January 2009
der-mo.net _ Moritz Stefaner →
referred by Jay Parkinson
Jan 30th
well-formed.eigenfactor.org : Visualizing... →
referred by Jay Parkinson
Jan 30th
Black Swan author's rules for living →
Avi sez, “Nassim Nicholas Taleb, gadfly author of The Black Swan, gives his 10 rules for surviving an unpredictable world with dignity.” 1 Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be…
Jan 30th
SWEET! Illustrator file triage to the rescue!
Jan 30th
Damn straight Citi shouldn’t get naming rights on the new stadium if they’re taking bailout money. Kucinich FTW!
Jan 30th
A simple rule of thumb →
I was looking at some code and a simple rule just occurred to me. If you’re creating an object oriented system, any time you start writing a method that accepts an instance of a class that you…
Jan 30th
Stimulus Passes House With Zero Republican Votes →
The stimulus bill just passed the House, 244-188. Only eleven Democrats voted against it. Notably, zero Republicans voted in favor of it. Cool. While we will need two Republican votes to pass the…
Jan 30th
26 years of notes →
Shared by Jonathan I’ve carried a phone with a keyboard since at least 2003, and that’s been all the notebook that’s ever worked for me—as well as all the notebook I’ve ever needed. …
Jan 30th
Time For President Obama To Issue An Action Alert →
Last week, the largest crowd in American history gathered in Washington, D.C. to support President Obama on the day of his inauguration. Two million people functionally shut down large parts of our…
Jan 30th
Your brain on fiction: we simulate action we read... →
A forthcoming journal article in Psychological Science reports on the research of scientists from the Dynamic Cognition Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis into what brain activity…
Jan 30th
Science and Democracy →
Sometimes you come across some writing that is just so perfect that all you can do is stand back and admire it. In that spirit, I give you a long quote from Dennis Overbye’s essay celebrating…
Jan 30th
Oh god, I’ve got another illustrator file that takes 14-minutes to save. This little macbook may be at the end of its life…
Jan 29th
My entire morning disappeared down a gaping vortex of FAIL.
Jan 29th
Twitter.com →
Jan 29th
Sounds like everyone’s having subway nightmares this morning. It’s only gonna get worse…
Jan 29th
Downing a package of twizzlers in less than 3 minutes = bad idea.
Jan 28th
You know you’re doing something right when: you forget you’re *designing* an interface, and actually try to *use* it.
Jan 28th
DIY: How to write a book →
Shared by Jonathan SBJ just sold another copy of Devonthink. I read the NYT Beek Review article years ago, and have been dying to do this. All my digital notes will integrate without trouble, but…
Jan 28th
How do you know when you need an assistant? Or at least an intern?
Jan 28th
Kristol’s off the NYT Op-ed? Good riddance to bad rubbish! http://tinyurl.com/ag99zq
Jan 28th
Magnetic Fields FTW! “69 Love Songs” aged well.
Jan 28th
In a room full of developers I just caught hell for using the word “b0xxen” out loud. Am I the only 1337 haxx0rz here?
Jan 27th
“…Hillebrand will be sworn in by _Vice President Joe Biden_”. I love hearing that!
Jan 27th
Todays’ battle cry? “Lawyered up? READY TO GO!” In a good way.
Jan 27th
Listening to talk about the NYT going under is world-shakingly scary.I can’t think of an institution that seems more timeless and immovable.
Jan 27th
Totally dreading the turn this color scheme is taking towards orange-and-blue. I bet 75% of the work I’ve done in the last 3 yrs uses those.
Jan 27th
Tales of the Rampant Coyote: The Black Triangle →
Sometimes the big victories look pedestrian at first glance.
Jan 26th
GOP Dumbo →
Jan 26th
Leopard Classic →
Mac OS X Leopard visualized on a Mac SE
Jan 26th
HEAVY METAL BAND NAMES →
Jan 26th
Wallstats - The Art of Information →
Nice typographic visualization of the civil rights movement culminating with the first black US president.
Jan 26th
On Being A Journeyman Software Craftsman →
Jan 26th
JavaScript Tools bundle for Textmate | 456 Berea... →
Jan 26th
LegalTorrents™ - Web Development Icons Superset →
Jan 26th
The "How I Got Started In Programming" Interviews →
Welcome to the “How I Got Started in Programming” interview series
Jan 26th
iQuickTwitter - My Quicksilver + Twitter + iChat +... →
Jan 26th
GOP Pollster Says Tax/Spending Debate Has... →
Shared by Jonathan We *are* the center. This is a way more progressive country than the mainstream media acknowledges. It’s time to shift the Overten window a few steps to the left. Writing in…
Jan 26th
Grrr…quicksilver-to-twitter script still doesn’t work…
Jan 26th
The case against Candy Land →
Ed Note: Boingboing’s current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for…
Jan 26th
quit working on personal project for the night because the client is too difficult
Jan 26th
Get Your War On is off →
Shared by Jonathan GYWO helped me through some dark days. Thanks David. With Bush out of office, David Rees ends his popular and hilarious cartoon, Get Your War On. Tags: davidrees …
Jan 25th
Black triangles →
All the dev team had after month of effort was a black triangle on a screen…but it was more than that. Afterwards, we came to refer to certain types of accomplishments as “black triangles.”…
Jan 25th
Lost in location awareness →
For a few weeks, journalist Mat Honan used every piece of software he could get his hands on to broadcast his location and activities to the world, his friends, and nearby strangers. To test…
Jan 25th
Bipartisan disagreement →
Shared by Jonathan Scary stuff. I’ve said before that when David Brooks and Paul Krugman both have a disagreement with something, then we should pay attention. The morning’s Times op-ed page is…
Jan 25th
Soft Power →
The Barack Obama Salon has opened in Khartoum, Sudan. Can you imagine a George Bush Barbershop anywhere in the third world?    Tagged: Barack Obama, Barbershop, George W. Bush, Khartoum,…
Jan 25th
Obama on Republicans: "I Won" →
Ha! Just when I was criticizing Obama for the position he forced himself into via bipartisan rhetoric, he comes out and changes his tune: President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his…
Jan 25th
Twitter: a “transport protocol for small ideas”
Jan 24th
Bush years in Onion headlines →
Shared by Jonathan The in the Bush Era, the Onion was just about the only part of the media that reported the truth (even if they occasionally made up the facts). Over on the Making Light blog,…
Jan 24th
The case for PowerPoint in the White House →
Shared by Jonathan Absolutely right. Obama should have a Chief Data Visualization officer. Probably not at the cabinet level (heh), but there are 10 trillion reasons a small team should augment…
Jan 24th
‘Like Going From an Xbox to an Atari’ →
Shared by Jonathan Time to modernize. Obama administration officials meet the existing White House tech infrastructure: The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers…
Jan 24th