Go Terk Yourself

Now, this is interesting.

Crap.

I had a chance to play around with Capistrano this weekend. It's a cool little tool and it works very well.

This is easily the coolest thing you will see today: panoramas manipulated to look like little planets.

I have a very unhealthy obsession with Conservapedia. The New York Magazine has a proposed (Conservative) People's History of New York City for inclusion in the right wing wiki.

For your enjoyment I present Morris Day and The Time.

It looks like there may finally be a reason to buy a PS3 (watch the video).

AI Cited for Unlicensed Practice of Law

Libby Found Guilty in CIA Leak Case

The Copyright Royalty Board, a panel set up by the US Copyright Office to decide on issues having to do with royalty payments by internet broadcasters, recently issued a new set of royalty rates for internet radio stations. From the report at RAIN and a blog post by Radio Paradise's Bill Goldsmith it looks like the new rates could be as much as 125% of a large internet radio station's revenues. No, that's not a typo. For smaller radio stations the royalties could be as much as 200% or revenues or more.

This could be the end of Radio Paradise and other "traditional" internet radio stations, but it would also do away with more innovative services like Pandora, Tourfilter and The Hype Machine which, because they allow people to listen over the internet, would also be subject to these new royalty rates.

I'm not completely sure what we can do about this yet but I figure that sharing these facts with the meager readership of these blogs is a good step.

1776 Million Kinds of Awesome

This is nice to know: Subversion's default keyword substitution setting is exactly opposite of CVS'.

Subversion will never attempt to perform textual substitutions on your file contents unless explicitly asked to do so.

So that's why -kb isn't ever necessary when svning.

Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein

Discovered via. Dr. Nic: ZenTest.

ZenTest scans your target and unit-test code and writes your missing code based on simple naming rules, enabling XP at a much quicker pace. ZenTest only works with Ruby and Test::Unit.

autotest is a continous testing facility meant to be used during development. As soon as you save a file, autotest will run the corresponding dependent tests.

I've been telling a few people on a quasi regular basis about what I call the headline of the day. Reddit usually has at least one (sometimes more) awesome headline every day. Here's todays:

Meth-dealing principal was naked and watching gay porn when cops arrived to arrest him