Markdown is the new Word 5.1 By Kevin Lipe at Stephen M. Hackett's "Forkbombr" blog — A great (if a bit tangential) essay about writing on a computer and (thus?) what it's like to write on a computer. A lot of this is pretty close to my own feelings on the subject. (And yes: I'm aware […]
Lexadecimal (tagged: webdev design css art geek ) The People vs. Goldman Sachs Matt Taibbi should get an award or a medal or carte blanche to start kicking these guys in the balls or something: The legal definition of financial fraud may be murky and complex, but everybody knows you can't lie to Congress. It's […]
Vermont In Speculative fiction at Geek Mountain State (tagged: scifi Vermont ) JavaScript Strict Mode Angus Croll at JavaScript, JavaScript with (almost) everything you would want to know about ECMAScript 5's "strict mode". (tagged: javascript ecmascript strict_mode )
Sarah Sharp’s COUCHES OF DETROIT at/via Warren Ellis: I am in the process of creating a calendar of 12 Detroit landscapes, each featuring a discarded or abandoned couch. To you, it may signify the apocalyptic tidings of an empty city, but for some people, Detroit allows a great deal of freedom for reinvention. Municipal services […]
Shit My Students Write (tagged: writing blog humor education ) Mozilla jumps into Node.js server project (tagged: javascript Node.js mozilla ) Groovy 1.8 release notes (tagged: groovy ) Translating Dropbox at Dropbox tech blog (tagged: i18n dropbox translation )
Coding Horror: Working with the Chaos Monkey via @JoelAnair (tagged: design software architecture programming coding essay robustness ) Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway via @donniecoleman (tagged: business essay inspiration ) You Owe Me An Apology Despite Never Having Met Me: Douglas Crockford, for JavaScript: The Good Parts A humorous bone-picking with/against Crockford's […]
Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash: ‘92’s Eerie Cyber-Prophet at tor.com — C'mon… I can't help but link to a decent run-down of one of my Top 10 favorites of all time. (tagged: literature scifi )
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education. at TechCrunch: He [Peter Theil] thinks it’s fundamentally wrong for a society to pin people’s best hope for a better life on something that is by definition exclusionary. “If Harvard were really the best education, if it makes that much of […]
Lessons on @font-face from the F2E Summit at NCZOnline: We in the United States are pretty spoiled when it comes to web fonts since our alphabet has only 26 letters and a few punctuation marks. Adam pointed out that Asian character sets are much large, and so font files can be as large as 4-5 […]
Ready for Contact at Smithsonian Magazine (via Boing Boing) — interesting article about first contact and the preparations for its eventuality (tagged: seti first_contact astronomy politics research essay todo ) Stranger than fiction: The search for habitable exomoons at BoingBoing (tagged: astronomy research ) How ‘OK’ took over the world at BBC News (via DF) (tagged: […]