Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-29-2008

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• Talk To Action | Reclaiming Citizenship, History, and Faith
  
  
  Palin's Churches and the Third Wave. The most unpleasant of the unpleasant dominionist ideas in the unpleasant pentecostal wing of unpleasantly stupid American christianity.
  
  
  (tags: via:kellyramsey religion pentecostal fundamentalism evangelical powerreligion charismatic dominionist)
  
  
• PETER HITCHENS: How China has created a new slave empire in Africa | Mail Online
  
  
  What's Mandarin for "King Leopold of Belgium"?
  
  
  (tags: slavery race politics news africa china colonialism congo imperialism)
  
  
• How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  
  
  how many more complicated ways are there to say "it was a bubble again like always"?
  
  
  (tags: finance commerce failure villainy software quants)
  
  
• Midnight Muncheez - Bringin Our Store To Your Door
  
  
  Everything stoners need, delivered 8 pm to 3 am
  
  
  (tags: newportbeach local delivery food stoners 420 snacks commerce orangecounty california)
  
  
• Light Switch Complicator on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  
  
  The Society for the Presentation of Inefficient Mechanical Devices Presents The Totally Unnecessary Overly Redundant & Mechanically Superfluous Light Switch Complicator
  
  
  (tags: flickr ha toys art)
  
  
• Code: Flickr Developer Blog " Flickr Engineers Do It Offline
  
  
  queueing as used by flickr
  
  
  (tags: via:deusx flickr queuing queues web programming webdev scaling scalability)
  
  

Comments

[wholesomedick.livejournal.com]

I love your livejournal like a milkshake.

[alfaguru.livejournal.com]

It's astonishing to me that web application developers have seemingly only just discovered queueing. To say it's not new is something of an understatement, as job scheduling goes back to the earliest days of commercial computing.

PHP is not the language I'd choose to implement a queueing system in, nor would I trumpet reinventing the wheel so loudly. But I guess Flickr can afford the overheads.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

I believe everything at Yahoo has to be PHP, by diktat.

i have the best stories

[kafkateer.livejournal.com]

about growing up in the AoG. a truly marvelous bunch of people!

did you know that i didn't listen to pop music until after i ran away from home? SIXTEEN, dude. no popular music (other than in public venues my parents couldn't control, such as the soundtrack at the mall, or places i snuck out to with friends like a depeche mode concert in '88) until i was sixteen. truly awesome. ALSO I KNO 4 A FAKT: the founding fathers were all christians, AND AND AND carbon dating is provably false AND lucy (the hominid) was a "monkey an atheist buried in his back yard."

ho ho ho, good times old chap!

--michelle

PS all your other links are fabulous and i completely agree with the (mildly voyeuristic) point of the post abt. trains and what you get to see from them.

Re: i have the best stories

[eyeteeth.livejournal.com]

zomg i din no u were trommatized in these xtian wayz. im puttin this info in my dossiay on u kthx.

Re: i have the best stories

[kafkateer.livejournal.com]

ask me about how the sisters of perpetual indulgence once picketed my church and pretended to marry each other in the parking lot!

is it can be tiem for ghey wedings naow plees? man it was awesome! i was enthralled! who were these nuns in make-up with mustaches and leather outfits?

OR instead you can ask me about MOTHERS' DAY and what being a christian woman truly is!

--michelle

PS OH MY GOSH I GET TO SEE YOU IN LYKE 11 DAYS!

[klikitak.livejournal.com]

Will Midnight Munchies deliver to the patio???????

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Shorter How Wall Street Lied To Its Computers: "Garbage In Garbage Out."