Tudor Bosman - FriendFeed

Services

Discussion

Comments

18 this week, 475 all time

Likes

16 this week, 542 all time

See both

Subscriptions

Rooms

FriendFeed Feedback

Simple Update Protocol

Tudor Bosman

Subscribe to Tudor Bosman

posted a message

“Sorry to all (new and established) authors out there, but I really can't justify buying fiction in hardcover. There are so many excellent (but older and thus available in paperback) books that I haven't read yet.”

Friday at 11:40 am - Link

Erica Baker and Anne Bouey liked this

This is in reaction to Anathem, which I'll read eventually, but I have so much stuff on the "to-read" list. Good, long, hairy books: The Quincunx, Pillars of the Earth, Stephenson's own Baroque Cycle... - Tudor Bosman

Pillars of the Earth was REALLY good and easy to carry around in Kindle format. ;) - Erica Baker

posted a link

Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Friday at 11:32 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

nyenyec, Evangeline, Rudolf Olah, Gavin and 3 other people liked this

"DAYTON, TN—A steady stream of devoted evolutionists continued to gather in this small Tennessee town today to witness what many believe is an image of Charles Darwin—author of The Origin Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown Dayton." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

posted a link

Heroin addicted elephant clean after rehab - Telegraph

Thursday at 9:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Shannon Jiménez, mhmazidi, bob and Anne Bouey liked this

"A former heroin addicted elephant has emerged from rehab clean after a three-year detox programme." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

its kind of like this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt02... - bob

added a product to the Amazon Wish List Wishlist

Matter

Thursday at 1:58 pm - Link

favorited a video on YouTube

Noonan and Murphy on Palin

Wednesday at 10:59 pm - Link

posted a link

Political Radar: Hot Mic in St. Paul

Wednesday at 9:20 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jim Norris liked this

"It seems that Republicans Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy were caught in a bit of unguarded conversation today and someone posted the moment to YouTube." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

"Murphy: It's not going to work. Noonan: It's over...The most qualified? No. I would think they went for the, excuse me, political bull***t about narratives..." - j1m

posted a link

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Wednesday at 9:07 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Robert Felty, Keith Pelczarski, Azeem, Michael J Cohen and 12 other people liked this

"As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

oh no! Does that mean the sky is going to start falling real soon? - Chris Loft

Chris: Only if the higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, decides to start pushing it down. - Tudor Bosman

Gravity is just a theory... I choose not to believe it, therefore I can fly - Jason Carreira

Jason: "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Tudor Bosman

"The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt. That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard. Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties." - Tudor Bosman

posted a link

4,500-year-old ice shelf breaks away - CNN.com

Wednesday at 9:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

posted a link

Commenter Of The Day: skyscraper143

Wednesday at 6:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Ooh, Darin Fisher is cute! Look at that toned left arm; he must use emacs." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“I <3 **kwargs”

Wednesday at 5:50 pm - Link

Neil Dunn, Adewale Oshineye, Benjamin Golub and Gary Burd liked this

posted an item on Tumblr

Books I liked...

Wednesday at 3:14 pm - Link

posted a link

indexed: Campaigns need more than comments.

Wednesday at 1:17 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

posted a link

Arctic becomes an island as ice melts - Telegraph

September 2 at 8:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Anne Bouey, Isaac Hepworth, Daniel Rowley, Jessie Norris and 19 other people liked this

"The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history as climate change has made it possible to circumnavigate the Arctic ice cap." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

Guess it's time for us all collectively give 7 billion taps on our backs, eh? - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

Show 8 more comments

'Bout time! I always hated getting stuck in that sea ice :) - Paul Buchheit

Surely that should be the first time in RECORDED human history? If I remember rightly from some obscure documentary, the current ice-age started about 70,000 years ago. Just before that, there was no ice at all at the poles. Homo sapiens is about 100,000 years old. :-) - Slippy Lane

Yeah, the arctic ice disappearing at this point is history is probably just some kind of crazy coincidence ;) - Paul Buchheit

I seriously do wonder if any shipping companies are going to start using the new Nothwest Passage. - Kevin Fox

Oops. I should RTFA before commenting: "Shipping companies are already planning to exploit the first simultaneous opening of the routes since the beginning of the last Ice Age 125,000 years ago. The Beluga Group in Germany says it will send the first ship through the north-east passage, around Russia, next year, cutting 4,000 miles off the voyage from Germany to Japan." - Kevin Fox

See, global warming is already paying dividends with more direct shipping routes! - Paul Buchheit

Ironically, that will save lots of fuel. - Cyrus Lendvay

It also more efficiently applies the heat from burning that fuel straight to the ice cap. - Kevin Fox

Crazy coincidence called long-term climate cycle, yeah :-). That ice has been melting for 30,000 years. When it's all gone, the current ice-age is over. Eventually, all that extra water in the seas will increase global cloud cover, which in turn will trigger global cooling leading to the next ice age. We might be able to hurry Mother Nature along a bit, but let's face it, once we run out of fuel, our net effect will return to zero. - Slippy Lane

Scratch that, it's been melting for 14,000 years: http://www.roperld.com/HomoSap... - Slippy Lane

Yeah to bad the South Pole has more ice an ever now. - Ryan Ellerbe

posted a link

indexed: Or just pray it doesn't happen to you.

