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 How the Cyborg Name site took off after a very minor tweakFor all those of you who think getting it "almost" right is good enough, or who think that obsessing over design is ill-placed effort, you ought to read this. By making a very, very small change in the way his online app displayed results, he's now getting more traffic than he's ever gotten from any previous successful site. Take notes. posted at 12:33 am Screen Calipers, the measurement tool that’s more accurate than a screen rulerHas anyone used this program? Is it any good for designing things? posted at 12:23 am President Bush’s Extended Family PhotoI'm sure this is ripped off from elsewhere, but it's damn funny. posted at 12:02 am Zip.ca (a DVD by mail service) takes over VHQOnlineWill this help my DVDs get here any faster? I doubt it. Oh, Netflix, how I miss thee (ye?) posted at 12:13 am How to Install RAM in the iMac Flat Screen (desk lamp)Don't tell my brother-in-law Matt, but we bought him some RAM. He'll need to know how to install it, so I bookmarked this site. posted at 4:04 pm Video of people getting BRAIN FREEZEOw. (via Good Experience Live newsletter) posted at 11:08 pm This is how bus drivers get assigned their routesGood for the L.A. Times writing this story: a glimpse into the pressures and hopes of a small but important group of people that most people wouldn't otherwise wouldn't get to see. Now, do this 500 more times, newspaper! posted at 11:03 pm The 3-D AlphabetIt's pretty neat, and I bet you could adapt to it fairly quickly. (via Joho the Blog: 3D alphabet) posted at 10:23 am Slashfood declares today Grilled Cheese dayI love grilled cheese. I'm going to have one for dinner. posted at 11:01 pm Cruft: How to make a gyro cookerThis guy's college engineering pays off -- he now saves $2.79 on buying pre-cooked Gyros! Actually, it's a pretty neat guide with photos and everything. posted at 10:33 pm I learned a new word today: BorborygmusBorborygmi are the sounds your stomach makes when it's rumbling. posted at 10:17 pm Apple won’t include a BitTorrent Dashboard Widget in its widget gallerySez Apple: When you submit your software, your submission is subject to review. Apple reserves the right to omit, edit, or reject submissions. We chose not to highlight Azureus as it supports BitTorrent (which could possibly be used for illegal file sharing).Oh yeah? Well, Wiley's risking publishing a WHOLE BOOK about BitTorrent. So there, Apple! (via Joho the Blog: The Lawyers' Net) posted at 12:30 am sean bonner has several good suggestions for a new BlogAds logoThe best submission gets $1000. Woo! posted at 12:19 am The average car today contains about 35 million lines of code"The average car today contains about 35 million lines of code, according to Stefanis, a figure that will grow substantially over the next few years." Wow. posted at 11:38 am Good tips for writing complex CSSOnce again, the Web provides the perfect article to answer the question I had last month. posted at 11:27 am There were 74,000 protests in China last yearDid you know that? Do you know how many ended with the government clubbing, arresting, or prohibiting the protest? I don't, and that's a shame. posted at 10:21 am TV Show Board Game Collection - a photoset on FlickrThe Mork and Mindy board game intrigues me, the Patty Duke one scares me. posted at 9:38 am Photo Exhibit: From South Africa with LoveSue Jaye has taken some amazing images with the help of a special woman from the township of Khayelitsha, outside Cape Town. posted at 8:09 am How to add Geotags to Flickr with Google Maps and GreasemonkeyAmazing. posted at 12:47 pm Journalist Judith Miller has been in jail for 50 daysThe government should not be coercing journalists to reveal sources. Period. posted at 8:48 am Another cool photography article, this one about Vancouverite Fred HerzogNice work. posted at 12:43 am A FPPOV article about shooting with the Helga cameraFPPOV: First person point of view. The article is written by my friend Rachael, who takes good photos regardless of the camera. posted at 12:41 am Death by Caffeine: The lethal limit of your favorite drinkI drink enough Diet Coke to kill me about every four months. (via larry borsato) posted at 12:07 pm The Naked Girl in a Bar! - a photoset on FlickrI hope he never explains it. It's just better this way. posted at 1:00 am The Asian