May 2010
1 post
Never Miss the Key Hole
russianpencil:
Clever.
April 2010
1 post
Wikipedia: Pigeonhole principle →
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
3 posts
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
– Leo Tolstoy
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready...
– George Orwell
July 2009
1 post
Know Who’s Calling: Tactile Design →
June 2009
3 posts
Admit it. Even though you know the other person can’t see you, you still nod in...
– Aza’s Thoughts » We Nod While Talking on the Phone. Design For It.
May 2009
2 posts
I Miss Iraq. I Miss My Gun. I Miss My War. →
April 2009
1 post
The end result is that it’s easy to cherry-pick features from Active Support...
– Mike Gunderloy in This Week in Edge Rails
March 2009
3 posts
Rorshach’s cloth mask, with its endlessly shifting inkblots, is one of the most...
– Roger Ebert on Watchmen
Reality Check, Please! →
Designing restaurant menus to sell more.
February 2009
2 posts
January 2009
7 posts
The puppets used neither of the industry standards of replaceable heads (like...
– IMDB: Corpse Bride (2005) - Trivia
December 2008
11 posts
I prefer to make the structure of my programs self-illuminating, eliminating the...
– Douglas Crockford in “JavaScript: The Good Parts”
Sometimes I think about comments as a time machine that I use to send important...
– Douglas Crockford in “JavaScript: The Good Parts”
I have confidence that, in no short order, Prop 8 will be repealed, and the gay...
– John Hodgman
#rails.se
simmel: malesca Seriöst, vad är det här augmentations som du/ni surrar om HELA tiden?
malesca: simmel: Lösningen på alla världens problem
malesca: simmel: http://github.com/henrik/augmentations/tree/master
simmel: boooring
malesca: simmel: du får kolla tits-and-ass-forken.
Whether it’s a catastrophic event, such as an earthquake, fire, flood, or...
– Backblaze
Wikipedia: List of company name etymologies →
Wikipedia: Homosexuality →
November 2008
13 posts
A satire website called God Hates Shrimp was created in 2004 in response to...
– Wikipedia: Westboro Baptist Church
Real apps simply spend more time IO-waiting on things like databases or grabbing...
– Yehuda Katz in Stop Watching Sophie’s Choice (And Get Some Work Done)
BadPopcorn – Help Wanted →
Weird.
Thoughts on China’s Web Users: Part 1 →
“Privacy in China is one odd duck. From what I can tell, it is important, but only locally.” Interesting read.
It is also interesting that in Mandarin Chinese, “World Wide Web” is...
– Wikipedia: World Wide Web
"I do not have any money so am sending you this... →
October 2008
10 posts