Parking stripe ads assault the senses from beneath your feet via Autoblog: time to load up on your 2nd Amendment rights and make with the violent, bloody revolution. (tags: automotive apocalypse) Secure your Mac: strong passwords via TUAW: good run-down of how to use the built-in app that helps come up with stronger passwords than […]
End of the Line via Foreign Policy Magazine (via Warren Ellis): oh, Warren… “research material” indeed! (tags: apocalypse art history research) Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 via TUAW (& DF): what’s w/ all the Flash? (tags: Microsoft Office software todo) Top 10 Ways to Fire the Client From Hell via Inside CRM (tags: management work […]
My calendar tells me I’ve spent roughly 30 hours since August 24th working on re-re-re-re-outlining my book. Sounds pretty good to me. All things considered, I’ll probably need to clock another 20-30 hours before I put the seal on the outline and start actually writing again. My hat is off to John once again for […]
jQuery UI Widgets, Components, and Interactions (tags: ajax javascript jQuery library UI webdev todo)
The Gibson I understand. The Vermont Atlas? Makes perfect sense. But the TMNT action figures?
Dad and I are on a vacation in the south Pacific. It’s the last night that we’re there (our plane leaves in the morning) and we are taking a walk through the beach-side town down to the beach. When we clear the palm trees and our feet hit sand, we notice two things. First, the […]
Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits via Dumb Little Man (via sp3w): good (if simple “of course” type tips) — I have used tips 2-3, 5, & 7-9 for years and years and use 1-slash-4 & 6 off-and-on (mostly “on” lately); also re: #9 (and to a less extent 2, 3, […]
Encyclopedia Mythica mythology, folklore, and religion (tags: art education literature mythology reference religion research writing) 7 Clutch Free Tools For Budding Web 2.0 Developers and Designers via aclevercookie.com: flagging for the Lightbox reference… (tags: blog webdev todo) Getting Started with Cocoa: a Friendlier Approach (tags: Cocoa dev tutorial Mac OSX) Why You Should Write Things […]
jQuery makes JavaScript webdev so easy it’s almost stupid; 5 minutes of experimenting with the jCarousel extension followed by 10 minutes of wiring it up and then 10 minutes of CSS followed by 5 minutes of jamming it all through SVN 1 and a home-rolled Twitter marquee is born. Been on a good consistent writing […]
Six Lies About Creative Writing You Should Never Believe via lifehack.org (tags: writing lifehacks)