March 2007
“scientists are successful precisely because they emulate what children do...”
– Alison Gopnick (via Geekdad)
“We got some Italian people, they got forty, fifty, sixty miracles to their name....”
– Father Guido Sarducci on Beatification - 3/17/1979
Old School Tumblrs →
via My Fingers Wanting to Spell Correctly One Too Many Times
Out with cables. In with Blades →
Great “mysterious sightings” style ad from IBM
Dell To Sell Linux On Laptops, PCs -... →
Excuse me….the Linux community from 2001 is on the phone and would like a word with you about this.
The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything →
Those innocent days of Internet past, where have they gone?
ID Pilot Wire Identification Labels: The Spoon... →
After all these years of tracing backwards from plug to source, what should have been the obvious solution has finally appeared. via Lifehacker
“She swallows huge amounts of water three times a day and then belches them back...”
– Charybdis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Flickr Tools Collection →
“writing about Quicksilver is like singing about a magic trick.”
– Getting started (or reacquainted) with Quicksilver | 43 Folders
Buddi - Personal budget software for the rest of... →
Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users. via Makeuseof
Quicksilver: The power of compound commands ›... →
Forget frantic clicking, desktops convered with aliases and trying to run ten things simultaneously. Let Quicksilver do it all for you with compounding commands. That means setting it up to run multiple actions at once.
“You can’t write upside-down, but if that’s your biggest personal productivity...”
– Smallist : Having trouble with GTD? Try WSD
Freakonomics Blog » The next time your daughter... →
Ms. Stewart has an unusual hobby: clipping newspaper articles of a particular ilk. She sent me xeroxs of her most recent finds. All of these clippings were from The Dallas News, from February 2006 to the present. The articles had two things in common: (1) all of them were stories reporting on crimes, and (2) the perpetrator’s middle name was “Wayne.”
101 Words →
Short stories that contain exactly 101 words.
“using his historical growth rates and population benchmarks, he estimated that...”
– Fact or Fiction?: Living People Outnumber the Dead: Scientific American
William A. Mitchell - My Kind of Inventor →
“Code historians speculate that the programmer, having used more than 26...”
– Refactoring History - Worse Than Failure
“Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing...”
– Schmidt Sting Pain Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“I remember when Dilbert hit it big and it became clear that I would never again...”
– The Dilbert Blog: The Meaning of Meaning
Run Google Talk in Firefox Sidebar at Digital... →
The Google Talk Gadget is clearly more usable than the stand-alone GTalk desktop client or the floating AJAX version in GMail.
PDF Pad →
PDF Pad is a comprehensive online destination where you can download and print the high quality documents you need for work, school and play, free of charge or registration hassles.
Xenomachina: Easier Links with Google AJAX Search... →
Ever get annoyed by the complexity of adding links in blog or message board posts? Sure, it isn’t rocket science, but between getting the angle brackets, quotes and start and end tags balanced correctly and getting the URL right, adding links is a pain.
Woman next to me in Target aisle, on her phone: "Yes, he was there. That's why I didn't answer when you called."
Man walking by seconds later, on his phone: "I don't know. I've never seen him with clothes on"
“Google Calendar doesn’t get much love or attention these days. Some users are...”
– Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Rock Your Google Calendar in 18 Ways «
“There’s no more insidious a Washington pressure group than Big Car Wash!”
– Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Who Holds Back the Dollar Coin? We Do! We Do!
AG Code Wiki →
A handful of useful AppleScripts from Chris Biagini of Assorted Geekery.
“When you want the absolute best, you need more cowbell”
– Behind the Firewall: The Golden Ticket Story : Red 5 Studios
Gmail Craze: 30 + Tools and Hacks for Gmail »... →
All for Gmail: handy Firefox extensions, best Greasemonkey scripts, some desktop tools and lots of useful tips. Take this Gmail thingie to another level. via Lifehacker
“If the best book in the world was only 20 pages long, no one would buy it....”
– The Dilbert Blog: Happiness Formula
Required Reading
Code Complete, Second Edition If you program, or are interested in programming, this book belongs on your shelf.
WatchThe world has change a little since this was made, but it’s still my favorite animated musical geography lesson.
Marv Reviews His Master Plan →
What's Special About This Number? →
“We’re thinking “great literature” (or at least “product brochure”), while the...”
– Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition)