February 2010
24 posts
WatchJesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era. “Design Outside the Box”
WatchMimeo and the Kleptopus King. Shaun Inman’s upcoming iPhone/iPod Touch game. Looks awesome.
margaret: transcribing a randy jackson interview....
evelyn: are you typing it as "dog" or "dawg"?
margaret: dawg.
evelyn: how many times have you had to type that?
margaret: many, many times.
Scrapheap Transhumanism →
Great opening paragraph:
I’m sort of inured to pain by this point. Anesthetic is illegal for people like me, so we learn to live without it; I’ve made scalpel incisions in my hands, pushed five-millimeter diameter needles through my skin, and once used a vegetable knife to carve a cavity into the tip of my index finger. I’m an idiot, but I’m an idiot working in the name of progress: I’m Lepht...
“Self-sufficiency is the road to poverty”
– Russ Roberts on Smith, Ricardo, and Trade | EconTalk (via The Endeavor)
Please Rob Me →
Illustrating the pitfalls of broadcasting your location on Foursquare. Update: Neven Mrgan isn’t concerned, and explains the difference between robbery and burglary.
“Thinking about problems in terms of patterns originally devised for Java can...”
– Yehuda Katz, AbstractQueryFactoryFactories and alias_method_chain: The Ruby Way
Meetup's Dead Simple User Testing - Boing Boing →
ISO50 - The Blog of Scott Hansen » Overcoming... →
I liked the old Facebook login better →
mrgan:
Please read marco’s post on a mindblowing web artifact:
(via Zoya)
Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services. To access Facebook right now, click here. For future reference, type “facebook.com” into your browser address bar or enter “facebook” into Google and click on the...
Report Faults Binghamton’s Leaders in Basketball... →
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur →
Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library
WatchA dog wearing shoes! (via Matt Howie)
“Jobs, who no doubt did his best to assuage [NY Times executive’s] worries...”
– Steve Jobs in Secret New York Meeting With Top Times Execs
That’s not “confessing”. That’s kissing ass.
Gays in the military: Fisking Bill Kristol | The... →
Crash Blossoms →
A neologism for double-entendre headlines like “British Left Waffles on Falklands.”
The Lancet retracts paper linking MMR vaccines and... →