Super Dress Up Morgan Freeman at Jay is Games (via woot.com) — w? t? f…? (tagged: illustration surreal games blog ) Poor, Poor Child. You have no idea. "It's OK to suck at math; you won't be using much anyway." (tagged: blog software humor programming coding essay ) A Form of Madness at Dive Into […]
Name Your Band, Create Your Album Cover With Wikipedia & Flickr at Synthtopia (via JA) – I came up with: (tagged: todo flickr language surreal fun ) The Joy of Clojure ‘grats to my man Mike (tagged: Clojure friend ) Two Gentlemen of Lebowski via B² – EPIC (tagged: lebowski parody literature humor fun ) […]
Irish atheists challenge blasphemy law at BBC News: "This new law is both silly and dangerous," he said. "It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas." (tagged: atheism Ireland news ) 10 Easy Ways to Green Your Web […]
Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces At Flyosity (via JR) – re: “what exactly is button?“ (tagged: ui ux Essay todo ) What storytelling risks could Avatar have taken? at B² – having had about two weeks to unpack it now, I must say that I feel similarly. I hope to put together a more […]
35 Google open-source projects that you probably don’t know at 0x1fff — quite a few things to check out here… (tagged: webdev google opensource todo ) Simulating single-payer by Paul Krugman at NYTimes.com (via lawnczar) (tagged: politics HCR Krugman essay ) Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity at The Endeavour (via […]
Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam at threatpost (via B² (via /.)) (tagged: spam hacking crime politics security research ) The Physics of Space Battles at Gizmodo (via A.L.) (tagged: writing scifi science research physics todo ) Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study at International Space Fellowship (via /.) (tagged: […]
20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade at io9 (via B²) (tagged: literature scifi todo reading ) 30 Must See Web Generator for Lazy Webmasters Not sure where the "Webmasters" bit comes in but it's still a decent round-up of some useful graphic/widget generators. (tagged: web generator graphics ) Douglas Crockford — The State […]
In-wall USB charger is as cheap as it is ingenious at Engadget — so cool (tagged: USB power charger energy blog ) One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik at BLDGBLOG (via B²) — re: Yucca Mountain (great images and interesting discussion) (tagged: design science future history environment nuclear energy architecture […]
NaNoWriMo is over. Now what? Toss it, or floss it? And… via Scrivener (tagged: writing nanowrimo ) Steve Souders: Making Web Sites Faster in the Web 2.0 Age at O'Reilly Radar (tagged: JavaScript webdev work todo ) CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination via /. (tagged: javascript interesting CommonJS ServerJS todo ) […]
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans via John (tagged: interesting future art writing creativity culture business essay todo longtail ) Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help at NYTimes.com: As children grow older, they become more selective in their helpfulness. Starting around age 3, they will share more generously with a child who […]