We are in some kind of municipal building in Perth. A school? An airport? A swarm of people are gathered in one room. The room is slightly crowded. The first zombie converts; no one knows how. He starts to bite others. People try to force their way out of the room; the heroes try to […]
New and Improved Economic Cow Jokes Bruce Sterling: “This kind of extension-and-embroidery of a time-honored joke is the very stuff of folk culture.” (tags: economics humor)
CSS: Specificity Wars via JH@work (at And all that Malarkey) (tags: CSS webdev humor) All Climbing (tags: blog climbing todo)
How to Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer via LifeHacker (tags: creativity lifehacks writing)
Looking back over my shoulder at the double black “True Grit” while riding up the Sunnyside Triple on my way to ski down No Grit >> Oblivion >> South Street >> Stillness >> Lower Stillness; truly it was a remarkable weekend for skiing at Waterville Valley. (See the rest of the photos.)
We are in a building that has a distinctly institutional feel; it may as well be a high school. Instead, this is our office building: rows of lockers lining the corridors, the numbered doors… We settle in for work today but some new crew has been brought in. They are all artificially young guys in […]
Where to begin? I would be willing to say that Max Brooks has given us a “new classic” of zombie literature in World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. The novel is well-structured, is well-paced, and seems so … plausible. And when I say “plausible”, I mean the Brooks has tried to […]
Macro Photography – It’s the Little Things That Count via Curbly (DIY Design Community) (via LifeHacker) (tags: tutorial photography macro) Mortgage Prepayment Made Easy: Own Your Home in Half the Time via Get Rich Slowly (via LifeHacker): nutshell version = when you pay extra, pay the principal twice (tags: money mortgage) Fear and Loathing in […]
Bezel HUD Quicksilver interface for Leopard via TUAW (tags: Apple Mac Quicksilver Leopard video) T.H.U.M.P. – 5 Ways to Deal with Irresponsible People via Lifehack.org (tags: leadership management work essay) The street as platform via cityofsound: after skimming it for about 2 minutes, I find this vaguely reminiscent of Bruce Sterling’s “hyper-local” pieces that he […]
A tightly themed, well executed collection: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse captures our apocalypse fears and fantasies equally well and sometimes even simultaneously. Adams wisely chooses Stephen King’s “The End of the Whole Mess” as an opener and moves into all manner of exciting territory from there. Wastelands is the expected mix of strong (and […]