January 2008
What has the Internet done for me? (1) a case of Sriracha hot chili sauce, will never run out. (2) two pounds of boudin arriving tomorrow.
Forbes' List of America's Most Miserable Cities →
1. Detroit, MI 2. Stockton, CA 3. Flint, MI 4. New York City 5. Philadelphia, PA 6. Chicago, IL 7. Los Angeles, CA 8. Modesto, CA 9. Charlotte, NC 10. Providence, RI
Dad’s answer to the falafel question: “I’d estimate that we’ve eaten a dumpster’s worth of Mamoun’s falafel. One of the big ones, that is.”
Lunch with dad. I wonder how much Mamoun’s falafel we’ve eaten together in the past 36 years?
At breakfast, 3yo wanted to know where we kept the robot parts, so she could build a robot. I couldn’t be more proud.
ReadWriteWeb: The Rise of Twitter as a Platform... →
Serious discourse? Um, kinda. Side note: if part of your evidence of the “mainstreaming” of Twitter is that fact that it was overloaded by usage during Macword, it’s a good sign that your idea of “mainstream” may be a little skewed.
Richard Stallman's Web Browsing Habits →
“For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.”
Sitting here kind of wishing that “su - oracle” worked in real life…
Tumblr users are active
Interesting to see numbers confirming that I’m not the only one seeing the appeal of Tumblr’s low-friction approach: In the most general terms, one could describe the content creation end of Tumblr as a strongly-typed blogging tool: a Tumblr post is one of seven things: photo, link, quote, chat, audio, video, or text. What immediately intrigued me about this is that it’s implicitly...
Digital Web Magazine: IE8 Version Targeting causes... →
Nice link aggregation of reactions to the IE8 version-targeting proposal. If you’re not sure what that is, save yourself and ignore this link.
The blog is down again: must make the time to move it off of the crappiest Web host ever.
Gwen as I say goodbye: quiet, daddy, Elmo is making a point.
Action Streams | movabletype.org →
joelaz: SixApart launched a plugin for Moveable Type that creates a FriendFeed-esque life stream for your blog… and it’s open source. Also check out Kieran Delaney’s SimpleLife plugin for WordPress, similar idea.
The Incompatible Food Triad →
Are there foods A, B and C such that A + B is good, and B + C is good, and A + C is good, but A + B + C is gross?
Dreamed I was arguing with chimpanzees about feature requests. Doesn’t seem like a good sign.
Anybody hear any Q4 sales numbers for those “Ringles” that were going to save the music industry? http://tinyurl.com/3bcarc
Nelly Furtado vs. Asha Bhonsle : I’m...
Things you learn when a three year old asks "what... →
Turns out that a “jiffy” is an actual unit of time: 1/60th of a second.
Dear sir; you were clipping your nails on the fucking subway. Do you really not know why the lady sitting across from you is pissed?
An astonishing number of Twitterers seem to use Tumblr for their blog. Is it just the specific Twitter neighborhood I hang out in?
Kind of nice to have gotten through the evening w/o screaming “dumber than a fucking bag of hammers.” Might not watch TV tomorrow, either.
I almost forgot: January 28, 1986…Challenger.
Mona won’t let me listen to GWB state of the union addresses since “the incident.” Probably for the best, really.
Twitter Pack is interesting. How about aggregating packs, though, so that one “follow” gets you the entire pack? Or did Amazon patent that?
Lettering Grows in Brooklyn →
Essay, with excellent pictures, on signage in a variety of Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Damn it: that was “parenting is an equipment sport.”
Mona and I went to Iceland sharing one small bag. Now 3 days at my parents and we’ve filled a station wagon. Parenting is an equipment s …
Geeking with Greg: Optimizing Web 2.0 applications →
Greg on MS researchers’ paper on javascript optimization. Automatically splitting the code and data into pieces that are needed immediately and those that are not, “the time to download and begin interacting with large applications is reduced by 20-40%.”
Newsvine - Nude Buttocks May Cost ABC $1.4 Million →
Pick which is more depressing: that (a) showing someone’s ass on TV somehow merits a $1.4MM fine, or (b) the FCC has apparently spent the better part of five years considering this issue? didyouevernotice noted that The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue.
Proclamation #1,429: No business may, for any reason, describe itself as “cutting edge.” Ref. article #31 “Punishment, swift and merciless.”
The Tumblelist (tumblelog directory) →
It’d be great if there were a comprehensive directory of tumblelogs (tumblogs?). One of the big starting hurdles for understanding the dashboard end of things is finding people to follow. via jamiew
Cellphone Novels →
Holy hell, how did I manage to not hear about this? “TOKYO — Until recently, cellphone novels — composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens — had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago. Then last month, the year-end best-seller tally...
Moonwatcher: Feed Archaeology →
NewsGator maintains an archive of all the feeds that its users have subscribed to, and (if you’re a NewsGator user) you can access that archive. Excellent!
Just heard on NPR, college students at Sundance: “we just saw an Olsen twin, so we’re having a moment of celebrity disillusionment.”
I love the Macalope: “Business-focused companies”? As opposed to all those companies focused on what? Badminton? http://tinyurl.com/24lnt4
Wife and kids out of town. Me? Drinking a beer, ordered a pizza, about to watch The Godfather. Living la vida mediana, baby.
Notes from the L train: it appears that leather pants never go out of style. Very unfortunate.
Cat Power’s cover of Wonderwall. It just...