Incredible. As Americans, we made history yesterday. We came out to the polls in huge 1 numbers to decisively elect Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. It seems that everyone I know or have spoken with is a-buzz with this news. As I write this, President-Elect Obama has 349 […]
streaming election coverage, touching up pics in Aperture, wishing we had some f#$%&*g whiskey ¶ (Original photo on Flickr.)
Ext Stencil for Omnigraffle at Clover Leaf Consulting The MacPorts Project Setting window and tab names in the Leopard Terminal at pseudogreen AFI: 10 Top 10 Saw a poster at the library of the AFI's "10 Top 10s". And here it is again, online. Most of these I've seen but it looks like a great […]
Wine Flavor Visualization via infosthetics Chart Porn: War and Social Upheaval Cause Spikes in Zombie Movie Production at io9 (via B²) The Ajax Revolution: From UI responsiveness to functionality and beyond at Ajaxian 6 easy steps to migrate your Mac using Time Machine at TUAW ‘Digital Dark Age’ may doom some data via /. Elegant […]
Scully torture tales AppleScript space bar keystroke Cold War nostalgia “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are […]
Designs Beyond Human Abilities via kapowee Dept. of Disputation: Red Sex, Blue Sex: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker At The New Yorker: In Regnerus’s survey, the teen-agers who espouse this new morality are tolerant of premarital sex (and of contraception and abortion) but are themselves cautious about pursuing it. Regnerus writes, “They are interested […]
What Sarah Palin Is Saying By Anil Dash: Read this; it is important. Dash does a great job of unpacking Palin's speech patterns, phrasing, and signifiers and using it to illustrate what is clearly a dangerous sub-text that now dominates large portions of the Republican establishment and its discourse. If Election ’08 Were a Science […]
The kitchen isn’t a wreck but one of the chairs is pulled out and there is a basket of laundry left on the floor. I’m too exhausted to do anything about these errant items quite yet so I leave them where they are. I make some coffee and retire to the living room to drink […]
How the financial collapse killed libertarianism. By Jacob Weisberg at Slate Magazine: The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Cake Wrecks …as a follow-up to Mike’s Amazing Cakes: the other end of […]
Charlie’s Diary: On finishing Free O’Reilly tech books and Safari contest at B²: cool Now is the Time Sen. Bernie Sanders: Let me be specific about what a "Rebuild America" program should include… 10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow a Giant Beard I'm a particular fan of #s 1-4 + 9. Shouts & […]