found_drama

via @johnjosephadams — though I take issue with: [1] how many movies there are (since so many movies are usually so bad); [2] The Andromeda Strain (whose scale is hardly apocalyptic); and [3] that Adams' The Wastelands collection is missing!

at Los Angeles Times:

Blockbuster has lost a total of $1.1 billion since the beginning of 2008 and has been severely hamstrung in efforts to grow its business due to interest payments on $920 million in debt.

Heh. Maybe they shouldn't have been so soft on late fees?

…don’t try and hide a wrapper behind HTML5 bling by using a section, that’s wrong.

at Nettuts+ (via @devongovett)

via PL — worth the link for the recommended reading

at NPR

at SXSW 2011 PanelPicker

at totes profesh — interesting list; favorite part:

If video on the web hadn’t moved beyond pictures of fish and into voyeurism and pornography, I don’t think we’d be talking about video in HTML5 today.

"simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress"

"The completely naked theme for WordPress"

by Alex Payne (via @fogus)

Moving forward just means spending several minutes thinking about your problem and picking an implementation technology with slightly better performance characteristics than whatever you were using before. ¶ This is where I believe Node fits in.

Great interview, great discussion.

Careful w/ #2 though…

"Find your character!" — what a great idea (and a great design)

at IEBlog

at A List Apart: Articles (by @slicknet [Nicholas Zakas]) — great discussion of what can and can't be minified, why minification is important, and also a short discussion of "the gzip caveat".

at Flagrant Badassery

at Google Code

"Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets"

by the always fabulous Rudy Rucker (via B²)

at The Cult

at Tor.com — the online Lightspeed magazine is edited/curated by John Joseph Adams (who happens to be one hell of an editor); check it out and show some support

at EW.com (via B²)

at Ajaxian

at Tor.com (by Elizabeth Bear) — a good review of a great novel

at YUIBlog (via DF)

at O'Reilly Radar:

This is why some companies give employees 10% or 20% time to work on projects they choose. It keeps their skills up, it keeps them happy, and this means you're not recruiting to fill their position after they leave within a few years.

via @fogus

at Rands In Repose

at The Geek Talk — an interview with my pal Fogus

by Carrie Vaughn (at Lightspeed Magazine)

by Jim C. Hines (via B²) — filed under "makes me feel less bad"

at Moral Hazard:

I’m excited to have stumbled upon an apparently new mathematical system; the sequence generated by the Urinal Mapping Function is not found in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Stoyan Stefanov's presentation from the Web Optimization Summit

Real time stats? Can we get something more interesting that page views? (Either way, looks pretty cool. Too bad it's just in WebKit browsers for now…)

at Boston.com — simply incredible

Must read. But later.

at Slate Magazine (via DF)

via JR

Node.js Web Development Framework

Well that's kind of cool…

at NCZOnline — user agent strings, reported viewport sizes, etc.

at heather powazek champ (via DF) — Gruber wrote:

Flickr’s brain drain continues. What a great community Heather helped shape.

And while I agree with both sentiments, I don't think I would have put it the same way. Flickr is still strong because of its community. The Y! badging can't spoil that. To Heather: Good luck!

at A List Apart

via Scott M.

at Zen Habits — apropos of recent reading

at Lapham’s Quarterly