I really want to use Web::Scraper but the docs and examples leave me confused.

New reading material. It’s quite old, from the late 70s I think. Reading about が/は as it’s still a bit of a mystery.

I disable adblock on this article http://bit.ly/ba28dR and ironically I get an ad for Lotus Notes. Point proven.

Perl’s test coverage tools are So useful. I now know where to focus my efforts in improving coverage!

TV CM for ECC English has awfully-pronounced English from Beat Takeshi. Maybe the first lessons should start with pronunciation from scratch

HOWTO beat the London cops on a BS terrorism stop http://bit.ly/9qXiiz via @boingboing

Finally got to take the plunge selling my PS3 - Deleting all my data from the machine

Tempted to buy a new game :O DS space game Infinite Space/無限航路

I’ve been fascinated by writing systems and typography for a long time, and today I finally found a great book about it!

Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

An interesting thought experiment comes up in this talk about:

“Imagine that for your next vacation, you know that at the end of the vacation all your pictures will be destroyed, and you’ll get an amnesic drug, so that you won’t remember anything.

Now, would you choose the same vacation?”

This is to highlight the difference between our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves”.

You KNOW how to read this in a code interview: “if ( 8==D) { …”

Illustration for Amelia's Magazine

Illustration for Amelia's Magazine

Illustration for U8 Magazine

Illustration for U8 Magazine

Illustrator James Shedden just updated his portfolio!

http://www.jshedden.com/

Awesome illustrations, really unique feel to them @jamesshedden: www.jshedden.com gets a redesign - and introducing http://blog.jshedden.comwww.jshedden.com gets a redesign - and introducing http://blog.jshedden.com

US Patent 5443036 - Method of exercising a cat (with a laser pointer) http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5443036.html

Trying to get #nltk working on Google AppEngine is giving me a headache. It’s an insane mess of imports.