November 2011
7 posts
The Regents of the University of California...
On Saturday, I sent an email to the Regents of the University of California in response to the chilling events that took place on the UC Davis Campus on Nov. 18th. Here is their response:
On behalf of the Board of Regents, thank you for your email regarding the appalling incidents that occurred by police against protestors on the University of California Berkeley and Davis campuses. Please know...
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two...”
– John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America, in a letter to Jonathan Jackson (October 2, 1780)
“As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular....”
– John Adams
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to...”
– John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
“Do not therefore consider this life as an object of any moment. Look back on the...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
2 posts
“I don’t always use Photoshop, but when I do, I use only one layer.”
August 2011
5 posts
“Quality is love.”
Republicans will blame Obama for the loss of Jobs.
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
2 posts
“What we’re hoping to do is shift the paradigm of what design is. Design...”
– A New VC Model That Turns Designers, Not Techies, Into Startup CEOs
April 2011
2 posts
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime”
– Honoré de Balzac
“The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know...”
– John Rawls
“When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its...”
– T.S. Elliot (via paulsalvage)
March 2011
7 posts
Why RIM and Your Crackberry is on the Way Out
“There’s tremendous turbulence in the ecosystem, of course, in mobility. And that’s sort of an obvious thing, but also there’s tremendous architectural contention at play. And so I’m going to really frame our mobile architectural distinction. We’ve taken two fundamentally different approaches in their causalness. It’s a causal difference, not just nuance....
Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You →
rosiesiman:
“Phone calls are rude, intrusive & awkward,” says the NY Times article. And I tend to agree. The only thing that’s worse? Voicemail.
Regular expression to search for Gadaffi →
\b(Kh?|Gh?|Qu?)[aeu](d[‘dt]?|t|zz|dhd)h?aff?[iy]\b
(via jstn)
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
2 tags
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
9 posts
“Hey Kevin Spicy, you’ve got a fine coal on lion 3 about that blew cah.”
– My flawless method to get an instant Australian Accent if you have a North American accent. Try it. (via psql)
2 tags
“The act of creating is the same as the act of worshiping.”
– Rainn Wilson
“I was sort of a cowboy at the time and felt like the name doesn’t matter....”
– James Siminoff, on the importance of a good name
October 2010
3 posts
Going home
I read this blurb in an Ars Technica article today — is it true?
She simply does what she needs to in order to get what she wants. And what she wants is to go home. That’s a journey many of us wish for, and one that rarely ends well.
“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being...”
– Andrew Lewis
September 2010
5 posts
Into The Forrst: Forrst Invites Redux →
Want to learn how to build community-powered product the right way? You should be taking lessons from Kyle over at Forrst:
Today marks the launch of a big change in the way Forrst invites work, and I’d like to start off by saying that Forrst welcomes any developer or designer who’s passionate about getting better at their craft and helping others to do so as well, whether they’re the cream of...
