December 2010
20 posts
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Reason Number Eight Zillion Why I Dislike Flash
CPU Temperature (in Celsius).
Dec 27th
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Dec 25th
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Christmas Mass Live-Tweet 2010
(via the useful if not particularly pretty List of Tweets) * Trying to figure out a way to livetweet the Christmas Eve mass without my mother noticing. Fri Dec 24 20:02:19 +0000 2010 from Cosmo Catalano (http://twitter.com/statuses/18396071042482176)   * After a rushed exit, arrived at St. Pat’s. Knave at 15% capacity. Mass begins at 4:30, but mom’s paranoid about not...
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 19th
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All 50 States and Postal Codes in a PHP Array
A PHP array of all fifty US states and postal abbreviations, submitted with the hope that humanity never has to go through that again. Outlying islands and military codes are commented out at the bottom. $statesPostal = array( "AL" => "Alabama", "AK" => "Alaska", "AZ" => "Arizona", "AR" => "Arkansas", "CA" => "California", "CO" => "Colorado", ...
Dec 17th
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Criminally Bad Design
At what point—if any—are designers liable for the damage caused by their designs? Case in point, this iPhone app from WVOF, Fairfield University’s Radio Station: While it might not be the primary use, any radio stream app designer should assume that their product will be used a replacement for terrestrial radio in places that are outside the station’s broadcast area. I think...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Inbox Zero
Even if it’s just my work inbox, I’m savoring it while I can. It’s worth a Nerd Merit Badge, after all.
Dec 14th
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“You think DailyKos is gonna buy you a golf course and a Lear Jet, Barry?”
– Wonkette, proving it’s not quite dead yet.
Dec 10th
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Dec 8th
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Remember the Tumblr Back-up App? →
In the wake of The Great Tumblr-pocalypse, I want to point out that Tumblr’s had an OS X backup app available for over a year. And I’ve got to say, it’s pretty darn slick. Enter your login and password, select a blog, and it downloads all your posts, photos, and audio files into a tidy little folder on your desktop computer (or, if you’ve got a way to mount remote volumes...
Dec 7th
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Dec 4th
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Paste as Plain Text in OS X
There are few things more infuriating than copying text off a webpage, or from another document, hitting paste, and having it appear with all sorts of styles that have no business being in your current email, cover letter, memo, etc. On most OS X apps, you can circumvent this by using this awkward and poorly documented combination of keys: shift + option + command + v This will dump the...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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“If they had offered me 10,000 cash to take down the forms, or a job making...”
– Graham Syfert, a bizarrely candid attorney offering DIY lawsuit defense to file sharers for $20.
Dec 1st