June 2010
20 posts
WatchIan showed this to Matinay secretly the other day, and all I heard was “And that’s why I don’t vote!”. So the plan is: don’t vote, hide in mountains, kidnap children, rebel army.
May 2010
14 posts
“SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human—working hard,...”
– Burkas and Birkins by Lindy West - Film - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Lindy West is a national treasure. I’m glad she writes for the Stranger.
(via Instapaper)
Instant Watcher →
Nice, simple website with one purpose: make browsing the Netflix Instant selection that much easier. It’s barely more than clear, well-organized text. You can easily see what’s new, what’s popular, what the critics liked. It’s so simple and slick that the Netflix site feels so bloated it’s nearly unusable, which is the direction it’s been headed anyway. At some...
Divvy - Window management at its finest. →
This is one of the cleverest concepts for window management I’ve ever seen. Takes that neat Windows 7 “smack the window into the side and it maximizes” trick and really turns it into something amazing.
“As late as 1878, the British Medical Journal was able to run a spirited and...”
– Bill Bryson: The secret life of your home | Books | The Guardian (via Instapaper)
banksimple →
Alex Payne, a heavy hitter on the engineering side of Twitter, just left that company to co-found this startup. While I like BECU, my current bank, I’m intrigued by this. I’ll be watching this project closely. Even if it fails, if it gives the current banks some good competition to push them in the right direction this will be good for us bank customers.
“At some recent point, bacon became a meme. Bacon. The cured pork product that...”
– Spring cleaning — 12 things the world should toss out (washingtonpost.com)
From the editor of the Onion. I agree with his point in general, and this example specifically. Bacon is a great food, and it does make lots of things better. At this point though, I feel like people put it in things...
Tomorrow, Item #1 →
Look at this map. I know I have a lot to do tomorrow, Matinay’s birthday party, helping her parents move to their new apartment, Mothers’ Day planning, but this is NUTS. I’ve happened to wander around in the years before, just by coincidence, but this is going to be my first time really diving in. Call me if you want to get out there and look for stuff.
