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“why is it so important to you to police other people’s pants?” — comment in response to article about Plan B. best. quote. ever.
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Seattle PI — note that it’s an AP story, too!
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“It turns out the state may be far ahead of the federal government, but not nearly as far out of the mid-20th century as thought.” Editoriall from the PI
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“It should be readily available over the counter. And it should actually be on the shelves of pharmacies that are mysteriously out of stock.”
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“‘It appears every learning-management system that is in production infringes on this patent'” — from the linked article, which may or may not be available when you see this.
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using wikipedia to demonstrate prior art!
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::giggle::
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I should write up info about our car!
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another good tutorial. I’d like to set up Lyceum (again) this week.
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something to do this weekend?
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hmmmm. some redesign ideas?
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“Whenever the person you’re talking to name-drops any language on this list, simply pick the next one and assert that this is what YOU prefer.” I think I’ve done this a few times, or something like it….
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since I was a kid, I’ve wanted to be buried under a tree with a bench, preferably with a poem carved into the bench….
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LOTS of good suggestions. (someday we’ll get a nice couch/chairs….)
links for 2006-08-03
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I love these sort of visualizations!(tags: science)
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“creating a citywide, low-cost wireless Internet network [by] putting a nonprofit organization, rather than a private service provider, in charge of building and running the system”
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wifi in my old (sortof) hometown. 23 square miles…what does that look like on a map?(tags: wifi californication)
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trying to get all set on my side projects….
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“Do you have a spouse or friend who is trying to accomplish something and you need to provide encouragement?” something to remember.(tags: personal)
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I think I’m going to try TestGen4Web and if I get into it, maybe come back & try some of those other tools!(tags: php to-install)
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totally (semi?) unrelated to the actual download/project: in the header graphic, there are 1 (2?) black people and one woman (wearing pink?!). feh.
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this was an aha! moment today. 🙂(tags: drupal)
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this was the other aha moment. I now feel much much smarter in re: drupal.(tags: drupal)
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this has all the variables that can be accessed in a node!(tags: drupal)
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“My last hosting company would basically lie thru their teeth, and I appreciate that you don’t.” One of the friendlier comments. Me? I lost sites for the better part of an afternoon, which unfortunately was a big day for the Plan B crew, but compared t
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I can’t bear to write (or, honestly, think too hard) about this situation. Read what Tim Bray has to say, instead.(tags: politics philosophizing)
links for 2006-08-02
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an abbreviated version of his webvisions presentation
links for 2006-08-01
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clever diagramming (in Flash, includes plot spoilers)(tags: arts)
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for taking quick notes on pocketpc devices(tags: mda)
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“Open space is fun but not productive.” This is why I prefer my office (such as it is) to the semi-open area in the back of our department.(tags: productivity)
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why the hell not? 😉
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“We must restore antitrust law to its central role in protecting the economic rights, properties, and liberties of the American citizen, and first of all use that power to break Wal-Mart into pieces.” A long treatise on monopsony, wrapping up with a big i
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(tags: photography to-watch)
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My life is not sad or empty, decayed or cynical, flat or leaden, detached or cold or dead […] merely because I decline to base my life on a belief in mystical energy.(tags: religion)
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(tags: food)
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Search the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
links for 2006-07-29
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for a work project.(tags: mac to-install)
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“Interested in a FREE URL Rewriter for IIS? Do you wish IIS had a mod_rewrite? Check out IIRF.”
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I like the checklist idea (a book of 101 checklists)
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one of the 101 lists.
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Very similar to what I/we do…at work, we go one step farther even, with a set of PHP templates to handle headers & footers. also, this is how I’m training my interns.
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nice set of starting points.
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. one-click, you say? I might well give it a whirl.
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with my horrifying luck, I should probably start doing this.
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for one of my side projects
links for 2006-07-28
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I will most certainly need this again….(tags: home)
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quirky. (lots of DIY tips in the comments.) which reminds me, I need to stake our (vast quantities of) tomatoes this weekend….
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yeah, exactly. it’s crazy-powerful, but still very awkward in some ways.(tags: drupal philosophizing)
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“The more of these “wrong kinds of people” you have involved in the process, the worse things get.” the graphs are hysterical.
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I like this ’cause it’s local. install on home computer, too!(tags: productivity it@home)
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“He doesn’t trust you to do your job because he doesn’t actually know what your secret title is.” OMG. Lightbulb moment. (Not about *my* boss, really, so much as some other things.)
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hopefully this will work for a project I’m working on right this second.(tags: drupal)
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Wireless Universal Resource File — I think this was mentioned in the session I went to last week.(tags: browsers)
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“if good interface design and front-end code is important, ASP.Net is the devil” heh. I overheard a bit of a conversation between Garrett & somebody else last week on that very topic. the main reason, btw, that I dread the idea of learning .Net.
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“MonoRail differs from the standard WebForms way of development as it enforces separation of concerns” — for .Net.
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“zeldman.com now accepts comments” — I don’t know quite why, but it makes me sad. or maybe just nostalgic for circa 2000, when I first discovered the mighty Z.(tags: blogosphere)
links for 2006-07-27
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policies that actually MEAN something.
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ah, things to think about…and then do!
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“companies have for years based decisions on satisfaction surveys that have a poor response rate, largely because they’re too long”
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“I want what I do with my data to be limited only by my imagination and not the API’s, Terms of Service, functionality and server uptime of some random company.” I hear that! I still have continous misgivings about flickr, much as I love it, and I fee
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In summation: “Word is Still King” and people don’t know how to use it!(tags: web_dev accessibility)
links for 2006-07-26
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“A Few Articles About College Website Effectiveness, Goals and Planning” — on paper, even!
links for 2006-07-25
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I have this (somewhat wacky) idea that came to me from WebVisions. I just have no idea how to actually make it work.
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something to try
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very nice css-based design. I just like the look of it, gives me some new ideas for the home page.
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yet another framework
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hm.(tags: .net)
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an interesting argument against microformats. I will say that custom XML has previously been a bane of my existance.(tags: microformat standards)
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covers some of the same points as Snook’s talk at WV(tags: javascripty)
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Tom reminded me of this site last week.
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remote testing might be really helpful for us.
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for later.
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good tips on volunteering design work.
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an interesting data point in the world of blog design pricing (it works out to $830 US, btw). I think this may be a niche that I’m getting into myself. 🙂
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that is the logical end of things, isn’t it?
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“There are several thousand ways to complete the sentence […] And in case the universe wouldn’t be complete without another, here’s one more.” In my better moments, I am a brutal simplifier, and extreme complexifiers give me fits.(tags: productivity philosophizing)
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“PsyWar.Org is a repository for the serious historical study of psychological warfare [etc]”
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for future cheap-bastard-age.
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this one made my eyes well up with tears, even more than their cards often do.(tags: depression arts)
links for 2006-07-24
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that rawks. I think I might try something similar for some future projects….
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german parody vid with english subtitles
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all sorts of mac apps!
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I’ve seen this one before, but I thought it might be worth another look.(tags: photography)
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something to do….(tags: productivity to-do)
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like Hockney!(tags: photography arts)
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I like the stick-on card thing.(tags: gifts photography)