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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. 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

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

    9 January 2006

  3. 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

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

    9 January 2006

  5. Meet RHIT's new president.

    9 January 2006

  6. A collection of useful tools for flickr users.

    9 January 2006

  7. 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

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

    9 January 2006

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

    9 January 2006

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

    5 January 2006

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Finished Accelerando last night. Stross is Egan, updated to 2005. Download the book (cc-by-nc-nd 2.5).

    5 January 2006

  14. 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

  15. Journalists need to understand that the "more money won't make you happier" talking point is, in fact, a piece of propaganda designed to weaken public support for wealth-enhancing policies. Once the data is framed correctly, there is really no reason to use the talking points. It does nothing to "balance" the story. Even if it is true that the microwaves and dishwashers of those beneath the poverty line aren't making them happier than they already were, they are freeing up time that would otherwise be spent on cooking and doing dishes. And that's just good.

    — "Poverty in America and Happiness Talking Points", yet another good post on Will's new blog.

    5 January 2006

  16. SBCL self-hosts on Windows now.

    5 January 2006

  17. EMMS can now talk to mpd without shelling out to mpc, thanks to mwolson.

    5 January 2006

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

    5 January 2006

  19. Inspired by Anarchaia (a tumblelog, and the best new blog to come along in a while), I'm giving tumblelogging a try in this space. Let's see how it goes. I figure I've got enough input for it.

    4 January 2006

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