In lieu of a review of Stranger in a Strange Land (because what would be the point?), a few notes intead: (1) I can see why it’s considered a science fiction classic. On an intellectual level, I “get” that part. Hence getting shelved as “important”. Creating a character and a milieu and a plot to […]
50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read at Online College Degree — because everyone loves a "banned books" list. (tagged: literature censorship ) 40+ Eye-Catching Mac Screensavers (tagged: Mac screensaver ) ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties (tagged: ecmascript javascript dev work essay todo ) Woot : Unused Car Lots: Now What? Sure, we could just […]
I’m sure that there’s someone else way ahead of me but it feels pretty good to be closing in on 200,000 plays. And since it’s been asked already: 199,000+ represents approximately five years worth of play counts tracked via iTunes, iPod synchronization, and “nudging” 1 the playcount when we know something has been played off […]
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Bizarre animals that are new to science at New Scientist (tagged: via:ozgallagher biology weird science evolution ) The Git Parable (tagged: git essay ) Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party on Vimeo — pretty frickin' cool! (tagged: video astronomy ) In Search of Microformats (tagged: via:kapowee microformats hcard webdev todo work […]
Mozilla Labs Design Challenge Summer 09 – together with IxDA and Johnny Holland — For this Design Challenge we are focusing on finding creative solutions to the question: "Reinventing Tabs in the Browser – How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?" (tagged: design navigation tabs mozilla ) […]
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Do I get extra nerd points for getting this joke immediately? Original Tweet here.
IE8 and the X-UA-Compatible situation (tagged: webdev ie8 http work todo ) Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow at O'Reilly Radar — funny… I said this over a year ago… 😉 (tagged: Goodreads social Twitter ) Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt, Available in Various Sizes at Amazon.com — as if the shirt was not […]