September 2 at 12:10 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Todd Jackson, Brett Cannon, Amber, Sudhakar Chandra and 8 other people liked this

I think "pray" is considered to be a realistic scenario by those who approve of abstinence-only education. - Gabe Schaffer

the more your hinder someone from something, the more they'd look for it. - Ron

posted a link

Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com

August 29 at 1:45 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Nikhil Dandekar, Clare Dibble, Steve Craft, Jeanette Martinez and 7 other people liked this

"No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made. His performance was arranged by The Washington Post as an experiment in context, perception and priorities -- as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?" - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed the article very much, especially listening to the excerpts of music in the videos. - Anne Bouey

Show 6 more comments

Gene Weingarten, the Washington Post journalist who wrote this story, won a Pulitzer prize for it. - Tudor Bosman

In other news, Thomas Pynchon sells poorly in airport bookstores. - ⓞnor

Sigh. After a minute's thought, it should surprise no one that classical music -- best presented in a quiet theatre to interested listeners who have completed their days work, are seated facing the musicians and have self-selected by going to the theatre and usually paying -- doesn't attract much attention from people who are trying to, you know, get to work. The Pulitzer prize committee are supposed to be expert judges of what constitutes great journalism, and should recognize this as the poor "journalism" that it is. Oh, and: http://www.cadenhead.org/workb... - j1m

The other point the article misses is that, in the passers-by's judgments of their own self-interest, they're probably doing the right thing. - j1m

I swear I read this last year. It's an interesting experiment. - Voyagerfan5761

I missed this when it was first published. An amazing experiment and insightful story on the human condition. "What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare." -- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies - tagami

"If we can't take the time out of our lives to stay a moment and listen to one of the best musicians on Earth play some of the best music ever written; if the surge of modern life so overpowers us that we are deaf and blind to something like that -- then what else are we missing?" - Clare Dibble

We are missing all the books in the library that we don't have time to read, all the songs in the music store we don't have time to listen to, and all the people in the city we don't have time to meet. The world is large and we are small and we use heuristics to know what to pay attention to, and one of those heuristics is that while we're on the way to work it is not usually worth our time to pay close attention to each of the buskers near transit station escalators. - ⓞnor

To say nothing of the fact that, if you care for Josh Bell, your iPod is full of performances by him, and they're probably all better than the performance he gave that morning. While I much prefer live music to CD, that is deeply intertwined with the fact that when I hear life music I'm always hearing it in an actual venue (see rant above). - j1m

posted a link

OSHA (un)censored

August 29 at 3:23 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

WorkSafeBC.com and Anne Bouey liked this

In 1980, the last year of Jimmy Carter's administration, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) commissioned a series of three 30-minute films about worker safety. These were real pro productions, with Studs Terkel as narrator on two of the productions. In 1981, Reagan appointed 36-year old Florida construction executive Thorne G. Auchter, who proceeded to systematically dismantle the agency. Evidently, the 3 films disturbed Thorne greatly, because OSHA issued a recall, threatening to withold OSHA funds from any organization that did not return their copies of the films, which were promptly destroyed. - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

But, a few union officials defied the ban and "stole" copies so they weren't able to be returned. Over the years, they would occasionally show them to their troops, using the fact they banned as a way to get them to watch the films, which have important messages about worker rights and workplace safety. But, aside from these bootleg showings, the video disappeared. - Tudor Bosman

Making their public debut after 30 years are "Worker to Worker," "Can't Take No More," and "The Story of OSHA." - Tudor Bosman

(from Carl Malamud, via Dave Farber's "Interesting People" list; my comments above copied verbatim from Carl's message to the list) - Tudor Bosman

posted a link

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

August 28 at 10:48 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Rachel L Fisher, Siddharth Deb, Denton Gentry, Rob Diana and 5 other people liked this

posted a link

Law.com: 'Three Pony Rule' Invoked to Cut Former NFL Player's Monthly $18K Child Support

August 27 at 5:51 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Pete Delucchi, Steve Craft, Anne Bouey, Dan Hsiao and Jim Norris liked this

"While acknowledging there are unique problems with determining the reasonable needs of children of high-earning families, the court said trial judges should nevertheless avoid overindulgence -- citing the doctrine of In re Patterson, 920 P.2d 450 (Kan. App. 1996), that "no child, no matter how wealthy the parents, needs to be provided [with] more than three ponies."" - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

