notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

2013-05-17

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quote 23:19:45
“ tumblr_backup.py is a script that backs up your Tumblr blog locally. The backup includes all images from photo and photoset posts. An index links to monthly pages, which contain all the posts from the respective month with links to single post pages. Command line options select which posts to backup and set the output format. By default, all posts of a blog are backed up in minimally styled HTML. ”

Paper Bits: Tumblr Backup python script (GitHub)

Mainly reblogged for the benefit of iamdanw

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“ Political meaning: a formally constituted political group that contests elections and attempts to form or take part in a government: draft the party’s election manifesto.
Not to be confused with: a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment: an engagement party. ”

2013-05-15

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quote 19:07:44
“ HANNITY: You have been around Washington a long time and a number of administrations, the IRS being used for a political witch-hunt against those who have differing viewpoints. How dangerous is this for the president himself?
CHENEY: I think it’s very dangerous. I can’t believe some guy down in the bowels of the organization in Cincinnati set this up. It would require, I would think, because of the sensitivity of it, somebody pretty high up to sign off on it. ”

Yes, the IRS as a political witch-hunt would be terrible, wouldn’t it? Good thing nothing like that happened while Cheney was VP.

In 2004, the IRS went after the NAACP, auditing the nation’s oldest civil rights group after its chairman criticized President Bush for being the first sitting president since Herbert Hoover not to address the organization. “They are saying if you criticize the president we are going to take your tax exemption away from you,” then-chairman Julian Bond said. “It’s pretty obvious that the complainant was someone who doesn’t believe George Bush should be criticized, and it’s obvious of their response that the IRS believes this, too.”
Then, in 2006, the Wall Street Journal broke the story of a how a little-known pressure group called Public Interest Watch — which received 97 percent of its funds from Exxon Mobile one year — managed to get the IRS to open an investigation into Greenpeace. Greenpeace had labeled Exxon Mobil the “No. 1 climate criminal.” The IRS acknowledged its audit was initiated by Public Interest Watch and threatened to revoke Greenpeace’s tax-exempt status, but closed the investigation three months later.

(Source: foxnews.com)

2013-05-14

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“ Commonplace books that survive from the Tudor period contain a huge variety of texts, including letters, poems, medical remedies, prose, jokes, ciphers, riddles, quotations and drawings. Sonnets, ballads and epigrams jostle with diary entries, recipes, lists of ships or Cambridge colleges and transcriptions of speeches. Collecting useful snippets of information so that they could be easily retrieved when needed, or re-read to spark new ideas and connections, was one of the functions of a commonplace book. But the practice of maintaining a commonplace book and exchanging texts with others also served as a form of self-definition: which poems or aphorisms you chose to copy into your book or to pass on to your correspondents said a lot about you, and the book as a whole was a reflection of your character and personality. ”

2013-05-10

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“ The master copies of all the shows and movies available to Netflix take up 3.14 petabytes of storage space. (In comparison, Facebook uses about 1.5 petabytes to store about 10 billion photos.) ”

 in Bloomberg Businessweek. via Tom Insam, who comments

This is presented to make the point that “Netflix use a lot of space”. But I see it more as “Facebook is already 50% the size of all of Hollywood’s output ever”.

(via tominsam)

2013-05-08

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“ Drones have killed untold thousands of civilians—the Bureau of Investigative Journalism suggest it’s somewhere around 2,000. But when they’re not busy doing that, the incredible technology can be used to wow and delight, says Missy Cummings, a former fighter pilot and current MIT professor studying unmanned aircraft. ”
Jason Koebler for Motherboard at Vice introducing Can Drones Make Us Laugh? (via)

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“ Battlefield 3′s realism was largely hampered by the lack of birds,” says DICE technical director Henrik Karlsson, “We did a survey and found that when players first entered Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, many complained about the lack of birds. Our partnership with AMD has allowed us to render up to 500 unique birds at once without any slowdown. ”

Battlefield 4 Uses New AMD Bird Rendering Technology: PecksFX at Play4Real.

Yes, AAA games studios are now spending their time worrying about rendering birds, and no, this isn’t an Onion article.

2013-05-07

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quote 23:39:10

Planners also failed to consider that authorities might balk at an experimental nuclear reactor located under a planned flight path. The reactor in Berlin’s southwest Wannsee district is operated by the Helmholtz Zentrum, a materials and energy research institute. The Wannsee route was declared illegal by an administrative appeals court in a Jan. 23 ruling.

“The risk of a plane crash and an aviation terrorist attack and the release of ionized radiation from the research reactor was insufficiently considered,” the court said in a statement issued with the ruling, in which it scolded airport planners for failing to recognize and evaluate the risks.

2013-05-06

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quote 21:05:06

Sharing his secrets for “abundant living,” Romney urged the new grads to go out, get married, and procreate like crazy.

‘Get married,’ he said, and “Have a quiver full of kids if you can.”

Also, hurry. Staying single until your thirties could be a big mistake. A quiver full of kids aren’t born over night.

“Some people could marry but choose to take more time, they say, for themselves. Others plan to wait until they’re well into their 30s or 40s until they think about getting married,” he said, “They’re going to miss so much of living, I’m afraid.”

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“ I know, by now you will be giggling over this suggestion. But think about it, nationalists need to buck the trend of 1.8 children per white household. We need to aim between 3 and 4 children each if not more,” he writes. “And the bonus is that making babies is fun! So fellow nationalists, less TV and more fun! Let’s do our bit for Britain and our race. ”

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