I emerged from this year’s mock trial season not sure whether I was in the red or black—between the various celebratory dinners and California Pizza Kitchen runs I couldn’t keep track of how much money I had lent and how much I had borrowed. Verbal contracts, though binding here, do not lend themselves to later [...]
I’ve had a hard time finding comprehensive information about setting up an extra monitor with my laptop; I’m collecting everything I’ve figured out here. If you have other tips, experiences or suggestions please post them.
These instructions assume you are using the beta drivers 169.04 or better (available here). It’s possible that they will work for [...]
“Israel,” the prophet Jeremiah writes, “is a lustful she-camel.” In the company of so many complex and meaningful quotes from Pirke Avot Jeremiah’s dromedary is an admittedly unpromising way to start this graduation, but if there is one thing I have learned from Midrasha it is that wisdom manifests itself in the most unexpected places. So please bear with me for a moment.
The Smashing Textures Contest is awarding a free Canon Digital Rebel DSLR to a random entrant in their texture contest.
Stucco is beautiful.
The computer literacy of the average Linux user does seem to be declining. While this is an inevitable consequence of making the OS more widely available, it’s also one that is easily remedied - most of the basic skills people lack can easily be picked up with a little exploration.
What follows is a list of useful tweaks and projects that are also instructive in the fundamentals of operating a Linux desktop. This list is not meant to be a full tutorial, but rather a jumping-off point for each of these projects—after all, the point is to learn by doing these things.
In honor of Yom HaShoah. This essay was originally written for the Holland and Knight Holocaust Remembrance Project.
There is a number that is carved into the stone of memorials, sealed in black lettering in history books and burned into the memories of Jews worldwide. It is a number that has come to symbolize the devastation brought about by the Holocaust, a favorite target both of its deniers [1] and those most committed to preserving the memory of the Shoah [2]. It is a number that represents a tragedy of inconceivable scope and unimaginable horror [...]
A small selection of my photos from our spring break trip to China. More on Flickr and even more on my hard drive - let me know if you want to see any of the others.
I continue to be amazed by how much fun it is to play around with PHILOMENA, a little part-writing program I wrote a couple months back. It’s still incredibly exciting to just throw a string of numbers into the program and watch it spit out decent-sounding piece of music.
For your listening pleasure, a few examples of the talented PHILOMENA’s skill:
Just found this lying around on my hard drive - a little something I put together when I was trying out LMMS.
For low bandwidth and high style.
I figured I’ve been playing around with this theme long enough that it’s time to release it to the general public. Photon was designed to be lightweight and legible. This means no images without semantic content, no tiny fonts, no dark backgrounds.
