The online journal, notebook and playground of HFM

"Publishers and other content providers make a grave error when they ensure that legitimately purchasing their products involves more hassle and uncertainty than simply pirating them." – one of the comments. Very true.

Really amazing photos of the Apollo 11 space flight. My great uncle is somewhere in picture number 12.

I get it. Okay.

Okay, fine. I'll start the damned book. Sheesh.

"Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to White House aides," the speaker said. "What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? I am not willing to elevate them to a position above the great mass of the American people. I don't think we have any such thing as royalty or nobility that exempts them. I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus* and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not Executive privilege. It is Executive poppycock." — Sen. Sam Ervin

READ THIS. — "The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates."

The chart would have to be modified for me – the first step would be "fly to New York…"

The chart would have to be modified for me – the first step would be "fly to New York…"

This is the reason I'm thankful to be an American every single day.

That'd be Punctum: to be punctured, wounded even, by an aesthetic moment. It's a sharp metaphor (courtesy of Roland Barthes). It's the perfect word for the feeling we crave when we turn to art.

Damn it.

This is a specific kind of Did Not Do The Research, where a pivotal clue in solving a case is actually erroneous.

"Kayfabe" is a Carny term thought to have originated from the Pig Latin for "be fake."

What I will be doing shortly.

A good analysis of making money online included with this analysis of flash games.

Afterwards, we came to refer to certain types of accomplishments as “black triangles.” These are important accomplishments that take a lot of effort to achieve, but upon completion you don’t have much to show for it – only that more work can now proceed. It takes someone who really knows the guts of what you are doing to appreciate a black triangle.

Lovely, and typical. This is the real face of the conservative party, unmasked.

Street artist.

Animated hover

GitHub is for Public Open Source and Private Business Code

Object Oriented CSS

"Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve." Too fucking funny.

Eat breakfast.