I’m the one on the left. Really.

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Global Development: Views from the Center: Crisis? Not If We Take a Long View (Development Impacts of Financial Crisis)

Earth From Above comes to NYC - The Big Picture - Boston.com

rsync’ing a defined set of subdirectories

So you have a directory structure that contains all of the applications needed to run a set of servers, but no server needs the entire tree. This rsync configuration is the easiest way I can come…

Reservoir Sampling in Perl

A method for randomly selecting N values from a finite (but unknown length) list of elements, without replacement. Algorithm is from Taming Uncertainty. This version takes lines of input on…

She’s a small-town, religious conservative, and her moral hypocrisies, which liberals take such pleasure in pointing out, are the moral hypocrisies of small-town and rural life in America. Having to reconcile filial sexuality and pregnancy with public piousness only endears her more to her core supports, as these are precisely the moral dilemmas they face in their own lives.

—Who Is IOZ?: Napoleon on the Radio

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

—H. L. Mencken - Wikiquote

A Trip Through the Mega-Zeppelin (via freakmanvirtue)