January 2012
25 posts
Romney income calculator: How long would it take... →
The answer is probably “not long”.
Jan 24th
FBI seizes MegaUpload, loses opportunity →
The inimitable Ryan Greenberg dishes out some design advice to the FBI.
Jan 24th
Y Combinator: Kill Hollywood →
Jan 23rd
1 note
Why iPhones aren't made in the USA →
Jan 21st
Mission Impossible: IKEA Protocol →
This really irritated me too.
Jan 21st
Don’t Stop at SOPA →
Many of the worst aspects of SOPA and PIPA are already happening.
Jan 21st
Saudi Arabia. Nigeria. Venezuela. Canada? →
Jan 21st
Sorry, iBooks, paper books still win on specs →
Jan 20th
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text... →
Jan 20th
Working in solitude on the decline →
Jan 19th
Insider Baseball by Joan Didion | The New York... →
From 1988, a teardown of the entire American presidential nomination process.
Jan 14th
The Authenticity Hoax - Blog - Why authenticity is... →
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Jan 14th
genuinely brilliant essay (Progressives and the... →
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Jan 14th
Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter →
“I want to see it all catch fire. I want to pour gasoline in the ducts and light a long fuse, and watch from the street as it burns and burns and burns.”
Jan 12th
Just One. →
Lindsay Schauer on dining out, alone
Jan 12th
Emigre Web Fonts →
Mrs Eaves was one of my favourite go-to typefaces for a long time — it’s now available for use on websites.
Jan 11th
The Conservative Europe →
Europe isn’t nearly as liberal as American conservatives like to think, says Matthew Yglesias.
Jan 11th
How to nap →
I’ve never been a napper — my mom said I stopped taking naps at 9 months — but now I feel like I’m missing out.
Jan 11th
IE7 Buttons Extra Padding Bug →
“The button element in IE7 adds padding proportional to the amount of text within the button.” Oh, IE7, you joker, you. The solution: overflow: padding.
Jan 10th
My Guantánamo Nightmare
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html?_r=1&src=tp (Source: http://twitter.com/olivia/status/156209681625391104)
Jan 9th
10 New Year’s resolutions for designers →
Jan 6th
WatchWatch
Amateur color film of San Francisco, 1955
Jan 6th
Code Year →
Make your New Year’s resolution learning to code. Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you’ll be building apps and web sites before you know it.
Jan 6th
Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins →
Jan 6th
The Post-Iowa Challenge: Providing information or... →
Jan 6th
December 2011
20 posts
Leaked Details of How Facebook Plans To Sell Your... →
I “like” the tag above the headline: “It’s Zuck’s world, we’re just living in it.”
Dec 24th
A Day in the Life of a Shy Guy →
Dec 24th
Dec 23rd
The Year I Learned to Love Zooey Deschanel (and... →
Dec 21st
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy →
Dec 21st
Anyone but Mitt Romney graphic: The GOP nomination... →
This fantastic National Post data visualization from a month ago has some surprisingly strong parallels with the kind of stuff my colleagues and I did on the now defunct Trendly. (via We Love Datavis)
Dec 21st
The Defense Bill Passed. So What Does It Do? |... →
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Dec 18th
Does Alcohol Improve Your Writing? →
The test group, with an average blood alcohol content of 0.09, wrote significantly more words than their sober colleagues, and a higher percentage of their sentences included figurative language and novel word combinations.
Dec 16th
Death of a simile →
Dec 13th
Font swap in iBooks →
Four new much-nicer, more legible fonts in iBooks
Dec 13th
“It was never the object of [patent] laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling...”
– Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bradley, 1883 (viaCRS/LII Annotated Constitution Article I, via Andrew Plotkin)
Dec 12th
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Melinda Gates discusses fighting poverty in the... →
Dec 11th
Welcome to the Age of Overparenting - Boston... →
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Dec 11th
Derek Boogaard - A Brain ‘Going Bad’ - NYTimes.com →
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Dec 11th
Derek Boogaard - Blood on the Ice - NYTimes.com →
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Dec 11th
Cutting their own throats - Charlie's Diary →
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Dec 11th
Browse vs. Search: Which Deserves to Go? →
Dec 10th
Loving the new embedded tweets feature
You can now embed tweets in a webpage. Loving the new embedded tweets feature. attaboy.tumblr.com/post/139291954…— Luke Andrews (@attaboy) December8, 2011
Dec 8th
1 note
Derek Boogaard: A Boy Learns to Brawl →
Dec 5th
Military Police State →
Dec 1st
November 2011
15 posts
The 5 Best Toys of All Time →
Number 1: Stick
Nov 30th
CrashPlan - 50% off →
CrashPlan, a backup-to-the-cloud system, is running a 50% off sale right now. For a single computer, it works out to only $25 for a year, which is pretty outstanding for unlimited online storage. I’ve used CrashPlan at work and while the application itself isn’t pretty, it seems to get the job done quietly, without fuss. If you don’t back up your files regularly, you’re...
Nov 27th
Less Human Than Human: The Design Philosophy of... →
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Nov 26th
Minimum Viable Corn Chip →
Nov 26th
“If we had to get think-piecey about what the Muppets meant in their first mass...”
– Troy Patterson, writing in typically clever fashion, in “Kermit the Frog: my lifelong obsession with the star of the Muppets”
Nov 23rd