Category: linkblog

How to work as a web designer who works with developers.

Stupid CSS list tricks.

Be sure to check out the implementation.

Wow. That’s 1500 words about how painful keyboard shortcut reassignment is in Microsoft’s latest version of Word. That’s a product manager’s worst dream.

“All parts of the universe are made up of eensy strings, each of which resonates with its fellow strings at the most fundamental level. ‘Ballmer looks like an egg. Ergo, at some point the egg and Ballmer will find each other in a deeply resonant way.’ As

How to exploit older versions of Firefox with a very easy exploit.

The Finals Concert!

Shitterton!

Not for small children or real automobiles.

One-click way to harvest cool tunes from the Funky16Corners and KEXP podcasts into one’s regular library.

Pega luna, Manny!

Strong words from a Democratic senator who’s starting to sound like a frontrunner.

Nice potential exploit of an as-yet-unreleased browser.

“Plenty of warmth and good definition, but a sense of the large acoustical space is also captured.”

Good rundown of the roadblocks that can occur in rolling out even a simple piece of software functionality.

Reminder to always trade off value for feature count.

One hates to provide help to censors, but guys–if you want to censor a PDF, you really have to make the text and the redaction bars all images rather than overlaying rectangles.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Oh crap.

I can’t wait to see the Swift Boat freaks get on this one. It’s a happy story but will come out as, “He’s a MILLIONAIRE! By the way, let me tell you his middle name again!!!”

The New Yorker makes Woody’s “Cassandra’s Dream” sound like a Thomas Hardy novel.

$1.4 million spent on prosecuting 26 cases of vote fraud in Texas, of which 8 were actual fraud and 18 were screw-ups with absentee ballots. Glad to hear the GOP is on top of that vote fraud thing.

Too bad that the courts bothered to strike down the Broadcast Flag, because Microsoft implemented it anyway. WTF????

Ooops.

Wow. Very cool.

Why are the Pioneer probes so far off course?

How a bunch of Valley people thinking like social network builders made Obama a fundraising force to be reckoned with.

The font game just got a lot harder.

Bush once again proves he’s a uniter, not a divider. He’s doing a great job of uniting the Democrats.

Hmm. The Pops and Death Cab? The Pops and Belle & Sebastian? Hey, it could happen. I’m still holding out for that call to be backing vox for an EdgeFest show. I’d go in a second.

Interesting perspectives. I don’t think Sloan is the only school to bank on growing non-MBA programming, though–think Darden’s executive ed.

Hilarious.

It’s probably not too early to start talking about running mates, but it sure feels like it.

Nice to see a member of the RIAA hoist on their own petard.

An interesting point: “‘The statistics show that there’s no effect on piracy.’… then [DRM] is merely a nuisance for the user.” Or a lock-in tool for Apple?

The new Apple Store looks, from the street at night, like a parking garage.

Anthropological explanation of Twitter; or, putting a human face on the “network effect.”

Yes, another WordPress theme. Might do the trick.

I actually like the blank 3 column theme here. But does it support WP 2.5 and widgets?

Another free theme–this one built on a solid type grid.

Examples of drop caps on various sites.

3 column, rotating images, nice typography

Blogging an attempt to inline skate the Minuteman Trail and the rest of the rail line.

The Hoefler contribution to the RR fest.

Matthew Guerrieri’s tribute to Rauschenberg.

Really interesting analysis of the strong trend to vote Hillary in the Appalachians.

Insufficient entropy means that it is very easy to bruteforce DSA keys on Debian.

Google Maps can now show annotations from Wikipedia. The trick is in geocoding the articles.

Rauschenberg designed Speaking in Tongues? I had no idea.

Killer photoset of Arlington’s infrastructure as seen from the former railway bed, now Minuteman Trail.

Interesting project–a set of essays on the Internet that respond to each other. Looking forward to seeing it grow.

How to write an .htaccess file to block all unauthorized traffic.