May 2010
45 posts
April 2010
53 posts
“Cursing the assholes blasting music at 3 AM didn’t stop me from Shazaming the...”
– Jason Kottke (via mrgan)
Double standards →
So, Gray Powell’s personal details get plastered all over Gizmodo. Jason Chen’s get pixelated.
(via DF)
Finder sepia-tints successive generations of alias... →
Not something you’d think to build into an OS, but very cool nonetheless.
When Finder creates an icon for an alias, it adds a tiny arrow to the bottom-left corner. However, it also slightly tints the resulting icon with a sepia wash. I suspect this may not be intentional, but it means that if you create many successive generations of alias icons (e.g. by repeatedly pressing Cmd-L with a...
Marco.org: Last week's news →
A neat idea to try out…
Most news outlets, including TV news shows and networks, newspapers, news websites, and blogs are targeted at news junkies: they never want to miss a story, and they want to be the first to report it to you.
If you look back on these stories even one week later, the majority of them seem…
Ten Word Wiki →
Like Wikipedia except all entries are ten words long. Or:
Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation.
(via kottke)
“From 30,000 feet, creating looks like art. From ground level, it’s a to-do list.”
– Ben Arment (via Shawn Blanc)
Whatever happened to programming? →
I want to make things, not just glue things together. When people ask me what I like about my job, I always say the same thing: that its the thrill of starting with nothing and making something. That, for me, is the essence of programming, and it hurts that there isn’t as much of it about as there used to be.
My Head is in the Cloud →
Before heading to the emergency room, I climbed into the back of the ambulance where I asked her if she wanted me to call her boyfriend. She said she did, but she didn’t know his telephone number. It was lost along with her now obliterated cell phone, and she had never committed the number to memory.
(via DF)
Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn... →
Hmm.
A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same. In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose...
“Q: What does a robot want?
A: Whatever you tell it to want.”
– Twenty Sided
Sistine Chapel virtual panorama →
This is probably the best way to see the Sistine Chapel aside from getting on a plane to Rome.
this morning I was awoken by my alarm clock →
this morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration...
Harmony →
And excellent web based sketching app (via DF)
Mario Galaxy 2 →
Excited!
A number of journalists got to travel to Nintendo’s Redwood City headquarters for some hands-on time with the game. Based on what they got to experience and have now shared with the rest of the Web, it sounds like Mario Galaxy 2 is going to be even better than we expected.
“Every day, I open a book. Its words were once the thoughts of another human...”
– The Millions (via jingc)
“If you give brash young people almost god-like powers and ask them to...”
– Genocide and Jedi: why the Sith may be right in Old Republic
“In order to get 10 hours of battery life, the entire iPad (including display)...”
– iFixit. Wow. I hadn’t bothered to do the math in my head, so I didn’t realize how impressive that was until now. That’s insane.
If we didn’t have proof right here in front of us, I’d insist that 2.5W total power consumption for a computer with a brightly backlit 9” LCD while playing videos and...
“Would war be only half as bad if half as many people died?”
– Brian Hayes
“As our friend Ken Case of The Omni Group has said, size matters, which is why a...”
– Why the iPad Is a Blank Slate, and Why That’s Important
“But why don’t manufacturers of the part put out their footprints and...”
– Screaming Circuits: Who’s Resonsible For The Footprint?
