January 2012
25 posts
Romney income calculator: How long would it take... →
The answer is probably “not long”.
FBI seizes MegaUpload, loses opportunity →
The inimitable Ryan Greenberg dishes out some design advice to the FBI.
Y Combinator: Kill Hollywood →
Why iPhones aren't made in the USA →
Mission Impossible: IKEA Protocol →
This really irritated me too.
Don’t Stop at SOPA →
Many of the worst aspects of SOPA and PIPA are already happening.
Saudi Arabia. Nigeria. Venezuela. Canada? →
Sorry, iBooks, paper books still win on specs →
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text... →
Working in solitude on the decline →
Insider Baseball by Joan Didion | The New York... →
From 1988, a teardown of the entire American presidential nomination process.
The Authenticity Hoax - Blog - Why authenticity is... →
(via Instapaper)
genuinely brilliant essay (Progressives and the... →
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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.”
Just One. →
Lindsay Schauer on dining out, alone
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.
The Conservative Europe →
Europe isn’t nearly as liberal as American conservatives like to think, says Matthew Yglesias.
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.
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.
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)
10 New Year’s resolutions for designers →
WatchAmateur color film of San Francisco, 1955
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.
Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins →
The Post-Iowa Challenge: Providing information or... →
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.”
A Day in the Life of a Shy Guy →
The Year I Learned to Love Zooey Deschanel (and... →
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy →
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)
The Defense Bill Passed. So What Does It Do? |... →
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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.
Death of a simile →
Font swap in iBooks →
Four new much-nicer, more legible fonts in iBooks
“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)
Melinda Gates discusses fighting poverty in the... →
Welcome to the Age of Overparenting - Boston... →
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Derek Boogaard - A Brain ‘Going Bad’ - NYTimes.com →
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Derek Boogaard - Blood on the Ice - NYTimes.com →
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Cutting their own throats - Charlie's Diary →
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Browse vs. Search: Which Deserves to Go? →
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
Derek Boogaard: A Boy Learns to Brawl →
Military Police State →
November 2011
15 posts
The 5 Best Toys of All Time →
Number 1: Stick
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...
Less Human Than Human: The Design Philosophy of... →
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Minimum Viable Corn Chip →
“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”