I had a suspicion that this was the case: Did it really need new toner—or was my printer lying to me? [...] This guy had also suspected that his Brother was lying to him, and he’d discovered a way to … Continue reading →

Habitually insightful essay on The Eternal Value of Privacy from security guru Bruce Schneier. Nothing to hide

Via Daring Fireball, Jeff Atwood talks about the rise of Javascript frameworks: > But now something else is happening, something arguably even more significant than “JavaScript now works”. The rise of commonly available JavaScript frameworks means you can write to … Continue reading →

My wife tipped me off today that George Orwell’s diaries is being republished in blog form. Imaginative idea! The posts are published in real time, day-by-day in the same order that Orwell wrote them in, 70 years ago. Here from … Continue reading →

Highly subjective I would suspect, but here’s a very interesting post about why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn. Fun examples of some Norwegian words that are so straight forward that they make you laugh when … Continue reading →

It seemed fitting that I had the spaced out dreamy tones of Sigur Ros in my headset as I read this: > At closest approach, Cassini was set spinning to cancel out the apparent motion of Enceladus so as to … Continue reading →

Doveman’s understated and solemn tribute album to Footloose is a beautiful example of how much arrangement, instrumentation and production means for a song. I heard part of this album when Bob Boilen played it on All Songs Considered and was … Continue reading →

Via NRK beta, great slow motion footage shot by a RED camera. At USD 17.500 it’s jusssst out of reach, but there’s always the Casio EX-F1 should I feel the need to feed my hunger for cool slow motion clips. … Continue reading →

I’ve funded the killing of a whale! Whaling