- "This site is designed to help anyone who's thirsty for a proper pint sort through the many pubs and night-spots of Dublin."
- Typographical analysis of Web 2.0 companies' logos.
Tumbly goodness, page
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Kottke
says a tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream
of consciousness… with more than just links.
Anarchaia was the first, but there are many copies. And they
have a plan.
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- "From George Washington's toothlessness (he has no teeth left by middle age), to Grover Cleveland's gout, to Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio, to Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer disease, and finally to George W. Bush's colon polyps, presidents throughout history s
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- Sweet.
- "Most economists' knee-jerk reaction is to see how many years of education the worker has. But a far better measure is simply labor income."
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- Stephen Wolfram on life, the universe, and everything. Lots of good stuff in there.
- "A New Kind of Science" applied to music, producing ringtones for your phone.
- "It’s more likely that conservatives will inherit the Earth. Like it or not, a growing proportion of the next generation will be born into families who believe that father knows best."(tags: demographics policy)
- The slides and podcasts of the various presentations at Y Combinator's Startup School. Lots of good stuff.
- kensanata's diagram of free software culture: "These are, as far as I can tell, the social dynamics of free software."
- "Neon Genesis Evangelion"-inspired tableware, service for one.
- What an awesome t-shirt.
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- Tips and tricks when remotely administering a Mac.
- GFY asks "What’s the difference between eventful and upcoming?"
- "PHP: You've seen what works for Ruby and you think it will work for you too, but you haven't figured out that lipstick doesn't go on your cheeks and you shouldn't brush your hair with a mascara wand."
- A simple graphics program, based on the GIMP, for Mac OS X.
- "This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs."
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- Simple Ruby/ERB hack to convert a Textile file into an S5 presentation.
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The Language Log guys investigate the origin of "that's crazy talk!"
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Hey, they've finally published the book. PDF only.
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Aaron Swartz's project has launched.
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- "This is a wiki for capturing and refining success stories about […] ws-* standards (SOAP, WSDL, etc.)" Unsurprisingly, no success stories have been posted.
- Jell-O (n): "An element that a collaborating non-designer thinks can be added freely to a design for no cost." 'Cause there's always room for Jell-O!
- a Ruby on Rails powered tumblelog engine
- "An ancient recipe is to be used by Bruichladdich to distil [around 5,000 bottles of a whisky with] alcoholic content of at least 92% on Islay in the Western Isles. Managers at the firm believe it will be akin to a drink described 300 years ago…"
- Documentation of Backpack's list API, which officially hasn't been updated since the introduction of multiple lists. "I guessed at the interface by corelating the HTML form actions with the documented XML API and extracting similar interfaces[…]"
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- After missing his first two shots, he ended up sinking six three-pointers in a row.(tags: basketball news)
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- APP + XOXO + Lucene. Nice.
- Goovite will now help you resolve scheduling conflicts. Yay!(tags: goovite calendaring)
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- "a full featured Python package for parsing and generating vCard and vCalendar files."
- The Sox come up on top for two positions: left field (obvious) and pitcher (whoa, didn't see that coming at all).(tags: baseball statistics)
- Linguist William Labov says there is a shift of vowel sounds in the inland northern cities of the U.S. From NPR's All Things Considered.
- It's IANA-official now. Word.
- "Is it ever legitimate to target women, children and other noncombatants? For nations comprising some 30 percent of the United Nations, the answer - tragically, astonishingly - is yes."
- "Here's a simple starter for hacking on [the Feed Validator], either to make fixes, or simply to use it for non-public feeds."
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Since I first started doing dev work in a team environment, the concept-to-implementation process shaped the balance of power, and stacked the deck against the developer. The value of good programming talent is marginalized far too often, with developers thought of as mere "resources" to be gathered and stacked like cord wood, only to be burned out by long hours and painful compromises…
On one site I helped design and develop, I could only watch in horror as an art director came in from the outside and froze the developers out of the design process entirely. It was a formula for bad design: the "final" design deliverable not only contained critical technical and interaction flaws, it actually reintroduced some of the very same user experience problems we had worked hard to eliminate.
I learned many lessons from that environment. The most valuable was that no one stakeholder should ever have a veto — not a creative, not a coder, not an IA, not QA, not marketing, not an executive. Nobody. No project can be successful without communication and respect on all sides.
I also learned that no team member is one-dimensional: each individual has strengths and weaknesses, and very rarely are they so well-defined as to fit in boxes marked "developer," "designer," or "manager." Being able to match people strength for strength and compensate for shortcomings across the team is a major strategic advantage.
— Tearing down the factory (emphasis mine)
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If I have to read another article that shows me the flat 50 year happiness trend against the rising real income trend, and then implies that it wouldn't matter to me if my income doubled, I swear I will strangle a kitten.
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Sweet! Mark Pilgrim's going to be paid to work on Firefox:
My secret's out: I'm now working on Firefox full-time… I am to "immerse myself in the developer community via IRC, Bugzilla, and blogs" and keep an eye on upcoming features… In other words, IBM is paying me to work on Free Software and hang out in chat rooms all day.
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If you have Microsoft saying "well, the best approach is to make this elaborate infrastructure we've spent billions of dollars building out optional", then the debate is over.
— Robert Sayre (emphasis his)
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mokolabs:
talking to you is like talking to the internet ;)
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- This Novac squid connects to a SATA HDD and has IDE & USB out. Handy for quickly connecting a drive to a box without an external case.
- "The research suggests the conscious mind should be trusted only with simple decisions, such as selecting a brand of oven glove. Sleeping on a big decision, such as buying a car or house, is more likely to produce a result people remain happy…"(tags: science psychology)
- Send an SMS to a phone with this handy Firefox bookmarklet.
- The Sox take it 7-2, with our Latino players contributing many Zs.
- "That's right -- NBC's lawyers are beating YouTube with a DMCA stick because the viral content distributor helped facilitate NBC's biggest viral hit, ever."
- Modelling the link behavior on sites like reddit and digg as a system of differential equations.
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- BSG's season 2 finale will be 90 minutes. Excellent.
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