January 2010
“The explanation is simple. Web site producers tend to be practical. Those that...”
– Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
“Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow made his little poster showing what a bunch of...”
– Daring Fireball: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
“I got together 6 of my trusted friends, we each had a bottle of wine and printed...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do...”
– Elizabeth Peters (via kari-shma)
A rational conclusion
Him: You can't be mad at me. We're both equally to blame!
Her: I know. I blame you for this.
Him: I see.
Her: I can't blame myself. That's silly.
“The world is split into two different kinds of people. When I moved into my...”
– China Mieville (via) (via jingc)
“I dont care if it loses 90% of visitors, we cant have a skip on the website...”
– (via clientsfromhell)
One Third of Women in the Military are Raped →
tedr:
ericmortensen:
robot-heart-politics:
bmckinney:abbyjean:
In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and...
“Most first-time authors, upon completing their manuscript, assemble an inner...”
– The Big Idea: Josh Sundquist « Whatever
“In 2008, my novel The Last Colony plopped onto the New York Times bestseller...”
– A Brief Biography of John Scalzi « Whatever
“When copyright cartels endanger a new medium, their copyrights should be...”
– Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“Some commercial copying is OK. For example, when a giant movie studio sits down...”
– Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“Commercial and non-commercial are different. While there’s a lot of grey...”
– Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“As we on the internet create the norms that will be enshrined in future...”
– Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“As an author, I depend on there being some rules of the road when I negotiate...”
– Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“We’re trying to retrofit the rules that governed multi-stage rocket ships...”
– Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“Theoretically, copyright also bound the activities of non-industrial actors –...”
– Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
snopes.com: Puff the Magic Dragon and Marijuana →
“In a 1995 article on chaos theory, Michael Schermer goes on at length about the...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
“The QWERTY keyboard cannot be said to constitute evidence of any systematic...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
“Ergonomic studies also confirm that the advantages of Dvorak are either small or...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
“In the first phase of the experiment, 10 government typists were retrained on...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
“We discovered that the Navy’s top expert in the analysis of time and...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
“Had any of the modern authors who referred to the Navy study as supporting...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
“The number is a bit different for boys and girls, Dunbar claims, without going...”
– Your Brain Can’t Handle Your Facebook Friends
WatchWhat the internet is really made of
“It is certainly important, in this era of Facebook and Twitter and text...”
– Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Sexting, and What it Means to be a Girl
“Ultimately, that’s what this case comes down to: one man’s view on...”
– Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Sexting, and What it Means to be a Girl
“On January 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit heard arguments in...”
– Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Sexting, and What it Means to be a Girl
“Sometimes privacy has an expiration date.”
– olga nunes
“According to popular history, the event established once and for all that the...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
“Fast forward now to 1936, when August Dvorak, a professor at the University of...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
“The typewriter keyboard is central to this literature because it appears to be...”
– Typing Errors - Reason Magazine
Why Leslie Harpold's Sites Disappeared | Workbench →
“A key part of his thesis is that comic books work because the action takes place...”
– Seth’s Blog: In between frames
“Bra-fitting tips!
1. Cup sizes are relative to the rib size. So a 32 D is not...”
– Things that go Bling: Bodacious Bras
“And through this experience, I’ve seen that the designers I’m...”
– I don’t care about accessibility., by Jeffrey Veen
“I’ve worked with print designers who literally scoff at the crude and...”
– I don’t care about accessibility., by Jeffrey Veen
“In the course of implementing HOPE, Alm discovered another reason why the...”
– Prisoners of Parole - NYTimes.com
“Classical deterrence theory has long held that the threat of a mild punishment...”
– Prisoners of Parole - NYTimes.com
“Co-operation presumes the freedom of individuals to join and participate so that...”
– Harold Jarche (via johntropea)
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you...”
– Epicurus (via reluctantbuddha)