Slashdot asks the question “Are 80 Columns Enough?” Luckily, we have several hundred years of “best practice” in trying to typeset material for maximum legibility to guide us.
Typography guidelines normally limit line lengths to fifty to seventy characters per line, often in narrow columns. The reasons are fairly well understood: your [...]
For those relative newcomers to my blog, it might shock them to find that I actually used to record a rather geeky podcast. After recording 98 episodes, many using my Dell Axim x50v in my car, I decided that I was working too hard at it, and decided to fold my tents. [...]
I’ve seen some bad paint jobs on cars recently. One guy had some kind of Franken-car that looked like half Gremlin, half Honda, lowered, with huge rims and a body that looked like it was made poorly from paper mache. But as I have often suspected, it’s often just the craftsman that makes [...]
I felt like I needed a new game. I was at Best Buy. I saw the new Transformers game on the shelf. I thought it might be fun. I plunked down my hard earned money without consulting a review.
I made a mistake.
It blows. It’s not the graphics, the sound, [...]
Here is an awesome demonstration of gyroscopic stabilization, as well as a sure indication that duct tape is useful, even in space.
YouTube - Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity
Technorati Tags: Science, Gravity, Gyroscope
I’ve been listening to some new podcasts today. A particularly nice podcast dealing with geeky topics such as video games, and showing particularly insightful comments on movies starring rat chefs is the Weekly Geek Podcast:
Podcast for 07-02-07 | A Peasant Dish - Video Game Podcast and Blog | The Weekly Geek
They have almost enticed [...]
In between cookouts, fireworks, going to see movies about giant robots or rat chefs, I hope that some of you will take a moment and consider the meaning of the day off and contemplate these documents which lately have faded into history as only of historical importance:
The Declaration of Independence
The United States Constitution
If you are [...]
Well, I shook up the blog a little bit, and as is typical, a few things broke. Most notably, my feedburner feed was screwed for a few hours, I’m hoping that it is back and functional again. Expect a few more rough bits as we head toward nirvana.
One of the reasons that I’m [...]
Why didn’t I think of this? Check out the Ratatouille/iPhone Photo Caption Contest over at Steve Ivy’s monkinetic blog.
Technorati Tags: Ratatouille, iPhone, Contest
I’m sick of my default theme. I’m starting with something minimal, and then trying to improve it. Consider the look to be somewhat in flux.
Technorati Tags: Wordpress
Addendum: I’m using the rather minimal Sandbox theme now. I like it. I’m going to try to tweak it as little as humanly possible.
Okay, my previous post detailed why I think most criticisms of the iPhone are off target. But what features the iPhone does or doesn’t have are for the most part irrelevent. I think that the iPhone is going to change the cell phone business at its most fundamental levels, and here is why.
The [...]
I must admit it: I’m beginning to contemplate purchasing an iPhone. They are just very, very cool. I mean, really cool. I know it won’t make me cool to have one, but it is a very neat gadget. That’s why I find lists like the below so amusing.
Buyer’s Guide: Wait! Ten [...]
Len Peralta has a nifty little website called monsterbymail.com. For a modest fee, he’ll draw you a monster with the name you specify, and he’ll give you a movie file of him drawing it as well. I told him to draw “The Brain Wagon”. Here’s what he came up with:
YouTube [...]
Too old for Facebook? « Scobleizer
I’ve been on Facebook about a month now. I have just about 2,000 friends.
I think I’d categorize this statement as either “comical” or “a cry for help”. Are they really friends if you don’t remember their names?
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