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published 3 months ago (30.07.2008 22:04)

internet censorship in china

excerpt from an article on theatlantic.com about the great chinese firewall:

17 June 2006, 18:35
From: Chen Hua, deputy director of the Beijing Internet Information Administrative Bureau

Dear colleagues, the Internet has of late been full of articles and messages about the death of a Shenzhen engineer, Hu Xinyu, as a result of overwork. All sites must stop posting articles on this subject, those that have already been posted about it must be removed from the site and, finally, forums and blogs must withdraw all articles and messages about this case.

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published 3 months ago (28.07.2008 21:56)

Oh Carol (1969)

Update: dammit, they took the video down! here’s a hilarious one from 1964, though.

Recorded at Madison Square Garden in 1969.

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published 4 months ago (26.07.2008 17:44)

»Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes… A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men «

—Betrand Russell in Why I Am Not a Christian, 1927

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published 4 months ago (21.07.2008 00:19)

loading data from mysql into couchdb with rest and ActiveRecord

$KCODE = 'u'

require 'rubygems'
require_gem 'activerecord'
require 'rest_client'

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
end

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter => "mysql", 
  :database => "hello_world", 
  :encoding => 'UTF8'
)

MyModel.find(:all).each do |record|
  p RestClient.post('http://localhost:5984/hello_world', record.to_json)
end

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published 4 months ago (20.07.2008 00:38)

finally flash is being put to good use!

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published 4 months ago (13.07.2008 16:17)

perl needs no obfusciation ...

interestingly, you can be just as obscure in ruby.

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published 4 months ago (13.07.2008 12:58)

Finally another car design that doesn't suck

Vrooooom!!—The Maserati GranTourismo, designed by Pininfarina. They also built a nice online configurator for it! although … it looks a lot (too much) like the Aston Martin DBS. or is it the other way round?