General

(Regarding that stupid Boston/ATHF Terror Skeer thing.)
And here’s how: “The General Laws of Massachusetts, which makes it a crime to place a “hoax device” with the intent to panic the public.”

So, in the phrase ‘hoax device’, where ‘device’ meaning ‘something that does something’ and ‘hoax’ meaning ‘doesn’t really’, ‘hoax device’ must mean ‘something that doesn’t do what one assumes it must do’.

In Massachussets, everything that isn’t a bomb might just be a hoax device! I can imagine the state of willy-shrinking fear the MA government is experiencing right now. Boston’s chief of police is probably curled into a fetal ball behind his desk right now, convinced that since the pizza on his desk isn’t ticking, it must be part of a TERIST plot to OVATHOW the GUBMIT.

Woot! iTerm, the best (and yeah, least-frequently-updated) terminal client for OSX has finally been updated!

So far, I really like the new metal skin, and most-importantly, true xterm-like select and middle-click paste.

If you’re still using OSX’s built-in terminal.app, give iTerm a try. It’s free, and it rocks.

Do you have a friend or family member who, perhaps being new to the Intertubes, thinks it’s really cool to forward — or worse, CC — you every single lame email joke, virus alert, chain email, or conspiracy theory?

Let ’em down easy with Thanks. No.

I need to read this article about how to tweak Ubuntu for speed.

Heather got me a tiny little Chihuahua puppy for Christmas this year. So far, all she does is eat and poop and bite me. The puppy does much the same.

All together now: AWWW!

Wild. For years I’ve thought luffas were sea-sponges. In fact, they’re garden vegetables that you can grow in your garden.

Load-balancing with Tomcat and Apache.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of information???????? often an unfamiliar word or name???????? and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly. Anytime the phrase “That’s so weird, I just heard about that the other day” would be appropriate, the utterer is hip-deep in Baader-Meinhof.

That’ll explain why you’ll hear a lot about Scandinavian death metal in the next few weeks.

This video displays the true lyrics to Nightwish’s “Wishmaster”.

*diddly diddly diddly diddly*

Here’s a nice brief list of Linux BASH commands.