I've seen this book before, but it just came up again and its still just as unbelievable. I mean, I'm a liberal guy but these books are ridiculous. They basically paint the Democratic party as the saviors of the human race without any kind of opposing view. And even if it had an opposing viewpoint, its targeted toward children. Children don't know why (as an example in the book) funding the fire department is important or what the trade offs are if you don't. These books are pure, brain washing, shameful propaganda. I'm reminded of the poor kids I used to see in college who came with the fanatical preacher who would talk in front of the student union. They would walk around with signs that said "Jesus hates fags". When you'd talk to them they'd give scripted, robotic answers back about what the Lord says. These books are full of scripted thought and are no different.
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Big thanks to Papi Chulo and Secret Agent Scotch for the amazing tickets!
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This was one of the more challenging weeks I've had in some time but I am ending it with a Dirty Martini in Hawaii. It doesn't get better than that!
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I feel pretty, oh so pretty. :) in my new lace cami which still needs a little blocking but i'm wearing it out tonight to dinner and knit with a friend. :)
If you could do anything you want tomorrow, what would it be?
Submitted by Becca-Pink.
Go to Hawaii. Oh wait, I am doing that :)
Action shot, while walking. Sore feets, luckily got a ride to the mall and only walked one way. Not quite the way to get extra exercise, but it saves on some of the pain this way.
My project, Sprocket.Socket must have inspired, Michael Carter of orbitd: Comet Daily: Sockets in the Browser
One thing he didn't consider is that you need data framing to handle raw data from sockets correctly.
For instance, if you are parsing lines of data from a socket:
This is a line\r\n
This is another line\r\n
This is
You received a partial line, like the last line above. You need to wait for the rest of the line, and buffer it until you reach a line ending, which in this case is \r\n
I'm a POE programmer, and we have modules that frame data, and we call them Filters.
I have written several data framing filters in JavaScript, inspired by POE filters:
http://svn.xantus.org/sprocket/trunk/Sprocket-JavaScript/js/Ext-ux/Sprocket/
JSON, IRC, Line, etc
I think having pseudo-sockets in the browser is very useful if done right. Sprocket.Socket handles multiple outgoing connections from the browser using only one long polling xmlhttp. A spare xmlhttp request is used for quick sending of data while the other is waiting, so it doesn't have to be woken up. All data is delivered in order.
Sprocket.Socket consists of several parts:
The framework, Sprocket
Sprocket.HTTP plugin. It serves files, fast. Including CGI's
Sprocket.Socket plugin. This proxies the socket requests
An access control module. Controls which hosts the clients can connect to.
The JavaScript library Sprocket.Socket. This handles the pseudo-sockets in the browser
The JavaScript data framing filters, and base class
Extjs, a rich js framework.
This seems like a lot, but I can run one script and fire up a browser to get it to work.
I have a working IRC client built on all of this :)
Stay tuned for more
Where have you gone, Eagle-Eye Cherry?: A tribute to terrible late '90s hits
The Onion AV club has put together a collection of awful radio-pop from the late 90s. And I know every single one of them like the back of my hand. Someday this will make me really cool, like when they release the "AWESOME LATE 90s" pack for rockband. Also, someone with a serious music collection please muxtape this.
Additionally, they totally forgot my favorite late 90s band, Eve 6!
