Scrivener NaNoWriMo 2009 Trial Against my better judgment, I'm going to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. And I'm using the special trial version of Scrivener to do it. (tagged: Scrivener writing NaNoWriMo todo ) Seven questions that keep physicists up at night at New Scientist (via B²) (tagged: science physics todo ) Left vs Right […]
Cool Stuff: Zombie Wedding Cake Awesome. A.: Ben is right, this needs to be the cake at our 2nd wedding. (tagged: via:kheiligh zombie ambulothanatophobia food ) Steak House or Gay Bar? Fun for 5 minutes worth of laughter. (tagged: humor ) Flickr Adds People Tagging. And It’s Better Than Facebook’s. About damn time. (tagged: flickr […]
Rashomon at rogerebert.com (via DF) (tagged: film cinema culture Rashomon Kurosawa essay ) Observations: Evolution details revealed through 21-year E. coli experiment via /. — E. coli evolution FTW! (tagged: evolution news ) Wall Street Smarts Another one via DF (at NYTimes.com): “Did you ever hear the word ‘derivatives’?” he said. “Do you think our […]
Building a World that "Gives Life to the Promise of Our Founding Documents" Well said, Mr. President: And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action — a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. (tagged: obama international politics nobel ) JavaScript: Bad Practices […]
PKD writes the FBI October 28, 1972: “…several months ago I was approached by an individual who I have reason to believe belonged to a cover organization involving politics, illegal weapons, etc….” Dare we say that if it were anyone else we would believe him to be crazy? (And how does that preclude us from […]
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation short version: I would support this if we did not ONLY emphasize traditional academics; when we're talk about lengthening the school day, let's keep in perspective that kids need to be kids, too—more hours and more days is only part of the answer, we also need to make […]
A few thoughts as I step away from Theodore Rex: (1) “Teddy” was a really and truly fascinating character and (like him or not) an important figure in American history. (2) Given when I was reading this (i.e., more/less at the height of the health care reform debates of the Obama administration), it gives me […]
JavaScript Framework Matrix “Overview with functions and examples” (tagged: javascript jQuery Ext framework reference work ) Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets by Shawn Blanc (via DF) — interesting redux of Yojimbo and there are some very compelling arguments in there (perhaps I should give it a shot?) (tagged: yojimbo Mac osx software review […]
JSTalk (tagged: javascript Cocoa JSTalk todo ) Re: 2012, Zombies & The Singularity at Babel Clash by paolobacigalupi (via John Joseph Adams) (tagged: zombie ambulothanatophobia essay blog todo ) Mac Dev Center: What’s New In Mac OS X: Mac OS X v10.6 via DF — heady stuff and most of it over my head, but […]
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 […]