Yilan smiled and watched the cities in the smoke, and the passing shapes of friends. Enkindu, Patroclus, Hephestion, and Antony and a thousand others. “Patroclus,” he called him. “And Lancelot. And Roland. O my friend…do you see, do you yet see? Sometimes we meet so late…you’re always with me, but so often born late, my [...]

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Many’s the time I’ve surfed the vast wonders of the cybernetic ocean and wondered, “Wouldn’t it be nice to have this bit of coral back home, resting peacefully on the mantelpiece?”. Well, perendinate no longer! I present to you my first Firefox add-on, an add-on that lets you upload images you see on webpages directly [...]

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Today I learned that there are snipers atop buildings in the downtown core, in case any “terrorists” attack or there isn’t enough cheering when $country wins $medal. Click to enlarge the pics. Anybody know what kind of sniper rifle that is? EDIT – The comments have taught me that the two guns aren’t “sniper” rifles. [...]

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Should have let them all drown, Alan. Down to the bottom of Davy Jones’ locker where the fish could pick them clean for millennia. And by extension, let them starve. In the hundreds of thousands. The things you could have exacted for a modicum of respect.

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This is interesting. I’d never heard of this before, but it warrants some analysis. Look at where we sit. more individualistic AND more secular-rational than the good ol’ US. Japan and Sweden are at the top, who would have thought? I wonder how old this is, it shows Eastern and Western Germany. It also misspells [...]

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If you’ve ever wanted to see how long you’ll be playing a particular artist’s music for, if you were to play their entire discography, I present a one-liner in bash that will show you just that. find . -type f -name ‘*.mp*’ -exec exiftool ‘{}’ + | grep Duration | awk ‘{x += $3; print [...]

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