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No. But they say they'll submit their code back into webkit as fast as they can. So hopefully soon!

I'm hoping for an ABC parser to complement the tab. Unfortunately I can't read music no matter the notation.

This isn't groundbreaking research or anything. He does give a few examples of his rebound [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)]. Paraphrased: while the average energy consumption to heat 1m^3 went from 365kWh in 1973 to 215 in 2005, energy devoted to heating rose 20%. Average temperatures in residential buildings rose from 19 to 21ºC.

He can't reasonably pin all these increases on 'Green Tech' alone though. (Maybe people don't wear fancy suits as much, instead opting for t-shirts. Voila more chauffage.) Cheap heat probably does make it easier for someone to kick up the thermostat, but so do other factors he neglects to mention.

http://www.fanchatter.com/ are YC alums who've built their company to some degree on twitter. They went through a few years ago, probably pre-RFC 3.

Earthships are worth a look for anyone who wonders why the average modern house is so wasteful.

I kind of like reading ‘slow,’ or at my natural reading pace. I've experimented a bit with reading faster and it kind of takes the leisure and enjoyment out of reading for me. Probably because I haven't practiced it enough, and as I do it'll come more naturally and leisurely.

But what helps me most is to try and read not letter by letter (as we did while learning to read as kids), nor word by word (as I think most people do once they learn), but phrase by phrase. Or at least chunk of words by chunk of words. Whatever the line width and word size of what you're reading has to be taken into effect: but I find reading goes much faster when I only let my eyes focus at {1,2,3,4,…} distinct points per line, absorbing a group of words at each point instead of sliding along the line one word at a time. Maybe this is a stupid tip and everyone already does this. And I haven't read the speed reading literature, this just seems like common sense, which when mixed with diligent practice, can develop valuable skills.

"this girl at the pool is draggin such a stack of foam noodles it’s like she’s a little beaver going to dam up the diving board"

from _why's twitter, 8/12/09.

I hope the guy surfaces somewhere soon. One of the most outwardly joyful computer folks I've ever seen.

I watched an old documentary about Les Paul the other week. He's really fantastic. (http://www.mininova.org/tor/2607255)

Ever seen http://flickriver.com/? It predates the big picture. Doesn't show the images quite as big, but is still a nice way to browse.

I picked up Capo while it was in beta for $9. I bought it after about 30 seconds of playing with it. Loved everything about it. I'd previously scorned the use of slow-downers as a crutch, and more recently given in to Audacity for figuring out the blistering stuff that I'd never have been able to learn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRRjEZaN1M).

Its interface was the leading factor. It just worked, looked nice, made me feel good. Capo outranks audacity for speed–bending ten-fold. When the $40/50 price was announced I was however very glad I'd heard about it ahead of 1.0 and snuck into the beta program.

I was considering working for the CSCI department at my school to update the cobwebbed CVS repository hosted in our lab that some teachers actually expected students to use to turn in code. Funding/grant hurdles and my graduation got in the way, but I was thinking what would be awesome is some kind of sub–github: maybe a walled–off version of the entire site restricted to students at a particular school and their professors and TAs. In whatever case, some kind of github.edu site, where CSCI departments sign up and encourage student use would be a lot cooler than just giving students free accounts.

I paid for an account for about 7 or so months while I was a student, but after a few of my private collaborative projects slowed down or ended I was paying for nothing and have now cancelled.

http://fidness.com is my little pet project. I've never let it get out to more than a few of my nerd-ish friends, who inconveniently don't do enough physical activity to get anything out of the site. I don't know if that's their fault for being lazy or mine for having an underwhelming site.

I can't speak to thinkpads, but I've had two silvery mac laptops: first a 12" powerbook and now a 15" MBP. Both have treated me exceedingly well. The one problem I've had was that I managed to knock the shift key off of the powerbook keyboard one time. It was a bitch to get back on properly, but once I did, it was good as new and stayed put. The 12" is still going strong—I passed it off to my sister after upgrading. The 15er is a bit big and a bit heavy for my tastes, but the extra screen space is worth it.

My only testimony towards the durability of my macbook pro is this. I bike everywhere, and two times now I've fallen with the MBP in my backpack and knocked it with some force against the ground. The remainder of those rides I'm always sure that the $2000+ hunk of aluminum in my bag will be ruined, but when I get where I'm going and pull it out, it works like a champ.