December 2010
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“We cannot escape the troubling conclusion that some—perhaps many—cherished...”
– Richard Palmer cited in The New Yorker.
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Preparing for delicious implosion
Saving all delicious.com bookmarks to an XML file from the command line:
curl https://user:password@api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all > filename.xml
It took around five seconds for 800 bookmarks.
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From Casablanca (1942)
Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
Ugarte: You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.
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“I couldn’t live a week without a private library—indeed, I’d part...”
– H.P. Lovecraft.
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From Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
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“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor...”
– Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize in Physics 1965).