The Empire State Building is on fire. Engulfed in flames. Beautiful, symmetric, dancing, diaphanous Hollywood flames. Chemical flames. Tongues of flames. Flames that want to lick the inky night sky. They fire fighters have all come out to fight the fire. Ladders. They are stacking ladders up the side of the building, consecutively up the […]
ad hoc reporting JavaScript static methods Chrome “top sites” feature “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 […]
Fogus and I 1 decided that July would be a great month to co-re-read House of Leaves. So that’s what we’re doing. As you can see, my copy has made the rounds a few times. But I’m equipped: one (1) well-worn copy of the novel; one (1) notepad for notes/quotes/@todo items; one (1) Pilot Precise […]
I’ve been doing the “goals” thing on this blog for a couple years now and up until now, the check-ins have been quarterly. I missed 2010’s first quarter check-in. Why? Partly because I got so damn busy. Partly because I felt like I had nothing to show for my efforts. And I still don’t have […]
If you happen to be unfamiliar with Haruki Murakami: he writes these delightfully weird, surrealist 1 novels that are somehow simultaneously indecisive yet utterly certain of their subjects. Declaratively ambiguous dreamscapes that are half-hatched out of unimaginable futures. So with that in mind: Kafka on the Shore is like a bizarrely Oedipal Catcher in the […]
Lightspeed magazine #1 at Tor.com — the online Lightspeed magazine is edited/curated by John Joseph Adams (who happens to be one hell of an editor); check it out and show some support (tagged: Lightspeed scifi literature ) ‘Lost’: The Essential Reading List at EW.com (via B²) (tagged: Lost reading literature ) Do LESS with Less.js […]
A little late, but a quick visual summary of our Maryland trip:
In case you haven’t heard yet–Flickr is rolling out a new photo page (pictured here) and I must say… It looks great. Congrats to the team that worked on this, they did a hell of a job. A few notes that I pulled together from playing around with it this week: The lightbox mode is […]
Jo JavaScript Application Framework for HTML5 (tagged: CSS3 html5 javascript library ui webdev todo ) Pro Git (tagged: git documentation work ) A successful Git branching model at nvie.com (tagged: work git dev essay branching ) Ephphatha Poetry: "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" – Tim Wise via @ebertchicago: Imagine that hundreds of black […]
Because I have developed some sort of weird obsession with this particular niche product in Apple’s line-up, a couple of quick notes about the newly announced Mac mini: Putting the SD card slot on the back seems… well, that seems wrong (but the ports etc. were always on the back, weren’t they?); wouldn’t this be […]