June 2008
39 posts
weekend learnings
A B-208 is a quadruple B-52 shot
I have to accept the fact that I’m not 22 anymore and need a full day to recuperate from a drinking binge now
Old friends can change a lot and still be the same all at once
The one man in town who hasn't anything wrong with... →
You’ve got to listen to this. Even with half of it left to go, this guy wins my repulsive personality of the year award, leaving all potential competition in the dust.
Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. →
“Although some criticized parts of his later work as too contentious, Mr. Carlin...”
– George Carlin, Splenetic Comedian, Dies at 71 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Godspeed, George. It is sad to see you go especially now, when you would have been needed more than ever.
topherchris →
Beautiful. Filed under ‘web design inspiration’.
reddit.com: Got six weeks? Try the hundred push... →
Awesome collective humour. I’m still in tears ..
Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer →
Headline of the day.
via Daring Fireball
MacYenta.com - Socializing for nerds →
This is more of a reminder for myself to register later. From a cursory first glance, I’m surprised how prevalent the group of developers targeting Mac, iPhone and web applications at the same time seems to have become.
“I am not young enough to know everything”
– Oscar Wilde
And thus, a name was found
Coming soon - programmanstalt.de
I owe Erko a couple dozen Weizen beers.
View PDFs inline in Firefox 3 / OS X 10.5 →
Finally! That addresses my biggest grieve remaining about FF after switching back from Safari.
via MacOSXHints
COBOL ON COGS →
this is so going to kill Rails.
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other... →
In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument.
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. →
travors:
One Sentence is about telling your story, briefly. Insignificant stories, everyday stories, or turning-point-in-your-life stories, boiled down to their bare essentials.
This is one of my favourite web finds in a while. It’s difficult not to reblog half the site.
This one made me laugh:
If there was ever a good time to stop drinking, it was this morning when I woke up next to...
“Dave Balter currently offers his latest work, The Word of Mouth Manual Vol. II...”
– Seth’s Blog: What Dave just did
2008 Web Design Trends →
brocatus:
cubicle17:
So what’s hot now? Pencil sketches, handwritten notes, card stocks, watercolor effects, collage art, script fonts, grungy and splatter ink backgrounds
Sigh. The clean, simple and childishly-friendly look of the web 2.0 uptake was much more accommodating to my rudimentary graphic design skills.
Sorry if a lot of my older posts here are missing elements or are simply looking somewhat awkward. I imported them via RSS from my old blog, and this is the best it’s going to get.
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Cobbler, stick to your last
Settled it is: I have migrated my microblog from my own Rails-based engine over to Tumblr. Well as my baby has served me over the last year, there is a threshold where lightweight becomes feature-poor, and minimalism turns out to be crudity.
In light of my pending transformation from employee to entrepreneur I decided to swallow my pride, overcome the not invented here-syndrome and take up the...
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The Man Who Defined The Word Curmudgeonly: Gore Vidal in the NYTimes Awesome interview.
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“Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. [..] Surgical and training expenses are thought to have…
not even slightly. →
the nicest thing you are going to see all week →
lots of responsible grown-up people having heaps of fun at an outdoor pillow fight -> torontoist.com
john mayer - clarity →
cultural differences - US vs. Swedish recruitment... →
very characteristically. bonus material – a Canadian spot:
marshalites →
Marshalite traffic lights from the 1930s
iPod touch stand →
iMac-like iPod touch stand, to hit the market next week at around 30€.