6 Keys to Understanding Modern CSS-based Layouts via Snook.ca (tags: blog CSS design webdev work todo) jCarouselLite via jQuery Plugins: Twitter marquee widget for F_D? (tags: blog jQuery webdev todo founddrama) Get Out from Behind the Curtain via A List Apart: structured vs. unstructured “brainstorming” sessions; best practice methods for soliciting client design input (for […]
Climbing a snow-covered mountain. Skiing? Sledding? Fingers nearly immobilized in gloves so thick. The mountain face is nearly vertical. We make slow progress. Something comes down too quickly, knocking us in our respective heads. I barely duck out of the way in time. Two hunters (?) have rigged themselves up in individual gurneys and lower […]
Acorn via Flying Meat: from the maker of VoodooPad… need to eval and see how it stacks up against ImageWell (is it lightweight enough? fast enough? intuitive enough? looks to offer more but is it too much? is it enough?) (tags: Mac editor graphics Acorn software todo)
Waiting for dinner to cook… Smells good, can’t wait. Caught P.’s latest Twitter shortly after I got home and had this weird moment of synchronicity. See, I stopped off at the library on my way home and while browsing the available volumes of Dick, Delaney, and Lovecraft (none of which piqued) I noticed that they […]
Find every hour. Steal every weak-willed moment back from yourself for yourself. Fit it in. Make time. Write it out until you stymie. Try something new, something different. Arrange. Re-arrange. Plan it but don’t over-plan it. Grant yourself a concession (there’s only so many hours in the week, you know). Don’t lament. Ask different questions. […]
More Chernobil via English Russia (tags: chernobyl ColdWar history nuclear apocalypse research russia) Four ways to make a big decision via Lifehacker (tags: lifehacks management productivity)
If asked to condense it to a single sentence, I would say that in essence, Galatea 2.2 is Richard Powers’ novelization 1 of the ideas laid out in Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach. That said, I’m uncertain how to respond to this one. After reaching the last page and closing the covers, it left me feeling […]
It may not be what was said but it’s what I heard: I worked at an engineering firm for fifteen years and there just wasn’t the time I needed to write. So I gave that up, started this here and it’s worked out well. And it’s fun, too.
Through the Looking Glass @ washingtonpost.com (via B^2 + Beyond the Beyond): best William Gibson interview ever? (tags: fiction literature news writing essay interview scifi todo) Daring Fireball: That Product Transition “…clearly sibling products running variants of the exact same system software…” (tags: Apple iPod)