September 2009
24 posts
Definition of Punish →
Thanks to Dictionary.com. The Synonyms section at the bottom coarsens the subtleness between the following words:
punish
chastise
discipline
castigate
penalize
Bonus: See the same section for the word between to differentiate it from among.
/dev/cu vs /dev/tty →
The blocking makes me wonder if I should be using /dev/cu* on *nix systems. The question is: how is Windows behaving? Thanks to Stuff Things and Junk.
Artwiculate - A word of the day game for Twitter →
(via allenluo)
This is awesome!
Thirty-Three
Speak to me in a language I can hear...
Arduino-human synthesizer →
Two of my worlds emulsify into this, with the conductive paint being the most interesting interconnect.
Bill of Rights and Lefts →
Surfing etiquette compliments of Surfline.
Doctors implant tooth into eye, restore sight,... →
This is an amazing hack. I wonder if they could have used cartilage instead. How about forcing a cells to create a keratin structure? Patent!
How to add, modify, or delete registry subkeys and... →
Never thought I would have to do this someday.
OCRA: One-Click Ruby Application Builder →
Ever wanted to create a “self-extracting, self-running executable that contains the Ruby interpreter, your source code and any additionally needed ruby libraries or DLL”?
Microsoft Windows XP - Cmd →
Oh cmd.exe, what parameters can I send you?
RT @dalmaer Using a Java applet. How do I know? It flickers when I scroll. JavaFX is doomed unless they fix the huge number of UX issues
Almost bought a $600 Russell.
A camera cannot do this justice: http://twitgoo.com/3fm1u
VIVA CHILE MIERDA!
Google Apps experiment was a fiasco. Reverting my MX records…
What? No one cares about me? That’s what I thought. Someday I’ll stop forgetting that. The ocean would have my body if she had her way.
Eventually I will become inured to fact that Homo sapiens are selfish, self-centered and self-seeking creatures.
I watched the sun set under the beach and pondered my worth once more. Anyone have a longboard I can borrow?
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Hallmark
Although it is commonly used as “A is the hallmark of B”, to describe the distinguishing feature of an entity, I was surprised to learn that a hallmark is
an official mark or stamp indicating a standard of purity, used in marking gold and silver articles assayed by the Goldsmiths’ Company of London (1)
It can also be used as a verb, but its noun variant is more common. A google...
CSS Computed Style →
allenluo:
How to use it?
document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(elem, null)[‘CSSProperty’] or document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(elem, null).CSSProperty. For non-IE browsers that is.