A friend just wrote a few words about how Facebook has utterly changed what war means to soldiers and citizens back home alike. Short and worth the read.
01.06.09 | # | Start the conversation
Shorts Archive
I occasionally listen to the podcast for This American Life. It’s pretty good, and I recommend that you listen to the episode about a few people ruining it for the rest of us. What I especially liked was the single family that caused an outbreak of the Measles because they didn’t vaccinate their children. Some of these things are really about social responsibility.
01.02.09 | # | Start the conversation
Who do you think wins?
12.31.08 | # | Start the conversation
This HD video taken from the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede disappearing behind it’s parent planet is remarkable to the point of looking like it’s computer generated.
12.28.08 | # | Start the conversation
Some perspective from the Late Late Show.
12.26.08 | # | Start the conversation
I was going through my photos today clearing space on my hard drive and I found this nifty photo of an auction business in Butte, Montana: ebutte Auctions.
I’ve been debating notifying Ebay and letting them know, but for now, it’s worth a laugh.
Seriously though, this kind of copyright infringement can get a business in some real trouble. I don’t know how they ever thought that it might work.
11.27.08 | # | Start the conversation
It looks like the Star Wars spin-off world has been pretty active. Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken just released Star Wars Episode II (sadly, with ads) and I just spotted a trailer for an upcoming movie of a bunch of kids who break into George Lucas’s ranch to steal a copy of the movie before it is released.
11.23.08 | # | Start the conversation
It’s official, Dark Matter just came out of the cold.
“It comes in a ‘magic volume’ which happens to correspond to an amount which is 30 million times the mass of the Sun.
“It looks like you cannot ever pack it smaller than about 300 parsecs - 1,000 light-years; this stuff will not let you. That tells you a speed actually - about 9km/s - at which the dark matter particles are moving because they are moving too fast to be compressed into a smaller scale.
“These are the first properties other than existence that we’ve been able determine.”
11.21.08 | # | Start the conversation
Ohhh. I can’t wait.
11.18.08 | # | Start the conversation
Just discovered Chris Gilmour has some very interesting cardboard art.
11.17.08 | # | Start the conversation
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11.17.08 | # | Start the conversation
One website dares to ask the question…is graphic design art?
I don’t know about the whole field of graphics design. But I think of web design as closer to designing a car than to creating art. Websites are meant to be used, not just appreciated. Design isn’t art. Design is, well, design.
11.12.08 | # | 2 Comments
Why must great T-shirts be so expensive?
11.12.08 | # | Start the conversation
For the web nerds that read this, apparently google added the following to their robots.txt file on Halloween:
User-agent: zombies
Disallow: /brains
Via Matt Cutts.
11.12.08 | # | Start the conversation
I’m going to vote.
11.08.08 | # | 2 Comments
Wise words on creating a good iphone app. I think it applies well beyond it’s intended scope.
Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.
John Gruber’s one central, overriding guideline for iPhone UI design (via 37 Signals)
11.06.08 | # | Start the conversation
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
Albert Einstein
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Just handed in my National Multiple Choice Exam. Psssst — the answer to question #1 is Obama
11.04.08 | # | Start the conversation
The BBC always has reports on interesting research. Todays reads says that tea is a healthier drink than water and web surfing is good for your brain.
In other news, Wide Open Spaces is even better with more cowbell.
11.01.08 | # | Start the conversation
My handwriting is a new level of illegible. 128-bit encryption has nothing on my chicken-scratch.
-Kelly Abbot (via LifeHacker)
10.26.08 | # | Start the conversation