How to Master the Writing Process at Writing Forward 10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On via Geekdad from Wired.com Mangobot: The Yellow Peril, Fu Manchu, and the Ethnic Future at io9 (via B^2): "Asian cultural markers are often used as shorthand for the future," says Claire Light, an Asian-American science fiction writer. Light […]
I still don’t understand this whole hybercube/tesseract thing but I sure am fascinated by it. And let’s face it, that animation is wickedly mesmerizing.
It’s some kind of All Wrangler Congress or Extended Family Reunion. Everyone is there, plus some “new recruits” or “applicants” or whatever you might want to call new friends. We’re all in some kind beach house. You can hear the ocean in the far background. I’ve woken up and stumbled into the kitchen to find […]
A little while ago, during the drive home from Maine, I was struck by some odd reminiscence for a few classic (nee “old”) science fiction games I used to play on the computer. By classic, I don’t necessarily mean that they were best sellers 1 or even particularly good games 2. No, by “classic”, I […]
Don’t Think, Just Write at Writing Forward Ten Futures Canon releases 50D, Swiss Army Knife 18-200mm lens Ryan Brenizer's Amazon Blog :: I'm curious about this 18-200mm lens… Jump Because 10 Principles of the CSS Masters
Downloaded and installed Firefox 3 this morning 1; here are some first impressions from throughout my first day of use: Content rendering seems improved. Not sure if it actually is improved or not. Just feels that way 2. Noted that it seems to use the default OS X buttons for otherwise unstyled form buttons now. […]
Take Philip K. Dick mix well with ice cream and nuts top with saccharine.
iPhone events via QuirksBlog (via DF): need to finish reading — but the short version appears to be that there is a paradigm shift taking place here b/c the "old fashioned" predictable contiguous behavior of the mouse cursor is totally violated by the iPhone's discontiguous touch-based interface (so much for "onMouseOut") The Impotence of Proofreading […]
Seven Problems with a Someday/Maybe List — and Ways to Correct Them via LifeHacker: interesting approach to the "Someday" list — not that there's anything inherently wrong with procrastinating on some pie-in-the-sky project… If you're a GTD fanatic I could see how a long, un-actionable "Someday" list might bog you down but I tend to […]
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Make your 404 pages more useful Clifford Stoll on … everything via mefogus 7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code via Smashing Magazine The Scotch Egg: Sphere of Goodness…or Heart-Attack-on-a-Plate? via Al Dente: serve cold? gross! however, served hot (possibly with a little maple syrup) and this might very […]