Blogging conference where Susie’s the main speakerTheir own blog could use some work -- maybe they should hire someone who knows a lot about blogs to... nah, never mind. (I hear my Mom's voice: "Nobody likes a smart...") posted at 6:10 pm My friend Kathleen Grace just came out with a jazz vocal CDShe's got a great voice, and she's also really nice. You can buy her CD, if you want. (p.s. I have no financial connection to her CD sales, I'm just feeling marketing-y tonight.) posted at 7:35 pm This program finds indy musicians that match your tastesIt's free to listen, the songs are free, too. Available for Windows, Mac, Linux. Woah. (via TidBITS: Indy: Your Own Independent Radio Station) posted at 7:14 pm Greenpeace has done something interesting with its ‘File Not Found’ pageTurns an error into an opportunity. posted at 12:59 pm Gibberish GeneratorIn case my blog isn't adequate and you need to supplement your daily gibberish. posted at 12:33 pm Man fulfills dream by swimming across Flathead LakeIt's a damn long swim, and Flathead Lake even has a MONSTER which may or may not be a sturgeon. posted at 12:24 am Riding a Segway across America - videoDammit. This was my idea. Mine. All mine. Though since I didn't do it, it's nice someone did. posted at 12:15 am Take pictures? Like Sudoku? Then you’ll love this site.It's a really excellent idea well done -- just needs a little more in the way of help text for new users. It's all made possible by the Flickr API. posted at 11:21 pm Oceana Network’s blog: Dedicated to restoring and protecting the world’s oceansProtecting the oceans is tricky -- no one lives there, no one owns most of the ocean, so there aren't many governments who make ocean-saving a high priority. posted at 3:57 am OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD re Spaghetti Monster TheoryIf you buy me this t-shirt, I will remember you in the dessert phase of the afterlife. posted at 2:30 am The story behind that “cool guy who sat in the leather chair listening to loud music” ad
posted at 1:41 am We Are the Web - 10 years of riding this online rollercoasterFairly good article, if only for the nostalgia factor. posted at 9:56 pm QuirksMode - 150 pages of CSS helpAgain, I think I owe this fellow at Quirksmode some link love for helping me figure out how to make this blog you're now reading only in the RSS feed, you ungrateful, design-skipping bastard. (grin) posted at 3:54 pm Stephen Downes tells me how to get people to read my blog"Hey, everyone, look: FREE BREASTS!" posted at 3:50 pm People who dress/look like their World of WarCraft charactersI forget where I found this originally. posted at 3:49 pm Akamai’s neat chart of Net Usage for NewsDon't know how useful it is, but it's neat! And pretty! posted at 9:08 am Lulu is a 3-day-a-month online storeGood T-shirt prices, I've been told... posted at 11:42 pm Amazon’s Long Tail sales aren’t so longThis doesn't invalidate the theory of the long tail, but it does diminish its best example. posted at 10:20 pm What’s a Weblogger? This guy knowsFunny if you're a blogger, otherwise not so much. posted at 10:18 pm Why Images in Table Cells Sometimes Have Mysterious Gaps NowI spent 100 minutes on this. Now someone else may not have to. Go go go, power of links! posted at 7:57 pm State of the Blogosphere, August 2005Very basic, super-efficient summary: Blogs are good. posted at 7:56 pm Relativity Explained With Words of 4 Letters or FewerIt's supercalifragalistic- expealidocious! posted at 12:17 pm The Science of Lance Armstrong: Born, and Built, to WinFound at gillianic tendencies posted at 12:11 pm CSS browser bugs explained in detail - Position is EverythingOne of the sites that helped explain, in loving detail, why IE made my head explode when I was laying out this very blog. posted at 12:10 pm Windows worms now attacking each otherZotob, Bozori and IRCbot are engaged in botwarfare. Maybe we can sneak off planet while they're distracted... posted at 10:32 am On Aug. 27, zombies will attack Vancouver. Join them!You can tell it's the dog days of summer when... posted at 9:00 pm alexandra samuel is in search of the perfect hostI recommend Nexcess.net -- good rates, great service. So why am I using Jumpline? Inertia -- they basically suck, but I'm too complexly installed to move at this time. posted at 4:31 pm Oh, the Places You’ll Go (On Google)A wonderful rhyme about what you get when you search