While the sentiment is understandable, this sort of thing is no longer (sadly) considered to be legitimate civil disobedience, it is more likely to be considered a volation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Caveat haxxor…

Nice introduction! If you want to dive deeper into Vim I can fully recommend Drew Neil’s Practical Vim. I’ve been using Vim more or less daily since several years but it not only taught me new tricks but really increased my understanding of Vim.

Notorious patent troll theorises from his penthouse about developing better technology to roast his quail…

Meanwhile, in the real world, one in eight people are chronically malnourished.

Not helping, Nathan.

Syndicating blog posts has merit; I’m not so sure that anywhere near the same sort of value would come from twitter…

6 - Avoid at all costs…

Sadly, the entire commons, not just in the fields of the arts and sciences, are under threat from metastasizing enclosure. It is not too fanciful to image future generations viewing this concept with the same quaint bemusement with which we regard Medieval concepts of collective responsibility…

Since lenses in the 17th century were less perfect than modern lenses, I decided to make my own lens using 17th century techniques.

Taking a “vanity” project to a heretofor unheard of level…

Marc Andreessen is a major architect of our current technologically mediated reality. As the leader of the team that created the Mosaic Web browser in the early ’90s and as co-founder of Netscape, Andreessen, possibly more than any single other person, helped make the Internet accessible to the masses.

Typical dramatized journalistic bullshit. Salon apparently felt the need to make this “Marc Andreessen” seem more important than he really is in order to make his viewpoint seem more important and representative (and thus more reprehensible).

How is Marc Andreessen more important than Tim Berners-Lee or Vint Cerf vis-a-vis the Internet? Ridiculous nonsense.

Confirmation bias writ large…

I don’t do individual playlists, prefer to listen to entire works of favorite musicians. Mostly jazz, blues, reggae and soul. Just looking at my current playlist.

Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Mingus, Jonas Hellborg, Moon Hooch, Cody Chesnutt, Nikki Yanofsky, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Hypnotic Bras Ensemble, De'Angelo, Lala Hathaway, Anthony Hamilton, Lettuce, Soulive, Groundation, Black Uhuru ..

Mix of masters, mainstream and buskers.

I’m probably the noisiest quite guy to work near. Big fuck-off headphones on, restless-leg syndrome and a lot of nodding and head-bobbing. Add to that my habit of alternating between sitting and standing desk, coffee, dark chocolate and nuts, and I’m pretty much wired the whole time I’m at work.

Here is a taste of my tastes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkqCHb2HPeA&list=PLA99DFCD25068007B

[Quick edit: Yeah, I do choose instrumentals over vocals when coding. For all sorts of other other non-creative programming chores, then I do prefer vocals.]

To really get into the flow, I play records by The Necks. Long, instrumental tracks that are improvised around very simple figures. They generally feature a strong pulse that propels the track (and me) forward and, at about an hour long, also remind me to get up and walk around before reimmersion…

That’s very cool. You can remove a couple of the pipes with awk:

git log --raw | awk '/^Author: / {$1=""; printf "- %s\n", $0}' | sort | uniq