Things plug-in syntax – Things Wiki (tagged: Quicksilver Things ) A Message on Ted Kennedy to Conservatives Who Hated Him (Mostly Profanity-Free for the Kiddies) at The Rude Pundit (via XJ's Twitter stream) (tagged: TedKennedy politics history ) tap tap tap ~ Convert design evolution Worth the watch. (tagged: video ui usability design ux ) […]
At Gawker: Let’s Just Say It: We’re Scared Someone’s Going to Try to Kill Barack Obama – Barack Obama: Now, this guy is carrying a legal weapon, says NBC News’ Ron Allen. The local chief of police has no objections. Open carriage of licensed handguns is legal in New Hampshire, and the man is standing […]
In the August 10, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell writes the following in his essay “The Courthouse Ring: Atticus Finch and the limits of Southern liberalism“: One of George Orwell’s finest essays takes Charles Dickens to task for his lack of “constructive suggestions.” Dickens was a powerful critic of Victorian England, a […]
Persian Saffron Ice Cream at Al Dente (tagged: food recipe ) hasLayout.net Doesn't look like it's been updated in … a while … but probably worth skimming and/or for to brush up… (tagged: webdev css html IE todo ) US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive at The Telegraph — the […]
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction via B² (tagged: design literature scifi art typography illustration ) Here & There via Warren Ellis — "a horizonless projection in Manhattan" (awesome) (tagged: design visualization art map ) Classic Illustrators by Name via the w00t blog — a Flickr collection of scans of classic "Golden Age of Advertising" […]
Easter Bunny knit dissection at B²: hilarity! (tagged: Easter knitting funny ) Data Robotics goes large with 8-bay DroboPro Always popular, now with rack-mount options, iSCSI, and way more storage. (tagged: Drobo ) Ammo shortage continues nationwide at Asheville Citizen-Times: welcome back to the carnival of the absurd, folks! (tagged: surreal dangerous disconnected-from-reality news ) […]
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 […]
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 […]
The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own …according to Esquire. Not such a bad list, actually; and surprisingly well-rounded and eclectic. (tagged: todo music ) The Case for Paying the A.I.G. Bonuses at NYTimes.com : That may strike many people as a bit of convenient legalese, but maybe there is something to it. If you […]
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 […]