March 2009
41 posts
PXL Pendant Light →
PXL Pendant Light by Fredrik Mattson. A beauty.
Seamless Illustrator pattern brushes with outer... →
Pattern brushes in Illustration… Honestly? It’s something I hardly (read ‘never’) use. That’s just because I haven’t looked into this feature and now that I have I truly believe in its powers. Ever…
Man without a notebook
mrgan:
I love well-made, beautifully filled notebooks. They’re a bit like handmade maps or recipe cards; morsels of useful content, helpfully structured, handcrafted, unique.
Except I don’t get them. What I mean is, I’ve bought and started many, but I’ve never used them to any practical or enjoyable effect. I’m not a notebook person. That’s just how it is.
And in case you’re not one either, or...
All-In-One Card Stamp →
Why buy many cards for different occasions if you can have an “One Card for All Occasions Stamp”? It saves time, money and headache. All-In-One Card Stamp by Ji Lee.
SQLCipher: Transparent SQLite Encryption For... →
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Need to store sensitive information in your app? …
Schott’s Vocab →
“A miscellany of modern words and phrases” — new weblog at The New York Times by Ben Schott.
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The Three20 Project →
Joe Hewitt’s new open source UI library for iPhone developers comprises a slew of useful, reusable classes and looks just great. As for the name, Hewitt writes: The name of the new project is…
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The...”
– Kung Fu Monkey: Ephemera 2009 (7) (via Daily Kos) (via moltz) (via dandrews)
I have often said that the person I am today can be understood in terms of three books. One of those is The Fountainhead, and I think if I had read Atlas Shrugged the result would have been the same.
Special Olympics
dandrews
While I understand that Obama is the President and he should guard his words a bit more carefully than other folks should, I’m so sick of people who get all up in arms about an offhand joke about someone bowling so bad they should be in the Special Olympics. Was it stupid of him? Hell yeah. Should we be offended? No.
Honestly, are we really so scared to say that the reason there...
Overly Judgemental IE6 Splash Pages
hugsformonsters:
While working on this site, I made jokes to Mike Yuan about having really confrontational splash pages for anybody that visited the site using IE6. I swear, I’m not this much of a dick to my users, but as a former PC user/Xbox owner, I have enough pent up MS-Hate to fill a fucking water tower. Just remember it’s completely a joke, I don’t care what browser you use as long as you...
Fossil: Documentation →
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Fossil →
Fossil is a “distributed software version control system that includes an integrated distributed wiki and an integrated distributed bug-tracking system all in a single, easy-to-use, stand-alone…
On Hating Your Life
luckyshirt:
Here’s something I came up with years ago to help me work through the times that I’m just flat-out over it… I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used this, and boy have I needed it the last couple weeks.
Here goes:
Imagine The Unicorn shows up. That should be enough, right? But there’s more…
The Unicorn is in a giving mood, and offers you the opportunity to trade places instantly...
Spy Box →
A fantastic art project by Tim Knowles: A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The Spy Box was sent…
Review Silliness →
I wish I had some visibility into the process used for the App Store reviews at Apple. I’m sure those reviewers are in a tough job and all. Probably a lot of pressure, too much work, etc. I know….
Another Ridiculous App Store Rejection →
You can’t make this stuff up. Apple has rejected the latest version of Tweetie — currently the most popular Twitter client in the App Store — because there’s a swear word in the current list of top…
There's always time to launch your dream →
“I’d love to start a company / become a great programmer / write an awesome blog, but there’s just not enough time in the day!” Bullshit. There’s always enough time, you’re just not spending it…
An inflatable Cloud/Umbrella →
Created by Dutch designer Joonsoo Kim, the Cloud Umbrella is carried around in stick form, and then inflated into mini-cumulus clouds of protection when the rain starts to pour. Made me…
iPhone app phones home to foil pirates →
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, Jailbreak/pwnage
Like many iPhone developers, Ben Chatelain is frustrated to see cracked versions of his project, Full Screen Web Browser,…
UIImage and NSCoding →
Here is a category to conform UIImage to NSCoding so you can archive it. This is untested - I hacked this up a few minutes in response to a question posed on Twitter. Please let me know if it…
marco:
“People do love the Bible. But not the Gospels. They quote Biblical stuff to me all the time, but it’s not ever stuff Jesus said.” — Letters from Kamp Krusty (via azspot)
I really enjoyed Stephen Mitchell’s The Gospel According To Jesus. The idea is that it contains what Jesus most likely said and did, according to historians applying standard academic research practices. It omits...
Open sesame →
Here’s a simple little script that saves me a lot of time:
#!/bin/sh if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "usage: $0 <app> [ Preferences | <document> ]"
else app=`ls -1td ~/Library/Application\...
Iranian cybercriminal shares Marine One specs on...
Via Ars Technica
The documents are believed to have originated on the network of an unnamed defense contractor based in Bethesda, MD, where an employee had installed a file-sharing client configured to share the contents of the hard drive indiscriminately.
In this case, I think stupidity might in fact be illegal.
Actual Runtime Classes →
Steven Deguis says “I have this fascination with the Objective-C runtime that I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to explain. So, the other day I wrote some code that printed out all of the…
Watchpatrickrhone:
Now this looks like a netbook I would buy. If they get the UI right, this has the potential to be very big.
Question is can we make OS X run on it?
