http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp Feminism, film, computers and cookies Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:33:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Still a bit swamped but I thought you should have this if you haven't seen it already: Best. Dog. And cat. Ever. http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/03/18/fetch/ Print fails are the most flagrant of the software dev fails. http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/03/10/printing-tests/ Stop everything and watch this for film education + hard LoLs: A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever -- powered by Cracked.com Via cracked.com via The Daily What http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/03/08/movie-title/ I found you a present: This has been on my desktop a while making me happy. I think it came from an email forward -- otherwise I would credit the source for the extreme amount of happy it produces. http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/03/05/inspector-collie/ I've been radio silent the last week or so due to being purty busy at work, so here are some presents: Unit Testing Achievements: A Github suite that shares your unit test achievements with the world. My favorite? Heisenbug: when a passing test fails on unchanged code. Onion: Man Who Enjoys Thing ... http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/03/03/unit-testing-achievements/ No wonder that some [White House] officials have occasionally found themselves thinking heretical thoughts. “From the crassest political viewpoint, we would be better off if we had 25 fewer House members, if those marginal seats were held by the Republicans right now,” one told me last fall. “Then we’d have ... http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/02/18/new-york-magazine-lesson-of-scott-browns-election/ We should do it not because we wish to coddle terrorists. We should do it not because we view them as anything but evil and terrible. We should do it, Mr. President, because we are Americans, and because we hold ourselves to humane standards of treatment of people no matter ... http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/02/14/why-honor-the-rights-of-terrorists/ Lenna has it. http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/02/12/big-hair/ So the White Stripes complained that the Air Force lifted "Fell In Love With a Girl" for their Superbowl ad. And, yeah, the lift is hard to miss. But I think it's disingenuous for the White Stripes to get bristly about a soundalike. For instance, compare: White Stripes' "Ah-ahhhh-ah-ah!" from "Fell In ... http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/02/11/derivative-music-is-derivative/ Sometimes my code gets too heavy. Eventually it gets some convoluted bug, and then it's time to start paring it down. http://www.thetoryparty.com/wp/2010/02/11/code-diet/