Sep
2nd
Tue
2nd
Picks and finds from Erica Tesla. Little elaboration here, kiddies; if you're looking for that, go to my blog. I largely post stuff here to distribute stuff to friends - stuff that otherwise I'd forget to IM them (or whatever) - or to save it for me, for later. Yes, I am so scatterbrained I have to blog stuff to myself.
Aug
27th
Wed
27th
Geek Code v3.1
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Aug
25th
Mon
25th
With the Chinese media gushing over the success of the Olympics, the latest issue of Southern Window — a highbrow news magazine with a circulation of 500,000 — caught my eye. The cover illustration features a couple of law textbooks and a teacher with a wooden pointer giving instruction to a businessman and a government official. The coverline: “Rule of Law Starts With Limitation of Power.” Sounds boring? In China, it’s almost revolutionary.
It's Time to Kick Out Some Olympic Sports (TIME)
Too bad the sports they want to get rid of are the ones I’m most interested in watching. The entire article is basically: “But these ones are too pretty!” Nevermind that we could as easily allow men to compete in synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics as we could let women box.
Aug
24th
Sun
24th
Personally, if it was me, I would have let .Mac die a quiet death. The problem set for ubiquitous syncing is just very very hard, and the consequences of failure, in terms of user dissatisfaction are too high. I suspect that, in time, MobileMe will go the same way as the Newton …
Aug
22nd
Fri
22nd
How much do I love ‘Garden Babies Butterhead’ container lettuce from Renee’s Garden? To put it in Grade 3 terms - I would marry it.
I’ve never grown lettuce so… perfect looking. It’s like a Whole Foods produce manager sneaks onto my balcony every morning, mists it gently, picks off any errant flecks of dirt and whispers tender words of encouragement.
Pumping his fists downward in a striking motion as he spoke, Mr. Obama continued, “you just got Rickrolled, America!
Aug
21st
Thu
21st
And that—Charlotte Preece’s reaction to the news of Diane Schroer’s transition—is the heart of the case. Is it okay, today, for an employer to refuse to hire somebody who can do the job, and do it well, because the employer doesn’t respect something about their identity that has nothing to do with the job?
As part of a lawsuit regarding proper disclosures, “the FTC claims that CompuCredit didn’t properly disclose that it monitored spending and cut credit lines if consumers used their cards at certain places. Among them: tire and retreading shops, massage parlors, bars, billiard halls and marriage counseling offices.
A coworking space gives these independent companies that would usually work out of their home, to cut out overhead, a place to call their office. Even more than that the space allows for interaction with other designers or developers that they would normally get at an agency or company. This allows them to bounce ideas off of each other and it allows say a designer and a developer to work a projects that require each other’s talents. Projects that they would not normally be able to work on because they didn’t have the resources to team up and pitch on. Sometime companies are formed out of these collaborations and a one man design shop becomes a small boutique agency with designers, programmers and copywriters.
Aug
19th
Tue
19th
Will Hanna grow this one again:
Yes. I love these kinds of tomatoes. Black tomatoes are the panacea of tomato flavor for me and this black tomato has that flavor nailed.
Yes. I love these kinds of tomatoes. Black tomatoes are the panacea of tomato flavor for me and this black tomato has that flavor nailed.