September 2010
1 post
Everything you've learned in life. In five words.... →
Cliche but so great. Some of my favorites:
“Whole truth offends all parties.”
“Don’t be afraid to fail.”
“Never assume there’s toilet paper.”
“Whatever you do, have passion.”
“Never stop learning about everything.”
“Godammit you’ve gotta be kind”
August 2010
4 posts
July 2010
3 posts
“Murdered and placed on trial after his death, sentenced to life.”
– List of murderers by number of victims - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
About Giuseppe Greco
Korean Elevator
natfriedman:
The elevator in our hotel is the first I’ve ever seen which allows you to deselect a floor by pressing the button again. I’ve always talked about that, and here it is.
Stay tuned for further deep cultural insights from our travels.
The elevator in my office has the same feature if you double tap the button. So awesome. I actually use it every now and then.
June 2010
1 post
“Contrary to some Western beliefs, Dr. Blair says, many of Russia’s...”
– Dead Hand (nuclear war) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 2010
3 posts
“If you want to keep something intimate and if you want to keep something sacred,...”
– We Live in Public - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
April 2010
4 posts
“@atmos oh yes. “This might explode but I don’t care, keep calm and...”
– Twitter / matthew lyon: @atmos oh yes. “This might …
Inline rescue nil is the “Keep Calm and Carry On” of Ruby
HTML5 presentation in HTML5 →
“We will deploy the release to production after we obtain some sustenance.”
– Tim Carey-Smith
“You play differently when you’re on stage by yourself than when...”
– The Soloist
March 2010
16 posts
“It’s a bit like changing the tires on your car while still driving, and it...”
– Twitter switches to Unicorn.
The Twitter Engineering Blog: Unicorn Power
“it does crack me up that someone responsible for some pretty influential pieces...”
– jason_watkins in IRC. About James Duncan Davidson.
Note to self. In objective-c, super refers to the parent object. In ruby it calls the same method on the parent object.
def foo
super
end
- (void) foo
{
[super foo];
}
“Man pages have extremely — unbelievably — limited text formatting...”
– rtomayko’s ronn at master - GitHub
WatchHow To Ride Your Motorcycle In Pakistan - Motorcycles - Jalopnik
“2.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month, 4 billion photos on flickr...”
– JESS3 / The State of The Internet on Vimeo
“The lesson here may be that a centrally-planned economy is not good for very...”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Winter Olympics Balance of Power Shifting Toward U.S., Asia
February 2010
9 posts
“Ranking my equipment in terms of its shrapneliferousness is not something...”
– Things I Won’t Work With: Chalcogen Polyazides. In the Pipeline:
WatchLightning Strikes Sutro Tower on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“Health officials in Vancouver have already provided 100,000 free condoms to the...”
– Vancouver Now - Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes - Post Sports
“It’s three hours long, so you get more time to sleep.”
– Homeless Oscar picks
“Also, Yehuda is at almost every conference I am and though you wouldn’t think...”
– Scott Chacon | The Geek Talk
“The app includes a complete searchable library of the show, behind the scenes...”
– “This American Life” Tries a Paid iPhone App – GigaOM
“Republican state Senate Majority Leader Scott Jenkins said it’s...”
– Utah lawmaker wants MLK Day to honor gunmaker | Raw Story
October 2007
1 post
“I’m like a diseased pigeon.”
– Robby