A great iPhone tip from Bonaldi: Set Safari to about:blank and save as homescreen bookmark. No more waiting for it to gather its wits and reload some old fat tab.
I use screen a lot, but always forget how to force it to detach a screen then reattach (when, say, I’ve moved from one computer to another without remembering to detach): screen -D -r [name of your screen]
Part 1 of a brilliant Fela Kuti documentary from 1982. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
We have the facts and we’re voting…. The MetaFilter election night thread, full of happiness.
# metafilter, obama, politics, usa
One egg. Many black beetles squashed in the road. Inside they are brilliant vermillion. Men ploughing with teams of oxen after the rain. Wretched ploughs, with no wheel, which only stir the soil.–George Orwell’s diary entry for today, 1938.
Listen to the entire Roxanne answer song saga: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10.
Via DecemberBoy’s brilliant MetaFilter post

SE/30 System & Newton 2100 by jd_wages.
Click through and read the description: it’s a whizz-bang setup.
Pedtextrians are walkers lost in their messaging, looking down at their handheld instead of up at where they are headed.–Paul Saffo