Hugh's Stuff

Obama spending binge never happened - MarketWatch

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:34:50 -0400

Obama spending binge never happened - MarketWatch

ensignau: Minus the y-axis, I think this graph still works.

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:16:40 -0400

ensignau:

Minus the y-axis, I think this graph still works.

TEDxMontreal - Hugh McGuire - The Blurring Line Between Books...

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:30:54 -0400

TEDxMontreal - Hugh McGuire - The Blurring Line Between Books and the Internet (by TEDxTalks)

PressBooks June Newsletter: PDF Images, New Templates, DocBook and more...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:36:50 -0400

PressBooks June Newsletter: PDF Images, New Templates, DocBook and more...:

Lots of juicy new things over at PressBooks ! Go check it out.

"A new patent granted this week aims to stop students from sharing textbooks, both off and online...."

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:29:33 -0400

“A new patent granted this week aims to stop students from sharing textbooks, both off and online. … Under [this] proposal, students can only participate in courses when they buy an online access code which allows them to use the course book. No access code means a lower grade…”

- Anti-Piracy Patent Stops Students From Sharing Textbooks | TorrentFreak via @jafurtado

Hack the Cover — by Craig Mod

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:59:20 -0400

Hack the Cover — by Craig Mod

In which a headless robot does pushups. QQF. “DARPA Robot...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:52:56 -0400

In which a headless robot does pushups. QQF.

“DARPA Robot Masters Stairs” (by DARPAtv) via. @mitchjoel

“Fab Five Freddy… … Meet the Clash.”

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:38:54 -0400

“Fab Five Freddy… … Meet the Clash.”

LibriVox is hiring a (contract) tech project manager and a developer

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:02:37 -0400

LibriVox is hiring a (contract) tech project manager and a developer

"All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already mine. All of those..."

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:38:50 -0400

“All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already mine. All of those things are just in long term storage that I pay nothing for. Storage is free. When I want to take something out of storage, I just pay the for the storage costs for that particular thing up to that point, plus a nominal shipping fee, and my things are delivered to me so I can use them. When I am done with them, I return them to storage via Craigslist or Ebay, and I am given a fee as compensation for freeing up the storage facilities resources. This is also the case with all of my stuff that Amazon and Walmart are holding for me. I have antiques, priceless art, cars, estates, and jewels beyond the dreams of avarice. The world is my museum, displaying my collections on loan. The James Savages of the world are merely curators.”

- Collect ‘em all! | MetaFilter

Richard Nash @rnash comes to Montreal

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:50:27 -0400

Richard Nash @rnash comes to Montreal

Patti Smith, Horses, (cover version) via. nevver: Cover...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:28:45 -0400

Patti Smith, Horses, (cover version) via. nevver:

Cover Version

"[I told the fourth-graders] I was thinking of a number between 1 and 10,000. They still cling..."

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:20:45 -0500

“[I told the fourth-graders] I was thinking of a number between 1 and 10,000. They still cling stubbornly to the idea that the only good answer is a yes answer. This, of course, is the result of miseducation in which ‘right answers’ are the only ones that pay off. They have not learned how to learn from a mistake, or even that learning from mistakes is possible. If they say, ‘Is the number between 5,000 and 10,000?’ and I say yes, they cheer; if I say no, they groan, even though they get exactly the same amount of information in either case. The more anxious ones will, over and over again, ask questions that have already been answered, just for the satisfaction of hearing a yes.”

- John Holt (via maxistentialist)

Seamus Heaney - The Annals Say

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:19:04 -0500

Seamus Heaney - The Annals Say

“You need to have a tolerance for having no idea where your...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:31:38 -0500

“You need to have a tolerance for having no idea where your thing is going.” ~ Merlin Mann

jeremymeyers:

oberservationpaper:

“You need to have a tolerance for having no idea where your thing is going.” ~ Merlin Mann

Photo by Steve-h (Steve Heron) on Flickr.

Needed this

From, Lightenings, by Seamus Heany

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:49:00 -0500

The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise
Were all at prayers inside the oratory
A ship appeared above them in the air.

The anchor dragged along behind so deep
It hooked itself into the altar rails
And then, as the big hull rocked to a standstill,

A crewman shinned and grappled down the rope
And struggled to release it. But in vain.
‘This man can’t bear our life here and will drown,’

The abbot said, ‘unless we help him.’ So
They did, the freed ship sailed, and the man climbed back
Out of the marvellous as he had known it.

Words I can't spell without spellcheck

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:56:43 -0500

I have a different list, but here’s this list of spelling challenges from: maxistentialist:

Hierarchy

Privileges

Bureaucracy

Thorough

Caffeine

Medieval

Guarantee

Village

Questionnaire

Relevant

Caesar

Frustrated

Ridiculous

Sabotage

Last Man on Earth (via @fchimero)

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:06:42 -0500

Last Man on Earth (via @fchimero)

Voyage to the bottom of the Mariana Trench: Graphic

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:27:02 -0500

Voyage to the bottom of the Mariana Trench: Graphic

"An 18th-century Christmas dish, Hannah Glasse’s Good Goose Pye, is described in ”The..."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:08:06 -0500

“An 18th-century Christmas dish, Hannah Glasse’s Good Goose Pye, is described in ”The Literary Gourmet” by Linda Wolfe (Harmony Books, 1985): a pickled tongue is placed inside a fowl, the fowl inside a goose, and then the goose inside a giant pie crust. This awesome creation was described by the creator as ”a pretty little side-dish for supper.””

- A Festive Menu Even a Cook Can Love