March 2009
Whose Tweet on Mashable →
I had a sudden spike in Twitter followers over the weekend and I couldn’t figure out why. Little did I know that Whose Tweet was mentioned on Mashable. Exciting!
OH SHIT MY GAME WAS FEATURED ON MASHABLE →
WatchSo there’s this contest where you make music… but I don’t really like the loops.
“Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d...”
– Marcus Brigstocke
Project Wonderful →
I have been running Project Wonderful ads on my blog for months now. Since I am about to take them down, I’ll post a screenshot of them: Clearly, they look ridiculous. It’s not the ads…
In the club →
Is there any way I could get an invite to SidebarAds or Fusion Ads? I have two decent sites.
“Do you design web pages? Do you write HTML and CSS? Ever heard about the Grid...”
– Boks — A Visual Grid Editor. Over a year ago, I insisted that CSS frameworks like Blueprint would give rise to WYSIWYG tools that are fully semantic and cruft-free. I’m just glad to be a part of the revolution :)
“Adobe Systems holds patents in the United States and Europe on certain uses of...”
– Things I learn on Wikipedia
ultimate css debugging tool
deplorableword:
* {
border: 1px solid red;
}
The Web Developer Extension for Firefox has a feature like this, among many other things.
WatchDanceable Rock, Mostly // another 8tracks mix. I got the urge to put this together when I was rocking out to 1901 last night.
“Don’t take VC because Twitter did. Don’t piss off investors because 37signals...”
– Chris Wanstrath at Startup Riot 2009 (via dstrelau)
“We’d explain the site to people we met at restaurants or bars and they’d love...”
– Chris Wanstrath (thanks, jnunemaker) (via marco)
It's a firesale, everything must go! →
I was doing my taxes earlier this month, which was majorly depressing, and I realized that I own a handful of domains and servers that are severely underused. I’ve also spent most of the month…
One of three sites using a theme I released years... →
According to Google, at least. I don’t recommend finding the others. Anyway, memories!
“That’s right, I’ll Ajax the crap out of your site. Nothing, and I...”
– Noah Stokes
Click a link, go to jail! →
Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per... →
The warning sound of TomTom →
The patent system is not just broken, it is poisonous. It works by fear, using the civil courts as cudgels in the hands of bullies. In the process, it despoils its main purpose: what valid,…
“Whenever we get to the woe, as we do now, it is usually after the fact. As a...”
– Cramer, Stewart and the Failings of the Financial Press
Where the Wild Web Things Are →
Also see featured comment #1
“Oxygen TV did a poll asking women ages 18 to 34 if they’d rather win a Nobel...”
– (via NY Mag) (via seriouslythough)
Women… feh!
Xenocode - Run your applications from the web,... →
“Without glasses, [Mark] Mothersbaugh is legally blind. At the age of seven, he...”
– Wikipedia, again
How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy... →
cufón - fonts for the people →
“[Steve Wozniak’s] favorite video game is Tetris. In the 1980s he submitted...”
– The things I learn on Wikipedia…
You can get this song & more for free at We...
How to write fast code →
inky:
“The CPU,” he said, “runs at a certain speed. It can execute a fixed number of instructions per second, and no more. There is a finite limit to how many instructions per second it can execute. Right?”
“Right,” I said.
“So there is no way, really, to make code go faster, because there is no way to make instructions execute faster. There is only such a thing as making the machine do...
Why Data & Design Need Each Other →
“The underlying problem is that design is a holistic discipline while...”
– Tom Chi
How to Develop Film Using Coffee and Vitamin C!... →
Even Facebook Employees Hate the Redesign →
On "Even Facebook Employees Hate the Redesign"
Clarence Rosario: How, exactly, does a 24 year old with no discernible business model know anything but jack shit about what "disruptive" companies do?
GrumpyMcGillicutty: Shhhhh, don't tell the internets that. We should just keep throwing money at these little twats and hope something sticks. Haven't you been to a tech meetup lately?
Facebook | Vote →
Just created a Facebook app that allows anyone to vote on anything from politics to pop culture.
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it....”
– George Orwell, 1984
WatchSeriously.
Red pepper, vegetable create healthy Korean... →
Chrome Experiments →
Twitter Unveils New Premium Accounts →
book list
computersnob:
the bbc believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
(via zayile)
Screw you, BBC! What do you know about books? Nothing!
Action Links - Facebook Developers Wiki →
Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari), A Tribute Site →