Author: Tim's Bookmarks

It would be interesting to check this out and compare it to the iTunes Genius.

So far it seems just to be posting links to the Flickr page. Hope they do more with it.

Qui custodies custodiet? You can, on Flickr (and Twitter). Building up the alternate history as a set of social media "leaks" is brilliant.

Very true, and explains quite a lot about why some bugs get fixed and some linger.

“Due to the unfortunate liquidation of Circuit City we will no longer be able to match their prices.” Um, burn.

Gee, you think?

The counterpoint to this argument is: sometimes you need the gravitational pull of a large, prestigious grad degree to move your career into a different orbit.

How many convenience store clerks can name the bat’leth?

Raymond Aceto was superb Saturday night–looking forward to how tonight turns out.

Adam Gaffin is now officially the most criminally underappreciated man in Boston. Here’s hoping he finds a safe landing.

Nice abstractions of city details in small numbers of bricks.

IE has 67.55 % of the global browser market, shedding 7% in a year, with Firefox picking up 3%, Safari another 1%, and Chrome about one %. Most notably: IE6 is now less than 20% of the market. Rev up the chainsaws and get ready to trim IE6 from your “supported browser” list, kids.

On the short list of things I never thought about making at home: crackers…

The counterpoint to a set of otherwise excellent points about what sales engineers look for from PM.

On the need for a balanced approach to security.

New one from Seamus Heaney.

Summary of information of how to do a Drawdio. Looks like a great kid project.

I’m now considering removing my FM antenna just for the experiment.

Via Lifehacker, a brilliant website that claims to find the most interference free station in your ZIP code. I’ll try 101.3 tomorrow — I’m tired of my FM adapter for my iPod getting swamped by “real” radio.

I don’t as a rule watch much in the way of televised sports, so my observance of the Superbowl is strictly culinary. This year, I made this chili with only a few emendations, namely: 8 ounces of brown beer (Tröegs Rugged Trail Nut Brown Ale) in the onions after the first round of spices were added, to deglaze the pan, and cooked almost completely out; then 8 ounces of a hoppier ale (Magic Hat #9) after the turkey browned. We’ll see how it goes. I already know my chili powder is a lot spicier than the commercial variety, so eating over rice is the order of the day.

Historical perspective on the conservatism, relative or otherwise, of the Supreme Court.

Here’s a pretty cogent argument in favor of change and release management. Forty minutes of Google downtime = untold millions in lost revenue for the rest of the Internet. And what’s with an Internet-wide blacklist supporting a wildcard like “/”?

Yikes. Glad that FlickrExport, which is excellent, is still being supported.

Part of the Boston Public Library’s photo set on Flickr, not part of the Commons but published under a CC 2.0 Attribution license. Nice!

Seven minutes of awesome, with a surprise ending that had me snorting water.

Ideas on bringing the Globe back to profitability.

In retrospect everything in Steve Jobs’s 2003 interview with Rolling Stone looks visionary. It’s easy to be visionary when you work like hell to make the visions come true.

The SE/30 was my first Mac. I still miss that machine.

Smart way to create a smart album quickly and get started.

If DDR isn’t challenging enough for you, try it while getting hit in the face with a flamethrower.

Yikes. No Berkshire Opera next summer is seriously scary.

Using an Apple TV and Boxee to stream all TV over the Internet, without a cable box. I just downloaded Boxee on my home laptop and will try it out there; one day when I have a dedicated media computer this article is my next stop.

About time. I haven’t checked recently but the last time I looked, the “all or nothing” upgrade price for my library was almost $400.

Am I being filtered? How to find out.

I’ve never read much Updike, and I barely know anything about the Red Sox even after living here on and off for the better part of the decade, but this nearly moved me to tears. Rest in peace, Mr. Updike.

Technical tips for optimizing CSS sprites.

Sequence of portraits of 43.

Wow. I think the Gigapan people just sold about a bajillion units of their camera + software. Amazing photo.

Or, why traditional Christian apologetics drive thinking people nuts. I’m Christian, btw, but this sort of stuff gives us a bad name.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Bill. But it’s interesting that it’s painted as more of an issue that he denigrated the NYT on Jon Stewart than he had problems with facts and with conflicts of interest.

Geoff Edgers’ profile of Shepard Fairey walks right past the irony of this critiquer of consumption doing ads for movies. But otherwise the piece is on target.

Lifehacker points to JP’s TV moment showing how to make your own OTA digital TV antenna.

So, so far, on average we’re up 1% over 2000 in our 401K balances? Greaat.

Oy. I think Microsoft used to have a marketing department.

Imaginative description of the “soft skills” (hardest skills to acquire) needed for product management. My favorite is the opening description, in which Cummings postulates that a brush with tragedy is needed to make a product manager great.

You should never ever reprogram road signs. It’s a real public safety issue. Especially the poor security of the set-up.

Nice non-traditional way to deal with a closet.

Looks like the TFC will do Mendelssohn’s Elijah later in the season — should be fun. It’s always a pleasure to perform in Carnegie Hall and especially with Christine Brewer.

Where has the Raven Society been in celebrating the 200th anniversary of Poe’s birth? You’d kind of think they’d want to drive the celebration, since, you know, they’re dedicated to celebrating Poe’s memory.

TPM picks up on the whacko coming out of the Fox Network on the first day of the Obama administration.

Reuse of curtain rods for an art project display technique.

The oath of office slaughtered by the pedantry of grammatical correctness, according to this theory.

Viral video for the new Watchmen movie.

Interesting comments from Biden, Mitchell, HRC, and Obama.

Two new PM focused blogs start out focused on win-loss.

Jumping off point for a lot of interesting reminiscences.

As a former developer on the DOD’s Standard Procurement System, I have to agree with the thrust of this article. Time to start going over the reporting data with a fine toothed comb.

Why Macs in the White House shouldn’t be a big deal.

Interesting that there’s so much pushback on this in the comments.

Hope my former coworkers are ok.

How to get your data out.

On the connection between cheap Casio watches and incarceration in Gitmo.

Julian Bond reflects on how Obama’s election shows changes in the American public.

Reprint of an article about static analysis tools; reasonably balanced description of the pluses and minuses, and a few cool shoutouts about why Veracode is different.

This bodes well.

Missed this back in 2006. Must give it a try soon.

Hysterical, and more than a little snide, and good icons.

Here’s that dashboard.

Notes toward what an Obama performance dashboard might look like.

An actual Obama performance dashboard.

Nice to see David Iglesias getting work again.

Because no US president is complete without his own action figure.

More calls to action. We all need to write the next four years ourselves. The plain speech of the inaugural address is a good place to start.

Oh, that’s not a happy note.

“Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with the sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. … They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use. Our security emanates from the justness of our cause; the force of our example; the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.”