links for 2007-11-16
¶ by Rob FrieselFight Thieving Restaurant Servers With Checksum Tips via Punny Money (via B^2): what an awesome “hack” for restaurant tips! (tags: money lifehacks)
Fight Thieving Restaurant Servers With Checksum Tips via Punny Money (via B^2): what an awesome “hack” for restaurant tips! (tags: money lifehacks)
OS X 10.4.11 is out. Included in the update is Safari 3. Initial, 30-second impressions? Well, Safari can finally rock-and-roll with all of the WordPress editor features. So I’m happy about that. (Now to bring all of my Camino bookmarks back over…) Everything else looks like bug fixes, patches, security updates, compatibility improvements, and the […]
The truth about recycling Via Economist.com (tags: environment green recycle essay todo)
Daring Fireball: JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder (tags: javascript bookmarklet tools url webdev todo)
Spent about an hour messing around with hugin again tonight. The last couple of panoramics I have stitched together in PhotoStitch have been … disappointing. It mostly has to do with the seams; no matter what I try, there appears to be too much “vignetting” going on at those seams. The tripod has not really […]
Burial: “Untrue” by Warren Ellis “I’m on the twelfth listen, and I still don’t feel like I’ve nailed what this album is. Because I don’t think Burial set out to make a funeral for soul music. But none of these lush R&B voices are alive.” (tags: music todo) Tackle Any Issue With a List of […]
Perfect late-fall hiking day. Cold (but felt “brisk” rather than cold) and extremely clear. A touch of ice on the trail and some snow dusted hither and yon. About as good a fall hiking day as you could ask for. Stowe Pinnacle isn’t a terribly long hike but it is pretty steep; and the view […]
InterviewUp “Job Interview Questions and Answers” (tags: interview work todo) The Interoperation by Bruce Sterling (via B^2 and Beyond the Beyond) (tags: fiction scifi todo) Google SketchUp (for Dummies) via B^2: a series of YouTube videos that explain how to use it (tags: design google sketchup tutorial video todo)
Star makers via Cosmos magazine: “What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old?” (tags: biology energy future science space research essay todo) Creepiest. Riot Masks. Ever. via Danger Room (via Pete): Hello Kitty meets Half Life meets Revenge of the Sith? (tags: surreal)
It’s a knock-down, drag-out fight. MG and me. We are arguing. What is getting done? What isn’t getting done? How fast? What takes priority? Who takes priority? We have the same goals, we just disagree on how to get there. Fists are thrown, jaws are dislocated.