cleverly dodged the city’s licensing limits on food carts by selling his product to existing hotdoggerias, whose licenses allow them to…

Link

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:09:39 -0400

Link

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:13:21 -0400

Link

Lightning Round: Rebel Yell.

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:54:28 -0400

Lightning Round: Rebel Yell.:

test2

The United States Does not Need China to "help float a U.S. deficit expected to reach $1.56 trillion this year"

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:54:26 -0400

The United States Does not Need China to "help float a U.S. deficit expected to reach $1.56 trillion this year":

test 3

making Redskins Radio usably portable

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:09:16 -0400

making Redskins Radio usably portable:

Surely any Redskins fan will agree that foremost among Dan Snyder’s sins is his selection of a broadcast outlet that only provides its audio stream in Flash.

See, I’m going to be heading back from…

the next big thing: artisanal coffin production

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:08:42 -0400

the next big thing: artisanal coffin production:

Emily and I have been building a coffin. This is nominally for Halloween, though I realized partway through the process that “he was buried in a novelty coffin he constructed himself” would…

Tim Lee on newspapers

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:58:20 -0400

Tim Lee on newspapers:

I agree with all of this. But then, that’s probably because Tim has been slowly convincing me of it for the past few years. Anyway, I feel pretty confident that this is the way it’s going to be.

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pagination on The Awl?!

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:18:34 -0400

pagination on The Awl?!:

Maaan.

I had this naive hope that actually if you got rid of almost all the MBAs and kept things small and the writers owned the enterprise, there’d be enough of a business left that we, the…

dodged a bullet: Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:09:33 -0400

dodged a bullet:

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch

Julian Sanchez on the strange enthusiasm for net neutrality

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:35:47 -0400

Julian Sanchez on the strange enthusiasm for net neutrality:

Worth reading. I think he’s right that to some extent this phenomenon is born of geeks in search of a cause to fight for — certainly this is something I’ve been guilty of. On the other hand, the…

District 9 – format, racism, games and movies

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:58:24 -0400

District 9 – format, racism, games and movies:

There’s an interesting discussion of District 9 happening in Spencer’s comment section. Rather than respond inline, I figured I’d blog it and see if the navel-gazing contagion can’t be…

more robots

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:58:23 -0400

more robots:

Tim wades in to the debate about robots replacing low-skilled workers. I don’t think I made my case as strongly as I could have, and consequently I can’t resist responding, if only briefly.

I…

my Artomatic piece explained (finally)

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:28:44 -0400

my Artomatic piece explained (finally):

I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, ever since Emily pointed out to me that I never actually, um, explained what the hell my Artomatic efforts were supposed to do. Here’s an awkward video…

from the Red Derby bathroom wall: The first comment? Sure,...

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:00:29 -0400

from the Red Derby bathroom wall:

The first comment? Sure, anytown, USA. The second and third ones
backing it up? Only in DC, baby.

Note: I don’t endorse this sort of insufferable grammar policing, even
though I find it oddly charming.

in war, nobody wins

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:28:12 -0400

in war, nobody wins:

No:

No!:

Even to you, Steve, I have to — goddammit — I have to say no:

This war on adverbs has to end. It’s madness — madness I tell you! We…