December 2009
13 posts
BibliOdyssey: Victorian Infographics →
I’m going to prep that time machine just as soon as I gather all my quills and inks.
Dec 30th
2 tags
10 Essential Photography E-Books for the Holidays →
Dec 15th
1 tag
“There’s no trick here, guys. No system. No diagram. No hack. No tips, no...”
– Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start | 43 Folders
Dec 14th
2 tags
Lovecraft 101: Get To Know The Master of... →
Dec 14th
1 tag
How to Find and Use Scripts in Gimp →
Dec 14th
1 tag
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you... →
Dec 13th
1 tag
As We May Think - The Atlantic (July 1945) →
Dec 13th
1 tag
How To: Create Stunningly Realistic High Dynamic... →
Dec 10th
1 tag
GIMP – An Introduction →
Dec 9th
1 tag
“A picture is what you take when you accidentally mash your hands on the shutter...”
– Stop Taking Pictures, Start Creating Images
Dec 8th
2 tags
Creepy High Voltage Installations →
Dec 7th
1 tag
4 More Tips for Photographing Children →
Dec 3rd
1 tag
25 Photo Composition Tips | Photofocus →
Dec 1st
November 2009
1 post
1 tag
10 Ways Photography Has Changed My Life →
Nov 29th
May 2009
3 posts
2 tags
“The most important thing is that the writer’s original perception of a...”
– Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft I’ve put off reading this book, mostly because I loathe that section of the bookstore. I see all these books about writing and feel they are the domain of people who dream of being writers but never do. If I go there, then I am admitting that I...
May 5th
1 tag
May 3rd
1 tag
May 1st
A guy could make a lot of money setting up ad-based web sites with urls based on popular web addresses as commonly mis-typed on a BlackBerry. You are welcome.
May 1st
April 2009
2 posts
Tiny House Blog - Small House Living →
This must be luddite day!
Apr 23rd
March 2009
7 posts
Rule 72
Don’t look down when you walk. Look ahead.
Mar 26th
Pentagon plans to build giant spy zeppelin - Boing... →
Finally, a reason to be all that I can be.
Mar 16th
“The dirty secret of corporate IT is that its primary mission is to serve...”
– The High Priests of IT — And the Heretics - Now, New, Next - HarvardBusiness.org
Mar 12th
The 50 States Project →
I have a secret theory that every place in the United States is exactly the same and the media tries to highlight our differences so we don’t organize. I hope this proves me wrong.
Mar 6th
Mar 6th
The Cult of Done Manifesto →
This makes me want to do meaningful and exciting things. And be more like Ted Nugent. (via boing boing)
Mar 4th
jQuery Sparklines →
These things always make me want to build a web site just to track something, anything.
Mar 3rd
February 2009
9 posts
Steampunk airships in Lego - Boing Boing Gadgets →
Feb 27th
1 tag
“Using progammer’s tools to do other stuff is like using chef’s...”
– Cory Doctorow, on a podcast describing his Flashbake system for managing his written work. This just blew my mind a little bit.
Feb 24th
1 tag
“First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.”
– Mark Twain
Feb 13th
Show Us Your Saints - Boing Boing →
A guest post on Boing Boing from Gareth Branwyn where he lists those teachers in his life who have wrought a huge impact—his personal saints. Branwyn’s post is thoughtful (and thought-provoking), but the comments are the truly fascinating part of this exchange.
Feb 13th
1 tag
“Whatever you are, be a good one”
– Abraham Lincoln (via a magnet my wife put on the fridge this weekend)
Feb 9th
Principles of the American Cargo Cult →
Feb 7th
“I still live in your world. In this very house even. But now I exist between two...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Short Imagined Monologues (oldie via boing boing)
Feb 7th
1 tag
“To put it bluntly, people die. Indeed, death is arguably the single most...”
– The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica
Feb 3rd
Feb 3rd
January 2009
13 posts
Jan 29th
Nerd Merit Badges →
Jan 29th
1 tag
“Shut it Ginger, or you’re gettin one, too.”
– You cannot beat Sawyer for off the cuff eloquence.
Jan 22nd
Lyric of the day
The guy who plays the banjo keeps on handin’ me the Old Crow which multiplies my sorrow — I can’t take it anymore. Old 97’s, Doreen
Jan 21st
Three pack
1. Louder set of stereo speakers 2. Faster wireless router 3. Music for us and the boy
Jan 21st
Jan 20th
1 tag
Jan 20th
Epiphany
Crazy is only bad if you put it all in one big bucket. The key is to have many little buckets for all your different kinds of crazy.
Jan 14th
Jan 13th
“Forget advice about finding the right atmosphere to coax your muse into the...”
– Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
Jan 9th
Photojojo » New Year’s Just Ain’t New Year’s... →
Jan 7th
Jan 4th
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Jan 4th
December 2008
7 posts
On my personal coat of arms, my lack of discipline shall be represented by a worn-out toothbrush and three dead AAA batteries.
Dec 30th
“[Y]ou can’t imagine handing down “your grandfather’s...”
– Waking Up from the ‘Nightmare on Tech Street’
Dec 23rd