on Google. posted at 4:27 pm ‘Just Another Soldier’ is a book about being deployed in IraqI can't sstop reading it -- it's so smooth, and so disturbing. posted at 10:00 am Outsourcing IS Evil—One Technology Company’s PerspectiveI don't agree, but I like their arguments. posted at 9:46 am Butterfly Alphabet PostersMade from pictures of real living butterfly wings (via Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools) posted at 9:43 am How to ‘hack’ an elevator and get it to go straight to your floorIf you try this and it works, let me know. Originally seen on Boing Boing. posted at 11:38 pm Save your trash AND help othersProcrastinate and do good -- it's a dream come true. posted at 11:35 pm Potholes in NYC, tracked with Google MapsIS there anything that isn't in Google? Today, yes. Tomorrow, probably not. posted at 11:15 pm Beliefs drive research agenda of new think tanksWhat ever happened to Hypothesis, Experiment, Conclusion? posted at 5:10 pm Mac OS X hosts File for PantherI'm always (well, ok, rarely) looking this up. posted at 5:09 pm What does ‘Orange’ mean?"Enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation." And orange you glad I didn't say banana again? posted at 5:08 pm Ferris Bueller’s Day off: A Concept MapI really, really, really am predictable -- "related" to my favorite movie, are many other of my favorite movies. Click to see searches sorted visually by concept proximity. posted at 12:28 am vancouver is the * capital of canadaWould you believe: BMW, bank robbery, gay, homeless, cannibis, vacation, robbery, soccer, suicide, cocaine, film, heroin, peace, western? (The basic point is that doing a search on Google with a "*" in a sentence has just been beefed up by google to give even more interesting results. Try it!) posted at 12:46 am great, simple music video—dancing in the back yardTotally amateurs with enthusiasm, doing a fab music video. (via MetaFilter) posted at 3:21 pm Photos to amuse, from The Museum of Food AnomaliesFrom scary to, well, slightly less scary. posted at 12:07 pm When facing an officer with a stun gun, it doesn’t help to be wearing METAL ARMORBut it does help to be a looney. posted at 12:05 pm Wht’s a ponce? The English-to-American Dictionary knowsAnd now, so do I. (Hey, that guy insulted me!) posted at 12:01 pm A dog competes in an annual swim from Alcatraz ritualMy friend Krista also did the swim, but the dog beat her. posted at 10:40 am Music on the Move: A Novel IdeaMy pal Wes is smart, and has many good ideas. This may even be one of them. posted at 10:31 am An old, but good, blog post from Anil about chain emailsForgive me if you've already read it. It was just SO FUNNY and SO TRUE that I needed to tell EVERYONE about it by blogging about it. posted at 10:24 am What’s happened to Ping-o-Matic!?They've been down for a day or two, according to their own chart -- looks like a heart attack graph if you ask me. posted at 10:18 am Buchwald writes about NovakOne of his sharper columns in quite a while, in style and content. posted at 10:16 am Eating Live Octopus TentaclesThe raging plate of squirming, writhing and willful baby octopus tentacles awed us. If I was the Greek hero Perseus, then this plate before me was the severed head of Medusa the Gorgon with her locks of seething, slithering serpents. Hyperbole? How about understatement. As if that's not enough, there's video of the battle
(via eclecticism) posted at 11:16 pm Is That a Unicorn on Your Shirt, Or…I know several people who would wear these. What does that say about me? (via Boing Boing) posted at 10:28 pm My friend Noriko writes articles for Oops, a Japanese-language Vancouver newspaperHer latest story was about pole dancing. I don't know what it says, so I just looked at the pictures. posted at 10:21 pm A Handy Walk around Stanley ParkI plan to ride my bike around this loop this weekend. posted at 9:36 pm white cats CAN jumpPoor Aimee's too hot to do anthing but sleep these days. posted at 9:15 pm Remembering HiroshimaI backdated this entry because it really belongs on Aug. 6. This is the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. 9/11: 2,985 deaths. Hiroshima: 80,000 in the explosion, 140,000 total in 1945 if you include radiation poisoning. WWII: 6,000,000 deaths. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. posted at 10:31 am The ArchivesJanuary 2012 |
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