All the 2011 books: Rob’s favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with Rob, and even join a book club on Goodreads. My Top 5 Favorite Reads from 2011 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss — The fantasy novel for readers that otherwise don’t like fantasy. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem — […]
Minimus "The OS X JavaScript and CSS Minifier" – a GUI wrapper for YUI Compressor. Convenient! (tagged: YUI Compressor performance minimus javascript css ) A Christopher Hitchens Bookshelf Compiled by @fogus (tagged: Christopher Hitchens reading via:fogus todo ) The Switch: Python to Node.js Paul Querna: After picking Node.js, other choices […] were side effects… Interesting […]
Right from the first page, Douglas Rushkoff’s book Program or Be Programmed 1 reminded me of Nicholas Carr‘s, The Shallows 2 — only with a broader scope and more buzzwords and a less gloomy appraisal of the subject. Buy a copy on Amazon (affiliate link).[↩]My review is here on this blog. And/or: buy it on […]
Three months to go in 2011. How am I doing on my various personal goals? Let’s check in and find out!
2010 Rob’s favorite books » Share book reviews and ratings with Rob, and even join a book club on Goodreads.
Death to Humans! Visions of the Apocalypse in Movies and Literature: Scientific American via @johnjosephadams — though I take issue with: [1] how many movies there are (since so many movies are usually so bad); [2] The Andromeda Strain (whose scale is hardly apocalyptic); and [3] that Adams' The Wastelands collection is missing! (tagged: film […]
What Google Could Learn From Pixar Harvard Business Review (via DF): Despite an unbroken string of 11 blockbuster films, Catmull regularly says, "Success hides problems." It's an insight Google should acknowledge and act on. Google's leadership admirably tolerates failure on side-projects (and big projects as well), but what Pixar has that Google does not is […]
JavaScript needs modules! by Dave Herman (via @slicknet) (tagged: javascript code ) Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X at Super User (tagged: Apple bash osx terminal todo ) Preview: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald at Tor.com — skimming it, I must say it looks great (and/but McDonald is one of my favorite's […]
Lightspeed magazine #1 at Tor.com — the online Lightspeed magazine is edited/curated by John Joseph Adams (who happens to be one hell of an editor); check it out and show some support (tagged: Lightspeed scifi literature ) ‘Lost’: The Essential Reading List at EW.com (via B²) (tagged: Lost reading literature ) Do LESS with Less.js […]
Souders blasts off 5 in a row at Ajaxian (tagged: html performance javascript css webdev work todo ) Over Fifteen Pounds of Book!!–Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King at Omnivoracious — looks pretty awesome (tagged: art wishlist ) Comcast enters rebranding territory at The Boston Globe (via /.): W2 Group’s Weber said such a […]