AM Stereo

As if poorly-implemented electronic voting machines weren’t enough, Mother Jones has a good interview with William Poundstone about the problems inherent in the ‘vote-for-one-candidate’ style of voting, aka plurality voting, that has been the implementation of our democracy for as long as it’s existed. It’s not totally broken, of course — it works great when [...]

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Because I always forget the syntax for this: find ./ -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/string1/string2/g’ {} \;

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Well, it’s been a great three and a half years with SensorLogic, but we’ve decided as a family to move down to the Austin area and so SL and I are parting ways (on very good terms, though). All the best to SL — I hope (and think) that they’ll be very successful! I’m looking [...]

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Schrathe of Defender of Blind Bunnies (if I recall correctly, he’s a crime scene tech in NY) posted a couple of videos showing two different angles of the same event — he uses these videos as a demonstration tool to show new recruits why they shouldn’t believe bystander reports (or even videotape) over physical evidence. [...]

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Anybody doing web development owes it to themselves to check out Firebug – it’s a free Firefox plugin for web development… and while there are several of those already, this one has some features I haven’t seen anybody do yet, like live HTML editing, CSS editing & visualization, and the ability to show you how [...]

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Rick Segal (a VC whose blog, The Post Money Value, is quite interesting) has returned from a recent trip to Antarctica with some truly beautiful photos which he’s linked to in his blog post. The pics of Antarctica start about a third of the way through the Flickr set, but here’s one just to give [...]

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