Super Dress Up Morgan Freeman at Jay is Games (via woot.com) — w? t? f…? (tagged: illustration surreal games blog ) Poor, Poor Child. You have no idea. "It's OK to suck at math; you won't be using much anyway." (tagged: blog software humor programming coding essay ) A Form of Madness at Dive Into […]
Name Your Band, Create Your Album Cover With Wikipedia & Flickr at Synthtopia (via JA) – I came up with: (tagged: todo flickr language surreal fun ) The Joy of Clojure ‘grats to my man Mike (tagged: Clojure friend ) Two Gentlemen of Lebowski via B² – EPIC (tagged: lebowski parody literature humor fun ) […]
On a regular basis (talking “daily, all day” here), I run n tabs in an open Terminal window where n > 1 (and usually n > 4). And so each time I open up on these tabs and cd into the directory I need, I’m hitting ⇧⌘i to set a custom title on that tab; […]
I broke down and decided to try out Google’s Chrome browser after having heard so many positive reviews of it. It’s backed by WebKit–just like Safari, my current favorite–and so if nothing else, I know it has a tried and true and powerful engine going behind the scenes. That said, I’ve tried out more than […]
An annual tradition here at F_D 1, let’s kick-off the year with a full disclosure of goals. Rather than set vague “resolutions” and lame half-promises to yourself, why not think of the new year as an opportunity for a little personal growth? A couple of little benchmarks to set your aggressive little sights on throughout […]
Irish atheists challenge blasphemy law at BBC News: "This new law is both silly and dangerous," he said. "It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas." (tagged: atheism Ireland news ) 10 Easy Ways to Green Your Web […]
Gecko v. WebKit greatest cookbooks of all time zombiephobia “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 […]
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…