Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, ‘I know, I'll use *X*.’ Now they have two problems.” Now they have two problems. | Continue »

Everyone has their own opinion when it comes to logos, but the new IE9 logo has really started getting under my skin (in what, a matter of hours?). You see, this "orbital" that has always been in the IE logo is highly eccentric. Assuming that e has a uniform mass distribution, the orbital should be at roughly the same distance from the surface of e at any given point in the orbit. There's some wiggle room here - but 4 pixels is a whole hell of a lot of eccentricity in an orbit that's only 236 pixels in diameter! There... | Continue »

I'm a legal scrabb..., er "Words with Friends" word! Hmm, 18 points is pretty good, but I feel like I'm worth so much more. I'm nicely rounded with three point letters at each end, I just need a chance at some triple letter and triple word squares. For now though I suppose I'm content with a double word, entwined with "Fores" and "Zilch." If your interested in seeing 'Garth's full potential, start up a game with me! I'm "mcnibblet" which means "Garth was taken." | Continue »

There I was, working from home on a day where our office had no water nor internet, planning new features for a fine blogging platform, when, all of a sudden, my droopy dream pop beats were interrupted by my landlord... | Continue »

via www.esquire.com First, this photo of her is hilarious. Second, Pierce's analysis is spot-on. She is what politics produces when we abandon self-government for self-gratification. And that's the real obvious irony in her victory on Tuesday night, and the only thing about it that truly matters. Christine O'Donnell's campaign is... | Continue »

It's true. I'm hanging out my shingle as a freelancer. Check out my portfolio, my about.me profile, or chat me up on LinkedIn. | Continue »

This post is a fork of Anil Dash's Forking is a Feature. And yeah, sure, I could have done this on GitHub, and boy wouldn't that have been clever. While Linus Torvalds is best known as the creator of Linux,... | Continue »

At Yelp, we push new code live every day. Pushing daily allows us to quickly prototype new features and squash bugs in a proactive manner. Because we aim to deploy new code so often, we're always looking for ways to make the process efficient and painless. There are four main... | Continue »

OK, so maybe we sent one of our remote employees - let's call him Hippy McNeckbeard - a replacement laptop with some extraneous equipment included in the box. And by "extraneous" I mean a half-eaten chocolate candy bar, some floppy disks, a postcard of Prince William, an inappropriately adorable background image, CDs with drivers for items you would only find in an antique store, a 2008 SF Giants calendar, and various other useless items. Now, I.T. professionals know that remote employees are a special challenge. These employees are usually very smart, but far too ugly to have in the general... | Continue »

@itunes10icon I'm not sure I can take comments like that seriously from someone dressed like plastic frisbee.less than a minute ago via Tweetie for Mac Tom Coates tomcoates Thanks to browsing Tom Coates' Twitter I found [this great replacement iTunes icon](http://fadeyev.net/2010/09/05/itunes-icon-take-2/), which is the first I've seen that isn't demonstrably... | Continue »

Pro Publica launches their nerd blog, which is where they'll talk about the "news applications" they're building. Which is great and all, but what's fantastic about this is their simple definition of a news application. "It’s an interactive web page... | Continue »

The wysiwyg HTML editor in Typepad Compose Posts works on the iPad in Safari, creating a much simpler mob logging experience than previously with Vox! Typepad appears significantly more mobile friendly than Vox was for iOS and Android devices. | Continue »

Last year I visited my friend Becky's gallery at Point B Studio while driving up the Southern Oregon coast. She mentioned the idea of including my stuff in an upcoming show and I filed it away under the "someday, yeah,... | Continue »

I'm giving Apple's new product Ping a try. For no reason other than I hope they do implement these things, here is a few stuff I wish it would do. * Keep track of every song I listen to and... | Continue »

You don't go into a movie featuring Sylvester Stallone, Steve Austin, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren and several other generic bags of testosterone and expect Oscar material, but you also don't expect 103 of the most misogynistic minutes since the extended cut of the Mel Gibson tapes. Stallone's female characters are limited to ass-slappers, torture victims, rape bait, or simply objects to be dragged helpless and unresisting through gun fights. I guess to be fair, there could have been one or two mowed down by Humvees. They got off luckiest. As writer and director, one can't help but wonder if Sylvester... | Continue »

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“This is awfully snobbish of me, but that’s the point: The Muslim question gives us a way to separate, on an empirical basis, the reasonably logical and cognizant from the morons.” Michael Wolff, commenting on the Barack-Obama-is-a-Muslim crowd | Continue »

UC Berkeley professor Michael O'Hare writes a letter to his incoming students. "I’m writing this to you because you are the victims of this enormous cheat (though your children will be even worse off if you don’t take charge of... | Continue »

The Gardener picked the Queen Cox Apples yesterday. The tree is espaliered on a fence and the apples were cooking on the branch in our 106F temperatures. Queen Cox Apples | Continue »

via shirtoid.com Star Wars + Calvin and Hobbes. | Continue »