China Miéville on Crime Novels Scalzi "gives the floor" to China Miéville re: his new novel. (tagged: literature essay todo ) Cover Story: Finger Painting at The New Yorker Blog — seen referenced/linked in multiple places already… Just plain "wow". Watch the video. (tagged: video iPhone illustration art ) First Look: Roxio Easy VHS to […]
50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read at Online College Degree — because everyone loves a "banned books" list. (tagged: literature censorship ) 40+ Eye-Catching Mac Screensavers (tagged: Mac screensaver ) ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties (tagged: ecmascript javascript dev work essay todo ) Woot : Unused Car Lots: Now What? Sure, we could just […]
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 […]
While I wouldn’t say that I spoke to soon (re: “Poor Malkovich“), perhaps the situation bears some additional prudence to fully explore the options for remedy and repair. After all, it should not be necessary to replace that iMac G5. So let’s put all the cards out there. Firstly – what the hell is going […]
Recently it became apparent that our trusty iMac G5 (a.k.a., “Malkovich”) may not be long in its continued operation. The iMac seems to have shut itself off randomly on at least two occasions over the past week or so – one minute it’s chugging along, playing music and/or exporting photos from Aperture and the next […]
Recently, I downloaded the OmniGraphSketcher public beta to give it a quick and dirty trial. As you may have noticed, I can be a bit of a graph/visualization nerd. The first screencast 1 of OmniGraphSketcher made it look super easy to use and the output was (visually) very appealing. In my first trial run, I […]
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? […]
The Elegance of Imperfection at A List Apart — though a good read, I thought that it didn't really touch on the importance of doing and experimenting and risk-taking (which is where I thought it was going to go) versus over-thinking and/or over-engineering a solution/design/etc. (tagged: design blog creativity ) Natural Phenomena: Brooklynhenge by Ben […]
While banging through the home-stretch of Ortho 1.0, I decided to give MacRabbit’s Espresso editor a try. I’m “between” editors right now – feeling no special love or loyalty to any one text editor – and noting Espresso’s public beta, I decided it was worthy of some exploration. THE SHORT VERSION: I liked it alright […]