Hollywood Height Chart by joberholtzer
Documenting the Undocumentable
“So what do you put in the Quick Start guide?…Here’s what I’d like to see: What the developers of the software were thinking when they designed it.”
# 2013.01.06 – 21:17
Rickshaw: A JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time series graphs
# 2013.01.06 – 20:48
Sweden runs out of garbage, forced to import from Norway
# 2013.01.06 – 10:33
How fast could you travel across the U.S. in the 1800s?
# 2013.01.06 – 10:33
Blog: Via Meadia: Technology, Time and Space
Technology, Time and Space by Walter Russell Mead
# 2013.01.06 – 10:07
America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead
“As [drivers] asked service station attendants to ‘fill ‘er up with ethyl,’ they were unwittingly creating a crime wave two decades later.”
# 2013.01.03 – 17:54
“The Holstee Manifesto” – How to live your life « Flower Blossoms’ Blog
“Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them.”
# 2013.01.02 – 18:23
The Technium: The Post-Productive Economy
“In short, productivity is for robots. Humans excel at wasting time, experimenting, playing, creating, and exploring. None of these fare well under the scrutiny of productivity. That is why science and art are so hard to fund. But they are also the foundation of long-term growth. Yet our notions of jobs, of work, of the economy don’t include a lot of space for wasting time, experimenting, playing, creating, and exploring.”
# 2013.01.01 – 22:21
YouTube: Dan Milstein – Lean Startup Conference 2012
Dan Milstein – Lean Startup Conference 2012
# 2013.01.01 – 14:58
Entypo – 250+ carefully crafted pictograms
# 2012.12.31 – 15:51
Font Awesome, the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
# 2012.12.31 – 15:51
Yule Blog 2012-13: Meaning in 3-D
“Two hundred years ago ‘enlightened’ minds generally accepted the existence of God without much trouble but boggled at the concept of the Trinity. Today, those minds have more trouble accepting the existence of God; if they do accept that existence, the problem of the Trinity doesn’t loom particularly large for them.”
# 2012.12.31 – 10:25
Smartphones, tablets make us think about technology like the Amish do.
A Slate article I actually kinda like.
# 2012.12.30 – 23:31
Blog: Via Meadia: A Millenial Church Emerges
A Millenial Church Emerges by Walter Russell Mead
# 2012.12.30 – 17:25
Blog: Ezra Klein: The Republican Party in one tweet
The Republican Party in one tweet by Ezra Klein
# 2012.12.30 – 14:55
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Church As Clubhouse
Church As Clubhouse by Rod Dreher
# 2012.12.30 – 11:20
Urban Dictionary: gwarthock
A species of Internet Troll identified and described in “The Onion’s Extremely Accurate History of the Internet, Part 6: Interactivity—Joining the Conversation About Hitler”.
# 2012.12.29 – 16:22