Francesco Tristano & Carl Craig - The Melody

This is stunningly good.

(via @bruces)

burn:

Nerd moment: These fuckers are fuckers. A while ago, my site was hacked. They got my FTP password somehow, and basically messed with my site, rearranging the pages and folder hierarchies, and basically trashing the site. When I called Lunarpages and asked for a backup, they told me I probably had an unsafe script (their FACES are unsafe scripts!) and that a backup would cost $80 bucks, but I had better hurry, ‘cos they only have backups for so long! This was immediately after my friend, using asmallorange.com , had a backup of his site restored for free because he accidentally overwrote a file.

So, yesterday I was messing around with a php back end, and it called for running a program from the command line, which I tried with shell_exec, to no avail. I said, “eh, eff it.” and left it alone for a little. Today, someone messages me that my weather site is down. Apparently Lunarpages has suspended my site; not only my actual website, but FTP access AND ACCESS TO MY BILLING INFORMATION. They gave me no warning, email, or phone call. IF YOU DIDN’T WANT ME RUNNING SHELL COMMANDS YOU SHOULD BE RUNNING SAFE MODE OR SOME SHIT YOU FUCKS LET ME LOG IN AND DOWNLOAD MY VARIOUS WEB PROJECTS AND PICTURES FROM THE SITE SO I CAN LEAVE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS FOREVER

DON’T BE LIKE ME. BACKUP YOUR BITCHES, BITCHES.

Lunarpages sucks. I dropped them after one of their frankensteinish cpanel mods disappeared a chunk of my data; their response to my initial complaints was apparently to shunt the rest of my shit, including any attempts to contact them, right down the memory hole. Useless.

Oh hai, if anyone is actually subscribing to my feed: I’m migrating to feedburner, so you may want to update your favorite feedreader with AYCDICDM’s new feed.

But Disqus and Tumblr both are acting up, so, who knows.

Pox News. Fair and balanced.

icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse:

Only love can break your heart?

The night is still young. Jesus be a Bloomberg upset.

The National - The Geese Of Beverly Road

oh come, come be my waitress, and serve me tonight,
serve me the sky tonight
oh come, come be my waitress, and serve me tonight,
serve me the sky with a big slice of lemon

Reuters/Nick Zieminski

With Berkshire’s support, BNSF will be able to invest in its infrastructure and not have to worry about meeting quarterly expectations, said Thomas Russo, a partner with Gardner Russo & Gardner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which counts Berkshire as its second-largest holding.

Way to go, Oracle, but it’s frightening that such a corporation must literally rely on the intervention of a financial superman to raise its eyes from quarter-to-quarter profit chasing and think strategically…

MOP v. Sesame Street’s Yip Yips. Ante up.

(a familiar sort of awesome)

Hardware.

(the tunnel-boring machine at Yucca Mountain reaches daylight; via BLDGBLOG: A Million Years of Isolation: an interview with Abraham Van Luik)

ohryankelley:

Oh! McNulty

Starting season two tonight.

I don’t know how you could wait that long to move on from Season 1. I’m digging into 4 now…

when you walk through the garden…

Wait for the moonwalk.