Trader Joe's 2005 Vintage Ale (by Unibroue) is ridiculously yummy and, at $4.99 a pop, it's easily worth every penny.
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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With AJAX and DOM scripting becoming more commonplace, pages are too dynamic to illustrate with a static wireframe or page description diagram, and it seems everyone is starting to realize it. Unfortunately, The [sic] alternatives to traditional wireframes such as animated GIF's [sic] or storyboarding, really aren't much better. I really think there's only one solution. Just build it.
— Garrett Dimon, AJAX & DOM Scripting: Just Build It (emphasis his)
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Ironic: IEEE's new web site isn't standards-compliant.
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JetBlue will be serving Dunkin' Donuts coffee. Yay!
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Kevin Burton rightly thinks stealth mode doesn't work (emphasis mine):
If you think your idea is valuable you're wrong… Good entrepreneurs don't create ideas — they execute. It's all about execution…
Here's the important part. One major component of your execution strategy is going to be convincing the blogosphere that your company is the next big thing and will change their lives. You can't do this when you're in stealth.
Stealth mode also prevents you from hiring engineers, finding investors, and partners. There may still be a few small reasons why going stealth is a good idea but I think for 95% of new Internet companies it just won't work.
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Chad Dickerson on email management at a new job (emphasis mine):
[I'm] cleaning out my e-mail inbox, and it's a mess. Only 22 weeks into my job at Yahoo!, I'm looking at an inbox with 5100+ e-mails, since I have deleted absolutely nothing since I started — and that leads to the point I want to make about getting organized in a new job. It might be GTD heresy, but in a new job, I think you should let your inbox fill up for the first 4–6 months… Then, 4–6 months later, when you've really begun to make sense of your role, the organization, and how it all works, spend a few days churning through that old inbox and doing some filing.
That's what I'm doing, and I'm finding e-mails on topics that were inscrutable to me in my first couple of months, but are now immensely valuable. I'm finding e-mails from people who I've gotten to know, but didn't know when I received the e-mails. I'm finding informational e-mails from HR and Finance that didn't make sense when I got them, and now do. I'm finding e-mail threads about projects that were just one in an overall soup of projects, but are now very specifically pertinent to what I'm doing now.
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Ruby client and Rails module for
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Here's an amusing comparison of Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham.
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I Am Alpha is AOL's new ambiguous Web 2.0 project. Read all about it over at yardley.
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Andy Budd wants a parent selector in CSS3. Sounds good to me! I prefer the syntax given in one of his comments:
#child < .parent {…}Update: Dylan Schiemann proposed this syntax back in 2000.
Update, May 2008: This sort of thing has popped up again, this time in Shaun Inman’s CSS Qualified Selectors. John Resig even implemented it for jQuery.
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Using SVG for web stats graphs. Drool.
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News flash: successful software is actually useful. Go figure.
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supr.c.ilio.us mashes up Chuck Norris facts with Web 2.0. My favorites:
- Chuck Norris does not build to flip. He builds to roundhouse kick to the face.
- Chuck Norris has more friends on MySpace than Tom.
These are especially amsuing for me, since I work at a Web 2.0 company and my boss (our CTO) is named Chuck Norris.
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Story of my life:
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As everyone else has pointed out already, Google Talk now supports XMPP s2s. Unfortunately, the current release of Adium doesn't allow it. Fortunately, the next version will.
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Our ancestors were hunted by birds.
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Scientists have discovered something everybody already knew: meetings suck. Via 37signals.
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The American colonists were responding to changes in the way Britain sought to govern them. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688 Parliament was supreme. Most of the colonies had been founded before that time. The colonies were governed by people who believed in an older model which focused on limitations on government power; they were descendents of people who had fled from over-reaching government power.
— from Tea, Taxes and the American Revolution (emphasis mine)
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