January 2012
2 posts
“So the best way to approach this problem is to ask yourself: what are people...”
– Paul Graham: YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood
“The poorest fifth of the world pays one-fifth of the world’s lighting bill...”
– How solar power can help the billion people without electricity
December 2011
5 posts
HTTP Status Cats →
When the web server coughs up fur balls!
TextMate 2.0 Alpha →
Cue in Händel : “Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes form us.” (not quite the end of Part II yet!)
Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design →
via @otisyves
“The future is disintermediated.”
– John Gruber, Daring Fireball.
“Une culture généralisée de l’illettrisme produit...”
– Le Québec analphabète - Jean-Benoît Nadeau
September 2011
3 posts
The bottom line
Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20 minutes stand for 2 minutes AND MOVE.
“J’aime le café, surtout lorsqu’il est bon”
– Erik Satie … qui aurait beaucoup apprécié ceci 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee - The Oatmeal
The Patent Pledge →
No first use of software patents against companies with less than 25 people.
June 2011
2 posts
Why don't they ask this question? →
Should math be taught in the schools?
May 2011
3 posts
April 2011
2 posts
The New Center For Digital Art and Contemporary... →
The Centre for digital art and contemporary music designed by architect Manual Gautrand opened its doors to the Parisian public last month.
March 2011
8 posts
Sriracha On The Oatmeal →
“You are the savior of cheap, crappy asian food.”
“If ever a visiting Martian biologist should ask you what made your species the...”
– Social Development and Weapons Propelled Human Achievement - NYTimes.com
Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed - Smashing... →
(via Instapaper)
A newspaper paywall done right →
The Augusta Chronicle put a paywall in place in December — and since then traffic is up by 5%.
Cool Tools →
(via Instapaper)
What to Thuuz? →
THUUZ tracks every game from start to finish so you know what’s exciting and when it’s exciting and then you decide when to tune in.
“J’aime le café, surtout lorsqu’il est bon.”
– Erik Satie
February 2011
7 posts
“Dignity, as Bob Dylan once said, has never been photographed. Most people...”
– Nikolai Grozni : The Ghost of Revolutions Past
1 tag
Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski... →
Especially of note is the Polish Cowboy attitude towards testing that I share on a daily basis:
My development process is quite primitive. I run a local copy of the site on my laptop, test changes manually, check them in, and then deploy to the production server. The only similarity to agile development is the use of frequent small deployments.
The following paragraph was quoted by Simon...
“I would describe this process as a hideous kludge; not because the Googlers who...”
– ongoing by Tim Bray · Broken Links
“This isn’t nanny-state paternalism but an accepted role of government: public...”
– Mark Bittman A Food Manifesto for the Future
January 2011
2 posts
“The brain benefits from being used, so that, in a neat circle, resistance...”
– Tara Parker-Hope in Phys Ed: Brains and Brawn - NYTimes.com
“I don’t see how Google keeps Flash but drops H.264 in the name of “openness”...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Google Dropping Support for H.264 in Chrome
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
“The entire question of how emotion will change people’s behavior is pretty much...”
– Professor Dan Ariely quoted in The X Factor of Economics
The New York Times, Really? →
Always really interesting column…
For example: the last two entries
Should You Clean Produce With Soap and Water?
The Claim: Gargling With Salt Water Can Ease Cold Symptoms
September 2010
1 post
The United States of Inequality
Fascinating five part series by Timothy Noah on Slate:
Introducing the Great Divergence
The Usual Suspects Are Innocent
Importing Inequality
Computer Exceptionalism
Too Many Republicans
August 2010
4 posts
Découpage au poil! | Carole Thibaudeau | Peindre... →
Quel ruban utiliser sur quel surface à peindre
Contents -- Eloquent JavaScript →
Eloquent JavaScript is a digital book providing a comprehensive introduction (tutorial) to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs,…
1 tag
HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5... →
After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on.
Red Eye - Abstract City Blog →
Should I be happy I stayed home this summer?
July 2010
6 posts
Typing Proper Pinyin on Mac | Times New Rohan →
You simply have to enable the U.S. Extended keyboard instead of the standard U.S. one (assuming you are using a U.S. setup that is).
Jeremiah Grossman: I know who your name, where you... →
Appears fixed, though, in the most recent Webkit nightlies (r63958)
Cracking Open the Time Capsule →
I just replaced the inner drive as per the instructions. Worked like a charm! And the Western Digital drive (Caviar Green 2TB in my case) is indeed way quieter than the original Seagate.
House Fans and Mosquitoes →
If you are looking for a chemical-free way to repel mosquitoes, you may already have the solution in your home. Turn on the fan.
Our Giant Banking Crisis—What to Expect →
This Time Is Different, Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff : instructive review by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells:
When it comes to crises, that means acting like the proverbial drunk who searches for his keys under the lamppost, even though that’s not where he dropped them, because the light is better there: the quarter-century or so preceding...
June 2010
1 post
“Ignorance profoundly channels the course we take in life.”
– David Dunning cited in The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)
May 2010
7 posts
Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks →
127.0.0.1 tcr.tynt.com .. I agree.