2009 has come and gone. Every year I make some commitments to myself–be those to improve myself in some way ot simply to challenge myself–and at the end of every year, I take stock of those accomplishments. 2009 was the third year that those goals were featured “full disclosure” style here on F_D. Where did […]
Or: a short memoir about a single memorable night in January 2000 and how fond memories of it were spurred by the “#10yearsago” trending topic on Twitter 1. I was home from St. Mary’s College of Maryland for the winter break. I don’t recall exactly if I was working that December/January; if I was, perhaps […]
Rob’s favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with Rob, and even join a book club on Goodreads. One year, twenty-six books, 10,902 pages. Not including however many dozens of articles and short stories read in Wired, The New Yorker, and online…
Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces At Flyosity (via JR) – re: “what exactly is button?“ (tagged: ui ux Essay todo ) What storytelling risks could Avatar have taken? at B² – having had about two weeks to unpack it now, I must say that I feel similarly. I hope to put together a more […]
35 Google open-source projects that you probably don’t know at 0x1fff — quite a few things to check out here… (tagged: webdev google opensource todo ) Simulating single-payer by Paul Krugman at NYTimes.com (via lawnczar) (tagged: politics HCR Krugman essay ) Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity at The Endeavour (via […]
Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam at threatpost (via B² (via /.)) (tagged: spam hacking crime politics security research ) The Physics of Space Battles at Gizmodo (via A.L.) (tagged: writing scifi science research physics todo ) Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study at International Space Fellowship (via /.) (tagged: […]
I. We’re having a party at the house. I look out front and those tire tracks are back. And there are way too many cars parked in the driveway. I rush out there to see what’s going on. There is someone I don’t recognize changing his oil in the driveway, his car half hanging out […]
20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade at io9 (via B²) (tagged: literature scifi todo reading ) 30 Must See Web Generator for Lazy Webmasters Not sure where the "Webmasters" bit comes in but it's still a decent round-up of some useful graphic/widget generators. (tagged: web generator graphics ) Douglas Crockford — The State […]
In these pages… …is this photo: I’m pretty psyched about that.