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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
"The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet: Philip K. Dick" Rolling Stone Article by Paul Williams (November 6, 1975) at philipkdickfans.com (via B²) (tagged: writing scifi fiction weird interview PDF PKD todo ) Pixelmator via Mac AppStorm (this time…): I wonder if it's time to give it another spin? (tagged: Mac OSX software graphics […]
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street Great article, even if it glosses over certain things. Especially good in combination with: crisisofcredit.com — that said, I'm still not sure what a "credit default swap" is… (tagged: money economy business math ) Italian Food and Woodworking Does enlightenment bring with it responsibility and obligation? […]
Specify your canonical at Official Google Webmaster Central Blog (via DF) (tagged: webdev url todo ) The Third Bucket by James Duncan Davidson (tagged: photography essay todo ) Top 10 iPhone Games, as Voted by Wired.com Readers at Game | Life from Wired.com: Yay! Time-wasters! (tagged: iPhone games fun todo ) MDK : Quicklook for […]