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omg. so very odd.
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“creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed” – mmmm, zombie elements…where braaaaiiiiins == meeeemmmmmorrrrrrryyyyyy.(tags: weird javascripty)
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alas, we are going to be going to a friend’s house for a day of gaming, and it’s nearly impossible to get there, on a Saturday, w/out a car!
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“According to Wikipedia, there’s enough Lego currently in the world to provide every man, woman and child with 62 pieces.” they recycle internally, but don’t use recycle plastic generally. 🙁
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OMG, electric car dealership in Portland…including used cars. This may be the place where we replace the Kia.
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a whiz-bang navigation, without Flash or JS. just animated gifs (!) and CSS.
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I’m sure this is a great video, but I can’t see it. (Rassafrassing Barracuda….)
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very timely!(tags: usability psychology)
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“A poster made for an imaginary aviation show in Iceland” – beautiful vintagesque goodness.(tags: design inspiration)
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freakishly, this makes me feel very nostalgic for sometime around late 2001.
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an important component of therapy, for me, has been realizing that it’s just not possible to do everything, and to do anything, you have to choose.
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it does cover most of the basics of web programming!(tags: web_dev)
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“I remember being upbraided for having it [smartphone] poke out of the top of my velvet jacket in one of the courtroom scenes [of the movie Wilde]” — best. technology review. ever. seriously. also, a mac-windows mobile sync program!
links for 2007-09-20
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goddamn it…requires PHP 5. someday, then.
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beautiful prose-poem-like writing. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen parents biking with kids to school around here. (seems like only the jr high kids bike.)
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unfortunately hysterical.
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you can have my PS2 when you pry it out of my cold dead hands. 😉 aside: XBox has always had too-big controllers for my small quasi-arthritic hands, and mostly we just use the PS2 for watching movies.
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Each URL has the form: http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/// — from the almost-nothing I know about RDF, that seems very RDF-like.
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C has lamented the firefox/mac behavior.
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OMG, somebody took all the open game license stuff and put it into MySQL. if only I had time to do something about it.
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from Kermix. am watching movie right now, so maybe in the morning before work?
links for 2007-09-19
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using Wesabe’s API, figure out what things you need to have ready to switch banks/credit unions. very clever.(tags: creditunion web_dev)
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Actually, it’s a pretty good introduction to creating any sort of blog.
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re-read this later.
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ORLY? hmmmmmmmm.
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fun things to try!
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I really like the last one. (Oh, heck. it’s already the middle of the month, and I haven’t started on October yet.)(tags: email-newsletter)
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another interesting use of Wesabi, among other things.
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“had been working on the 12th [Wheel of Time book] at the time of his death” – hell. I’ve been waiting to reread these until the 12th book was done (have read thru abt. number 6 or so). that sucks.
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a beautiful piece, with quirky comments. (and on my bday, no less!)
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post-its! I’m actually trying some of this whilst doing usability testing.(tags: usability)
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Virginia’s idea for an all-women author web design anthology.
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neato!
links for 2007-09-18
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I had my debit card number stolen about 10 years ago; a very painful experience, although my bank at the time was amazingly helpful.(tags: creditunion)
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One of the lovely things about going out to Bagby, etc. was seeing the night sky.
links for 2007-09-08
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conceptual subway-style maps.
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“The most commonly used neonicotinoid, imidacloprid, is considered “highly toxic†to bees, and therefore is not supposed to be applied while they are around.” tangent: in my aphid panic, I used imidacloprid, which killed pretty much everything EXCEPT
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet is probably one of my favorite books ever.
links for 2007-09-07
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a very clever idea.(tags: browsers microformat)
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“It was clear at the festival that the sizeable deaf community present there was fully enjoying the music.” Greyson used to do sign language at a dance club, before I knew him; I always enjoyed watching him sign Depeche Mode songs. 🙂(tags: accessibility arts)
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“it’s not going anywhere and it’s broken” — excellent case for standards in html email. “people”, btw, seem to really like email with graphics, colors, etc.
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Shelley reiterates her big theory about disassembling and reassembling computer science as a discipline. I love it…then again, as an English major, I would. 😉
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Scrivener looks really interesting to maybe get my writing together. And I miss whatever version of Word was out on the Mac in the period 1992-1996.
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nice and simple. runs fast, too.
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Nice compilation of the basics.(tags: productivity)
links for 2007-09-06
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for both of us…the option glyph is the one that I never ever ever remember.
links for 2007-09-04
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K connects it to lots of other landmarks of our youth that are now gone; I just remember a couple of Rocky Horror trips. alas.
links for 2007-09-01
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for Dylan, among others.(tags: business)
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very good tips/links in the comments. Harbor Freight Tools? Right on!
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I’m starting to think about going from futzing around the edges to something more substantial.
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good tips for anybody needing to get into a flow state.
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rarely do I print, but it’s nice to get tips when I do. (I’m intrigued by JPEGCrop in particular.)(tags: photography)
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how to tackle an omg-this-is-so-inaccessible site that you can’t just tear out and start over with.(tags: accessibility)
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all focused on financial institutions. lots of good tips, 99.99999% of which I can’t do anything about.
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Tony’s doing good stuff!(tags: creditunion web_dev)
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“The problem is that everyone attending this laptop-laden clusterfuck is subconsciously hearing “Hey, in this meeting, it’s A-OK to waste people’s time.— — see also, ManagerTools’ “effective meetings protocol”(tags: productivity)
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I *wish* this were true. ::sigh::
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“the yards and hillsides exhausted by five years of drought” — it leaves me with wordless angst.
links for 2007-08-31
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I should probably toss the “TANG” shirt that I stole from Chad that first summer we were going out. Also the Calvin Klein t-shirt that I stole from Raul in…um…the early 90s?(tags: personal)
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hawesome. maybe I should redo our living room like those loungy color zones?
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weirdly hypnotic. (via aly, from AEA Chicago)
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this is the one codex page that I use most often.
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“In exchange for this value I will be providing, I propose the following fee schedule” – chortle.
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labels just above the field, not bolded, aligned the same way as the fields. just so you know.
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“LibraryThing reads data from unmodified CueCats.” — perhaps I will give up on my idea for “media diet” then. (for those who do not know, I own a cuecat that I found at the PDX Free Geek and was given because I knew what it was.)
