January 2012
1 post
D&D 5th Edition is on the way →
Ethan Gilsdorf:
On Monday, Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary that owns the game, announced that a new edition is under development, the first overhaul of the rules since the contentious fourth edition was released in 2008. And Dungeons & Dragons’ designers are also planning to undertake an exceedingly rare effort for the gaming industry over the next few months: asking hundreds...
November 2011
2 posts
Now We’re Knuckle-Deep Into This Geek Foolery →
I had no idea one of my favorite podcasters, Matthew Jordan, was a wowhead. He writes:
It can be grueling, this fun you’re having. Coldmaker is a little late, not like him, but I think his game privileges were limited, something about a math test. He’s in gun country, the kid’s got a backyard full of broken washing machines now reserved for beer bottles and bullets. Ravheart will be on in a...
“Programming styles that conceal defects are themselves defective.”
– Paraphrasing Douglas Crockford at #yuiconf. Probably applies to more than programming though.
October 2011
3 posts
Totey, The Loneliest Shaman →
Chris Hanel & Michael Owen:
“Just let me in the raid good sirs,
no disappointment will I be,
and once we’ve stomped heroic mode
we’ll celebrate with PVP!”
but all the server’s raider,
from the Death Knights to the Retadins
just turned away from Totey
though he knew not what could be his sins.
Web Symbols typeface →
It’s like Wingdings, only use useful.
Hat tip: @mikebrisk.
Rolling Stone: My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street... →
Great ideas on real reforms for Wall Street, via John Gruber.
September 2011
3 posts
From the buried lede department: swine farms and... →
Maryn McKenna of Wired, in her last paragraph on seagulls spreading multi-drug-resistant E. coli in their feces.
Deep in the medical literature, there’s another suggestion. In 2005, researchers from the CDC, FDA and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the feces of Canada geese living on bodies of water in North Carolina and Georgia. The geese’s...
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I’m just curious to see if this makes it through the Internets.
August 2011
3 posts
HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack →
Obama: Debt Ceiling Deal Required Tough... →
via Daring Fireball.
June 2011
4 posts
“[F]uck it, I don’t care what you think. I’m trying to do the right thing.
I’m...”
– Roy McDonald, state senator for New York, on reversing his opinion on same-sex marriage.
I would be a republican, if McDonald actually represented the Republican party. Also in this article: why I consider myself a lapsed Catholic.
Via NY Daily News, hat tip: John Gruber.
“As of today, there are 1,353 open bugs in Bugzilla.”
– Dhiren Patel, on Facebook’s Operation Developer Love.
Ouch.
May 2011
10 posts
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web... →
Spot on.
“You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting...”
– Zombie Marie Curie on XKCD.
Ideal Sans, a handmade typeface for a machine-made... →
A new font from HF&J. From the font overview:
Ideal Sans began as an attempt to reclaim the Humanist style, and to restore its missing humanity. … Unlike most sans serifs, it is allergic to geometry: the design contains almost no straight lines, very few symmetries, and it takes every opportunity to resist formulaic rules.
Gorgeous.
WatchIn the basement rolling dice, I’m a wizard. This made my day.
“Gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math.”
– Some random guy on wowhead.
April 2011
7 posts
David Hobby: A Baltimore Sun photographer who took... →
Steven I. Weiss, writing for Slate:
How Hobby went from being a workaday newspaper photographer to an internationally recognized guru is a story tied up with seismic changes in the photography profession. By teaching a horde of novices the skills necessary to shoot photographs of a quality that was until very recently only within the grasp of an elite few, Hobby has played a significant role...
1 tag
Photoshop was programmed by monkeys and how to... →
I’m on the fence as to whether to like the techniques posted in this article, or whether to throw my laptop out a window because an article like this is even necessary. The fact that there is, as of now, no serious competition to Photoshop for Web work is a travesty.
Ivailo Iliev adds a great comment toward the end too:
Make your Grid in Photoshop so that it has Gridline every 1 pixels...
+1 |pləs wən| →
verb [trans]. irregular - To like, agree with or recommend.
ORIGIN early 21st cent. 4chan +1 Internets; later appropriated by Google to combat Facebook likes.
USAGE
Present: I +1, She +1’s Past: I +1’d Future: I will +1 Perfect: I am +1’ing, I have +1’d, I will have +1’d Adverb: You are a fantastic +1’er Imperative Joe, +1 that search result. Declarative:...
March 2011
2 posts
“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally...”
– Barack Obama in 2007. From Boston. Pretty interesting quote about warrantless wiretapping before that too. Via The Daily Show.
February 2011
6 posts
Our country's most important systems have the... →
Chris Palmer writing for the EFF:
In my own private-sector security industry work, I observed a pattern: the higher the stakes, the worse the security. “Worse” usually means “more easily resolved with known techniques”. I evaluated a wide range of applications and platforms, and almost invariably found that the most important systems — those managing life, health, and money — were poorly...
WatchI’m just going to leave this here.
“One reason airport security measures frustrate travelers is that screening...”
– Delicious American hypocrisy captured in The New York Times. Liberty and freedom until it becomes inconvenient.
If we don't, remember me →
I just went through 34 pages of this blog in one sitting. Amazing.
January 2011
2 posts
AZ Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, last year, on the consequences of Sarah Palin’s violent rhetoric. Today she’s fighting for her life after an attempted assassination.
December 2010
2 posts
Salon: Are the American people obsolete? →
Michael Lind:
If the American rich increasingly do not depend for their wealth on American workers and American consumers or for their safety on American soldiers or police officers, then it is hardly surprising that so many of them should be so hostile to paying taxes to support the infrastructure and the social programs that help the majority of the American people. The rich don’t need...
The Reaction of Governments to Wikileaks Should... →
Roberto Arguedas nails it.
November 2010
5 posts
WatchDon’t forget the 24th is National Opt-Out day, and this PSA reminds you the little something extra you’ll be getting.
Via Hulu.
“White people have an amazing ability to get drunk and then all happily sing, in...”
– An excerpt of Whiter Shades of Pale.
1,000 People Live in the Sewers Beneath Las Vegas →
Sure, these tunnel people may be sideshows now, but it’s only a few generations before these proto-morlocks start eating us!
So I had this chat
Me: why are you up so late?
Myself: because I'm futzing with Tumblr's API.
