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PERU ANA — ANA PERU painting in lower east side

29 September 2007 -

Another PERU ANA – ANA PERU spotting. This time an elaborate pre-made painting affixed to a street sign in the lower east side, directly outside of Pianos if I remember correctly.

Wanted: More elegant syntax for adding associations to hashes in PHP and Ruby

29 September 2007 - 5 comments

Certain situations when adding elements to a hash result in pretty ugly code. I want the experience to be more like string concatenation. Consider these operations on strings, and their hash equivalents: [php] $string . ( $condition ? $morestring : ” ); array_merge( $hash, ( $condition ? array( ‘newkey’ => ‘newvalue’ ) : array() ) [...]

It’s 2007, and ring silencers are a hot feature on mobile phones in the US

29 September 2007 - 1 comment

This should be in The Onion, not an advertisement. If we lose net neutrality, computer/web/internet advertisements might start to look similar: “Email attachments — it’s a Verizon thing.”