I’m in New York state as part of a secret government agency that has sent me to retrieve (extradite?) Omar Little (from The Wire). His van has been stolen and he needs some help getting out of the town but he’s also suspected of a series of crimes here. Naturally he maintains his non-involvement and […]
Apple’s Automator has been a mixed bag for me since its release in 2005 1. For renaming a wad of files, it has been great: select them, invoke Automator, and seconds later they’ve all been renamed to conform to the convention you had in mind. Exported charts from Excel too large? Pass in those files and […]
Should we resurrect the Neanderthals? by William Saletan (at Slate Magazine (via /.)) End-o’-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup at Omnivoracious: those still images from the Where The Wild Things Are film look dope. Project Palantir: Facebook Interactions Visualization at information aesthetics Customizing Your Mac: Wallpaper Fun at TheAppleBlog NASA – Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere via […]
I picked up some new headphones recently, a pair of Skullcandy INK’D earbuds after reading some great reviews and getting some great feedback from some folks I know. My review: ★★★☆☆ …moderately satisfied. The seem like a “good enough” value (speaking to the quality-to-price ratio, here). PROS: The most comfortable in-ear headphones I’ve ever tried (and […]
HTTP errors on Flickr: once again, I wish I could "Favorite" an entire set. The iFrame album turning an iBook into an LCD digital picture frame turning an iBook into a digital picture frame at Macworld: "The Next Do-It-Yourself Mac" mustard-roasted potatoes at smitten kitchen Montgomery McFate: Use Anthropology in Military Planning
Shouts & Murmurs: The Plan At The New Yorker: At the rendezvous point, there must be an empty parking space with a meter that takes hundred-dollar bills. (via DF) Creating Custom Protocol Handlers With HTML 5 and Firefox at Ajaxian: maybe there is hope for my proposed "nsfw://" protocol… (if only via simulation) Huntington, WV […]
We’re at a bookstore, A. and I. It’s a used bookstore but it looks like a good haul. They have several copies of Snow Crash (for example) though they’re all in varying states of decay. I go through each one meticulously; I want to leave with one of them. I get an alert on my […]
The Manager FAQ I'm not sure if this is supposed to be serious or tongue-in-cheek. Anyway: both? Look for the Light at James Duncan Davidson: good point Extract from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: Is there such a thing as pure genius? Via /. (also mentioned at DF): going to want to check out this excerpt — […]
HTML 5: The Section Element at Ajaxian Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic at Salon (via B^2, among others) What’s not in HTML 5? at Ajaxian 10 Tips to Improve Your Fiction Writing Skills at Writing Forward Gallery: The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices How to Write a Complex Villian (Writing Exercise) at Writing […]
How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You Clever Uses: Clip Your Laptop Plug to the Back of the Desk via LifeHacker: simple but so win. AIRMILF at Comedy Central Games: part of Indecision 2008 (gets really fun when you can call in the air strikes against those white wolves) “Naming the […]