February 2012
2 posts
disneyland circa 1957 →
January 2012
6 posts
I'm Party Murray, and I love Hollywood money →
Who is your representative, and how much did Hollywood pay them to support SOPA/PIPA?
Piss-yellow tabs
I wondered why some of my tabs in IE were piss-yellow. Those Microsoft wordsmiths (not to be confused with SongSmiths) provided me a detailed, concise and crystal clear explanation.
Enhanced tabbed browsing
Have you ever opened a large number of tabs only to find yourself overwhelmed when you go back to review them? Tab groups in Internet Explorer 8 help make tabbed browsing easier. When a link...
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Watch(via SOPA / GoDaddy: Big Mistake | Bad Ass Mother Fucker)
Watch(via SOPA / GoDaddy: Big Mistake | Bad Ass Mother Fucker)
Seven UX Best Practices of Community Design | UX... →
The transition means that UX designers no longer design “flat sites” or interactions where the company pushes out content, but rather ones that foster rich community interaction and contribution. Designing for a community experience brings new design challenges and solutions for sites to capture the collective creativity of members and, ultimately, rise above other sites.
I can’t help...
If you're not completely sick of the barrage of... →
December 2011
12 posts
[Our Dearest-Sweetums Leader] Kim Jong Il Dead:... →
WOW! Another daily double. Not only is this a LIST (ok, maybe not a year end list) but it’s also about Dear-Sweetums-Leader Kim. I have to take issue that these aren’t as crazy as Kim Jong Il was.
Why the media insists on publishing year-end lists... →
YES! A story about the value and great important of TOP YEAR END LISTS!!
10 facts that divide North Korea from the world -... →
Adding to my year-end gluttony of LISTS wouldn’t be complete without a mention of what a bad year it’s been for tyrannical dictators. RIP to http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/ and Welcome to the world http://kimjongunlookingatthings.tumblr.com/!
10 chilling super-nerdy snow sculptures - Year end... →
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28 Krampus images to ruin your Christmas →
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9 cool facts about the lunar eclipse →
4. Eclipses also are visible from the moon:
Space.com’s Night Sky columnist, Joe Rao, puts it this way, “The sun would be hidden behind a dark Earth outlined by a brilliant red ring consisting of all the world’s sunrises and sunsets.”
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30 Major U.S. Corporations Paid More to Lobby... →
“In fact, the 30 big corporations paid more to lobby Congress than they
paid in federal income taxes for the three years between 2008 and 2010,
despite being profitable. During a period when companies posted three-
year U.S. profits ranging from $286 million (ConLWay) to $49 billion
(Wells Fargo) and totally $164”billion altogether, all but one company in
this group paid no...
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10 gifts any nerdy couple will love →
Tis the season for LISTS! The first list to make my list is a top 10 list of nerd gifts, courtesy of the Today team:
August 2011
2 posts
“Borromeo’s emphasis on self-improvement and employment yields impressive...”
– Borrmeo Housing Offers Single Mothers a Chance to Succeed
freedom from the nanny state
“What we have on the streets of London and elsewhere are welfare-state mobs. The...”
– London’s burning: a mob made by the welfare state | Brendan O’Neill | spiked
June 2011
10 posts
Watch(via Wildfire nears toxic material at Los Alamos - Weather - msnbc.com) Testing the share from within story page
Watch(via msnbc.com Video Player)
Excellent report on the flimsy sentence handed to Kaing Guek Eav, “Duch” and other K.R. leaders who will be brought to trial soon
The Top 10 Percent of Income Earners Paid 71... →
Source: Tax Foundation and Internal Revenue Service.
“…ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual...”
– Freedom in the 50 States | Mercatus
WatchFrom the msnbc.com team currently in Japan reporting on the tsunami recovery efforts. Great work from them over the past weeks
1950s AT&T film: How to dial your phone - Boing... →
UI Designers: Next time you’re annoyed that users are immediately loving your interface, notice that it took a 10 (TEN!) minute video to instruct people how to dial the phone.
April 2011
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March 2011
3 posts
“‘It is very safe to assume that there will be more White House beer in the...”
– Keeping busy, Mr President? Obama heads out for his 60th game of golf since reaching the White House¿ as he also takes up brewing his own beer | Mail Online
“As Deng Xiaoping said, the first step is to make a part of the people rich and...”
– China premier: ‘Next step is to make everyone rich’ - msnbc.com
Which bears a striking resemblance to the methodology of the South Park Underpants Gnomes ; Step 3 - Profits
February 2011
11 posts
“As Republicans tried to begin Senate business around midday, observers in the...”
– No Wis. union vote as Democrats leave state - U.S. news - Life - msnbc.com
When children are forced to work, people are made slaves by their employers, when working conditions are fatal, the union has a place in society.
As these demonstrators sit behind their desks their only risk is an ...
“So in truth, the state’s problems involve a larger “California...”
– Jerry Brown, a Modern Sisyphus
“California philosophy”, a.k.a. hypocrisy, a.k.a. self-immolation
“If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the...”
– Multiculturalism has failed, says French president - Yahoo! News
Thats not crazy
“Stroum’s case illustrates the pitfalls that presidents can face when they...”
– Seattle woman quits ambassador job amid criticism - Local News - Seattle, WA - msnbc.com
Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal... →
So awkward and uncomfortable…she had no idea what happened to trillions of dollars. Those bus tires must hurt.
January 2011
6 posts
Egypt shows how easily Internet can be silenced -... →
It’s basically net neutrality taken a step further. Thank God for sat-phones
“There is nothing so potentially funny as the spectacle of politicians trying to...”
– Belmont Club » Shape of the Union
Vapid politicians of today resemble a child in their parent’s closet playing dress-up; too-large shoes, hats askew and coats dragging on the floor. They want to assume the grown-up roll of statesman but their atrophied intellect and lack of vision...