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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.

  1. Someone's released a PHP OpenID library. Now I need to look into how hard it would be to plug it in to Eventful.

    20 January 2006

  2. Our ancestors were hunted by birds.

    20 January 2006

  3. An investigation into how the different browsers handle :active v. :focus links.

    20 January 2006

  4. Scientists discover one in twelve Irishmen are descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages.

    20 January 2006

  5. 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)

    20 January 2006

  6. I conjecture there is a connection between the strength of the "state as parent" structuring metaphor, strong executives, tryanny, and war.

    Take it further: Part of civilizing (quite literally) our minds is weakening the strength of this metaphor. The fact that classical liberalism—based on the metaphor of the merchant/consumer relationship—cannot be fitted into the Lakovian schema is evidence of its of its psychological foreignness, but moral superiority.

    — Will Wilkinson, The State as Parent

    20 January 2006

  7. Meet RHIT's new president.

    9 January 2006

  8. A collection of useful tools for flickr users.

    9 January 2006

  9. Programming as Design sounds a lot like Richard Gabriel's MFA in Software

    9 January 2006

  10. Just because you're writing AJAX code doesn't mean you can ignore HTTP status codes.

    9 January 2006

  11. Does it bother you that <sup/> and <sub/> affect your line height? Style them with line-height: 0; and you'll be good to go.

    9 January 2006

  12. asdf-upgrade is a handy way to upgrade your asdf-installable libraries. Hat tip to Bill Clementson.

    9 January 2006

  13. As the psychologist Tom Gilovich has suggested, someone who wants to believe a proposition tends to ask, "Can I believe it?" In contrast, someone who wants to deny its truth tends to ask "Must I believe it?"

    — Tom Gilovich, via Cafe Hayek

    9 January 2006

  14. Arnold Kling's wild hypotheses in economcis and political economy.

    9 January 2006

  15. Europe gives 65 cents — just over half a euro — to the average poverty-stricken African in aid in a year, whereas a surplus cow in Europe gets 848 euros a year.

    via Marginal Revolution

    9 January 2006

  16. Tim Bray will be speaking at ETech this year. I hope Brian lets us go.

    5 January 2006

  17. Morale, motivation, and momentum are the most important software development tools you have.

    5 January 2006

  18. In #emacs:

    1. <kensanata> maybe you have the wrong mental model of how emacs operates.
    2. <kensanata> for example, you cannot "open a new buffer in utf-8"
    3. <kensanata> this will lead you astray, since you will make experiments with emacs that result in things failing.
    4. <johnsu01> in emacs, the buffer opens YOU in utf-8.
    5. <kensanata> lol

    5 January 2006

  19. A lot of blog-noise out there about the Edge's 2006 question: What is your dangerous idea?

    Some of the good ones:

    Some of the bad ones:

    5 January 2006

  20. When teenagers' hobbyist blogs (short for "Web logs") have better code than brand-new Web sites, somebody's doing something wrong. And that somebody is you, the developer.

    — Failed Redesigns

    5 January 2006

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