The End

April 29, 2009

Not really, I’m just changing the way this site is managed. You can find the latest posts at jackbaty.com

Stumutilation

March 8, 2009

Stumutilation:

“What if only people who had any idea what the fuck they’re talking about could speak or write about the economic catastrophe in which we find ourselves?

It’d be pretty quiet.”

(Via Davenetics.)

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Dolphin playing with Bubble Rings

March 8, 2009

Neat.

Dolphin Play Bubble Rings - Click here for funny video clips

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Super Cool

March 6, 2009
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The Unfinished: The New Yorker on DFW


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March 6, 2009

The New Yorker on David Foster Wallace

He conjured the world in two-hundred-word sentences that mixed formal diction and street slang, technicalese and plain speech; his prose slid forward with a controlled lack of control that mimed thought itself.

More here

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The Pale King


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March 1, 2009

Yes! I think.

The Pale King: “A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year. ‘The Pale King’, excerpted in The New Yorker magazine edition coming out Monday, is set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois in the 1980s.”

(Via Daring Fireball.)

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I Think You’ll Like It


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March 1, 2009

hornby on recommending :

You think I’ll like it, do you? Well, it has taken me more than 50 years to get anywhere near an understanding of what I think I might like, and even then I get it wrong half the time, so what chance have you got?

(Via 3quarksdaily.)

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Transform


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March 1, 2009

Thought provoking short film about photography and the desire to transform, by Zach Arias

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Safari and Innovation


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February 24, 2009

MacNN.com on Safari 4

As is likely self-evident by now, the chief criticism that can be leveled against Safari is its tendency to chase rather than lead. Apple says it’s “leading the way with innovation,” but its actual breakthrough is simply in uniting the better features from a number of different browser into a [...]

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I need some new friends


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February 22, 2009

A couple of years ago I said, in some meeting or another, that soon we would all be required to log into Facebook regularly. I think I was right, but I’m not at all happy about it. Facebook sucks. Wait, let me rephrase that. Unless you’re 17 years old or completely fascinated by everyone’s latest [...]

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Trying the Zeiss Biogon 35mm


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February 21, 2009

The problem with being exposed to the best of anything is that everything else becomes, well, not the best. A few years ago I owned a Leica Summicron 35mm ASPH. Best 35mm lens on the planet. Then I sold it with the rest of the film gear when I went insane digital.

Now that I’m back [...]

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Todo.txt CLI Manages Your Tasks from the Command Line

February 19, 2009

Lifehacker Code: Todo.txt CLI Manages Your Tasks from the Command Line: “Dozens of fancy point-and-click task managers promise to organize your to-do list, but so often power users find that nothing outdoes that trusty old classic: the todo.txt file.”

I would normally be all over this. I love Vi, love text files, and so on. What [...]

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Legs


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February 18, 2009

This may suffer from motion blur. It may be slightly out of focus and it’s loaded with dust on the negative. It’s still a good photo.

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Twitter Groups


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February 17, 2009

Twitter Groups: Loren Brichter on the problems faced by Twitter client developers tempted to add ‘group’ features.

Except of course that other than group synching between multiple computers, TweetDeck already does this perfectly.

(Via Daring Fireball.)

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Light-tight box my Ass!


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February 15, 2009

A camera is most decidedly not just a light-tight box to hold the film. This one isn’t anyway.

This is my new Leica M4. It was built in 1966 and looks practically new. You camera nerds might notice that it has been customized with the much cooler M3-style levers. I love everything about this camera. It’s [...]

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