May 2009
66 posts
Latest developer build of Chrome for Mac.
faucet:
Firefox decided to crash over and over and over again, right as it starts up, so I’m migrating to Safari. Currently setting up the main bookmarks and saved passwords.
I wish Chrome was available on mac.
Analogy of the day:
Web designers are bus drivers. They’ve got a steering wheel and a gear shift (XHTML+PHP+CSS) that they know how to use to arrive at a good solution for their clients.
Magento’s XML-based templating system is like sitting these bus drivers down in a plane cockpit. There’s the potential for a way better design solution for your client. But the bus driver...
Lul @ “basketball match”
faucet:
Every news item on Facebook is people back home talking about the “Cavs” who I guess had a match tonight idk?
But then I turn on the special list I made that only shows the feeds of the gay facebook friends. Perfection.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
Beirut (10)
Uffie (5)
Architecture in Helsinki (3)
Does It Offend You, Yeah? (3)
The Concretes (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“…the national road system is one of the most successful examples of pure...”
– King of the Road | GOVERNING
In the same vein as bars in areas requiring bars to sell food having two frozen meals on their menu for $1000 apiece, couldn’t a prostitute just put a webcam up and charge $10,000 for someone to watch it, and then be technically making porn, which is legal?
“Simply by using dollar coins, you can expose others to them. The more people...”
– (usually barefoot) meg - Dollar Coins in the U.S.A.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-17) →
Cut Copy (13)
Lady GaGa (9)
Simian Mobile Disco (6)
MGMT (5)
Kid Cudi (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“We’re not at war with people in this country.”
– White House Drug Czar on ending the “war on drugs” and pursuing treatment methods instead
TheSixtyOne →
Their dance section is pretty good. Also, it scrobbles!
Chart: Comparing The Pricetags On New Transit... →
ininfrastructurist:
really cool image explaining what transit projects cost.
FDA to General Mills: Your Marketing Has Made... →
“The situation would be as if the USPS didn’t exist, with UPS and FedEx...”
– Jonathan Golob on why public healthcare would make private healthcare better
“I’ll put it to you this way: You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour,...”
– Jesse Ventura on waterboarding as torture
“In 2000, Britain began a comprehensive effort to reform planning, to discourage...”
– Germany Imagines Suburbs Without Cars - NYTimes.com
Chevy Camaro evidently nabs Microsoft Zune support →
1. This is symbolic of the reason GM is failing.
2. Why can’t car manufacturers just stick a USB port in the dashboard and have consumers supply their own cable. Then they wouldn’t have to choose between iPod and Zune in the first place.
“But let me not be too negative. The fact that the medical-industrial complex is...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Harry, Louise and Barack - NYTimes.com
“So Meghan McCain, you’re too good for us ugly DC folk. Well then, we...”
– Washington DC to Meghan McCain: “Bitch, please!”
“Dear Half-Naked Ultimate Frisbee Boys on The Mall, Thank you for wearing very...”
– Open Letter of Appreciation to Half-Naked Ultimate Frisbee Boys on The Mall « Average Jane
Use These CDC E-Cards To Anonymously Tell Your... →
“There’s also the fact — another sort of unexplainable issue — that people choose...”
– Streetcars for Brooklyn: A New Life? « the transport politic
Oh. I thought this was a universal human experience, but maybe it’s just me and you.
faucet:
sometimes I time the door-opening and door-walking-thru sequence poorly, such that I run into the door while still attempting to turn the knob.
“Hey man, your wheels are lookin’ crispy!”
– Douchebag at the Japanese steakhouse
I seem to have the whooping cough.
AGORA 6 | May 16 | Columbus, Ohio →
How did I not know about this?
People seriously have a problem with this? Will having a less-than-stellar number somewhere in your field of vision bruise your ego?
faucet:
mykicks:
As if losing/gaining followers didn’t distract me enough, I’ve got a little ticker that goes up and down based on how popular I am. Thanks for taking me back to high school, Tumblr.
Wow this is lame. Who runs tumblr and can I tell them that I’d...
“The Obama budget eliminates the main federal funding streams for abstinence-only...”
– The End of Abstinence-Only - Swampland – TIME.com
WatchThere is a proposed amendment to the law that would allow educators to disable copy protection on media to make short clips to show in class. The MPAA has a much better solution: teachers can take a Handycam and record clips off their TV. In case you don’t know how this works, they’ll show you. Awesome.