February 2012
2 posts
“But it strikes me that, though she wears a pretty technodress, underneath DS9 is...”
– #shitsiskosays - Charlie’s Diary
The Bouletcorp » Darkness →
January 2012
3 posts
Kempt - The Phone Stack →
Do it. Be strong. (via @pug)
December 2011
3 posts
Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz →
“It is now clear to us that if we were not so self-focused and myopic, we would...”
– Gay community apologizes to Amy Koch for ruining her marriage - Minneapolis News
November 2011
1 post
“To risk, and ultimately, to give, one’s life for an ideal, is a courageous act,...”
– A Day Late And A Dollar Short | Partial Objects
October 2011
3 posts
“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his...”
– St. Francis of Assisi (via sabbatical)
5 tags
The Real Zack Morris: The State of the Art is... →
zackarymorris:
I stumbled onto this post the other day through Hacker News. Basically Ryan Dahl (the guy who wrote node.js, a web framework that makes running web servers easy with javascript) called out the deplorable state of software today.
I fully agree with him.
And here’s why…
September 2011
3 posts
“So why do we talk about a party “winning” or “losing” an election? Political...”
– Survivor is Not a Democracy | Ideas, Footnotes & Revelations
Rob Baedeker: What's in your box! →
robbaedeker:
Thank you for supporting sustainable community agriculture. By purchasing a weekly box of produce direct from Blessed Stork Farms, you allow us to run our business using earth-friendly methods and bring nutritious produce to your body, mind and soul.
1 tag
The Aporeticus: The Great Diversity of Flowers →
mills:
Walking, weaving, a few drinks in to his evening —maybe more, but he doesn’t want to appoint this moment the end of the night when there is still love to be sought— he counteracts his listing with what he thinks is a confidently long stride. He wants to show everyone on this crowded street…
*damn* this is some fine writing.
August 2011
4 posts
“Watch the Throne therefore should not be judged as an album, but rather as a...”
– Hip hop meets foreign policy: Jay-Z’s Hegemony in the Age of Kanye | Marc Lynch (via)
MongoDB Drinking Game
Joe F.: every time 10gen says document databases don't need transactions, you take a shot
Harold G.: you take three shots, one per node in replica set
GREATER OR LESSER SCOTT! →
July 2011
8 posts
“But making nebulous calls for centrism, like writing news reports that always...”
– Paul Krugman via Marco.org
“The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades...”
– Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
NASA'S SUCCESSFUL QUANTIFYING OF COMEDY TIMING (By... →
Information Architects – The 100% Easy-2-Read... →
“Google makes facebook look like MySpace. And that’s bad news for them.”
– Oliver Reichenstein - *WHY AND HOW GOOGLE+’S INTERFACE IS KICKING ASS
“We live our modern, high-tech lives immersed in a sea of devices and systems...”
– has_many :through - just a thought
Some notes about time →
see also The Long, Painful History of Time
June 2011
8 posts
Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over... →
“It’s time for software developers to make the decisions, rather than...”
– ಠ_ಠ (via slashdot via @amyhoy/@nzkoz)
The Technium: The Clock in the Mountain →
Taking the long view.
“Which programming language you learn and use does not matter. Do not get sucked...”
– Advice From An Old Programmer — Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition
“Whether it’s Bourbon or Bordeaux, nothing turns my curiosity into contempt like...”
– American Drink | Taste with your brain, not with your pen.
“Documentation is mostly described as a way to communicate your thoughts to other...”
– The Most Important Code Isn’t Code
May 2011
4 posts
“Anyone familiar with the book of patterns by the Gang of Four knows that the...”
– Fuzz Box: Resign Patterns
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and...”
– William Ellery Channing quotes (via atmos)
“While it’s necessary to stop terrorists, sometimes with violence, it is...”
– Osama Bin Laden dead : Pharyngula
April 2011
1 post
“Nothing I have eaten or heard of being eaten here prepared me for the arrival of...”
– a brief excerpt (how hard to choose!) from the the best restaurant review I’ve ever read
March 2011
5 posts
“Paying attention in a distracted world: it’s like bringing a gun to a knife...”
– Attention Implosion : James Shelley
February 2011
2 posts
“Technology is not an invisible force; it is not still air waiting to be blown...”
– Alex Payne — What Technology Values
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
8 posts
“… the [Fundamentalist Christian] hard-liners are not relenting. The lone...”
– NeuroLogica Blog » Evolution Victory in Louisiana (via kirindave)