which unix commands do you use the most?
history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort
from lifehacker
Sock Puppets
guidelines from jason calacanis
on playing nice within online social systems:
Don’t create multiple accounts (sockpuppets) and vote for your own stories.
[love this one — ed.]
Please be involved in the […] community outside of promoting your own sites. Vote for other stories, submit other news stories, and post comments on other news stories.
Don’t group vote.
Put where you […]
“Hi, this is Elaine & Bill!,” she said into her phone.
…but she was alone. Her message sounded carefully scripted. “We want to
congratulate you on the arrival of a new grandson… David Kimball
Lewis (or something) is an awesome name!” …
Messages we deliver because we have to.
Messages we deliver because it’s customary to convey them.
Like a bird chirping, with a much higher pitch
———- Forwarded message ———- From: evan cordes Date: Sep 21, 2006 3:54 PM Subject: Re: your ride is here the contextual ads in gmail [for this message] are all “white noise machine”, “heal your damaged ear” and, “mosquito ringtones.”
wwwwrrrrrrrppp! chrp!
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> ———- Forwarded message ———- > From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > Date: […]
Two old men
…In a diner at 6 AM over coffee and eggs. Michigan dwellers for at least 40 years, judging by their conversation. Sitting back to face in adjacent booths, the one in front never turning completely around. They half reminisce/half argue through their whole breakfast.
“Keep your stick on the ice!” one calls out as the other […]
Creative Commons in this house
To say that something is “Creative Commons-licensed” is to
guarantee virtually nothing, except that I can download it for
free and read/listen/watch it without getting fisted by DRM
rootkits.
A funny and informative post by mark that’s at the same time pedantic
and bitchy. Just set your license to By-SA (display attribution to the
creator and Share-Alike, i.e. release your work […]
Design Is…
others:
Jon Hicks
Veerle Pieters
Shaun Inman
Wishingline
LuxuryLuke
Superfluousbanter
Elektronaut
Anton Peck
Marco McVille
A Smoke-Filled Loft - the French Bistro Sessions
For Kosta and Sean
click to download the french bistro mix
don’t steal music - if you like the tracks, support the artists.
My hotel room sounds like tape hiss
I wonder if i’m being gassed. zzz…
Thoughts from Drawing Restraint Nº. 9
The Detroit Institute of Arts premiered Matthew Barney’s new film Drawing Restraint #9 tonight. In a darkened and dusty theatre, I began to think again.
Everything is a vessel, including people. Vessels are places that enable state change.
Across every threshhold is the potential for great mystery. With careful preparation we can enter into these mysteries and […]