Geek behaviors present during conversations
Oh, okay.
Open Letter From OK Go
Damian from OK Go about YouTube embeds and the current state of the music industry.
I have nothing to say, really.
Fuck off.
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
So, Google threatens to pull out of the Chinese market and as of today stopped censoring their search results on google.cn.
From bikinis to burkas
In his childhood, Toronto writer Kamal Al-Solaylee recalls a cosmopolitan, secular family from southern Yemen. Today his sisters and brothers are close-minded Islamists. As one middle-class clan loses its own struggle with extremism, so goes the country.
Bookmarks for December 18th through December 21st
These are my links for December 18th through December 21st:
- Get ‘Mini Squadron’… for Free | Touch Arcade –
- Epic 70-Minute Phantom Menace Review Justifies the Existence of The Phantom Menace – The phantom menace – Gizmodo –
- A Whole Lotta Nothing: In Defense of Twittering During Tragedy –
- The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? – Anil Dash – It's egregious that the newest implementations of the Twitter API are stil encouraging people to share their passwords with third-party sites. Five or ten years ago, this was common practice in APIs because we didn't have better options. Twitter started out using shared passwords, but mercifully has started to bring OAuth support online. But for new services to be encouraging the horrible practice of users entering their passwords into every application willy-nilly is just unacceptable.
- Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source –
Bookmarks for December 9th through December 17th
These are my links for December 9th through December 17th:
- Semantic Versioning – Yes.
- The Sexy Side of PEZ! –
- Lost in the Filth Simulacrum –
- Is this Le Web or Le Clique? | HPC – But here at Le Web 09, I feel like I’m staring that ugliness right in the eye. The program is mostly made up of the members and sycophants of the cartel mentioned above.
Bookmarks for November 28th through December 1st
These are my links for November 28th through December 1st:
Bookmarks for November 26th through November 27th
These are my links for November 26th through November 27th:
- The death of uncool « Prospect Magazine –
- WordPress › WordPress MU Domain Mapping « WordPress Plugins –
- Kommentierte Auszuege aus einer "Einverstaendniserklaerung" – Was die Lokalisten ihre Partyphotographen so unterschreiben lassen, ist schon ziemlich interessant.
- I can haz lolSQL? – Aaron Bassett –
- Dawn of the Dead Mall: Change Observer: Design Observer –
Bookmarks for November 5th through November 7th
These are my links for November 5th through November 7th:
- Style Icon: Cayce Pollard from William Gibson’s "Pattern Recognition" —> NOGOODFORME.COM – So awesome you can't even see her.
- Captured Photo Collection » Ian Fisher : American Soldier Photos – Oh wow.
- Bob’s Blog – ColdFusion Tidbits: Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub –
- Mockingbird –
- Phone texting reveals sensitive new metrotextual | Technology | Internet | Reuters –
SEO, Star Trek and binge drinking
These are my links for October 13th through October 14th:
- An Open Letter To Derek Powazek On The Value Of SEO –
- Photos: Rare Snapshots from Early Star Trek Conventions | Newsweek Music | Newsweek.com –
- Literatur aus China: In allen Betten mit allen Männern. Und immer mit dabei: Eine große Portion Scham | Kultur | ZEIT ONLINE –
- Please Be Patient – This Page is Under Construction | MetaFilter –
- Marginal Revolution: Really? –
- springpad –
- How to run, meditate, and not get hurt – Boing Boing –
- Kiasu – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia –
- Welcome to binge Britain: Polish photographer documents four years of drunken revelry in Cardiff | Mail Online –
Bookmarks for September 10th through September 11th
These are my links for September 10th through September 11th:
Bookmarks for July 29th through August 2nd
These are my links for July 29th through August 2nd:
- law blog» Archiv » Die Meinungsfreiheit als Sondermüll – Die böse Absicht darf mittlerweile unterstellt werden.
- Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. – Especially cool: the "font-face kits"
- Salon.com | Why America is flunking science –
- Formel Eins: Michael Schumacher gibt Comeback –
- Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule –
Bookmarks for May 5th through May 12th
These are my links for May 5th through May 12th:
- Dominos Pizza – Why Everyone is in PR Now and Employee Engagement Matters | redcatco blog – PR is no longer about a few staff managing relationships with some journalists. PR is about every member of staff looking after relationships with the “Public” – the sea of people who are customers, prospects, suppliers, partners, potential future employees and friends and friends of friends of all of those.
- Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives – Many companies that have gone bust didn't die because of the recession. They failed for one reason: They treated customers poorly
- Stuart Jeffries on the revival of the exclamation mark | Books | The Guardian – Ha! Ha! Ha!!einself
- yuml.me – Useful for quick UML diagrams.
- The Geospatial Revolution – Boing Boing – Cool links.
Bookmarks for May 1st through May 5th
These are my links for May 1st through May 5th:
- Retropolis – the Future That Never Was – Oh noes! Someone stop me!
- Classical Geek Theatre: Regarding The Jonas Brothers – If 'N Sync was a punk rocker's Abu Ghraib then The Jonas Brothers are the punk rocker's Auschwitz.
- Lily’s Wai Sek Hong: Char Siew – Hungry!
- Free Windows 7 for a year – Yay?
- The Biology of B-Movie Monsters –
Bookmarks for April 19th through April 21st
These are my links for April 19th through April 21st:
- Vettel: I Name Thee Kate’s Dirty Sister – I laughed.
- Inside the precision hack – So why do they do it? Why do they write code, build complex applications, publish graphs – why do they organize a team that is more effective than most startup companies? Says Zombocom: “For the lulz”.
- The Pirate Bay – The world’s largest BitTorrent tracker – "Continue to build the internets! Start more bittorrent sites, blog more, start your own lobby group, create, remix, mash up and continue to grow more heads on this amazing hydra that we know as the internets!"
- Google Torrent Search – Useful.
- Police delete London tourists’ photos ‘to prevent terrorism’ | UK news | guardian.co.uk – To prevent tourism?