January 2010
20 posts
On the changing of the guard
stevenf:
Personal computing — having a computer in your house (or your pocket) — as a whole is young. As we know it today, it’s less than a half-century old. It’s younger than TV, younger than radio, younger than cars and airplanes, younger than quite a few living people in fact.
In that really incredibly short space of time we’ve gone from punchcards-and-printers to interactive terminals with...
750words.com + MultiMarkdown
merlin:
MultiMarkdown
In case that last thing seemed too cryptic:
Woo, everybody look at me: I wrote a bunch of pages. Whee.
MultiMarkdown. Dig it.
Seriously. If you’re not at least trying MultiMarkdown for writing stuff? Damn. Dude. Try it.
Personally, it’s changed my game — it’s how I think now. Can’t imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn’t do MMD.
Seamlessly...
The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends →
emmawelles:
In terms of getting new messages, the MySpace Shot is the single most effective photo type for women. We at first thought this was just because, typically, you can kind of see down the girl’s shirt with the camera at that angle—indeed, that seems to be the point of shot in the first place—so we excluded all cleavage-showing shots from the pool and ran the numbers again. No change:...
Who are you?
“The people who are consuming software now are a vast superset of the people who...”
– Guy English: Software Sea Change
Guy English’s thoughts on what he calls “Pop Software” mirror a lot of my own recent thoughts about the iPhone App Store, and why, in so many cases, the qualities that make people successful Mac developers are unhelpful (and possibly even harmful) in the iPhone...
“Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with these people? Worst of all are the smug...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Pet peeve: People who update their Facebook status with how many miles they just ran (via rickwebb)
The problem is that we’re not as addicted to negativity, cynicism, sarcasm, the need to be clever all the time, etc. I’ll stop posting about going...
Enjoymentland » New things for 750words.com →
rickwebb:
Buster made a lot of new additions to 750words.com - Timers! Speedometers! Search! Export (that one, especially, is exciting or me).
This really is a great site. I love it.
Thanks, Rick! I’m at that point of the project where I’m super obsessed with whether or not people like it… when it’s all new and I’m unsure of the quality of the idea, etc....
Anonymous asked: Where did you get that jacket?
(918): And we started making out.... →
(via txtsfrmlstnght)
Why is the txtsfrmlstnght feed all of a sudden truncating everything and requiring a clickthru? Mistake? Something they changed? Something Tumblr changed?
Compound
rickwebb:
Okay… There’s not too too much of a philosophy to the compound. I do use the word “compound” to consciously remove philosophy and lifestyle from the living place. Like this isn’t some alternate society idea. It’s about comfortably living in large spaces with all your friends, near the outdoors and also near a city to rock out. It’s sort of a mental exercise in trying to think of the...
Compound
rickwebb:
Yes please! Skills that are currently unknown but needed:
Electrical work
Gardening
Chicken Raising
Furniture Building
Plumbing
Auto repair
Canning
Meat curing and smoking
Sewing
And probably a million others.
What’s the philosophy? We each work on our compound-living skills for the next 5 years? This is about learning all of the skills that would be needed to live...
Compound
rickwebb:
What’s this about a compound in California?
Basically, I’m toying with the idea of eventually buying like 500 to a thousand acres in Northern California. I’ll build a house for me and my family, and a small house a couple hundred yards away for my parents. Then maybe 3-4 more houses, and some sort of rec room/kitchen common building where we can all rock out and party and have dinners...
I have 3 minutes to tell you this.
dearbaby:
My water broke an hour and a half ago.
My contractions are getting pretty intense.
I can’t stop bursting into tears. not from pain - just from pure joy.
This is really happening, isn’t it?
Please pray for us. Send courage and strength and healthy healthy baby vibes.
She’s on her way and I can hardly wait.
Love,
M
Best of luck and everything else, Melissa!
“If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the...”
– Daring Fireball: The Tablet (via extraface)
Boy, that sure sounds exciting. I am ready. I’ll buy two the second they go on sale. But man, remember that first iPod? Remember how primitive it was? Remember how it was like 2 years and 3 revs before it found its stride? Remember how the iPhone was the...
