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Costanza

I just tried go visit a bunch of sites I used to look at before I found reddit. I was disappointed to see that worth1000 has been subsumed into another site, but I was pleased to see that fark.com and somethingawful.com are still at it. One of my favorite SA forums from back in theContinue reading “Costanza”

Sweet Berry Wine!

I don’t know if it’s art, but I know what I hate. And I don’t hate this. In the words of Dr. Steve Brule, “Wine was invented by the Romans, for orgies. But orgies aren’t too much fun when no one wants to do it with you.” Some of the most powerful men in SiliconContinue reading “Sweet Berry Wine!”

Asynchronous Backbone Routing

So, the Backbone scene isn’t what it used to be. But, I recently implemented a Backbone solution with RequireJS. I really like having the ability to “lazy load” resources on demand. Anyone who has worked with Backbone’s router knows that your code can get quite lengthy when the number of routes starts to grow. The exampleContinue reading “Asynchronous Backbone Routing”

LOL – BlackBerry Named “Venice”

They should have named it “Orson” or “Touch of Evil” maybe. RIM really phoned it in on this one. Source: BlackBerry’s Android-powered Venice phone surfaces in the wild

$1.8 Trillion Just Went poof

$1.8 trillion has been lost between now and the first quarter — and overwhelmingly, those losses occurred in the last few days. This will probably be the worst quarter for stock-market destruction since the third quarter of 2011, when $2.8 trillion was wiped away. via Households just saw $1.8 trillion in wealth vanish as stocksContinue reading “$1.8 Trillion Just Went *poof*”