Humans vs. Zombies (Steve is playing this week…) (tags: games zombie ambulothanatophobia todo) Caffeine via Lighthead (via TUAW): app sits in the menubar and lets you quickly, easily, and temporarily disable screensavers, screen dimming, and sleep — for presentations etc. Now I just need “Valium” to do the opposite… (tags: Mac OSX caffeine menubar software […]
Favorite Leopard Features via Gus Mueller (maker of VoodooPad): “Mail.app now has a message: URL for each message, meaning you can now drag and drop messages to VoodooPad, and VP will link it up (in the upcoming release of VP 3.2.3 anyway).” This alone might be worth the price of (tags: Mac OSX essay todo)
30+ Tools For The Amateur Writer (tags: writing todo)
Make Firefox Twice as Fast and Much More Stable Easily (tags: software dev Firefox webdev todo)
7 Can’t-Miss Ways To Kick-Start The Writing Habit via Freelance Folder: geared toward bloggers/journalists (I think) but still some good material such as: “We tend to assume that great writers write great stuff all the time. Face it – they don’t. Professional writers write even when nothing but crap co (tags: productivity writing essay)
When breakfast was over, John recited “To Autumn.” He recited it slowly, with much feeling, and he articulated the words lovingly, and his odd accent sounded sweet. He didn’t offer the story of writing “To Autumn,” I doubt if there is much of one. –Galway Kinnell, “Oatmeal”
Mentioned in passing the other day, Simile Timeline is a neat little API for building rich timeline visualizations with annotations. Though the documentation is a bit thin at the moment, the core code is not too difficult to figure out 1 and if you start with a straightforward example (like this one) then you can […]
JQuery Cycle Plugin hawt! (tags: jQuery tutorial webdev)
Our first year of veggie gardening comes to a close. And what a year it was! Some thoughts and meditations on our crops, pests, techniques, etc….
Icastic – visualizing time via information aesthetics (tags: visualization design art todo) Bernie’s Better Beginner’s Guide to Photography (tags: camera photography tutorial essay todo) Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who Are The Greenest (States) Of All via TreeHugger: VT at #1! (tags: Vermont environment energy) TUAW Guide: Getting Ready for Leopard via TUAW: their recommended […]