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Is Pownce the Zune of tumbling?

(I’m a Tumblr bigot.  I’m biased.  I am NOT objective.)

Srsly?  I just want to check out the Calacanis link below, but get hit with a login screen, complete with ugly brown header.  So as I was writing this snark, I thought… well… just do the darn process so that I can see the darn link.

Registered.

And… nothing.  Taken to a page to post something of my own.  Fail.  You know that I’m specifically there for a specific URL… why not take me there?

It’s… Zune-ish?

And the Calacanis link had less content than the quoted text below, so don’t bother if you don’t already have an account (or even if you do).

soupsoup:

chartier:

Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchuck.

I agree with Jason Calacanis: this is unbelievable. Is it a spoof or something CG’d?

Comprehending the numbers.

It’s time for a new unit, the Cluster-Fudge-$ or CF$.   CF$1 is == the cost of WWII.  So in these units, we’re talking about lending CF$2.05 to rescue the financial system.  This is on top of the CF$0.19 (or CF¢19) that’s being used to recapitalize the banks.  According to the IMF, the 2007 world GDP was CF$18.02.

I encourage everyone (Economist, take note) to adopt the CF$ unit so that we can all better understand just WTF is going down here. 

mikehudack:

“The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago.”

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Bloomberg.com

I officially give up trying to comprehend any numbers ending in ‘-illion.’  That way lies madness.

In 2007 dollars, World War II cost $3.6 trillion.

I’m not saying that Fed lending and FDIC guaranteeing loans and all those things I don’t really understand are the same as straight up spending, but how does one wrap one’s head around such a number?

(via southpol)

is it wrong to dislike someone because they are religious?

I’ll skip the right vs. wrong argument and give you a conclusion; it’s wrong and since you know enough to ask the question, I’ll give you credit for being able to imagine some arguments as to why that’s my conclusion.

Instead I’ll give you a benefit analysis:

If a person’s piety doesn’t cause you harm, then you’re probably doing yourself a disservice.   You’ll end up surrounding yourself with people exactly like you, and since we tend to learn through conflict, disagreement, and situations with which we aren’t familiar, you’ll end up excluding yourself from countless intellectual & emotional learning experiences.  You may find life is much easier with a homogenous surrounding, but I don’t think you’ll find it is better.

In short, I think you’re screwing yourself, but WTF do I know?

withinluwithoutlu:

I can say that regardless of whether I should or shouldn’t, I do dislike people if they’re religious.

I’m not trying to be offensive to anyone, I’m just stating the reality of my personality at this current juncture in time. I’m not sure if its valid or not to use piety as a basis for disliking people, so what do you tumblrers think?

Bash hostname completion in OS X

If you use Darwin Ports to get various open source utilities on your Mac, make sure to add bash-completion to your must-have list.  It configures programmable command-line parameter completion in much the same way tab-file-completion works.

It’s useful immediately out of the box in many ways, the most significant of which for me is the ssh/scp/etc hostname completion.  Any hostname that’s in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file can be tab completed.

port install bash-completion
echo ". /opt/local/etc/bash_completion >> ~/.profile"

That’s it!