gingerandjohn.com http://www.gingerandjohn.com Removing all doubt. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:04:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 links for 2010-02-17 http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2010/02/17/links-for-2010-02-17/ http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2010/02/17/links-for-2010-02-17/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:04:02 +0000 john http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2010/02/17/links-for-2010-02-17/
  • Jeff Erickson's Algorithms Course Materials

    (tags: programming)
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  • Muhammara | Chocolate & Zucchini
    Sounds like a delicious alternative to hummus. Found via an askmefi thread on vegan dips. Apparently balsamic vinegar is a reasonable substitute for pomegranate syrup.
    (tags: recipes)
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  • Cheapass Games - Free Games
    Some need specialized and/or many dice, but they're also simple and quick.
    (tags: games)
    • ]]>     http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2010/01/03/links-for-2010-01-03/feed/ 0     My Year in Cities, 2009 http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2010/01/01/my-year-in-cities-2009/ http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2010/01/01/my-year-in-cities-2009/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:35:31 +0000 John http://www.gingerandjohn.com/?p=203 Inspired by Jason Kottke, I thought I'd make the list for myself. Funny that I don't feel like I've traveled much this year, because the list seems to show otherwise. Some of these are the same trip, though: Dublin/Belfast, Dublin/Cork, and London/Perth.

    • London, England
    • Perth, Scotland
    • Dublin, Ireland *
    • Belfast, Northern Ireland
    • Blue Ridge, GA *
    • Orlando, FL
    • Cork, Ireland
    • Houston, TX
    • St. Simons Island, GA *

    One or more nights were spent in each place. Those cities marked with an * were visited multiple times on non-consecutive days.

    ]]>     http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2010/01/01/my-year-in-cities-2009/feed/ 0     A few reasons the ’00s didn’t totally suck http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2009/12/27/a-few-reasons-the-00s-didnt-totally-suck/ http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2009/12/27/a-few-reasons-the-00s-didnt-totally-suck/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:24:24 +0000 John http://www.gingerandjohn.com/?p=196 Lots of lists out this time of year, and lots of those lists have reasons why I'll be happy to see this decade in the history books. But this Medpage Today article reminded me that good things did and continue to happen. Here's the executive summary; hit the link for a few good paragraphs on each bullet.

    1. Human Genome Discoveries Reach the Bedside
    2. Doctors and Patients Harness Information Technology
    3. Anti-Smoking laws and Campaigns Reduce Public Smoking
    4. Heart Disease Deaths Drop by 40 Percent
    5. Stem Cell Research: Laboratory Breakthroughs and Some Clinical Advances
    6. Targeted Therapies for Cancer Expand With New Drugs
    7. Combination Drug Therapy Extends HIV Survival
    8. Minimally Invasive and Robotic Techniques Revolutionize Surgery
    9. Study Finds Heart, Cancer Risk with Hormone Replacement Therapy
    10. Scientists Peer Into Mind With Functional MRI
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  • 10 Things to Do by the End of the Year
    Along the lines of changing smoke detector batteries on DST Sundays. Changing passwords is probably one I should take to heart.
    (tags: lifehacks finance)
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  • assertTrue( ): NoSQL Required Reading
    I've been trying to get my head around this for several months; this looks to be a great resource for getting up to speed.
    (tags: programming read_later)
    • ]]>     http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2009/12/11/links-for-2009-12-11/feed/ 0     Feeds for TypePad sites with no feed configuration http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2009/11/22/feeds-for-typepad-sites-with-no-feed-configuration/ http://www.gingerandjohn.com/archives/2009/11/22/feeds-for-typepad-sites-with-no-feed-configuration/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:44:44 +0000 John http://www.gingerandjohn.com/?p=190 Most of Chance's teachers have blogs they update either daily or weekly with class assignments, activities, and upcoming work. I keep track of those through Google Reader. All but one of his teachers have "sub-blogs" off the school's "main" TypePad blog site, and all those teachers have "feed link is here" buttons so it's easy to add those to Reader. His other teacher, though, has a top-level TypePad blog with no feed link.

    I hate that.

    But then comes this - hacking WP URLs to get a feed. Perhaps TypePad does something similar? And sure enough, it does. The trick was getting the blog folder from looking at the permalinks, and referencing the feed's atom.xml file.

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  • Times UK's 100 Greatest Movies of the Decade
    gotta see gotta see gotta see
    (tags: movies)
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  • Magnatune
    Another found small-label streaming site - might have potential as an eMusic replacement.
    (tags: music mp3)
  • thesixtyone - a music adventure
    Interesting concept for a streaming site - social capital, digg-style, certainly listenable.
    (tags: music mp3)
  • The Interactive Fiction Archive
    Text-based games, because I don't have enough to do in my non-existent spare time.
    (tags: games)
  • Customize.org
    Updated rainmeter skins, if I ever get my act together.
    (tags: design utilities usability)
  • 50 Kick-Ass Websites You Need to Know About
    Better than most "best around" lists.
    (tags: web music read_later lifehacks)
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