Mars and Venus

We're both lying in bed with our laptops.

I'm excited because scientists have managed to create a logic gate out of 30 atoms.
Julie is excited because What Katie Did are having a sale on lingerie/corsets from the 5th.

One World

Two years ago, a YouTube user called MadV wrote the message "One World" on his palm and held it up to the camera.  He asked others to do likewise and leave responses.  And then he edited them together:

Editor Wars over

I went with NoteTab.  Pretty much all of the ones recommended to me were able to cope with multiple documents, do the basic notepad-type stuff, search/replace by RegEx, etc.  So in the end I picked the only one that had both familliar key-bindings and was scriptable.

Cheers for all the advice!

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-30-2008

• Jarvis Cocker and Richard Dawkins talk about what atheists do at Christmas
  Well, what _they_ do at Christmas. Personally I _like_ Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
  (tags: religion atheism christmas)
• Amateur crimefighters are surging in the US
  Spandex FTW!
  (tags: usa weird crime superheroes)
• Project Palantir
  Visualising the various events on Facebook and displaying them on a 3D model of the earth. Could be cooler, if they used it to point out interesting stuff going on...
  (tags: video facebook data interactive)
• 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year
  Some very nice illustrations of information - I particular like the last.fm one and the Obama/Clinton one.
  (tags: visualization web statistics visualisation)
• How To Talk To The Dying
  Some damn good advice here
  (tags: death people conversation communication dying)

Falling from Space

Step 1: Attach a camera to a booster rocket
Step 2: Turn it on just before separation
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!

It would appear that I am dating the Borg Queen

(I just finished dying her hair.  It was red.  Soon it will be red.  No, don't ask me, I just does what I'm told.)