The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own …according to Esquire. Not such a bad list, actually; and surprisingly well-rounded and eclectic. (tagged: todo music ) The Case for Paying the A.I.G. Bonuses at NYTimes.com : That may strike many people as a bit of convenient legalese, but maybe there is something to it. If you […]
Almost exactly two years ago, I first unveiled Ortho, the home-rolled custom WordPress theme that you see here. It is named in part after the character Ortho Stice from David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest and is also a vaguely tongue-in-cheek, slightly punny nod to the squared-off corners that graced the original design. With this […]
Seen on my Flickr home page, part of the Library of Congress’ upload feed.
Follow The Oregon Trail on Your iPhone at TheAppleBlog: "Maya has died of dysentary." I love this game! (tagged: games iphone todo ) Tab click-through areas at Manton Reece (tagged: ui usability todo ) Happy Birthday Krakatoa! at Information Junk (via Julia) (tagged: reptile surreal weird blog ) JsMag the magazine for JavaScript developers (tagged: […]
Why I’m Buying the New Mac Mini: Value Reconsidered at The Apple Blog: It is underpowered, it is overpriced, and, worst of all, as Gizmodo points out, it is not easily upgradeable after the fact, so most users would be advised to bite the bullet and pay Apple’s extortionate rates for in-house upgrades, or risk […]
Perhaps this is stating the obvious but amongst today’s clamor of Apple’s miscellaneous product updates 1 was a related, relatively silent update: the new AirPort Extreme. It’s an important but understated move that acknowledges two other products which did not get updated today: the iPhone and the tv. Each model in the desktop line got […]
AirPort Extreme "Simultaneous dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi base station" — win win win win win win! (tagged: AirPort WiFi network wishlist todo ) The NewerTech Voyager Q review Hivelogic (via DF): This is pretty much exactly the solution I think I need. (tagged: Mac tech backup todo wishlist ) Structural Naming Convention in CSS (tagged: webdev […]
Though perhaps a more appropriate name might be lolDigg or lolSlashdot or some such…
"The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams (November 6, 1975) at philipkdickfans.com (via B²) (tagged: writing scifi fiction weird interview PDF PKD todo ) Pixelmator via Mac AppStorm (this time…): I wonder if it's time to give it another spin? (tagged: Mac OSX software graphics […]
Though perhaps a bit early for my quarterly reflection on those personal goals, I feel like getting it off my chest: things are not moving along at last year’s speedy clip. I’ve scarcely written 1, I’m only on book #3 for the year, and progress on Ortho is slow at best – many fits and […]