February 2010
30 posts
Stand Up While You Read This →
I’m a sucker for commonsense but a little quirky health advice like this. I worked all day Friday standing at my bench rather than sitting at my desk. Might alternate days from now on.
The Cocktail Renaissance →
This is making me thirsty. Also, snobby, but that’s the cost of doing business. Some great ideas in here.
Cool New Finger Swiping Camera Controls coming to... →
This would be really slick. I like the idea of scrolling without my finger obscuring the screen.
“Darwin came here on the Beagle and noted that the sound of calving bergs...”
– National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com
Fact is, Darwin’s just a much better writer than the Bible.
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The 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' of Cat Fight... →
Less cat cuteness, more cat ass-kicking, Internet.
The pot and how to use it - Roger Ebert's Journal →
Ebert just revolutionized my cooking. I was trying to figure out how to steam asparagus the other day, this so beyond that, but so easy.
“Why is the cursor arrow colored black instead of white on this computer? Is that...”
– Letters from Namitembo: Hands-on Teaching
John here is describing what I wish I could do with so many of my users every day. He’s lucky that he has the opportunity to teach them to be real computer users, rather than simple operators. I know people who cannot function if you so much as move...
StarCraft II Beta Puts South Korea in Economic... →
I fear for my own productivity.
“If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase...”
– Marco.org - Side effects of developing for yourself
Gauntlet, thrown.
“The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on...”
– Treaty signed by George Washington, 1796.
[Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists | The Smirking Chimp]
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Followed the next year by the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams and ratified unanimously by...
“There is also a more than passing resemblance to Hayao Miyazaki’s film...”
– TaleSpin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Troops Don't Defend Our Freedom →
This has been bothering me for a while. I would believe the Tea Party movement’s Constitutional bonafides more if they took stances like this. Throw in religion and they start to look like plain old conservatives getting riled up under a new title.
A Story Culture →
“From a disparate set of information, you continually find your own arc, your own story, and my question is: What are you going to do with it? You’re an information nerd, you’re adept at consuming massive amounts of micro-information, and those who watch you do this are saying you’ve got a short attention span, and you might.
But I think all this micro-information has macro-story...
WatchI’d definitely watch an Anderson or Herzog Superbowl. The Tarantino and Lynch parodies suck, though.
Comes down to integrity. →
Admiral Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in 140 characters or less.
THE WORKERS ARE GOOOOING HOOOME →
yeah yeah yeah
SousVide Supreme Review →
So, I guess it’s sort of like deep frying? But with a vacuum pack? And water instead of oil? The physics make perfect sense to me, and I can appreciate the control-freak approach to cooking (ever watch me make tea?) but it sure seems like a lot of stuff going on to cook something. Not that I wouldn’t want to road test it. Also, my dad uses the heck out of those vacuum seal products and...
