Animal Collective – Take Away Show

I saw [this](http://www.blogotheque.net/Animal-Collective,3881) a while ago, and it’s pretty great if you like Animal Collective. Sorry I didn’t share earlier.

#82.1 – ANIMAL COLLECTIVE – Taste
by lablogotheque

Did it start yet?

Allegedly I [know](http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Unicode_In_5_Minutes) my [unicode](http://www.pauloppenheim.com/blog/2008/05/14/the-fog-of-war-mcnamara-and-spidery-ha/) but I still get rad surprises:

䷂ – U+4DC2 HEXAGRAM FOR DIFFICULTY AT THE BEGINNING

[bad start](http://www.last.fm/music/Mr.+Oizo/_/Bad+Start).

All a mess!

I was just upgrading WordPress and noticed I haven’t said much in a *while*! Not for lack of anything going on, but it’s mostly been personal stuff and work stuff. Seeing as this is already a meta post, I’ll summarize for those following my stream that care (hello, facebook).

Linux Flash – pissed that Myspace kills it? Try Flash 10 Beta! (plus 64-bit tips)

Oh yeah. So was I. The current version of Adobe Flash for Linux (9.0.124 for the intrepid) breaks as soon as you load the myspace music player. If you’re any kind of music fan, that kinda ruins 50% of new music availability. I got agitated enough to do something about it today, here’s how i installed the new flash 10 beta and fixed the issue.

The Fog of War, McNamara, and Spidery Ha

I spent a good chunk of the night reading [the transcript of The Fog of War](http://www.errolmorris.com/film/fow_transcript.html) which I got from [a post on Ben Fry's blog](http://benfry.com/writing/archives/40) which I was reading because [Zero](http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Zero_Linden) informed me [Ben Fry dropped some serious Glagolitic Capital Spidery Ha](http://benfry.com/writing/archives/87). It’s the wisdom of Robert McNamara from being involved in WWII, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War. If you believe that failure is the best chance to learn, this is a chance to read about insight gained from probably the biggest failures in the past century; the atomic bombing of Japan (after already essentially decimating them by firebombing their cities), the willingness to lose everything in atomic war, and the inability to understand the central motivations of what was essentially a civil war. McNamara gives the following lessons with amazing historic perspective:

* Lesson #1: Empathize with your enemy.
* Lesson #2: Rationality will not save us.
* Lesson #3: There’s something beyond one’s self.
* Lesson #4: Maximize Efficiency.
* Lesson #5: Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
* Lesson #6: Get the data.
* Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
* Lesson #8: Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning.
* Lesson #9: In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
* Lesson #10: Never say never.
* Lesson #11: You can’t change human nature.

Spidery Ha.

On becoming a punchline

Please see exhibit A, [Episode 3 of Oddistry](http://oddistry.com/2008/05/08/finally-oddistry-episode-three-maker-faire/), a video blog produced in part by my pal Chadrick who is evidently [Valleywag's mascot](http://valleywag.com/tag/chadrick-baker/). As if I didn’t have enough ego gratification.

chew on para one

[just because](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI9lYeAh-3A).

Ego Surfing Gratification

So I was just [ego surfing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egosurfing) and found [a song written by Niko Donburi that has a line about my work persona, Poppy Linden](http://niko-mysecondlife.blogspot.com/2007/12/public-thank-you-to-ll.html). Woot! Here’s the song…

The Current AMD / Intel CPU Battle – Why AMD considered losing?

I just built my own computer, and I’ve been planning a writeup, but I’m still doing research because this went so well that I am planning on rebuilding my main server as well now. I decided on a low-wattage AMD CPU (the 45W BE-2400) so I could run fanless, and it was the best decision I made. I decided to look in against the performance of the Core 2 Duo E6600, which has become somewhat of a standard. The [performance of the E6600 beats the BE-2400](http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=938&model2=877&chart=426) but the BE-2400 is a $90 part, and as I suspected you [get a lot more bang for the buck](http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=938&model2=877&chart=444) as it seems you do with all AMD CPUs right now. How is AMD allegedly [doing so poorly](http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/25/0234254) if it’s satisfying customers with great value like this?

Yellow Drum Robot

You just need to see [this](http://letsmakerobots.com/node/112).