July 2010
47 posts
omg i never realized
sirmitchell:
(via gifparty)
deal with it.
gifparty:
The Awesome 'Secret' Behind the Music in Inception →
this. is. fantastic.
Canvas Cycle: True 8-bit Color Cycling with HTML5 →
These are so pretty.
Kiva Is Not Quite What It Seems →
Long post, longer list of comments, fascinating and complex and difficult to resolve.
My addition is that of course Kiva doesn’t work the way you think it does — the product they seem to sell (direct, transparent microloans from lender to entrepreneur) wouldn’t be scaleable at Kiva’s growth rate and a per-lender amount of $25.
The key to their success is also what some...
“i don’t know why, but your dislike of inception makes me UNNATURALLY...”
– an email i just sent to jenn
“…’The companies don’t care about me. They care only about...”
– Slashdot user V_drive, on a super-old article about everquest.
Why People Are Mean (Page 2) - Oprah.com →
liked this page. “wheel of suffering” INDEED
A List Apart: JavaScript Minification Part II →
great stuff
Flickr: Wallace Design House's Photostream →
this is the winningest bunch of win
Mechanical Turk Diaries : Jason Huff →
oh wow.
Fake Invoice - Don'tEvenReply.com →
the whole thing turns around at “wait a minute”
entertained update:
have been doing the entertainment blackout thing for 11 days now. observations:
the first three days we crazy; super-quiet. went outdoors a lot, hung out with friends much more than usual
days 3-4 i definitely had kind of a “brain is on fire” feeling when home alone — the teenage kind, where you don’t want to do anything in particular but you know you don’t want to do...
ydnar: Less 365 →
even yayer
Life Improvements | David's Log →
yaaaaaay
Create a Colorful Portrait with Easy Lighting... →
Big list of image optimization tools / Stoyan's... →
“the way to optimize a GIF is to convert it to PNG.” nice to hear someone say that out loud. yay for pngs!
How ALT Text Renders in Popular Email Clients -... →
Campaign Monitor is, without a doubt, the best place to read about HTML email.
Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Homeopathy →
this is a good fast read and FASCINATING
11 Things You Didn't Know About Comic Sans -... →
“there are very, very specific ways that Comic Sans can be used in limited doses to enhance, not repulse. Basically, it’s like Gilbert Gottfried.”
i hate comic-sans bashing, but this is kinda fun….
am I not entertained?
Been struggling a lot with entertainment itself recently - mostly the use of it to just numb out large sections of spare time, rather than really engage in something. It seems like we’re an incredibly entertained people, and yet, we’re NOT entertained — it’s never enough, you can never watch enough or listen to enough or play enough to be satisfied and move on. Worse, a lot of...
new favorite thing
when i go to pick up francis and he JUMPS up in my arms. he is one great cat.
our other cat, however, is just kind of dumb.
Okay, kids, play on my lawn - Roger Ebert's... →
Roger Ebert takes back his (valuable, considerable) statement about videos games as art, and makes the new (true, obvious) statement that you shouldn’t knock video games on the internet.
Tom Chick: The Man Who Hated Deus Ex | Rock,... →
“One angry fellow – he was a kid really – sent me a picture of himself, pointing a gun at the camera. He wrote something like “go ahead, make my day” in the email. I suppose that could be considered…