michael brennan. thoughts.

"Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." -- Albert Einstein

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I went to occupywallstreet.org and found an ad on the right-hand side of the nav for these awesome shoes.  I mean if you're going to occupy Wall Street, you better make sure you have the right shoes!

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I started making a context specification framework with qUnit underpinnings, mainly because I didn't like any of the BDD frameworks available for qUnit/JavaScript.  Check it out, you'll have to look at the JS file, I'm too lazy to write a README.

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Fuzz

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"It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever."

John Adams

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Upon arriving from Germany to live and work in the United States almost two years ago, I was shocked at how the America of my imagination—a place where everyone is well-educated and privileged— proved instead a place with a great deal of poverty, and despair. My experiences here fueled my desire to sharpen public awareness of the need to further understand social inequity

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This Time Lapse Video of the Very Large Telescope At Work is the Coolest Thing You'll See Today

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A guide to what brits actually mean when they say something.

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death, celebration.  Aren't these words when used together an oxymoron?  I'm resolved bin Laden is gone, but celebration of death is rooted in vengeance.