I guess this may seem insensitive, and I admit, I will never understand, as I'm a young, single, childless male.
Why do you need to post these pictures? It's not that I find these pictures offensive, but the odd time I see somebody breastfeeding in public, I do catch myself being slightly thrown off. It seems like a very private thing. Why do you WANT to post these pictures online?
The best part of this was the concept of banding together as group of "thousands" in this blackout. As of 2007 (the latest numbers I could easily find), Wikipedia as a whole has > 2500 views per second. Of course, the English Wikipedia is the only one being blacked out as far as I know, but I expect it also is a large portion of that 2500 views/second.
And that's just Wikipedia! Seems to me that a few more people will be affected this time around.
I've gotten by just fine wearing what everyone else is wearing. hackers aren't some "mythical beast". We're just like everyone else. Sure, there's some features I thought that would be nice on articles of clothing, and could be considered "hacker friendly". But these ideas would generally be viewed as useful to anyone who lives in a modern technology-filled world, not just hackers.
I like news:yc on iOS. I've only used it on an iPhone, so I can't speak as to how it works on an iPad. Even if it was just scaled up, though, I think it's still a great app.
I'm a young student who was paying membership fees at a local hackerspace over the last six months. I feel like I'm almost exactly the type of person you're talking about; I went there and worked on assignments for my C.S. classes as well as solo projects.
One thing I have to say is, I think it's important to encourage interaction. My primary goal of going was to make connections with people. I would go, there would be maybe ten people there, and everyone was plugged in to headphones and I think I actually spoke with people a small hand full of times. The times I did, I approached them and was treated as an intrusion.
Of course, it's very possible I was an intrusion and they wanted to be left alone, or I approached them in the wrong way, who knows?
Anyways, this turned in to a bit of rambling, and I'm not positive I've helped at all, but... Hopefully I did.
This doesn't really seem to be an "Ultimate developer & power user tool" list. It seems to be more of a "this is what I use".
According to you, your ultimate setup for Rails development includes a machine that loads the Rails stack slowly (!), a 24-inch monitor (while you say you'd love a 27-inch), and headphones that sound "ok".
Where do we draw the line? Am I aloud to post pictures of myself urinating? Because that's natural too.
Natural != appropriate to show the public.