http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog messy things Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:45:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There it is, the new new new new thing, following in the footsteps of the new new new thing, the new new thing, and the new thing. You'll never guess what's next! http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2012/04/25/new-new-new-new/ Oh how quickly things change. Remember this post? It's SO FOUR MONTHS AGO. First they announce that you can no longer feed your posts to your book as notes. Great. And streaming your buzzes to your circles? HA! WHAT buzzes? So what to do ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/11/23/wave-my-knols/ Plain old Chinese internet radio is so old and busted. Jenny's new thing is this station that plays Chinese and Taiwanese pop songs from the 80's and 90's. It's pretty much the best thing ever! Here's one of the songs we just heard: http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/09/23/oldies-but-goodies/ They threatened to send me several times before, but I just printed out my boarding pass so I guess this time is real. I am going to Bangalore, or is it Bengaluru... well really ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು in the language I'm more familiar with as a way to make funny little ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/08/12/bangalore/ One of my many personal failings is that I've never been able to figure out how to play Dwarf Fortress. Remember Cypher staring into The Matrix? Playing Dwarf Fortress is kind of like that, except instead of seeing blonde, brunette, redhead you see dwarf, goblin, carnivorous trout. ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/07/22/losing-is-fun/ My blog connects to my book, so every post becomes a note, eventually. Also, my blog connects to my buzz! So every post I blog is automatically buzzed! Finally, as of today, my buzz is even connected to my plus. So the question is: when I ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/07/11/transitive/ I was shocked today to find out that http://ac/ actually works. I found some other working two letter domain names, here is the whole list: http://ac/ http://ai/ http://bi/ (looks like whoever put this up is as surprised as me) http://dk/ http://hk/ http://io/ http://tm/ http://uz/ And as if that wasn't enough, here is the grand prize winning crazy domain ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/06/21/top-10-most-surprising-domain-names-that-actually-work/ This post by bunnie gets my vote for blog post of the year. First he shows you where to download the genetic code for the super-resitant form of E. coli found on German bean sprouts. Then he shows you where to download a database of genes known to ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/06/10/decompiling-e-coli/ Hail!, a photo by minutillo on Flickr.Decent sized hail in Nate's back yard yesterday. http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/06/09/hail/ This is completely insane. I mean I get the whole "Turing Equivalence" thing, but still. Fabrice Bellard, who has written some pretty important bits of computing infrastructure, has created a fully functional x86 emulator in JavaScript! It boots up Linux and lands you at a root prompt. ... http://minutillo.com/steve/weblog/2011/05/17/no-way/