November 2009
63 posts
“Salty coffee also makes sense in a place where shaved-ice desserts are topped...”
– Some Salt with Your Coffee? Taiwan’s Hot Drink - TIME
“I was waiting for a friend near Yurakucho station today. Near the station there...”
– Business Lessons Learned from the Fruit Stand - Yongfook’s posterous
“Let’s apply some logic: the seed can not be very random, otherwise one...”
– Tichy on Hacker News | A common bug in published code
Linux Compose Key | Derek Sivers →
That’s so bloody clever I never knew it existed.
SENG: Gifted kids at risk: Who's listening? →
“A Synthesis of Research on Psychological Types of Gifted Adolescents”
Most common personality types are NP on MBTI.
“How late can I get you the revisions and still have it ASAP?”
– How about 2001? (via clientsfromhell)
Lost in translation
clientsfromhell:
I once had a client call me in a panic from their annual holiday in France: CLIENT: I have an urgent problem…
ME: Ok, what’s up and I’ll see if I can try and fix it
CLIENT: Well there’s something up with my site and I need you to fix it immediately. I’ve just gone onto my website from the villa and the whole site is coming up in English not French.
ME: That’s correct, it’s...
Spellbound by Janet Minor
simko:
I have a spelling checker; It came with my PC. It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea. I’ve run this poem threw it; I’m sure your pleased too no. It’s letter-perfect in it’s weigh. My checker tolled me sew.
“16. Don’t Steal Music. Music and other content purchased from the iTunes...”
– iTUNES STORE - TERMS AND CONDITIONS
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when...”
– Pete Seeger (via simtan) (via quote-book)
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each...”
– A.A. Milne (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“But in the last year or so, the attitude has shifted dramatically from “no...”
– Mobile Opportunity: The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
Words Only Clock Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard →
The Qlocktwo, adapted to JavaScript, and now finally packaged as a widget, a better solution than the Web Clip I was using, which broke with captive hotspot auth..
I’ll try and spend more time with my piano this holidays. Been feeling so deprived of it recently.
“It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel,...”
– Terry Pratchett’s The Last Continent
“Instead, the government ordered copies of the [Far Eastern Economic] Review...”
– Asia Sentinel - Dow Jones to Pay Singapore Yet Again
It happened before I was born, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised I didn’t know that..
Everytime after a BBQ when I’m damn shacked (like now) I promise myself, no, next time, I’m so not gonna cook, I’m so not gonna do fire-starting again.. but I’m not to be trusted when promising myself!
It always takes more than a spark to get the fire going. Especially when it’s raining.
Typography for Lawyers →
(via simko) but applies to most of the world too.
“Even if bandwidth is getting better, and the internet is getting faster, ping...”
– Making browsers faster: Resource Packages · Alexander Limi (quite interesting typography for a webpage, even if you’re not interested in the content)
You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance |... →
Failure? Fearlure?
I’m studying for the Math HL re-exam tomorrow. I’m not sure why I’m doing that, and what I’m trying to do.
If I manage to scrape a pass, then I’ll get to keep my subject combi through next year. But I know that it’s going to be one hell of a year.. after all, my sec 3 A Math ‘foundations’ (pah) are practically non-existent. Okay, so...
738 words
There are a lot of things that I feel inspired to post about during the day but not 10 minutes later and my mind has moved one to something else these fleeting thoughts run well very fast but what can I do they are so fast and I can’t run fast enough to catch those fast things so I shall just have to Let Them Go and maybe they will go to a better place rather than cooped up in my head and...
Committees
I’ve been involved in the last couple of months in a committee, my first after leaving the Organisation half a year ago. I’ve also jumped hastily to several conclusions, including believing that the classic design-by-committee product is really really terrible. But we knew that already, didn’t we?
The group dynamics matter a lot. Even without throwing in animosity (and its...
“Polo Boys - ‘a lot of almost naked, almost handsome, almost muscly, almost...”
– @infernoxv
Why Do We Need Limits and Infinitesimals? |... →
Models.
“Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she’ll...”
– anonymous (via purplerobots)
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Hello, fastladder users!
LensRentals.com - Lens Repair Data 3.5 →
LensRentals shares some stats about their lens inventory. The Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS ranks high, as expected. I’m somewhat surprised to see the 50 f1.4 and f1.2 on the list though..
“The fuel surcharge is based on the monthly average of the daily mid-spot price...”
– Speedpost Fuel Surcharge
Well, this makes more sense than pegging electricity prices to fuel oil rates or whatever it is they’ve picked..
The DMCA takedown problem
marco:
A lot of people were talking about the “secret copyright treaty” last week, but most of the cited scary parts are already U.S. law that we’re trying to get everyone else to enforce the same way.
This is the truly scary part of today’s system:
…”notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — again, without evidence or trial — of infringing...
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;...”
– Calvin Coolidge
The many sliders of Photoshop CS4
mrgan:
Preferences > Memory Usage
Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color Balance
Things to keep in mind:
These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
The most common...
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Using the maatkit MySQL toolkit
