Contrast is King at A List Apart (tagged: accessibility color design usability webdev essay ) Internet Explorer UA Style Sheets via Scott M. (tagged: IE CSS webdev ) the barefoot philosophy at Zen Habits — apropos of recent reading (tagged: exercise barefoot gtd philosophy ) Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard at Lapham’s Quarterly (tagged: awesome […]
Documentary! No, wait! It’s an action flick! Vaporized blood? Ick! Still unpacking District 9. I was a little jarred by the fact that they start it out as a faux documentary (which I loved immediately) and then cut to scenes that were more a bit more “traditional action film”; but I can’t say that I […]
I just finished reading Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run 1–which is a great read and a great 2 book. The book has been tremendously popular and has reached many people 3, and there are tons of reviews out there, many of them with the same glowing endorsements and focusing on the same synopsis of the […]
A sweet problem: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain at Princeton University — the real "this is why you're fat": "Some people have claimed that high-fructose corn syrup is no different than other sweeteners when it comes to weight gain and obesity, but our results make it clear that […]
With 3D turning into a big draw for box office films now 1, and with Sony claiming they’ll put in our living rooms by the end of the year, I’ve had a few conversations now about the 3D effects and whether/not they “feel right”. Most folks seem to agree that if you let go and […]
Waterloo And to keep it balanced, a quote from FrumForum: This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none. UPDATED: looking at this again, this here might be the more relevant pull quote 1: Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between this […]
Back from Myrtle Beach! Aside from being sick pretty much the entire time, it was awesome. The Boy loved the ocean, otters, and eating cheeseburgers whole. We loved the fresh seafood, catching up with the family, and the non-freezing temperatures 1. Not that Vermont has exactly had the coldest winter this past season.[↩]
Goodnight Forest Moon at DzignSpace (via B²) – absolutely OMG awesome Star Wars + Goodnight Moon mash-up (tagged: starwars kids literature ) UPDATE: Something seemed to shove in a whole bunch of “500 Error” links into this linkdump. I’ve since removed those (leaving “Goodnight Forest Moon” all by its lonesome) and am looking into the […]
The Hacker Crackdown via lawnczar — just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games raid; Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown in HTML (tagged: history hackers government censorship ) The Steve Jackson Games Raid was 20 years ago at Beyond The Beyond (via lawnczar) — 20th anniversary of the Steve Jackson Games […]
Post-apocalyptic? Under a subterranean sky? Civilizations crumble; infrastructures crumble. You band together with whomever is left, with whomever you are close to when it all went down. Folks from work; the odds were in favor of it being them. Holed up somewhere, we all load up–stuff backpacks full of provisions: food, rope, matches, green metal […]