January 2012
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Friedman (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The Friedman, or Friedman Unit (F.U.), is a tongue-in-cheek neologism coined by blogger Atrios…
The term is in reference to a May 16, 2006 article by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) detailing columnist Thomas Friedman’s repeated use of “the next six months” as the period in which, according to Friedman, “we’re going to find out…whether a...
December 2011
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November 2011
1 post
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
October 2011
3 posts
The Steve Jobs I Knew - Walt Mossberg →
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“How would the power to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process look to you...”
– Glenn Greenwald, writing at Salon, is concerned the due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality. (via newsweek)
This seems like more of an argument for why Bachmann and Perry are completely unfit to become president.
September 2011
2 posts
Homebrew, a package manager for Mac OS X →
Seriously uncertain how I survived before Homebrew. So easy. Once installed type something simple like:
brew install nmap
And you’ve got nmap installed and on your PATH in under a minute.
August 2011
4 posts
“Apple’s going to be fine. Steve’s most extraordinary work...”
– Danilo Campos puts into words better than I could my feelings about Mr. Steve Jobs resigning.
via Hacker News | Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
July 2011
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June 2011
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Business, Design, and Engineering - Release... →
Performance is probably the most important part of user experience, but rarely talked about in design circles because designers can’t take credit for doing it.
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Most companies are in the business of selling shit because it’s profitable.
Super Simple Instapaper Likes listed on your... →
While looking for a way to show my Instapaper “Likes” on my personal site, I discovered that Instapaper offers an RSS feed for each of your folders. You can find the link in the footer of the site when you’re logged in.
Thanks to the the wonderful Simplepie RSS library for PHP, 30 minutes later I had a caching import of these items for my site. This way Sir Arment’s...
Scrubbing Calculator →
Pretty incredible stuff. Bret’s website is amazing as well.
rmateulinks:
Bret Victor’s Scrubbing Calculator:
I call this tool a “scrubbing calculator”, because you solve problems by interactively scrubbing over numbers until you’re happy with the results.
You’ve got to see the video examples…
May 2011
4 posts
Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex →
Editorial SEO: Introduction and Best Practices for... →
Good introductory presentation on search engine optimization for (newspaper/magazine/blog) editors. Takeaway is:
write meaningful titles that are rich with keywords and stand alone
use terms users search for
This is SEO at its best—not dirty tricks, but making stuff easier for humans to find via Google.
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
3 posts
LACMA kills "zombie copyrights" →
latimes:
“Zombie copyrights” refer to copyrighted photographs of out-of-copyright artwork and, according to ARTINFO’s William Poundstone, have long been used by museums to lay claim to older public domain pieces.
via hydeordie
Newt Gingrich Completely Changes Position on Libya... →
In case you thought that Newt Gingrich is full of shit. Or in case you thought the modern GOP’s modus operandi is not to blatantly oppose anything President Obama does.
Edit: Gingrich’s response is that he wouldn’t have gotten involved initially, but once the president said that Gaddafi had to go, Gingrich thought it was necessary that we remove him. Keep in mind the original...
Fuck Yeah CSS Colors! →
This site is amazing. Apparently CSS has 147 standardized color names.
February 2011
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January 2011
3 posts
“Apple really does great marketing. But our clients feel like there is nothing to...”
– A reader writing in to Andrew Sullivan
December 2010
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Book publishers are missing a big opportunity to sell their books as eBooks and cut out the middleman.
Also of note, for the above reason Amazon has an interest in not supporting ePub on the Kindle as it would allow competition with the Amazon Kindle store.
It’s disappointing, really. Imagine if when the iPod was introduced that it could only play music from the iTunes store, and the...
Great Service: LinkedIn reset passwords for...
dbreunig:
Just received an email from LinkedIn asking me to reset my password as my old one has been deactivated. Sure enough, my log-in for LinkedIn is the email associated with Gawker. Smart move: take advantage of the published passwords to squash false log-ins before they start.
Andrew Sullivan offering some hope post-tax deal:
At some point, I suspect, the Congress will have to decide between extending the payroll tax holiday or keeping the Bush tax cuts for millionaires - the double-track of the current Keynesian deal. I think Obama wins on that one, and has set up the kind of future choice the GOP really doesn’t want to make.
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The more often...
October 2010
5 posts
WatchPreview of the “Edge Prototype” tool for HTML5 | Adobe TV
“A prototype of a tool for creating animation and transitions using the capabilities of HTML5.”
“So to answer the question, it seems there is a shortage of designers because you...”
– Kevin Ho, on Quora answering Why is there such a stunningly short supply of designers in Silicon Valley right now?
“We’re already seeing tremendous interest in iPad from education and, much...”
– Steve Jobs, in today’s Apple Q4 Earnings Call.
You better believe this. I was in two private schools last week doing user testing.
One school, a K-8, already has iPads in at least one classroom. Another, a major Orange County Catholic high school, is looking at getting them soon...
David Byrne: Don't Forget the Motor City →
September 2010
3 posts
Ultimate attribution error - Wikipedia, the free... →
The ultimate attribution error is a term in Social Psychology which refers to a bias people commonly have towards members of an outgroup. Specifically, they view negative acts committed by outgroup members as a stable trait of the outgroup, and view positive acts committed by outgroup members as exceptions to normal behavior.
August 2010
5 posts
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California Prop 13’s Country Club Connection →
By another measure, a single-family home at 500 S. Mapleton Drive—right on the edge of the Los Angeles Country Club, and adjacent to the famed Playboy Mansion—sold for a bit more than $18 million less than a year ago, according to the Los Angeles County Assessor’s office.
The new owners of that Hefner-adjacent single-family detached house will pay more in annual property taxes than...
Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about... →
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian on what he went through while getting reddit off the ground.
This paragraph stands out:
Having been through all this, I can confidently say that starting a startup was the best thing that could’ve happened to me. Enduring all of that in an office job or law school would’ve been overwhelming.
The flexibility of startup culture is something we...
Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds |... →
Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.