"Jean set their clothing needs at $27,000 a year, since the children needed new outfits every time they saw their father and one of them demanded a new purse every time she left the house." - Alex Mendes da Costa

posted a link

The Snitch - Manta Ray Meets Tragic End on Market

August 18 at 12:35 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Pete Delucchi, Steve Craft and Anne Bouey liked this

"How's this for bizarre and depressing? Julio Vasconcellos, a member of the Experience Project (an anonymous experience-based community) uploaded photos of the police staring down at a manta (*or cow-nosed or bat) ray's corpse on Market Street at approximately 1:58 p.m. yesterday." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

WTF? - Tudor Bosman

A couple of weeks ago I was surprised to see several huge manta rays in the water by the little park at 5th St and King, maybe there's an overabundance and they're coming up the toilets? - Casey Muller

Here is what really happened that day at 000 Montgomery with the Manta Ray http://000montgomery.ning.com/... - Edric Kilimann

posted a link

Googleplex: Google's food perks on the chopping block

August 25 at 8:40 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Kirb and Anne Bouey liked this

"There's no such thing as a free dinner. A worker at Google tells us the company is taking evening meals off the menu: "Google has drastically cut back their budget on the culinary program. How is it affecting campus? No more dinner. No more tea trolley. No more snack attack in the afternoon."" - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

Note that this is from Valleywag, I have no inside information and don't (yet) know whether it's for real or not. - Tudor Bosman

ⓞnor, do you work at Google or have friends there? - Philipp Lenssen

"The company told CNBC’s Jim Goldman this afternoon that the rumors, started yesterday by Valleywag, are completely untrue and that they don’t know where they came from." http://www.alleyinsider.com/20... - Ionut

I am shocked, shocked to discover that once again ValleyWag has got something wrong. I'd expect this sort of thing from random bloggers but ValleyWag employs professional journalists.</sarcasm> - Adewale Oshineye

posted a link

Possible Obama Assassination Plot Investigated By Colorado Police: Report

August 25 at 11:49 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Federal authorities have scheduled a press conference for Tuesday afternoon amid reports that a fortunate traffic stop by Aurora Police may have disrupted an assassination attempt against Barack Obama." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

posted a link

no, its not that bad yet « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

August 25 at 12:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Colide81, Voyagerfan5761, Michelle Darnell, Michael W. May and 2 other people liked this

had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“Ana, help! come back! we're out of peach Fresca!”

August 25 at 12:15 pm - Link

had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“heading to outside lands -- if I know you and you're there, call me - 415-812-3892”

August 22 at 1:47 pm - Link

posted a link

Wine Spectator: Totally Fake Restaurant Wins Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

August 21 at 1:15 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Michael W. May, Ginger Makela, Anne Bouey, Dan Hsiao and 6 other people liked this

"did you know that with Microsoft Word, $250 and maybe a foreign language dictionary -- your lemonade stand can get a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence?" - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

"The best part is that Mr. Goldstein included "the lowest-scoring Italian wines in Wine Spectator over the past 20 years." Dr. Vino also notes that in a Times article from 2003, a reporter estimated that Wine Spectator was bringing in $625,275 from the award each year-- and that was when the application fee was only $175." - Dan Hsiao

posted a link

Stakeout Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

August 21 at 1:53 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Alex Power and Anne Bouey liked this

posted a link

SFist: Another (Dead?) Manta Ray

August 21 at 10:14 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"SFist reader Molly took these shots of another (presumably dead) ray thingy over on Powell between Geary and O'Farrell." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

Once again, WTF? - Tudor Bosman

posted a link

indexed: Santa, the dot com era, blind dates, etc.

August 20 at 10:36 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Emily Miller, Kirill, Steve Craft, Anne Bouey and 3 other people liked this

I love these! - Ross Miller

There's an RSS feed for them.. I highly recommend it - David Knight

posted a link

Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com

August 19 at 10:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Alex Barbara, nadim, Voyagerfan5761, Mo J and 4 other people liked this

"A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can't force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

I have to admit that the passphrase is almost certainly protected by the 5th Amendment. The DOJ article from 1996 suggests that he can be given immunity for anything in the passphrase (and thus compelled to produce it) and then prosecuted for the files decrypted by the passphrase, but that doesn't hold water. If that trick worked, you could grant immunity to a defendant just for the location of the murder weapon, compel them to tell it to you, then prosecute them for the murder once the weapon was found. - Gabe Schaffer

posted a link

best of craigslist : Nemesis required. 6-month project with possibilty to extend

August 19 at 6:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Ranjit Mathoda and Jeanette Martinez liked this

"I need to inject some excitement into my daily routine through my arm before its too late. I need a challenge, something to get the adrenaline pumping again. An addiction would be nice, but, in short, I need a nemesis. I'm willing to pay $350 up front for you services as an arch enemy over the next six months." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet