January 2008
26 posts
The FAIL Blog →
(via bullshit)
Lifehacker asks: Has Your Cell Phone Replaced Your... →
Yes, absolutely. The fact is that I always have my phone with me, and since it tells the time, why bother with having an annoying object strapped to my wrist? This is true for many of my friends as well. In situations where a cell phone is not allowed, or is inconvenient to pull out, there is a round of shrugs when someone asks the time.
Instapaper →
marco:
I’m ready to direct some traffic to my little side project, Instapaper. I’ve been using it for months and couldn’t live without it now.
Here’s the basic premise:
You come across substantial news or blog articles that you want to read, but don’t have time at the moment.
You need something to read while sitting on a bus, waiting in a line, or bored in front of a computer.
Instapaper...
How Camera Lenses Are Made →
How Camera Lenses Are Made
infy TECH REPORT: Your Blu-Ray Player is Obsolete →
“When BetaNews asked developers of BD Live whether they were concerned about a backlash from early adopters who supported [Blu-Ray Disc] from the beginning, we were told: “They knew what they were getting into.”
so even if you didn’t back the wrong horse in the format war the player you did buy won’t even work next year. ouch. — itsnotforyou
areweatwarwithiran.com →
— bullshit
Okay, I'm a little tired of facebook
All I do is get on every once and a while to delete all the application invites I’ve accumulated. I’ve only used it to contact a few people since I got it and I haven’t gotten a new friend added in ages.
I don’t think I’m doin’ it right.
— gentry
Well, I realized my facebooking was over when I absently opened it up one day only to find my login cookie...
“The field of Software Methodology is rife with theories, names, buzzwords, and...”
– Chet Haase’s Blog: Crystal Methodology
Free Peek at Iain M. Banks' New Culture Novel... →
Orbit, publishers of Iain M. Banks’ new novel, Matter, have posted the book’s action-packed prologue on their Web site — it introduces you to one of the book’s coolest heroes, Seriy Anaplian, a Special Circumstances Agent who comes from a backwater Shellworld (you’ll have to buy the book in February to find out what that is!). We’ve been reading an advance copy...
Recursivity: Happy Birthday, Donald Knuth! →
How did I not know that I share the same birthday as the great Knuth?
No Matter What They Tell You, It's a People... →
Bruce Eckel deftly identifies the root cause of all software development problems:
We are in a young business. Primitive, really — we don’t know much about what works, and we keep thinking we’ve found the silver bullet that solves all problems. As a result, we go through these multi-year boom and bust cycles as new ideas come in, take off, exceed their grasp, then run out of...
Shoe Tree Toppled
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro — ‘Shoe tree’ toppled
Here’s a picture of it a took just before Christmas:
Transmission →
Transmission is the nicest bittorrent client for mac os x.
maybe by actually linking to it, it will show up closer to the top when you google for “transmission”
“I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
– Steven Wright
Bill Gates Last Day At Microsoft: The Movie →
pretty damn funny
