July 2010
10 Things I Learned Eating On $1 A Day For A Month →
Between this and the stories a friend of mine tells about eating on $10/week, I’m beginning to think I need to give this a shot. It would mean a hell of a change in my eating habits, but then that’s really the point.
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June 2010
I can see this is going to be a problem.
Sheldon: I really think we should examine the chain of causality here.
Leonard: Must we?
Sheldon: Event A. A beautiful woman stands naked in our shower. Event B. We drive half way across town to retrieve a television set from the aforementioned woman’s ex-boyfriend. Query: On what plane of existence is there even a semi-rational link between these events?
Just started The Big Bang Theory.
Penny: I'm a Sagittarius, which probably tells you way more than you need to know.
Sheldon: Yes, it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the Sun's apparent position relevant to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.
FacePainting - The Whitewashing of Avatar: The... →
Q. Le gives an impassioned and educated list of reasons why the choice of white actors for Asian roles in Avatar is racist and damaging to the movie and to society.
There’s one very obvious, less evil-sounding reason that is to my mind, as a fan of the series, equally important: it screws up the story. It’s absolutely ridiculous. To give a stupid but timely example, it’s as...
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Dear seventeen-year-old me:
Anyone who repeatedly keeps you up until midnight threatening suicide is bad news. Learn this now and save yourself a whole lot of pain.
On the plus side, you’re about to discover the benefits of having a social life. Good job there.
Advice to self
delgrosso:
Dear Every Version of Me From 13-39:
Take. More. Risks.
Halle-freakin’-lujah.
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“People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them...”
– Mother Teresa (via robot-heart)
This is no less true if you are an atheist. Just replace the word “God” with “yourself”. If you approve of what you have done, good job: you’re winning at life.
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Learning to be careful what I wish for.
It turns out that when you barge into a subject you know relatively little about, people who know more than you do—or who use an OS with lousy font rendering—will say unpleasant things about your attempt to learn. In my case, there are two problems with this:
I thought that post was pretty clear on the fact that I’m learning, and that that’s the point of the exercise for me.
The...
“ENTPs think outside the box, devising fresh, unexpected solutions to difficult...”
– ENTP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emphasis (and personality type) mine. Also accurate:
The ENTP regards a comment like “it can’t be done” as a personal challenge.
The Sandman wins
thewordunheard:
I have a pretty damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t relationship with sleep.
I’ve got a kind of pathological need to avoid going to sleep, delaying bedtime by figuring out new ways to putz around. This is partly because if I don’t go to bed when I’m absolutely wiped out, I lay awake for hours worrying about things that are not worth worrying over. And then I don’t get enough...
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the...”
– Abraham Lincoln
Apparently from Lincoln’s first reported speech, this quotation seems just as appropriate regarding the recent/ongoing financial crisis as it must have in 1837.
TypeKit: Improvements to iPhone Font Support in... →
taylorcarrigan:
I noticed these improvements a few weeks ago and have since enabled full TypeKit support on TaylorCarrigan.com for iOS devices. Now if only Apple would push an update to the iPad that fixed WebKit crashes when loading multiple weights from the same font family.
Hear, hear. I’ve had to turn off the SemiBold weight of Etica on The Simple Best, which means bolded text...
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie make TV comeback →
Awesome.
Fraise: Powerful Lightweight Editor for Mac →
Looks like someone forked Smultron. Thank goodness. Shame they stuck with the strawberry motif, though.
(via Minimal Mac)
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The Simple Best | Why? →
My first real post on my new, entirely hand-coded blog explains why I’m starting a new, entirely hand-coded blog.
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“Does it ever bother you that your life doesn’t make any sense?”
– The Eleventh Doctor, to Amy Pond
I've Been Stood Up
vodkaphonics:
If you need to find me I’ll be sitting on the couch shame eating the pear and gruyere pie. I feel like I should put my prom dress on while I do this just to really sell the disappointment.
He’s a silly bastard and you can do better.
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“More interestingly, we can now give Simplenote our full attention. But...”
– Simplenote, full speed ahead!
Note to self: hang onto the current version of SimpleNote. It’s the last good one.
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“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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CSS Visibility confusion
I can’t help but feel that
.hidden {visibility: hidden;}
.hidden:hover {visibility: visible;}
should work to hide items and show them on mouseover. I’m okay (if a little annoyed) with the fact that it doesn’t, but does anyone know why?
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WatchAlternate Universe Lex Luthor is not a fan of pants.
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“Here’s the harsh reality for publishers big and small: when we read, we want to...”
– Why We Built Readability | Arc90 Blog
This is why people read magazines, but love books, and remember the latter for the rest of their lives. It is also a good explanation of why I enjoy Daring Fireball so much:
What makes DF an efficient and effective soapbox is exactly that it is not noisy. My...
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The Safari Reader Arms Race →
I’m putting my faith and trust in my readers. I’m giving them choices in how they can view my content, without making them dependent on one particular browser. In return for delivering great content and maximum reading flexibility, I hope they will support me by coming back and by letting my ads load in their browser. I believe it will be a win-win situation for all of us.
If you’re a publisher...
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A tip for developers
hetima:
safariextensions:
If you’re hosting your own .safariextz file using Apache, make sure to add:
===== <IfModule mod_mime.c> AddType application/x-safari-extension safariextz </IfModule> =====
to .htaccess in the hosting directory, or instead of downloading it as a binary file, users may get a page of gibberish when they click on a link to it.
...
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“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”
– George S. Patton (via cordfunnel)
The mad, mad success of Safari Extensions brings this truth home to me in a very personal way.
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Safari Extensions →
A handy list of available Safari extensions to hold you over until Apple opens their gallery.
New blog. If Apple software or browsing the web is your thing, you may want to bookmark it. If developing awesome extensions is your thing, you should submit your extensions to it.
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“Everybody loves to talk about the things that are tangible when it comes to...”
– Steve Jobs, talking about the iPhone 4’s camera system
This is the fundamental difference between Apple and every other company in the consumer electronics business.
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BP buys search words to keep people away from real... →
In their most tenacious effort to control the ‘spin’ on the worst oil spill disaster in the history, BP has purchased top internet search engine words so they can re-direct people away from real news on the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
This is absolutely despicable. The rest of this article is written perhaps a bit contentiously, but somehow I have a hard time minding that much.
On the other...
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