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Map Reading - How to fold a map for use in land navigation with...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:13:50 -0700

Map Reading - How to fold a map for use in land navigation with map and compass

I keep losing this.

Cool for maps, yeah, but it also doubles as a way to turn one sheet of printer paper into a 16-page notebook for about a penny.

malesca: Pinch to fold in TextMate on Macbook Air/new Pro with...

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:09:25 -0700

malesca:

Pinch to fold in TextMate on Macbook Air/new Pro with MultiClutch.

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea."

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:59:31 -0700

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.”

- Alain (via jackcheng)

Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:42:25 -0700

Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture « BuzzMachine

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Construct Your CSS | WYSIWYG Layout Editor, Semantic & Table-Free | Based on Blueprint & jQuery

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:23:21 -0700

Construct Your CSS | WYSIWYG Layout Editor, Semantic & Table-Free | Based on Blueprint & jQuery

Gmail: Tips

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:23:21 -0700

Gmail: Tips: Half a dozen of these a new to me. DEFINITELY learn and use the key commands.

"People who live in the present often wind up exploiting the present to an extent that it starts..."

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:32:26 -0700

“People who live in the present often wind up exploiting the present to an extent that it starts removing the possibility of having a future.”

- An interview with Alan Kay (via jackcheng)

"Dear Digg, If you wish to provide your users with a toolbar for added functionality in browsing..."

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:11:00 -0700

“

Dear Digg,

If you wish to provide your users with a toolbar for added functionality in browsing Digg, give them a real toolbar as a browser plugin.

”

- FarukAt.eş

"Procrastinating writing performance reviews by finding books on Amazon that I can’t start..."

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:03:29 -0700

“Procrastinating writing performance reviews by finding books on Amazon that I can’t start reading until I finish these performance reviews.”

- Pete Hopkins, to whom I officially say, “Join the club, my friend.”

"So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter,..."

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:45:52 -0700

“So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products….”

- mathowie

Following Project - a set on Flickr A project where I...

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:44:36 -0700

Following Project - a set on Flickr

A project where I gradually add highest available res avatars of the people I’m following on Twitter.

What a cool idea. Go, Zeldman.

So long, Stacey’s The inevitability of my favorite...

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:51:47 -0700

So long, Stacey’s

The inevitability of my favorite bookstore closing doesn’t make it any less brutal to watch.

Data points:

Where I bought my Rough Guide to SF on my first trip here in 1997
Where I bought dozens of issues of Harpers and The Atlantic
Where we bought the first books that Ellie helped pick out for herself
My 2nd-favorite downtown public restroom
A store whose rent, an employee informed me last month, was $65,000 per month. Every month. Sixty-five thousand dollars.

It’s super-hard to watch good businesses with good people go down; but it truly is just the beginning of a lot of change.

As much as I adored this store, I can’t imagine the insanity of a $65k monthly nut. Especially when you’re competing with free delivery from a company that stocks every conceivable piece of media in print — let alone groceries, toys, electronics, and pretty much any other hard good on the planet that can fit into a box.

Sad, awful, and horribly overdue inevitability that, in this instance, feels like a lot more than a statistic and a shrug.

"There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to..."

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:33:50 -0700

“There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote ‘pro blogging’ industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.”

- John Gruber, as ever, encapsulating the blah blah blah into a succinct, memorable, and paint-peelingly candid précis. Damn.

Merlin Mann, The Bros. Chaps & Jeff Olsen of adultswim.com on Online Branding Jesse just posted...

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:20:03 -0700

Merlin Mann, The Bros. Chaps & Jeff Olsen of adultswim.com on Online Branding

Jesse just posted the aforementioned IMA panel as a podcast episode of The Sound of Young America.

An unusual Sound of Young America podcast: I talk with 43folders.com writer Merlin Mann,
Homestar Runners creators Mike and Matt Chapman (aka The Bros. Chaps), and Jeff Olsen, creative director of adultswim.com, at the Integrated Media Association conference in Atlanta. The (somewhat cheesy) title of the session was “Blow Up Your Brand.” We chatted about how to do something on the internet that people will actually give a hoot about.

"June, I can just see it: Apple launches 2 new OS’s, a new phone, and Steve returns. Headlines:..."

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:03:13 -0700

“June, I can just see it: Apple launches 2 new OS’s, a new phone, and Steve returns. Headlines: ‘NO TABLET. WORST KEYNOTE EVER.’”

- Neven Mrgan

Announcing Wikirank: Tracking what’s popular on Wikipedia,...

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:05:00 -0700

Announcing Wikirank: Tracking what’s popular on Wikipedia, by Jeffrey Veen

The result is Wikirank, a tool for exploring what’s popular on Wikipedia, discovering comparisons between topics, and sharing them with the world. We launched it yesterday, happily coinciding with the 14th anniversary with Ward Cunningham’s invention of the wiki.

Don’t tell them I said this, but, at this point, there’s exactly three entities on this planet that I’d work for:

Watch those Small Batch guys. They are going to be responsible for many amazing things.

Merlin Mann on Wikirank

Related: my interviews with Jeff when he (and Greg and Ryan) were still at the Google.

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"I gave up picking just one woman in tech who has inspired me over the years. I certainly knew that I..."

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:28:55 -0700

“I gave up picking just one woman in tech who has inspired me over the years. I certainly knew that I couldn’t list them all. Here’s a roughly chronological list, which breaks down at the end when I realise that there could be no end.”

- Danny O’Brien

"Now I sort of think of the whole engine as a special genetically engineered cow who eats music and..."

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:06:13 -0700

“Now I sort of think of the whole engine as a special genetically engineered cow who eats music and poops money - I have no idea what’s going on in its gut, and I have the luxury of not really caring that much about the particulars.”

- Jonathan Coulton

via gordonshumway Yes! It does exist!

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:49:00 -0700

via gordonshumway

Yes! It does exist!

Android Versus iPhone 3.0: The Showdown

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:09:50 -0700

Android Versus iPhone 3.0: The Showdown: Terrific article from Gina. I’ve used a G1 alongside my iPhone for a couple months and like it way WAY more than I expected.