Listening to music on a headset while you’re out walking sometimes leads to surprising dialogs between the music in your ears and the sounds and sights from the world around you. I had exactly that experience this morning, listening to … Continue reading
Fascinating and thought-provoking illustration by Dan Phiffer that shows just how thin the atmosphere and usable volume of the earth actually is. Reminds me of what Carl Sagan said in Pale Blue Dot: if the earth was the size of … Continue reading
Via Daring Fireball, a fun viral site called The Big Word Project. The idea is you buy a word, USD 1 per letter, to link that word to the site of your choice. It’s sort of been done before but … Continue reading
Today I updated a ticket I registered with the usually very agreeable MooTools js framework. It is seemingly an issue with callback resources not existing when the callback is made, and the demo page is very simple; Click the link … Continue reading
I’m happy I work in a field where, heated text editor fights aside, most discussions are based on facts rather than unfounded beliefs. It does not get you far to simply believe that programs can do something they can not … Continue reading
I’m following the (avalanche of) discussion around the proposed META version freeze of IE8. If you haven’t been paying attention, Jeffrey Zeldman and Jeremy Keith presents two different views of the issue and as such pretty good introductions. The short … Continue reading
Steal This Film II director Jamie King puts forth a good critique of the current approach of government and ISPs to filesharing. King has a quote eminently capturing the essence of The Pirate Bay’s philosophy from admin Peter Sunde: > … Continue reading
Via Gizmodo, the one-trick wonder that is the Steak Toaster. Mmmmm, grease-drippingly good! Other entries in the do-only-one-very-specific-thing kitchen appliance niche include the Hot Diggity Dogger and its cousin the Toast-R-Grill. And lest we forget the classics, a Hot Dog … Continue reading
Unsurprisingly, it is possible to use the integrated Google Talk client in GMail even if you’re in Safari on Windows: Enable the debug menu and change your user agent to a supported browser, such as “Firefox 2 — Windows”. The … Continue reading