Another beautiful speech from Obama, this one in Berlin:
One line in particular struck a real chord with me:
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, [...]
From VALIS:
Save me, protect me, God, in this day of wrath.
So it took me about twenty years to figure out something pretty fundamental about writing characters. I just finished a story about this kid, his father (who thinks he’s a god) and his mother (a depressed alcoholic). When I first started writing it, the story focused almost exclusively on the boy and his dad; the [...]
Behold, again, the horror:
I remember being shocked and nauseated when I first saw this, but it’s taken on a whole new resonance in the past few months, as McCain has steadily jettisoned everything that made him worthwhile and honorable as a candidate, in order to embrace the Bush Way, in all its jingoistic, pitiless incoherence. [...]
Came across this post in the Opera developer blog, on why you should never use browser detection in your javascript to work around browser bugs:
The TinyMCE/Opera 9.5 compatibility problem is a textbook example of why browser sniffing should be avoided at all costs. While it may seem like a quick and simple shortcut [...]
Back when I was a young pup, before the world decided that it needed “mice” and “keyboards” and “editors” and “compilers”, we programmed by burning tiny holes in ribbons of paper tape with magnifying glasses, and then feeding them into Mastodon, our 80-ton Difference Engine. Mastodon was installed on a small island in the South [...]
I defy you to get to the end of this video without a giant, ear-to-ear grin plastered on your face. It’s pure, distilled happiness:
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
(via Nani)
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