Starship Enterprise Destroyed by the Death Star win. (tagged: video StarWars StarTrek humor ) Ween at Waterfront Park (Burlington) on 11 Jul 2009 !?!?!?!? (tagged: burlington Vermont ) Backup your Database in Git (tagged: backup git MySQL founddrama todo ) Guide to Human Types (pt 2) (tagged: art anatomy ) The Star Trek Movie Cheat […]
Burlington Farmers Market starts this Saturday! (tagged: Vermont burlington farm food ) Privacy in the Age of Persistence Bruce Schneier on Security: "Data is the pollution of the information age." (tagged: blog future society security essay ) Five Technologies Tim O’Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 at ReadWriteWeb — all I can say is thank […]
Nutella Frosted Cupcakes at Al Dente: oh man, these look dangerously good… (tagged: Nutella food todo ) Philip K. Dick Award Winners Announced: A Tie Between Castro and Walton at Omnivoracious (tagged: PKD literature scifi todo ) Daring Fireball: Complex at DF: Gall’s law raises hard questions. Where do you start? How small? How simple? […]
Tauntaun Sleeping Bag ThinkGeek wins the price this year for best April Fool's prank. Hands down. (tagged: geek fun kids wishlist starwars blog ) Wrong Tomorrow – pundits vs. time via fogus, DF — rejected alternate title "pundit fail"? (tagged: prediction future blog ) SXSW Typography: Quit Bitchin and get Your Glyph on If there's […]
Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 by Paul Roberts (at Mother Jones) — the gist seems to be: re-evaluate your assumptions about what sustainable agriculture means (hint: it involves more than just carbon footprints and whether/not the farm is organic; see also: labor conditions, see also: man-hours of labor) and maybe be prepared to […]
Why I’m Buying the New Mac Mini: Value Reconsidered at The Apple Blog: It is underpowered, it is overpriced, and, worst of all, as Gizmodo points out, it is not easily upgradeable after the fact, so most users would be advised to bite the bullet and pay Apple’s extortionate rates for in-house upgrades, or risk […]
These are my links for January 30th through February 2nd:
superuseless superpowers via kottke (tagged: humor comic parody ) Beautiful Code Documentation at Ajaxian: It's true. Typography does matter. (tagged: javascript typography documentation ) Productivity: How Cory Doctorow Gets Writing Done via LifeHacker (tagged: writing lifehacks productivity GTD editing ) Zimbabwe to print first $100 trillion note – CNN.com via B²: better unload those Gippers […]
Bruce Sterling in Belgrade YouTube link: Bruce Sterling in Belgrade on the future of cities (tags: design future video architecture research)
Apocalypse Scale via Beyond The Beyond *and* Warren Ellis: “A Richter Scale for the End of the World.” (tags: future research apocalypse) Your 2007 Personal Finance Calendar via Morningstar.com (via LifeHacker) (tags: lifehacks money personal tutorial todo) Learn Cocoa via Cocoa Dev Central (via TUAW): from a first-glance look at it, it’s a “lite” tutorial […]