Or… sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. I’ve long had an admiration for errol morris, a filmmaker who seems to just keep getting better (I hate him too!) – his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara was (and is) just a marvel. But his writing for the NYT is what really put me in awe of the man. Through a series of […]
A series of events happened lately that caused me to reflect on how simple it would be to kill someone by phone call… or instant message… or perhaps by simply watching a video on a computer or television, ala The Ring (or Ring/リング), where if you watch a videotape you’ll die a week after. Or maybe tuning into do KDIE, with all the death metal hits. Or perhaps less […]
Here’s a killer visualization: http://hint.fm/wind/ It’s a living graphic that provokes and rewards curiosity (zoom in and out, look at the eddies and whorls) as well as teaches. Really astonishing. Probably will go away someday, but check this out (the real one @ the link moves ;)) This one does just about everything right.
Note to self… use this perl program+backup…. http://blog.tsheets.com/2008/tips-tricks/extract-a-single-table-from-a-mysqldump-file.html And since things break over time… the program. Not mine, use at your own peril, etc… just don’t ask why I needed it…. extract_sql Attachments extract_sql (ERROR)
Useful little things. Beat on that old perl script and added support… a few lines of code, a lot of beating my head against the wall, but I didn’t see any other perl solutions. [attachments] Attachments wordpress-upload-post (ERROR)