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Dahler Mehndi + English

Thursday 31 May 2012 Leave a Comment

Wow, somebody put (legitimate) English subtitles on one of my all time favorites, Tunak Tunak Tun:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOHjKoic1Ts

Sweetheart, the strings of the instrument play / Listen to what the heart says / Come and love me … The world is a colorful place / It’s not good or bad.

I’ll never listen to this song the same way again.

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Farhad Manjoo’s pants problem

Wednesday 30 May 2012 Leave a Comment

Slate:

… I go online to look for pants. Pants are my fashion Waterloo. I’ve got a slight waist and short legs, a dimensional no-pants-land that’s ill-served by most retail stores… I’ve come across a few expensive brands of jeans, chinos, and dress pants that fit me somewhat well, and my strategy has been to buy up as many of them as possible… it’s sartorially boring, not to mention expensive… From afar, the Web looks like a trouser treasure trove… What could go wrong? … But then my pants arrive and they’re a disaster. Even though they’re in my size, they don’t really fit.

His problem is to assume that buying pants off the rack, in the mass produced sizes, is ever going to work. What he should do instead is look into tailoring, which is obviously not an entirely obscure topic to him because he’s written about it.

What I recommend is: shop online first by manufacturer, then by style/fabric, then cut, then color and finally waist size, and order a pair of pants that that will probably be too long. Then take them to a great local tailor and, for $10 or less, they can fit perfectly.

Like Farhad, I’m in the Bay area, and I warmly recommend Roberto, who’s accessible by BART/Muni (Montgomery Station) and who has done great work for me: taking pleats out of suit pants, which is a major job; and hemming a bunch of chinos that I bought from Uniqlo online via Suddenlee, a minor job to Roberto but still major to me.

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Lose the Buttons

Wednesday 30 May 2012 Leave a Comment

Information Architects on social network share buttons:

Some people probably do use those buttons. Maybe even a lot of people. And maybe you do… I won’t deny all that. What I know for sure is that most people who know how to use social media also know how to share URLs…

Summary: get rid of the damn buttons from your site.

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Flame: Stuxnet Part Deux

Tuesday 29 May 2012 Leave a Comment

Haaretz:

“Unprecedented.” “Most sophistocated.” “Developed by a state actor.”

And various other sweeping, superlative statements.

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Sometimes when I get to an extremely ugly…

Monday 28 May 2012 Leave a Comment

Sometimes when I get to an extremely ugly website, I wonder why it was designed that way (occasionally, I know the person who designed it that way). And the best answer I can reach is that ugly website design is an attempt to get more people to look at the comparatively tasteful advertisements.

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Either one conforms desire to the truth or…

Monday 28 May 2012 Leave a Comment

Either one conforms desire to the truth or one conforms truth to desire.

E. Michael Jones

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He who marries the spirit of the times…

Monday 28 May 2012 Leave a Comment

He who marries the spirit of the times will soon be a widower.

GK Chesterton

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I hate Absinthe

Saturday 26 May 2012 Leave a Comment

First this:

Then this:

And now this:

I never had these problems with Pwnagetool…

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How to have fun if you’re a SWPL

Saturday 26 May 2012 Leave a Comment

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_v7QrIW0zY

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Figured out the excessive advertisements in gmail issue…

Friday 25 May 2012 Leave a Comment

Figured out the excessive advertisements in gmail issue. For some reason, closing Chrome and restarting didn’t make my extensions work. But rebooting Windows and starting Chrome again did. When I got into Chrome and extensions were working, the ads in gmail disappeared. So this, I thought to myself, is what non-ad-blocking people see every day.

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