Link logging
Mark’s bookmarklets
I like bookmarklets. I like that these are bookmarklets made by Mark. See also Mark’s Learn2JS.
Pixaki for iPad
This is an app that I have not tried, but that looks groovy if you are into creating pixel art.
Bad ethernet cable
Reminding us that it is important to remember that the medium is the message…especially when the message relies on a medium for transference.
SQL: One of the Most Valuable Skills
Leave your ORM at the door. SQL fo’ lyfe!
Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now lost to us
RIP. You were the best robot adventurer. You will be missed.
I’ve gone full Apocalypse Dad
I read this. It caused me to panic. Living in blissful ignorance and being busy with work and not having the money to actually really stockpile anything of usefulness is what keeps me from being a full on doomsday hoarder.
But responding to the possibility of the worst, by pursuing mere survival, seems a bit limited — even to the point of being paradoxical. Survival is conservative by nature: however bad the world might be, my best chances of surviving in it are by learning and respecting its rules. My best hopes at riding out any given disaster are if things, as far as possible, continue to follow laws and norms I already understand. And yet, the possibility of disaster is inherent to the world as it presently exists, as long as the world remains the same, that possibility will be there. In a way, then, the best thing to do would be to throw caution to the wind, to forget [mere] survival and embrace — as far as possible — radical change. Only then might we achieve a world in which we are genuinely safe, without ever needing to rely on mere survivalism again.
Hello. By the Way. Whatever.
Nora Ephron on blogging.
…one of the most delicious things about the profoundly parasitical world of blogs is that you don’t have to have anything much to say. Or you just have to have a little tiny thing to say. You just might want to say hello. I’m here. And by the way. On the other hand. Nevertheless. Did you see this? Whatever. A blog is sort of like an exhale.
Virginia Woolf on a similar topic:
Of all forms of literature, however, the essay is the one which least calls for the use of long words. The principle which controls it is simply that it should give pleasure; the desire which impels us when we take it from the shelf is simply to receive pleasure. Everything in an essay must be subdued to that end. It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last.
SPUDwrite is a DIY E Ink typewriter… with a printer… and an LCD display
An E Ink typewriter.
“O Uommibatto”: How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat
I had no idea that wombats were so beloved by the Pre-Raphaelites!?
TYPE DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY, TYPEFACES AND FONTS: An encyclopedic treatment of type design, typefaces and fonts. This site is also known as on snot and fonts.
Need I say more than this title?
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