January 2011
32 posts
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Texting while working
I agree with Seth Godin’s latest post. If you’re under pressure to design the Next Big Thing™ and you’re too busy to stop texting and mucking around on social media sites (unless that’s your job, too), then you’re going to miss the deadline or someone else will meet it for you.
Texting while working:
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with doing all...
TextMate user - Changing textmate startup syntax
Quick and easy screencast by Ryan Olson shows how to set the default language for the best text editor in the world!
TextMate user - Changing textmate startup syntax:
Changing textmate startup syntax
(Via @textmator)
Bookshelf Porn
I love books, but I don’t love books. Having said that, I love looking at books even if I did buy a Kindle for Christmas (and I love it).
Bookshelf Porn: Bookshelf Porn
Porn for book lovers. A photoblog collection of all the best bookshelf photos for people who *heart* bookshelves.
(Via J. Michael Carter)
‘Make It Better’
For those of you like me who may be a little “fiddly” when it comes to fonts, here is a video that inspires while tweaking the design of the message over and over. Nice.
‘Make It Better’: We are starting the new year with some new projects, new goals and new challenges.
Whatever you do, always try to be the best you can be. Spread the word.
(Via Daring Fireball)
An Open Letter From the President of the United...
Brilliant satire from Tim Sneath.
An Open Letter From the President of the United States of Google:
The Esperanto language was invented last century as a politically neutral language that would foster peace and international understanding. Since the launch, we’ve seen first-hand the benefits of a constructed language:
A pure form of communication that is unsullied by cultural context;
Broad...
Marco.org - Marco.org: Everyone else is arguing...
More on Chrome killing H.264 from Instapaper developer Marco Arment:
Marco.org - Marco.org: Everyone else is arguing about HTML 5’s video codecs. Why can’t I?: I wrote this 18 months ago when Mozilla announced that Firefox wouldn’t support H.264 in the tag, instead supporting only the free, open-source, fairly crappy Ogg Theora codec that nobody uses:
By not supporting the...
Google Dropping Support for H.264 in Chrome. Why...
Great point by @gruber.
Google Dropping Support for H.264 in Chrome: If Google is dropping support for H.264 because their “goal is to enable open innovation”, why don’t they also drop support for closed plugins like Flash Player? As it stands now, Chrome not only supports Flash, it ships with its own embedded copy of Flash. I don’t see how Google keeps Flash but drops H.264 in the name of...
‘For All Our Failings, Despite Our Limitations and...
‘For All Our Failings, Despite Our Limitations and Fallibilities, We Humans Are Capable of Greatness’: Today seems like the right time to relink this wonderful short film by Michael Marantz, based on an excerpt from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. (Thanks to Chris Henslin for the suggestion.)
As I watched, my wife was in the next room helping our son count past 200, higher than he’d ever counted...
Red Sweater Blog – The Mac App Store Debug Menu
Red Sweater Blog – The Mac App Store Debug Menu: I can’t help myself.
Quit App Store.app
Open Terminal
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
Relaunch App Store
Enjoy it while you can. I’m sure it will be gone in the next update, especially if anybody at Apple sees this post.
(Via Daniel Jalkut)
SeoulBrother: "Nigger" →
When we begin to rewrite history, we begin to lose our identity. Some people would like this more than anything, but if we forget where we come from we’ll lose sight of where we need to go.
seoulbrother:
It’s that time of year again where we discuss the word “nigger.” Seems like it was just yesterday when Oprah popularized the daytime-TV-safe “n-word”—I’m surprised that it didn’t make...
Hypercritical: Summer Movies: 1982 →
Good point @siracusa. What a lineup!
siracusa:
The following movies were released in the summer of 1982. An Officer and a Gentleman
Annie
Blade Runner
Conan the Barbarian
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Firefox
Poltergeist
Rocky III
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Road Warrior
The Secret of NIMH