Before I begin my rant/tangent, let’s get one thing straight: I understand that the point of eBay’s “Reserve Price” is to protect The Seller. I understand that if there’s an “absolute minimum” for which you’re willing to sell an item… Well, that’s great that there’s a way to guarantee that you (as The Seller) will […]
For this past Secular Humanist December Holiday, my lovely wife got me a subscription to The New Yorker. It has been quite a delight. A fun, erudite little magazine 1 that is as substantive as it is ephemeral, as sexy as it is straight-laced, as secular as it is… Jewish. At any rate: we’re enjoying it 2 […]
The Elegance of Imperfection at A List Apart — though a good read, I thought that it didn't really touch on the importance of doing and experimenting and risk-taking (which is where I thought it was going to go) versus over-thinking and/or over-engineering a solution/design/etc. (tagged: design blog creativity ) Natural Phenomena: Brooklynhenge by Ben […]
Partly for my own enjoyment and partly to respond to Tweets from two friends of mine, I’d like to write a little bit about my experience with the Git source control manager. Before we get too far in this process though, let’s get one thing out in the open. I’m probably the least technical developer out […]
Schott’s Vocab at NYTimes.com (via DF) — like Wired's "jargon watch" only erudite. (tagged: blog language linguistics ) Sunday-Best Garlic Roast Beef at Cooks Country TV (via Ben) — for "top sirloin butt" (tagged: food beef recipe todo ) Dear A.I.G., I Quit! Hubris? (tagged: politics business econoocalypse ) Physical Cosmologies: The Shining via B² […]
Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) If nothing else, I love the name. Say it with me: “MEGA DROP-DOWN” (tagged: design ui usability accessibility navigation todo ) PETA: Ingrid Newkirk’s Unique Will As Twitter user Mikey-san said: You know who else delivers body parts to enemies? The fucking mafia. On the other […]
Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 by Paul Roberts (at Mother Jones) — the gist seems to be: re-evaluate your assumptions about what sustainable agriculture means (hint: it involves more than just carbon footprints and whether/not the farm is organic; see also: labor conditions, see also: man-hours of labor) and maybe be prepared to […]
I know there are some folks out there that would say "oh, lighten up" about something like this but I thought that this was in such incredibly poor taste. With the epidemic of childhood obesity occurring in the United States, these sorts of "cute jokes" are neither cute nor funny. The makers of this bib […]
While banging through the home-stretch of Ortho 1.0, I decided to give MacRabbit’s Espresso editor a try. I’m “between” editors right now – feeling no special love or loyalty to any one text editor – and noting Espresso’s public beta, I decided it was worthy of some exploration. THE SHORT VERSION: I liked it alright […]