Tumbly goodness, page 2

1. Linkified text of an email I sent to Marketplace on Thursday.

   In today's afternoon segment about tax preparation services, you discussed a test in which investigators tried 19 different tax preparation services and found that all committed at least one error.

   Instead of attributing this to the lack of licensing or certification of tax preparation workers, perhaps we should consider the real culprit: the complexity of our tax code.

   Were paying taxes as simple as paying a utility bill, we would hardly need to impose any sort of market-entry-limiting certification or licensing scheme on those in this line of work.

   6 June 2009 ¶

2. San Diego’s first BarCamp of 2009 was this weekend; I’ve just finished giving my talk on Extensibility, HTML, and the Web ecosystem. The talk was a cleaned-up version of my drunken rant about distributed extensibility, aka ISSUE-41.

   This is the second BarCamp in town that I haven’t helped to organize. It’s fun to simply be a participant without having to worry about all of the things that inevitably go wrong.

   31 May 2009 ¶

3. 

   Keep Khan and Carry On, by cole007.

   8 May 2009 ¶

4. Several of us in San Diego have recently launched 50ft, a joint design blog. Here’s my favorite sign shot from my post on the Neighborhood signs of San Diego:

   

   North Park sign, by ivan jurado.

   5 December 2008 ¶

5. When I first saw this usage of an old family photo I posted to flickr under CC BY-SA, I felt a pang of sharer’s remorse.

   5 December 2008 ¶

6. As you may have guessed from my halloween costume, I loved Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, Anathem. Seriously, it’s fantastic, and you should drop everything you’re doing and read it, right now.

   19 November 2008 ¶

7. 

   Winter sunset, by Thundershead.

   23 October 2008 ¶

8. The only thing I will oppose very strongly is the setting up of guidelines and requirements and all sorts of foolish rules, because that doesn’t improve the text. It just prevents other people from posting. Way to go, social skills.

   — Alex Schröder’s EmacsWiki mission rant

   23 October 2008 ¶

9. 

   Stucco, by nathangibbs.

   22 October 2008 ¶

10. THYME CUBE—perhaps the most brilliant parody website ever created. via trivium.

    (If you’re unfamiliar with Time Cube, you were educated stupid.)

    21 October 2008 ¶

11. PUBLIC FUCKING CHOICE THEORY YOU IGNORANT FUCKING IDIOTS! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!

    — Bill, on this New York Times article.

    19 October 2008 ¶

12. Today is Dictionary Day, the anniversary of the birth of Noah Webster. Despite The Oniyon’s strenuous opposition at the time (HT: Language Hat), Webster went on to write the first dictionary of American English, for which we should always thank him.

    Why don’t you celebrate Dictionary Day by contributing some of your favorite words to Wordie? I will. You might enjoy checking out some of the wonderful neologisms at neologasm, my favorite word blog.

    16 October 2008 ¶

13. We are left to tremble at the dangerous illiteracy of the American voter, which has pushed otherwise honorable men to such crescendos of vicious nonsense.

    — Will Wilkinson

    8 October 2008 ¶

14. Harvard stupid comes from thinking that you're smarter than everyone without recognizing that you still might not be smart enough to control the evil your creations threaten to unleash.

    — Bill Mann

    3 October 2008 ¶

15. Unlike the 8,700 awful political movies to come out in the last few years, this doesn’t treat either side as evil or moronic. So the only people it will offend are those who like good movies.

    — boffo

    1 August 2008 ¶

16. So liek the Ceiling Cat lieks the ppl lots and he sez 'Oh hai I givez u me only kitteh and ifs u beleevs in him u wont evr diez no moar, k?'

    — John 3:16, LOLCat Bible. Via Bryan.

    1 August 2008 ¶

17. 

    Initial Set-up for Cupcakes of Catan, by QuintanaRoo. Via Tantek.

    31 July 2008 ¶

18. When data is gathered and used for the people as part of civic processes (voting is a good example), processing it using secret software, especially if it’s a private-sector secret, should be totally out of bounds.

    — Tim Bray, describing Christine Peterson’s notion of No Secret Software.

    28 July 2008 ¶

19. Perhaps there is a disconnect between the European institution and its people that we need to reflect on.

    — Micheal Martin, Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs

    13 June 2008 ¶

20. 

    Rustic, by N.J. & R.J..

    8 June 2008 ¶

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