April 2010
‘Premium’ HDMI Cables Are a Rip-Off →
The Rip: With analog cables, the signal degrades, with digital cables such as HDMI, it either works or it doesn’t. The signal doesn’t degrade any more than your JPEGs degrade when you put them on…
March 2010
Working from home and still at it… ♫ http://blip.fm/~nuj07
listening to "Billy Bragg - The Internationale" →
Working from home and still at it…
Hospitals are in serious need of some UX design. I’m willing to bet their design is bad enough that it actually harms people.
“How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com
Enjoying the east bay sunshine
“Rupert Murdoch has declared surrender. The future defeated him.”
– Rupert’s pathetic pay wall « BuzzMachine
Former militiaman unapologetic for calls to... →
Smells like Tea Spirit: Mike Vanderboegh, the anti-health-care Libertarian blogger who urged people to vandalize Democratic offices around the country lives on federal government disability checks.
Writing PHP for the first time in a LONG time. Its not as bad as I remember, only mildly unpleasant.
“This guy has thought through 3D printers and the most dire consequence he can...”
– We talk to Cory Doctorow about geek revolutions, Disney lawsuits and his next novel | SCI FI Wire
“The Bloomberg Terminal interface looks terrible, but it allows traders and other...”
– ignore the code: Some Users Want Terrible User Interfaces
I’m really just suffering through Lost at this point.
“Letting your body do its job for a few days
Pros: No side effects. Actually...”
– Marco.org - Review of cold medicines
RT @kathrynaaker: I just found out March is/was National Frozen Food Month. AYFKM? I’m so glad I missed it.
Princeton Researchers Link High-Fructose Corn... →
Princeton: A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly…
The AeroPress makes great coffee.
Started my first Rails3 app this weekend. I was going to start my first LIFT app, but you know, Heroku is free.
Thanks everyone for all the great birthday wishes!
Birthday presents… http://twitpic.com/19mr8w
merlin:
You a big fan of aggressive IP enforcement? Like to think a well-litigated market is a healthy market? Hate those little entrepreneurial nuisances like “competition from emerging media?”
Well, then, you would have loved the early 20th century.
Because you had to get Thomas Edison’s permission to make any movie. Then you had to pay him.
Pretty sweet, huh?
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‘No Dashes or Spaces’ Hall of Shame →
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Yes! Thank you! Its completely ridiculous.
Calling out sites that force you to enter, say, credit card numbers, in a precise format, even though removing things like spaces and…
Google Alleges That Viacom ‘Secretly Uploaded Its... →
Zahavah Levine, chief counsel for YouTube in its litigation with Viacom: For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its…
devise (http://is.gd/aMx8L) + canable (http://is.gd/aMx7e) == ridiculously easy authentication and authorization
RT yes indeed @edrabbit Going through all the “$person is following you” emails & wishing people (cont) http://tl.gd/hlqk9
Listening to people talk about gen x vs. gen y. WTH generation am I in?
Lego buckyballs, so delightfully nerdy http://twitpic.com/18l61i
Stand and talking all day makes time slow down.
Up and on my feet way too early this morning
All of the examples deal with grand themes and problems. Is there micro-design fiction? How is it different? #defi
Waiting for the design fiction panel to start. #sxsw
Just arrived at the #notdouchebag panel. I’m wearing a company t-shirt which I’m pretty sure means I need this lesson.
Just met Bruce Sterling
#sxsw paper schedule and online schedule often contradict each other. Who should I believe?
Bodily at #SXSW, brain is still back in bed
BBQ! http://twitpic.com/1803dg
Trying desperately to finish some code before boarding the sxswnerdbird
“It’s not a question of entitlement. It’s a question of clear vision about the...”
– http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/439434786/entitled-to-care
Good morning Oakland. How are you?
Running the numbers on Toyota safety →
Robert Wright breaks down the numbers on Toyota’s safety record given all of the recent reports of uncontrolled acceleration: My back-of-the-envelope calculations (explained in a footnote…
Single Ladies →
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ROFL
My recipe for the Casablanca cocktail http://britt.illtemper.org/post/438429963/the-casablanca