March 2010
40 posts
Unemployed, a grad student rethinks the world of...
I made a distinction between people like Lina, for whom I imagined that place was the destination, and people like myself, for whom I believed it was simply a place to pass through. Back then I thought my future was going to pick me up like a train and carry me everywhere I wanted to go – grad school, a great writing job, and marriage, all before I turned 30. But that wasn’t what life had in...
“Why baby Jesus? Research confirms there were upwards of 157 hotel-cum-stables in...”
– Great satire, rediscovered: Malcolm Gladwell explains Christmas
March 27, 2010 →
Woop! James, JP, and I are over at Jon Brence’s place to storyboard and make perdy art in preparation for Wondercon. Whee!
The System. →
Top 10 Atheism Quotes →
There are hundreds of great atheism quotes out there. Like most skillful turns of phrase, they all sound good. But there are many I disagree with, for example “All thinking men are atheists” (…
Photo Masterclasses: The Complete Collection from... →
The complete collection of BBC Wildlife Magazine’s Photo Masterclasses.
12 pdfs on photographing everything from animals in zoos to plants in the wild.
“The artist’s task consists primarily in maximizing the number of possible...”
– The War on Mediocrity - Lynch the Luminary: on interpretation
Quantum mechanics just got REAL →
The opening paragraph of the article says it all: A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not…
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
– Carl Sagan (via emilyposts) (via pop17) (via spytap)
Search Recipes by Available Ingredients
CookingByNumbers.com
AllRecipes.com : Ingredient Search
“Silence, magnanimous civility, and getting their name slightly wrong is best.
...”
– Alain de Botton: You’ll regret those words until your dying day - Telegraph
How to Obscure Any URL →
Fairly good introductory post on URI obfuscation
Global warming: temporal patterns of public... →
From GraphJam
http://i.imgur.com/C5hAo.gif →
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/file... →
734423 →
Today my mom told me about a conversations she had with my aunt and she told me how my cousin and his friends have been getting in trouble at school for saying “Thats What She Said” So now to aviod…
The Reasons for Writing Software
Are, in rough order of nobleness:
Because no one else has made anything like this before and I’m sure it’ll be awesome.
Because no one has ever combined these feature sets and the combination will be legen — dramatic pause — dary.
Because this platform needs this type of software.
Because my version will be way better than all the others.
Because building it will teach me something.
Because...
“Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years...”
– Sir Martin Rees, professor of cosmology and astrophysics at Cambridge University, Astronomer Royal.
Why Intelligent People Fail →
Why Intelligent People Fail
Everything about this article feels obvious, but I’ve never seen it articulated so well:
Being intelligent is like having a knife. If you train every day in using…
New Must-Read Publication! →
I just thought Shakers should know about it. Reading is essential, after all. h/t my friend James — also Here.
What to do if your startup is about fail (or... →
Fantastically in-depth look at how to deal with tough financial times when running a start-up.
Setup your own Proxy Server in 5 Minutes for Free →
A simple Google search and you’ll find dozens of really good PHP scripts on the Internet to help you create proxy servers in minutes for free. The only limitation with PHP based…
“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You...”
– Bryan Dyson, Coca Cola CEO