15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee at The Oatmeal — I love this design. (tagged: coffee design visualization ) Fox News Fact-Checks Sarah Palin’s Coin Conspiracy Theory (VIDEO) short version: "Sarah Palin is too crazy even for the crazy network." Personally I'd like it if "In God We Trust" came off the money all together […]
October 2009 browser stats: Firefox finally passes IE6 at Ars Technica — possibly the worst, most mis-leading graph of all time but if those numbers are accurate, at least the conclusions are great news (tagged: IE Firefox stats ) Emission Impossible?: Is Dark Matter Behind the Hazy Radiation at the Milky Way’s Center? at Scientific […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future at io9 (tagged: future scifi architecture todo ) Artists’ Portraits of Science Fiction’s Greatest Writers at io9 – the Lovecraft and Delany portraits are worth the price of admission (as the kids say) (tagged: scifi art ) Name that Color at chir.ag – put in your […]
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 […]
JavaScript shell scripting / phpied.com via Ajaxian — a little more useful info on using jsc (tagged: jsc javascript shell console terminal scripting tutorial todo Mac OSX ) JavaScript on the command line or as a shell scripting language at Ajaxian — /usr/bin/jsc for me, baby… (tagged: javascript shell scripting terminal command console todo ) […]
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 ) […]
Setting up the Ultimate Mac mini Home Theater at TUAW (tagged: Mac Macmini hometheater howto hardware tutorial ) Storyist 2.0, a professional’s writing tool at TUAW (tagged: writing software todo ) punypng at Gracepoint After Five (via Ajaxian) — PNG Image Optimization and Compression (tagged: PNG graphics webdev work ) Where I Write via B² […]