April 2011
1 post
March 2011
11 posts
The Confusatory: Contested →
cbowns:
Long story short: Andy and I threw down our respective gloves after throwing back the third glass of whiskey, and came up with this: every Tuesday, we’ll spend 20 minutes of our respective shuttle rides to work writing something. It doesn’t matter what, but when those 20 minutes are up, you publish it.
Great post from Chris. Oh also, I’m in. (Although I don’t have to...
Felt Tip blog: Slow Company →
felttip:
There’s the Fast Company magazine*. There’s the Slow Food movement. Let’s start a Slow Company movement. The idea is to take ideas such as the lean startup and organic growth and apply it to the companies we run. It’s not going to be a runaway success, but you have a better chance of actually making a dent in the world with your app and making people’s lives better even if not...
Robert Reich: Safety on the Cheap →
robertreich:
Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only — to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?
The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water reactors, used in TEPCO’s Fukushima…
Read the whole thing. Seriously.
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
3 posts
“Many foods are naturally radioactive, and bananas are particularly so, due to...”
– I urgently appeal to you to read about the Banana equivalent dose (via biorhythmist)
Bananas are tingly in my tummy.
Watchbiorhythmist:
alisonagosti:
This is my favorite Peter Atencio thing.
Perfect.
November 2010
2 posts
“Commissioner Bud Selig’s plan to expand baseball’s playoffs to 10 teams gained a...”
– Little to no opposition emerges to commissioner Bud Selig’s plan to expand playoffs to 10 teams - ESPN (via @Mike_FTW)
Aaaaaand I’m done with baseball.
Seriously. What a joke.
(via incorrigiblerobot)
I really hope the Players Union blocks this. Bad for fans, bad for players — the...
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via Rabbit Write’s interview on Gala Darling)
My hero.
(via baileygenine)
This is my cue to get off my ass. Maybe it’s yours too.
October 2010
2 posts
Worldview Distorted, Mission Accomplished
patrickthomson:
Me: What’s on your mind?
Nathan: Your link to that David Foster Wallace speech.
Nathan: Stop posting things that mess with my worldview!
I assume here that Patrick is referring to DFW’s Keynon College commencement address. I highly recommend reading it, especially if you’re new to his work — it was a nice toe-in-the-water when I read it. Here’s...
September 2010
2 posts
Watchmerlin:
And, truthfully, even now, it makes me a little shaky to calculate how many times a Maxell cassette full of blistering rock ‘n roll made the difference in my life. So, so, so many times.
You will either get this or you won’t. But, if you get it, I’ll bet you really really get it.
Sometimes, somebody plays a guitar, and you suddenly aren’t alone anymore.
First off, great stuff...
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
5 posts
“It wouldn’t fly. There are projects out there you do not solve with cash...”
– Werner Herzog, when Henry Rollins asked him if he could have made Fitzcarraldo in Hollywood today without CGI.
The full interview is amazing.1 I love how Herzog is able to speak from the heart, but without any of the usual vagaries or bullshit that artists spew. Dude aint’ frontin’.
...
There’s a link about Lenovo and China on Daring Fireball right now, and it reminded me of an article I recently saw asserting that China is possibly not the Eden it’s been made out to be.
My takeaway from the second article was that the Chinese government seems to be trying to play the part of a technological Maxwell’s Demon1: China encourages companies to send technology...
June 2010
1 post
The Death of Richard Dawkins →
I’m not a fan of the typical content on Steve Yegge’s blog, but recently he posted something a little different: a science fiction short story. It’s actually quite good; I hope he writes more. Here’s a sample:
He slowed at the barrier. He wanted to maintain his endurance pace of thirty kilometers per hour, but this was also his first Chronathlon. The brochure had not...
May 2010
8 posts
Just how big WAS the Death Star? →
Speaking of giant spaceships, ever wondered how just how big the Death Stars were? Richard Edlum of ILM, speaking to CINEFEX in 1983, talking about the upcoming Return of the Jedi:
The Deathstar, I think, will be a lot more interesting than the one in the first Star Wars — mainly because it is under construction … Plus, it will be MUCH bigger. In Star Wars, it was really difficult to...
Starship Dimensions →
“A museum of Speculative Fiction inspired spaceships.” Too cool.
What I'm Playing →
Smart and hilarious new blog about gaming:
Why write a blog about what video games you’re playing? […] A few older folks I’ve known do this “duuuuh” face when impersonating people playing video games. But it’s not like that. I’m thinkin’ thoughts, man. When I sit down to play a game, I must be getting something out of it. I’m forming opinions about it and learning the quirks of it and...
nonobvioussolutions:
How to clean a coffee maker
Have the filter basket empty. If you use a reusable filter, remove it.
Fill the reservoir up to the top with two parts water (tap works fine for me) to one part white vinegar.
Brew it.
Dump it out.
Fill the reservoir, again up to the top, with straight water.
Brew it.
Dump it out.
If you’ve never done this before, you will not believe how...
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October 2008
2 posts
Is my domain still parked? →
NO!
Some helpful macros for object creation
I was building “one to throw away” recently; specifically to play around with NSOutlineView like the easily chokable, lead paint coated Chinese toy it is. I needed to generate a quick and dirty static model so I’d have some data to display. I got really tired of typing [NSDictionary dictionaryWithBlahDeBlahBlahBlah... So I wrote these three macros:
#define NSDICT(...)...
September 2008
1 post
Starting over?
So my blog over at iamthewalr.us has been hijacked by a domain squatter. It’s a long story involving a vindictive and inattentive registrar 1and1.com and is really beside the point.
I’m attempting to recover the domain but it’s looking unlikely that that will happen. I’ve registered another domain and it’s possible I’ll start over using tumblr, or maybe move...
June 2008
1 post
May 2008
0 posts
Ajaxian » Coherent: Cocoa Databinding for Ajax →
Pretty freakin’ slick if you ask me. Do want.
April 2008
29 posts
Who Stole the Plans for iRobot's Battle Bots? →
Absolutely thrilling. I wish all of Wired was like this still.
What the fuck.
curl —basic —user “username:password” —data-ascii “status=`echo $@|tr ’ ’ ‘+’`” “http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json” Source
Mercurial Summer of Code projects →
I’m pretty excited. Except about Linux. blah blah penguins blah blah freedom.
CNN Shirt: ABC News fucked up the Pennsylvania... →
The sky truly is the limit.
