December 2008
88 posts
SELF AWARENESS: THE LAST FRONTIER By V.S.... →
Ramachandran is pure awesome.
Dec 31st
San Francisco Neighborhoods →
Some good writeups on the various neighborhoods.
Dec 31st
San Francisco Crime Map →
Neat hack.
Dec 31st
oakland crime maps XI →
Really neat visualizations.
Dec 31st
Is There a Relationship between Guns and Freedom? →
Interesting.
Dec 31st
Done, and Gets Things Smart →
One of Stevey’s best.
Dec 31st
Scalable Datasets: Bloom Filters in Ruby →
Neat stuff.
Dec 30th
RESTful Rails for the restless →
Dig the graph.
Dec 30th
ask a silly question… →
Awesome.
Dec 30th
FM3 BUDDHA MACHINE →
Dec 29th
Would You Like a Job as an Online Community... →
Dec 29th
Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons →
Neat visualization.
Dec 29th
Quote of the Day →
Amen.
Dec 29th
Sudbury school →
An interesting (and allegedly successful) approach to education.
Dec 29th
Five things people say about Christmas that drive... →
Good points.
Dec 29th
It’s actually not as cold up here as it was in LA. Weird.
Dec 29th
Which is more frustrating: slow internet or temporary impotence?
Dec 24th
Get an awesome job: http://tinyurl.com/7a384w
Dec 23rd
Bacolicio.us ~Mmmm, Bacon~ →
Brilliant.
Dec 23rd
Mint.com on Your iPhone →
Yes! Awesome! Win!
Dec 23rd
Failed management strategies: The Infrequent Visitor, The Senior Staff Infection, Isolated Don & Consigliere
Dec 23rd
YAML sure is neat.
Dec 23rd
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG Mint iPhone app OMG OMG OMG OMG
Dec 22nd
Install Ruby on Rails using MacPorts →
Another guide with better explanations of caveats.
Dec 21st
Using MacPorts(DarwinPorts) to install Ruby on... →
I like this site design. Clean, well-spaced, good colors.
Dec 21st
Walking big dogs can be quite a workout. Muscles I didn’t know I had are sore.
Dec 21st
Neither I nor Google seem to know what sorry state my ruby install is in: http://pastie.org/343792
Dec 20th
Making MacPorts ruby the only ruby should *not* be this hard.
Dec 19th
amCharts: flash charts →
Decent looking charts in Flash.
Dec 19th
Wake Up Your Mac Faster →
Neat tip.
Dec 19th
Someone screwed up “vehemence”. It should be ve-HEE-mence, not “VEE-he-mence”. The latter is like choking on the word. No power.
Dec 19th
One Velociraptor per Child (OVPC) →
Cute.
Dec 19th
GitHub is so awesome.
Dec 18th
Acceptable local terms for San Francisco: “SF”, “The City”. That’s it.
Dec 18th
Integrating Facebook Connect with Django in 15... →
Simple guide for FB Connect integration.
Dec 18th
SETTINGS ARE IN THE SETTINGS APP →
The existence of this site seems to indicate confusing UI design.
Dec 18th
How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go... →
Good story.
Dec 18th
LittleSnapper - Screen and Web Snapping for Mac OS... →
Another screen shot capturing utility. I think I’m in love with Snitch though.
Dec 18th
Wow, I’m sure glad we didn’t use anything as stupid as the *gold* standard. How silly. http://is.gd/c6c0 More: http://is.gd/c6c7
Dec 17th
Come help us save the world: http://code.causes.com/jobs/ — #hiring (new tweme)
Dec 17th
Peeve: two spaces after a period. Superstition sucks. Stop it.
Dec 16th
I hate you and your “I’m dirty so I won’t let you scroll up anymore” crap, Mighty Mouse!
Dec 16th
Wine & chocolate. I win.
Dec 15th
Frost/Nixon is pretty good.
Dec 15th
Ruby to LOLCode Translator →
Genius.
Dec 15th
PoolParty →
PoolParty is an open-source solution for cloud management that automates deployment, scaling, and load-balancing.
Dec 15th
The only thing worse than drama is publicly rationalized drama.
Dec 13th
Extending jQuery’s selector capabilities →
A good look at jQuery’s selector extension mechanism and possibilities for new selectors.
Dec 13th
Ski Lodge (for iPhone) →
A very pretty app (again) from David Watanabe. Great for skiers and boarders, I suppose.
Dec 13th
US Government: We’ll try going the normal, legal route, but if that fails, we will just do an end-around on the Constitution and the people.
Dec 12th