Janet Fitch’s 10 rules for writers Careful w/ #2 though… (tagged: fiction language literature writing ) 11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress (tagged: wordpress optimization ) Nice Entity "Find your character!" — what a great idea (and a great design) (tagged: ascii Unicode webdev xhtml design entities reference typography cheatsheet ) Caching Improvements in Internet […]
More from Eyjafjallajokull at Boston.com — simply incredible (tagged: Eyjafjallajokull eruption ash photography news art ) QuirksBlog: A pixel is not a pixel is not a pixel Must read. But later. (tagged: css design html webdev pixels work todo essay ) High-performance DOM scripting (tagged: DOM javascript work todo ) The words David Foster Wallace […]
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 ) […]
JavaScript shell scripting / phpied.com via Ajaxian — a little more useful info on using jsc (tagged: jsc javascript shell console terminal scripting tutorial todo Mac OSX ) JavaScript on the command line or as a shell scripting language at Ajaxian — /usr/bin/jsc for me, baby… (tagged: javascript shell scripting terminal command console todo ) […]
Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs, by Leonard Richardson at Strange Horizons Fiction (tagged: writing scifi humor satire dinosaurs fiction ) BusyCal via [GusMueller blog] — "Share Calendars on a LAN and sync with Google Calendar" — I've historically been disappointed with these apps/plugins/whatever but always seem to be willing to try another… so here's […]
Formula Found to Explain Earth’s Evenly Spaced Valleys at Yahoo! News (via JH) (tagged: via:kapowee math science geology todo ) The Heidi Klum of calculations at The Boston Globe (tagged: via:kapowee math science humor todo essay ) recovering lazyholic blog: phrase reduction via JH: I find it interesting that we are able to understand a […]
A friend asked me today: “On IM, when you type ‘haha’, does that imply that you actually laughed?” I answered immediately: no. The “haha” and “hehe” strings imply that you got the joke, that you’re reading and comprehending the humor, that you believe the preceding statement is funny – but it doesn’t necessarily mean that […]
Is there really a better, more apt, more semantically appropriate expression in modern English 1 than “trophy wife”? Consider it: There is (perhaps) a hard-won battle in leading up to the “winning” of the trophy. But once you have that trophy, all that’s left is the memory of that winning… …the trophy itself is dead […]
Schott’s Vocab at NYTimes.com (via DF) — like Wired's "jargon watch" only erudite. (tagged: blog language linguistics ) Sunday-Best Garlic Roast Beef at Cooks Country TV (via Ben) — for "top sirloin butt" (tagged: food beef recipe todo ) Dear A.I.G., I Quit! Hubris? (tagged: politics business econoocalypse ) Physical Cosmologies: The Shining via B² […]
IE Float model and the reality at CSS Class (tagged: webdev css IE floats essay todo ) When can I use… "Conclusion: Not Ready" — hope you like font tags! (tagged: webdev reference css ) Diagramming the Obama Sentence at The Millions (via B²): It was funny when the proverbial They did this for Palin's […]