Journalist A.J. Jacobs – writing for Esquire magazine – tries out Radical Honesty, making for some humourous encounters. An excerpt:
My wife tells me a story about switching operating systems on her computer. In the middle, I have to go help our son with something, then forget to come back.
“Do you want to hear the end of the story or not?” she asks.
“Well…is there a payoff?”
“Fuck you.”
It would have been a lot easier to have kept my mouth closed and listened to her. It reminds me of an issue I raised with Blanton: Why make waves? “Ninety percent of the time I love my wife,” I told him. “And 10 percent of the time I hate her. Why should I hurt her feelings that 10 percent of the time? Why not just wait until that phase passes and I return to the true feeling, which is that I love her?”
Blanton’s response: “Because you’re a manipulative, lying son of a bitch.”
(via Jeff Atwood)
[This post had been sitting in draft for damn-near 4 months now. God knows why it took me so long to get around to publishing it; I figure it's time now.]
VBS.TV‘s Illegal LA: The Immigration Plight in Los Angeles, Part 1 of 8:
Google seems to have added code snippets to the main Google Search results page. Here is a search for ‘qsort’:
I knew that Google Code Search existed, but rarely use it, so this is a great feature to, at the very least, remind people that Code Search exists.
(Very subtle plug to follow…)
ksubi’s new site has hit the streets.
“a juxtaposition of complexity and simplicity, it manifests a non-directional and straightforward search engine design format”
I’ve been working on this site for a little while now, and I am so totally stoked to see it go live.
So, check it out!
First, head over and see the making of their Armadale, Melbourne store, made out of cardboard. Then, check out their trip across the US with an 8-foot hand sculpture. Finally, be sure not to miss their Magnum Opus (NSFW).
Once you’ve done all of that — and browsed through their other stuff — go buy something!
