January 2012
1 post
“One doubts that unknown parties breaking into the Montgomery bus depot at...”
– Watts Martin
July 2011
1 post
“Outside a relative handful of financial publications, there is no such thing as...”
– Clay Shirky, “Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic”
May 2011
1 post
“[The much-discussed Lodsys patent] is, in fact, an 89-page abomination that...”
– Dr. Drang
April 2011
2 posts
“When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the...”
– Austin Kleon (via marco)
3 tags
Coyote Tracks: Markdown OS X Services →
Also works swell with /usr/local/bin/mmd. Nice, one [brother New College alumus] Watts!
February 2011
3 posts
2 tags
“Because as long as we focus on the romance of the supplies, we don’t have to...”
– The Weight of a Good Notebook « The Bygone Bureau
“On the one hand, I’m constantly surprised by how many people settle for so...”
– Ken Robinson on Finding Your Passion
January 2011
8 posts
1 tag
“Guard yourself at all times. A lot of people believe that beauty is some kind of...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
unDock →
onethingwell:
A little utility that will eject all external drives mounted on your Mac with a quick command key combination, cancelling Time Machine backups if necessary.
App Store
One Thing Well: The Mac App Store →
“The Mac feels a bit more Linuxy today”
∞ Microsoft Needs to Learn From Apple’s Near Death →
“…Microsoft has yet to learn from Apple’s mistakes. “
csv2tab - Convert CSV files to awk friendly tab... →
If your awk and sed skills are as lame as my own.
The Ultimate Dropbox Toolkit →
A slew of terrific ideas here.
November 2010
2 posts
“People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest...”
– Beatrice Warde (via viafrank)
“Ideas don’t come from sitting around wondering where ideas come from.”
– Adam Koford
October 2010
2 posts
“Me? I’m updating my business card to say ‘advanced beginner’ and...”
– P Morgan Brown. Well put.
September 2009
18 posts
Coding Horror: 9 Ways Marketing Weasels Will Try... →
“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…
Love or Confusion? - Outasight →
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…
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 →
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.
“I’d spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was...”
– John Lennon, 1980
Baseline - a designer framework by... →
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.”
– 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)
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned about living a life it’s that you need to keep...”
– Jonathan Coulton (via meaghano via marco) (via jackcheng)
“But the Internet did something else to the news. By putting everyone on a 120MPH...”
– 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 “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...
July 2009
2 posts
June 2009
5 posts
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.”
– Alain (via jackcheng)
Construct Your CSS | WYSIWYG Layout Editor,... →
Gmail: Tips →
Half a dozen of these a new to me. DEFINITELY learn and use the key commands.
April 2009
4 posts
“People who live in the present often wind up exploiting the present to an extent...”
– An interview with Alan Kay (via jackcheng)
“Dear Digg,
If you wish to provide your users with a toolbar for added...”
– FarukAt.eş
“Procrastinating writing performance reviews by finding books on Amazon that I...”
– 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...”
– mathowie