A dumping ground for miscellany; the amusing, the thought-provoking, the otherwise memorable.
“You don’t have to believe that help is on the way. I only ask that when it arrives, you take just as much ferocious advantage of the new reality as you do of the current one.†– Alex Russell, “Story Time!â€
Original at Flickr.
Functionality Focused Code Organization by Rebecca Murphey (and her related blog post)
Star Wars WWII figurine mods: Example:
danielholter:
Microscopic Vinyl Record Grooves
Microscopic photographs of two full rotations of the grooves within three different genres of vinyl records. The grooves have been increased in scale from their original scale by 100.
In order to right some wrongs uncovered by the most recent xkcd: Whoa, these errors are stochastic as shit. That is all.
“These are the things that people are saying are too slow to do with open web technologies today, and we want to have benchmarks that reflect progress against making these near-future apps universally available.†– Rob Sayre, “Release The Krakenâ…
Dubie, Shumlin Square Off in First Debate: At Blurt (The Seven Days Staff Blog)—not waving a banner for either of these guys (yet?) but Shumlin is starting to seem to me to be the stronger choice.