I’d heard about The Mosquito a few years ago as a European solution to the “teenagers loitering outside storefronts” problem. (In America we just make our teenagers stay at home.) A Consumerist thread pointed me to this YouTube video that you can use to figure out if you can hear the sort of high‐frequency sound generated by The Mosquito. I could near nothing until 17.7khz — at which point it clicked in, clear as a bell and annoying as Pauly Shore. It made me wish for the age‐based hearing loss that makes those over 25 supposedly unable to hear it. Will this keep kids away from your place of business? Yes, but it’d also keep me away, and I’m 26.
Month: February 2009
Shorter Rich Galen: ‘President Obama has made the fatal mistake of suggesting a means of governance contrary to that of a fictional character in a novel.’
Aren’t you annoyed at having to remember to declare your script tags in the correct order? Your dependency management solution has become tiresome. As I explain on the Prototype blog, we hope that Sprockets will become a natural part of how Prototype add‐ons are distributed.
On occasion I surprise myself by writing an epistle on a subject I didn’t know I cared much about. I’m bad at writing blog posts, but I’m good at writing comments that become blog posts just because I won’t stop typing. I need to spot them more quickly and usher them back into the flock.
Given Mr. Rove’s public statements that he does not intend to comply with the subpoena, I am puzzled as to why Mr. Rove needs a mutually convenient date to fail to appear.