November 2009
27 posts
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Nov 28th
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I love it
clientsfromhell: I realy love it but can you change the colors and design? This client has discovered how to look deep into a design — ignoring layout, typography, and colour — and find the Platonic Ideal within. Truly a marvel.
Nov 26th
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“But those subsequent twists and turns in the story don’t mean that standardistas...”
– A Zing Too Far. Zeldman, speaking truth to unearned snark.
Nov 26th
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“35 members of the Liberal caucus after, losing the 2007 election in 2007, are...”
– Kevin Andrews to challenge Malcolm Turnbull at Larvatus Prodeo — Robert Merkel commenting on today’s attempted leadership spill in the Australian Liberal Party.
Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
359 notes
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“JH: Okay, for gym class. I thought you meant that you were asked to do a unit on...”
– John Hodgman’s area of ignorance: 1 topic the self-proclaimed expert on everything knows nothing about. Seriously, you guys. He’s so great.
Nov 24th
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Author, author: Michael Moorcock  →
The great fantasist Michael Moorcock talks more about agreeing to write a Doctor Who novel. Truly, we live in such strange and wonderful times, that a) one of the great authors of the genre is writing Doctor Who, and b) that it becomes front page (well, of the books section) news in The Guardian.
Nov 21st
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Nov 19th
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Nov 17th
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“[F]ood is water with a bunch of impurities in it”
– Scientist at Work - Nathan Myhrvold - After Microsoft, Bringing a High-Tech Eye to Professional Kitchens - NYTimes.com Molecular gastronomy is weird. But very interesting. (via Kottke)
Nov 17th
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Nov 16th
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Basic Maths  →
Khoi Vinh, the CSS grid-master, announces an incredibly elegant new Wordpress theme based on the design of his blog, Subtraction. Fantastic work.
Nov 15th
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Not all Brisbane City Council Bus Drivers are...
But quite a few are. Here’s the meat of a formal complaint I just made to the “Translink” service that operates our public buses. Please forgive the sententious writing style! (edit: and various errors of expression. I shouldn’t write when I’m quite this cross.) I witnessed the driver of this bus display exceptionally poor customer service by firstly...
Nov 12th
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The Mechanics of Morality: Why Moral Choices in... →
Moral ambiguity is an increasingly ubiquitous part of modern computer game character mechanics – so why are the moral elements to gameplay increasingly less enjoyable? Thought-provoking, and crystallises a sense of disquiet I think many devoted CRPG gamers have experienced over the last few years.
Nov 11th
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“Rather than sounding the death knell of broadcasting, social media may actually...”
– The Naked Truth About Social v Broadcast Media - Jason Wilson in New Matilda, ruminating on the Media Watch Twitter Nudie Run Extravaganza
Nov 11th
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“I wonder how many other ex-vegetarians go through a stage where bacon becomes...”
– Me, on Twitter.
Nov 11th
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Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Contrasts in How Google... →
Google’s “suggest” feature is a sociological feast. And slightly terrifying. Via Gruber, via Kottke.
Nov 11th
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“I bootstrap everything. New business? Bootstrap. New product? Bootstrap. New...”
– Jason Fried (via friedisms) The “Friedisms” blog continues to kill.
Nov 10th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 6th
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“I don’t regret trying to get fit but I do both rue and lament it.”
– Me, in the style of Philip J Fry, on Twitter
Nov 4th
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“So at the end do you finally find out the age of that dragon?”
– Commenter “Nofriendo” on Joystiq’s review of Dragon Age: Origins.
Nov 3rd
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Perfect Pitch? →
So let’s get this straight. In a discussion about perfect pitch, someone mentions the website perfectpitch.com. They don’t repost any materials from the site. They don’t even link to the site. They don’t really say anything particularly disparaging. But it all takes is for the owner of perfectpitch.com to abuse the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act with a spurious complaint and just like that,...
Nov 3rd
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In defense of NaNoWriMo
mrgan’s magisterial dissection of “cleversimon“‘s unearned snark about this month’s “NaNoWriMo” event: It’s not that cleversimon is the biggest NaNoWriMo hater, it’s that he’s the first I have an easy way to reply to: The first fifty thousand words to fall out of your head do not constitute a novel any more than dumping the contents of every jar in your...
Nov 2nd
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Nov 1st
October 2009
37 posts
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Oct 31st