Code for Christmas
December 11th, 2008
A brilliant idea, and something I can get down to. I’ll probably hack at a certain gedit plugin that needs some love or one of my favorite gnome panel applets.
It's Not the User's Fault
July 17th, 2008
This article almost perfectly echoes my programming philosophy and reasons I’m interested in software in general (to rid the world of crappy HCI). Read it.
The Cognitive Surplus
April 29th, 2008
I just read an awesome article by Clay Shirky about social change, gin, the cognitive surplus, and why televisions don’t come with mouses:
And this is the other thing about the size of the cognitive surplus we’re talking about. It’s so large that even a small change could have huge ramifications. Let’s say that everything stays 99 percent the same, that people watch 99 percent as much television as they used to, but 1 percent of that is carved out for producing and for sharing. The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That’s about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that is 100 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation.
Hot Chicks with Douchebags
March 5th, 2008
This site is too good not to post a link to. The pictures are pretty hilarious, but the commentary is really what does it for me. Nowhere else can you get:
It’s like watching the Mona Lisa cop a squat and take a dump on the floor of the Louvre.
Right next to photos of pretty ladies and ridiculous haircuts. Classic.
Podcasts
March 3rd, 2008
Here are some podcasts that I’ve been nerding out to recently (these are direct links to the feeds):