August 2010
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2010-08-30 (untitled)
Playing with GarageBand...
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dailymeh:
I think I’ll divide the world into two kinds of people, because who doesn’t like dichotomies? Today: people who read reviews (book, movie, music, etc.) before they experience the item under review, and people who read them after. Read, not skim. Reviews, not blurbs or trailers or teasers or excerpts or back covers. (I refuse to acknowledge the dubious possibility that there might be...
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Desperado (7:05)
Last night I set out to make a...
“The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing.”
– Mike Haertel, why GNU grep is fast.
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“Here’s my theory: the problem with Google is that Eric Schmidt is creepy. I...”
– John Gruber
“Never put more effort into analysing a creative work than its creator(s) put...”
– Hughes’ Zeroth Law of Geekhood, from Things of Interest.
“Tomorrow, August 20th, Neptune will have complete one orbit, back to the...”
– Matt Linke of the UM Exhibit Museum Planetarium (via xulilux)
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A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a... →
But it may make you happier. […]
In fact a physical object, to me, is a liability. Something physical can be broken or lost or burned down. Something electronic can be duplicated and backed up on multiple continents. It’s a weight off my mind. I don’t have to worry. If my house was burning down, and I could go and rescue one thing, I might not bother.
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English professor Lynne Rosenthal ejected from New... →
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“An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first goes up to the...”
– Bill Bailey (from Wikipedia)
“When all of human endeavor falls under the rubric of the ‘hack’ the...”
– Hacker News comment by qwzybug, via Simon Willison.
