Entries for week beginning September 4, 2005
➠ September 9, 2005
Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
Compare with Larry Wall’s “Laziness, Impatience, Hubris” virtues of a programmer theory.
Pulp/Radiohead supergroup forms to be Weird Sisters
Following on from Ian Brown’s cameo in the last Harry Potter film, Jarvis Cocker and a couple of Radioheadies are going to appear in the next one,
➠ September 7, 2005
Threadless T-Shirts - Regrowth: Katrina
Lovely idea — Threadless are selling this shirt for $10, but will donate *$20* to hurricane relief for every one sold. Mine is already ordered.
Apple - iPod nano
The replacement for the iPod mini is just delectable. Tiny, shiny, and available in a sleek black.
The New Yorker: THE MORAL-HAZARD MYTH
Excellent article by Malcolm Gladwell explaining just how horrendously fucked-up the US health industry is. “Because the uninsured are sicker than the rest of us, they can’t get better jobs, and because they can’t get better jobs they can’t afford health insurance, and because they can’t afford health insurance they get even sicker.”
I, Cringely . NerdTV
The first episode of NerdTV — the online-only PBS-funded geek interview show hosted by a Bob Cringely — is now online. There are some really interesting guests lined up, so this definitely has potential.
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