February 2010
13 posts
alisonagosti:
Twitter is where I get you drunk and talk you into coming home with me. Tumblr is where I lock the door and force you to look at my antique moth collection.
I already liked this, but it was funny enough that I had to reblog it.
“My guilty little secret is goodreads. They have a quote section with a selection...”
– -Slaughterhouse 90210 on how they come up with the quotes to pair with the various TV screencaps on their blog.
I’ve wondered this myself several times. I didn’t know goodreads had a quote feature.
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A year in the life of an iPhone Developer
I saw this post on Hacker News today about an iPhone developer waiting on Apple to approve his latest app. The first App he created was rejected by Apple after eight months, so he is a bit unsure of what to expect with his newest creation (a Boy Scout merit badge app).
I clicked around to see what other entries were on his blog and saw that he has only posted five entries. The timeline they...
“As I’ve written probably too many times, I think one of the under-recognized...”
– Noel Murray in the AV Club review of Lighthouse
Wikipedia: Snowclone →
This was mentioned in a recent posting on Mark Pilgrim’s blog.
I’m so glad we have wikipedia to catalog ideas like this.
Snowclone:
An example of a snowclone is “gray is the new black”, a version of the template “X is the new Y”. X and Y may be replaced with different words or phrases – for example, “comedy is the new rock ‘n’ roll”....
dive into mark: Simplicity is hard. Let’s go... →
This reminds me of what life is like at home.
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Ruby Keeler
I was walking Obie after work and listening to A Confederacy of Dunces. I was listening to the part of the story where Ignatius is talking to Dorian Green about getting a political movement going. Dorian mentions that he is in a “Ruby Keeler phase”.
After dinner I was reading the Five Dials publication on David Foster Wallace (PDF via Daring Fireball) and one of the eulogists called...
Collection of iPad UI Conventions →
Fraser Spiers has collected various iPad UI conventions from the videos that have been released so far.
I got stuck looking at this one for quite a while:
Those options look sort of lonely there on the underside of the map. I imagine the controls would probably look less lonely when in the map is in landscape view. I’ve been trying to think of a different page curl direction that...
If you like The xx, listen to this →
indierawk:
adrifting:
Friday, NPR’s World Café had guest, The XX, on the show. It was aired on the national feed this morning and WOW.
You must listen to the last set they do. It is a live version of “Night Time” leading into “Infinity”. It is absolutely stunning.
Required listening, so get to it!
Not much to add — good sound.