“ There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous. ”
“ My nuanced position isn’t that hard: if you can generate a DOM do so. When you can’t, fuck around with mixing Turing complete languages and regex and any other tool at your disposal, and join a cult dedicated to the resurrection of a dead god. ”
pwnguin, So, does anyone know how to make an HTML regex parser? | MetaFilter
“ I don’t care much whether or not Gladwell is right or not, or if he’s a good author (I read Blink, and I thought it was a bit repetitive, without much concrete information). I just love watching people fight over how bad he is. It’s like intellectual pro-wrestling. ”
Metafilter user mccarty.tim, commenting on Pinker on Gladwell | MetaFilter
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Roger Sterling: You don’t know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it’s good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it’s what men do.
Don Draper: What about shaky hands, I see a lot of that with you boys?
Roger Sterling: No joke. Your kind with your gloomy thoughts and your worries, you’re all busy licking some imaginary wound.
Don Draper: Not all imaginary.
Roger Sterling: Yeah, boo hoo.
Don Draper: Maybe I’m not as comfortable being powerless as you are.
”Mad Men S1E4
“ First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure. ”
Douglas Adams
The Sartorialist: On the Street……Nicole, Berlin
Way to revive those “let’s move to Germany” thoughts, Sartorialist.
A page from Charles Babbage’s autobiography. LOL CHARTS from the 19th century.
“ I’m not Prince or Rivers Cuomo who brags about having hundreds of great songs. And to that I would say, Prince, if you have a hundred great songs or a thousand, how about picking a few and putting them on your record that you’ve put out because your last several have sucked. Same for you, Rivers. I say that constructively, you know. I might be happy and engaged, but I can still be a prick. ”
- trent reznor (via pitchfork)
no disrespect, but the man has a point…
(via spangley)
