March 2007 Archives

• The Dugout :: MLB Official Chatroom AIM Log
  Kids these days...
  (tags: baseball comics)
• Rails Log Visualizer
  looks very cool
  (tags: osx rails rubyonrails tools statistics)

• Sopht Square - CleanArchiver
  A better zipper upper
  (tags: osx software tools)
• YUI Theater — Doug Geoffray: "From the Mouth of a Screenreader"
  Nice videos from yahoo...no "where are the transcripts" jokes please
  (tags: accessibility yui)

• Cook's Thesaurus
  find this when you need that
  (tags: food cooking reference)

• Scribd - Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy
  ouch
  (tags: business education happiness)
• Joyeur: Joyeur: Joyent Slingshot
  I have no idea what to make of this "VM for Rails apps"
  (tags: rubyonrails software)

• Daring Fireball: Deal With It
  measuring cognitive load of a HUI
  (tags: usability webdesign)
• Andres’ thoughts » Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me
  If everything is equally important, then nothing is important
  (tags: advice development work software)

• Pennypacker - The Penny Arcade Firefox extension
  I've needed this since I started reading Penny Arcade
  (tags: comics firefox penny-arcade tools)

• Subtraction: Oh Yeeaahh!
  One of Scott's favorite SXSW presentations
  (tags: layout design webdesign usability grids css)

• 11/10/97 COMMENTARY: JAVA IS HOT ENOUGH TO BURN BILL GATES
  10 years ago Java was just like Ruby today. Kinda.
  (tags: research java)
• Start your Revolution - Revolution Health
  Going big with rails
  (tags: research rails)

• Hack MySQL :: Exploring the world's most popular open source database
  great nitty gritty mysql info
  (tags: mysql reference work)

• Lost/The Flame - The TV IV
  Damn I love the internets
  (tags: tv)

• CMS Showcase - UWeb
  Texas A&M put a wiki up to talk about picking a CMS.
  (tags: work cms)
• HTTP/1.1 (DELETE, GET, HEAD, PUT, POST)
  An activity diagram to describe the resolution of the response status code, given various headers.
  (tags: cheatsheet webdev http)

• The Dugout :: MLB Official Chatroom AIM Log
  JetersNeverProsper makes his first appearance
  (tags: comics humor)
• WIRED Blogs: 27B Stroke 6
  A web-based "expert system" that helped users prepare bankruptcy filings for a fee made too many decisions to be considered a clerical tool, an appeals court said last week, ruling that the software was effectively practicing law without a license.
  (tags: law software ai)
• Wikipedia Founder Says Intends to Challenge Google, Yahoo - News and Analysis by PC Magazine
  Everything I've seen so far about online community says this can't scale. Unless you only focus on one area...like porn. Then it would work.
  (tags: internet search)

• The Obvious?: The 100% guaranteed easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0?
  GET OUT OF THE WAY
  (tags: work)
• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  (tags: guitarhero comics)

• xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
  DAMNIT FEYNMAN!
  (tags: comics funny science)

• Penny Arcade! - It Is A Sensitive Topic
  is it? is it really?
  (tags: penny-arcade comics humor)

• Rails Date Kit
  help with date fields? I'll take two.
  (tags: development rails rubyonrails webdev)

• Media Matters - "[B]arbarian" O'Reilly: "[I]n a lot of places, women have formed cabals to terrorize the men"
  luckily somebody is fighting the oppression of men in this country.
  (tags: stupid punditry)

"I think that the American people lose if I spend all my time worrying about congressional requests for information, if I spend all my time responding to subpoenas."

Um. No, Mr Gonzales. You work for us. Congress works for us. You will respond to those because we say so. We'll tell you when we lose and we'll tell you when we win. We win when government runs within it's bounds.

I'm sure you're just as confused as I am as to why Ann Coulter called John Edwards a cigarette. I mean, it just doesn't make much sense.