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Sam Kimbrel
San Francisco, California
Interests: programming, software engineering, music, food, cooking, wine, video games, puppies
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Neocons petition the White House for secession
In another storm of brilliance, a bunch of grassroots petitions have sprung up on the White House's site asking for states to be allowed to secede from the Union. Texas has the most signatures so far, followed by Louisiana and another dozen or so, including New York(!) and New Jersey.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 12, 2012 at Shut Up And Click It
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Apollo 13, We Have a Solution - IEEE Spectrum
Even The Crew were unaware of the gravity of the situation. In the Ron Howard movie, the oxygen tank two explosion is accompanied by a whole series of bangs and creaks while the astronauts are tossed around like ping-pong balls. But in real life, "there was a dull but definite... Continue reading
Reblogged Nov 8, 2012 at Shut Up And Click It
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Study: Protected Bike Lanes Reduce Injury Risk Up to 90 Percent | Streetsblog Capitol Hill
by Angie Schmitt This diagram shows that as bike infrastructure becomes progressively more separate from vehicular traffic, the risk of injury generally declines, while the appeal of the route to cyclists tends to increase. Image: I Bike TO A study by researchers at the University of British Columbia provides compelling... Continue reading
Reblogged Nov 1, 2012 at Shut Up And Click It
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Apr 10, 2012
Apollo 18+20: an interactive-fiction tribute to They Might Be Giants
Reblogged Mar 27, 2012 at Shut Up And Click It
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Alli Houseworth: “This Is A Work of Non-Fiction”
And then what happened? We learned from a radio producer, a year later, that Mike’s facts weren’t true. And what Mike did was apologize to him, to Ira. But he never apologized to us, and he never apologized to our audiences. In fact, what he did in his retraction interview... Continue reading
Reblogged Mar 21, 2012 at Shut Up And Click It
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Mar 20, 2012
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (via One Div Zero)
1842 - Ada Lovelace writes the first program. She is hampered in her efforts by the minor inconvenience that she doesn't have any actual computers to run her code. Enterprise architects will later relearn her techniques in order to program in UML. via james-iry.blogspot.com Comedy gold. Continue reading
Reblogged Jan 24, 2012 at Shut Up And Click It
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Jan 12, 2012
“They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart.”
via www.youtube.com Great song, great clip. Continue reading
Reblogged Jan 7, 2012 at Shut Up And Click It
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Hackathon VI
Reblogged Dec 20, 2011 at Shut Up And Click It
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Dec 20, 2011
Little Boots — SHAKE
Little Boots is back. Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2011 at Shut Up And Click It
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Anil Dash: Facebook is gaslighting the web
Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace Facebook technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that Facebook is gaslighting users into... Continue reading
Reblogged Nov 21, 2011 at Shut Up And Click It
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An open letter to the University of California regarding the UCPD's mistreatment of peaceful protesters
UPDATE: I've rewritten this into a petition at Change.org. Please go there and sign it to show your support! President Yudof, Chancellor Birgeneau: I am a recent graduate of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences program at Berkeley. I have always been proud to be a Berkeley alumnus, but as... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2011 at Shut Up And Click It
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Nov 17, 2011
Like, Python
#!usr/bin/python # My first Like, Python script! yo just print like "hello world" bro via www.staringispolite.com Did you ever wish you could brogram in Python? Now you can! Continue reading
Reblogged Nov 10, 2011 at Shut Up And Click It
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Oct 28, 2011
The Apple effect on ISP traffic
Reblogged Oct 18, 2011 at Shut Up And Click It
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