Hands on with the Opera 10 Web browser beta at Macworld (via DF) — posting waaay after the fact but: I love what they've done with the tab bar. (tagged: opera browsers ui todo ) The Big Idea: Seth Shostak at Whatever (tagged: science space astronomy culture society exobiology research todo ) China Mieville on […]
Fifty Books for Our Times at Newsweek.com — actually not a bad looking list (tagged: todo literature fiction history culture ) There, I Fixed It. Dumb? or "ZOMG so true!"? (tagged: blog hack creativity humor fun ) The Happiness Project Toolbox via A. — indeed: intriguing (tagged: blog lifehacks productivity GTD goals inspiration ) Abandoned […]
Re my own writing: this is kind of vindicating and kind of disheartening:
A friend asked me today: “On IM, when you type ‘haha’, does that imply that you actually laughed?” I answered immediately: no. The “haha” and “hehe” strings imply that you got the joke, that you’re reading and comprehending the humor, that you believe the preceding statement is funny – but it doesn’t necessarily mean that […]
Arranged chronologically from 1955 through 2001, Dozois’ anthology Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming, is a tightly-themed collection of science fiction shorts. It’s a good overview of the terraforming subject’s treatment within the genre but the anthology seems to lack any stand-out stories – there are no great masterpieces in here. Which is not to say […]
descend from Andes descend to utter madness wrestle with monkeys Great film. Stunning. Epic. Masterfully shot. Surreal. Insert more superlatives here. However, when your primary film-selection criterion for the evening is “which one is shortest?” – well, this one may leave your jaw unpleasantly unhinged. Bewildering. Will watch again. When I’m more serious about it.
A day late here but what the hell… Happy birthday, Holden. Above? That’s a mosaic of his one-per-day portraits for the first year. It begins June 22, 2008 and goes through June 22, 2009. We managed to only miss one day through the whole mess, too.
5.5. Case study: Dumb Quotes via lepht (at [Dive Into Greasemonkey]) (tagged: webdev javascript regex todo ) Repeat after me: Unicode is not UTF-\d{1,2} via lepht (via reddit.com): short version: Unicode is a standard, and UTF-(8|16|32) are character encodings that support encoding Unicode data into byte strings. (tagged: Unicode text dev essay todo ) Modeling the […]
Eclipse 1 is a good-not-great anthology of speculative (née “science”) fiction and fantasy (rather: “new weird”) short stories edited by Jonathan Strahan. My “good-not-great” may be stemming from my disappointment that there was more “new weird”/fantasy than there was science fiction 1 but there were still quite a few “big wins” in the pile that […]