“One doubts that unknown parties breaking into the Montgomery bus depot at midnight to slash tires and spray paint ‘W3 R L3G10N’ on windshields would have had quite so profound an impact as Rosa Parks did.”
—Watts Martin
January 2012
1 post
July 2011
1 post
“Outside a relative handful of financial publications, there is no such thing as the news business. There is only the advertising business.”
—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 makes the patents I’ve had to deal with look like an E.B. White essay.”
—Dr. Drang
April 2011
2 posts
“When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.”
—Austin Kleon (via marco)
Coyote Tracks: Markdown OS X Services →
chipotle.tumblr.com
Also works swell with /usr/local/bin/mmd. Nice, one [brother New College alumus] Watts!
February 2011
3 posts
“Because as long as we focus on the romance of the supplies, we don’t have to write a damn thing until we find the perfect notebook.”
—The Weight of a Good Notebook « The Bygone Bureau
“On the one hand, I’m constantly surprised by how many people settle for so little fulfilment in their lives, who endure their lives rather than enjoy them. On the other, I know people who simply love what they do and couldn’t imagine doing anything else.”
—Ken Robinson on Finding Your Passion
January 2011
8 posts
“Guard yourself at all times. A lot of people believe that beauty is some kind of conspiracy — along with friendly laughter and peace.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
unDock →
flyingpapersoftware.com
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.
One Thing Well: The Mac App Store →
onethingwell.org
“The Mac feels a bit more Linuxy today”
∞ Microsoft Needs to Learn From Apple’s Near Death →
brooksreview.net
“…Microsoft has yet to learn from Apple’s mistakes. “
csv2tab - Convert CSV files to awk friendly tab (tsv) files →
geniegate.com
If your awk and sed skills are as lame as my own.
The Ultimate Dropbox Toolkit →
web.appstorm.net
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 in the clothes that words wear.”
—Beatrice Warde (via viafrank)
“Ideas don’t come from sitting around wondering where ideas come from.”
—Adam Koford
