Samuel Clemens Rewtapello (screwtape)

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello Michael Gratton

http://ur1.ca/dzs2e ← @mjog

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So, $EMPLOYER set up a new Zimbra mail-server and I'm using it. The web client is no gmail, but then again what is?

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello

http://ur1.ca/dz35j ← A more-or-less scientific examination of the question "What words ought to exist?"

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Action RPGs are to the roguelikes that spawned them as Tetris is to the game of Pentominoes: simplified, and more focussed on tactics.

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello

http://ur1.ca/dtp3y ← I think Canonical wants to have the same relationship to Linux as Apple does to BSD.

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello lnxwalt (lnxwalt280)

@lnxwalt280 The W3C is about as open as they come, which is why these corporate interests were allowed to join.

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I've just noticed Firefox's "Add-on Manager" now has a tab for "Services" as well as "Plugins" and "Extensions". I wonder what they are.

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello Sean Neakums

@sneakums Welcome back.

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http://ur1.ca/dlgjm ← Conference talk of the day (30 min)

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http://ur1.ca/dlds5 ← Holy cow, somebody updated the ancient RadialContext extension for modern Firefox!

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http://ur1.ca/djyox ← From the URL, I'd been wildly hoping for an inscrutable homage to Larson's "Cow Tools".

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This just in: Archaeologists working in Lebanon have uncovered the world's oldest known Phoenician blinds. #badpun

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http://ur1.ca/dfohz ← "...if you build a bookshelf and forget to tighten one of the screws [...], it does not burn down your house"

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Today I learned about the FreeBSD ministat tool (also in #debian) that takes a set of numbers on stdin and draws an annotated histogram.

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http://ur1.ca/dedc0 ← Today's word-of-the-day.

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

@zooko Have you watched the "Git for ages 4 and up" talk from linux.conf.au 2013? It's a bit long, but it's a great visual explanation.

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello quotes , Vladimir Savić

@firusvg I've always liked "Java is to JavaScript as 'car' is to 'carpet'."

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http://ur1.ca/dcpty ← Apparently the true value of a bitcoin is between $0.01 and $15,000.00

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello Evan Prodromou

@evan What are the odds of pump.io supporting Mozilla's "Persona" federated sign-on system?

Samuel Clemens Rewtapello Discussing typography

http://ur1.ca/das3h ← It turns out TeX is not actually the ultimate computer !typography solution.