February 2008
59 posts
Creating a custom HTML theme for your tumblelog →
When I have more time, I need to sit down and make use of all these hot new code blocks for theming tumblr.
January 2008
47 posts
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“Archery ranks as the nation’s fourth-fastest-growing sport behind skateboarding,...”
– Mark J. Penn on “micro-trends” (via nytimes.com)
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“Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.”
– holycrapfacts
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“How do we expect anyone to take this seriously as an advertising device if we...”
– CBS Mobile chief Cyriac Roeding on the complexities of the mobile market and mobile advertising (via gigaom.com)
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“I don’t fear pay for performance. I fear pay for performance for measures...”
– Dr. Benjamin Brewer on the fallacy of most doctor and performance rating metrics (via Jay Parkinson, MD)
TheDieline.com →
Billed as “The web’s leading packaging design blog.” This is my guilty pleasure. I have an even greater appreciation for design on a 3D level.
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“So if we’re causing people not to eat fish or to choose to eat something...”
– Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian on why we should be eating more tuna, not less (via time.com)
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“In 2001, I sold 10,000 hard copies. And everyone was puzzled. We came from zero,...”
– Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of “The Alchemist” on successfully using BitTorrent, file-sharing networks, ftp sites, and a central WordPress blog to increase awareness and sales of his books in Russia. (via torrentfreak.com)
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“You cannot do science unless you are an optimist.”
– David Baltimore (1975 Nobel laureate)
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“No one ever died from using too much whitespace.”
– Mark Norman Francis
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Lazarus Long in Robert Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love (via kottke.org)
Vagabox's obscure counterculture quotes (complete... →
Huge 5-page list of interesting and thought-provoking quotes. (via Niels Olson)
Edward Tufte: Ask E.T. forum →
Current discussion topics on interface design and information visualization in the forums of a master of information design.
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Note to self: Subscribe to New Yorker again
A month after I moved to San Francisco in February, I received the last issue of New Yorker in my subscription. I let it expire thinking that I would return to reading books during my commute. While I have been working through some fantastic medical literature (Complications by Atul Gawande and An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks, thanks Bookmooch!), I still miss a lot of the great articles...
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Nutcracker Suite, Act I
Michael Lewis: (speaking with his vasectomy doctor) Tell me something else...
Doctor: What's that?
Michael Lewis: Do you have children?
Doctor: Yes.
Michael Lewis: Do you intend to have more?
Doctor: No.
Michael Lewis: Have you had it done to yourself?
Doctor: No.
Doctor: I haven't.
Michael Lewis: Hypocrite.
Seeed →
Discussions about various aspects of starting and running small web application businesses.
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“A 34-company committee couldn’t create a successful ham sandwich, much less a...”
– Steven Frank on Android
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“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to...”
– Walter Chrysler (via 37signals.com)
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“What’s the easiest way to charge money for software? Build software that helps...”
– Matt Linderman
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“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the [Amazon Kindle] is, the fact is that...”
– Steve Jobs (via secretenemyhideout.com)
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