PKD writes the FBI October 28, 1972: “…several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a cover organization involving politics, illegal weapons, etc….” Dare we say that if it were anyone else we would believe him to be crazy? (And how does that preclude us from […]
White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism at washingtonpost.com — this not totally surprising but it is disappointing because we need Jones' message (re marrying our environmental and economic needs) (tagged: politics news environment ) OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard How to install Java 1.4 and/or 1.5 if needed. (tagged: java […]
Things plug-in syntax – Things Wiki (tagged: Quicksilver Things ) A Message on Ted Kennedy to Conservatives Who Hated Him (Mostly Profanity-Free for the Kiddies) at The Rude Pundit (via XJ's Twitter stream) (tagged: TedKennedy politics history ) tap tap tap ~ Convert design evolution Worth the watch. (tagged: video ui usability design ux ) […]
Setting up the Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater at TUAW (tagged: Mac Macmini hometheater howto hardware tutorial ) Storyist 2.0, a professional’s writing tool at TUAW (tagged: writing software todo ) punypng at Gracepoint After Five (via Ajaxian) — PNG Image Optimization and Compression (tagged: PNG graphics webdev work ) Where I Write via B² […]
Dig Into Unix: Sed and Awk (tagged: sed awk tutorial todo ) Ext JS 3.0 – Be Outstanding 3.0 released (tagged: Ext javascript work blog ) grep Pocket Reference at O'Reilly Media — two things I use all the time and utterly fail at retain their syntax: any flavor of regex and grep. (tagged: grep […]
Hands on with the Opera 10 Web browser beta at Macworld (via DF) — posting waaay after the fact but: I love what they've done with the tab bar. (tagged: opera browsers ui todo ) The Big Idea: Seth Shostak at Whatever (tagged: science space astronomy culture society exobiology research todo ) China Mieville on […]
5.5. Case study: Dumb Quotes via lepht (at [Dive Into Greasemonkey]) (tagged: webdev javascript regex todo ) Repeat after me: Unicode is not UTF-\d{1,2} via lepht (via reddit.com): short version: Unicode is a standard, and UTF-(8|16|32) are character encodings that support encoding Unicode data into byte strings. (tagged: Unicode text dev essay todo ) Modeling the […]
iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough at The iPhone Blog (via DF) — part of the iPhone OS 3.0 round-up (tagged: iphone ) iPhone 3.0 software update Review at Macworld/iPhone Central (via DF) — part of the iPhone OS 3.0 round-up (tagged: iphone ) Instant Expert: Secrets & Features of iPhone OS 3.0 at iLounge (via DF) […]
Persian Saffron Ice Cream at Al Dente (tagged: food recipe ) hasLayout.net Doesn't look like it's been updated in … a while … but probably worth skimming and/or for to brush up… (tagged: webdev css html IE todo ) US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive at The Telegraph — the […]
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 ) […]