43 Folders Clips

"Me? I’m updating my business card to say ‘advanced beginner’ and celebrate that I’m..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:55:33 -0700

“Me? I’m updating my business card to say ‘advanced beginner’ and celebrate that I’m working towards something meaningful and valuable through the process of it all.”

- P Morgan Brown. Well put.

transcriptions - Project Hosting on Google Code Neat little...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:01:46 -0700

transcriptions - Project Hosting on Google Code

Neat little BSD-licensed app for transcribing from audio with timestamps. Try it. You’ll get it immediately.

Coding Horror: 9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate You

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:49:17 -0700

Coding Horror: 9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try to Manipulate You:

“Let’s take a look at the various excerpts presented in that article, and consider how we can avoid falling into the rut of predictably irrational behavior — and defend ourselves from those vicious…

everythinginthesky: “In a computerized society where...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:10:07 -0700

everythinginthesky:

“In a computerized society where individuality is diminished, there are those who find little to no satisfaction in strict conformity to stereotyped living and are searching for their own answers to life’s questions and how best to live, work and find happiness.”

via dtybywl

Love or Confusion? - Outasight

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:08:56 -0700

Love or Confusion? - Outasight

Embeddable Google Document Viewer

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:08:56 -0700

Embeddable Google Document Viewer:

“Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don’t have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available…

Hitchcock - Mobile storyboarding for your iphone You never...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:45:46 -0700

Hitchcock - Mobile storyboarding for your iphone

You never know when or where your ideas happen. So why wouldn’t you want to have the ability to capture your ideas when you want to? With Hitchcock you can. It lives on your phone so it’s always there. That is the simple convenience of Hitchcock.

Bought it the second I heard about it. Not much of a screenwriter or film maker myself yet, but a) it’s super-fun to use and learn and b) it’s nice to know it’s there when inspiration first strikes.

Also interesting for comic folks and visual thinkers of all stripes

Official Google Docs Blog: Using Google Docs to manage a website...

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:44:49 -0700

Official Google Docs Blog: Using Google Docs to manage a website redesign

Switching the process over to Google Docs streamlined the whole thing. We listed all the bugs and errant links in a spreadsheet, color-coded the status of each issue, and added comment columns so everyone could see the nitty gritty of each problem without doing a dozen inbox searches.

Cf., Veen’s 2002 classic: adaptive path » doing a content inventory (or, a mind-numbingly detailed odyssey through your web site)

Online Disinhibition Effect

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:40:16 -0700

Online Disinhibition Effect:

bestofwikipedia:

The core concept of the online disinhibition effect refers to a loosening (or complete abandonment) of social restrictions and inhibitions that would otherwise be present in normal face-to-face interaction during interactions with others on the Internet. (via @Apothegmatic)

Hotel Toilet-Paper Folding

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:03:16 -0700

Hotel Toilet-Paper Folding:

bestofwikipedia:

Hotel toilet-paper folding is a common practice performed by hotels worldwide as a way of assuring guests that the bathroom has been cleaned, and sometimes, with more elaborate foldings, to impress or delight guests with the management’s creativity and attention to detail. (via @yjon)

I am, as you may know, obsessed with this.

Anthony Burrill - Work Hard and Be Nice to People swissmiss |...

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:43:35 -0700

Anthony Burrill - Work Hard and Be Nice to People

swissmiss | Work Hard

"I’d spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I..."

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:41:24 -0700

“I’d spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay down.”

- John Lennon, 1980

Baseline - a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:04:07 -0700

Baseline - a designer framework by ProjetUrbain.com

marco: The best way to increase your productivity, hack your life, and be minimalist is to stop...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:43:05 -0700

marco:

The best way to increase your productivity, hack your life, and be minimalist is to stop reading those sites.

"Read not the Times. Read the Eternities."

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:31:52 -0700

“Read not the Times. Read the Eternities.”

- From the essay Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, who was complaining about gossip and the trivialities of the daily news long before any of us were born. (via jackcheng)

LEARN SOMETHING EVERYDAY Fun site with a new fact + graphic...

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:57:04 -0700

LEARN SOMETHING EVERYDAY

Fun site with a new fact + graphic every day. I’m increasingly attracted to sites that are more fun to read outside an RSS reader. Makes enjoying them more intentional — less of a commodity you churn through by clicking the space bar.

"If there’s one thing I’ve learned about living a life it’s that you need to keep moving, and if..."

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:27:20 -0700

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned about living a life it’s that you need to keep moving, and if there’s another thing it’s that you really should quit your job every once in a while and take on something new, maybe even something that seems crazy and scares the hell out of you.”

- Jonathan Coulton (via meaghano via marco) (via jackcheng)

"But the Internet did something else to the news. By putting everyone on a 120MPH highway, it left..."

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:37:49 -0700

“But the Internet did something else to the news. By putting everyone on a 120MPH highway, it left very little room for value judgment and discretion around what is or isn’t worth talking about.”

- Basement.org: On The Web, More Isn’t Only Less, It’s Actually Nothing

minimalmac: quicksilver + applescript = quick timestamped note taking I love the Quicksilver...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:13:57 -0700

minimalmac:

quicksilver + applescript = quick timestamped note taking

I love the Quicksilver “append to…” feature for logging quick notes, but found it tiresome to always (a) manually add the date and (b) find my target file. So I wrote up some quick AppleScript to take care of that for me. Now it’s just “invoke QS, type ‘.’, jot my note, TAB, type ‘LogIt’ and I’m done.” Here’s the AppleScript in case anyone else would find it useful.

Bonus suggestion: the Mac’s Console.app is a great way to actually consume those notes you take. If you set your “open with…” preference on your own personal log file to Console.app, you’ll get to take advantage of the app’s string matching feature to quickly find and filter the file to just the things you’re looking for. Say you log what you have for lunch every day, if you open the file in Console.app, type “lunch” into the search box, the app will only show you those entries. Simple, easy, and it’s already on your mac.

(Submitted by sippey)

Ooh, that Console tip is a juicy one ain’t it? Hot damn!

Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Much Ado About IE6 Uh....

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:45:56 -0700

Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Much Ado About IE6

Uh. Wow. What a way to live.