More from Eyjafjallajokull at Boston.com — simply incredible (tagged: Eyjafjallajokull eruption ash photography news art ) QuirksBlog: A pixel is not a pixel is not a pixel Must read. But later. (tagged: css design html webdev pixels work todo essay ) High-performance DOM scripting (tagged: DOM javascript work todo ) The words David Foster Wallace […]
While reading Nicholas Zakas’ High Performance JavaScript, it occurred to me that there were actually two different reviews that I wanted to write. So, rather than try to reconcile them into one review, I’ll simply apply them here as an ordered list. (1) To continue with the JavaScript University metaphor (from my review of Zakas’ […]
Formations and transformations: Samuel Delany’s Dhalgren at Tor.com (tagged: Dhalgren Delany essay todo ) Brown-Bag on Public Speaking: 25 Tips at Redfin Corporate Blog (tagged: presentations article essay publicspeaking education ) Crockford on JavaScript: A Public Lecture Series at Yahoo! (tagged: crockford video javascript webdev todo ) ECMA-262-3 in detail at Ajaxian — an interesting-looking […]
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About a week ago, I decided to dump foursquare for GoWalla 1; I’d like to tell you a little bit about why. But first, a short lesson on the schedules of reinforcement that we should all know and love from operant conditioning paradigms. In psychology, operant conditioning tells us that behavior is determined by its […]
a fair use question Terminal quit AppleScript 25 questions “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 haiku […]
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 […]