March 2010
18 posts
February 2010
15 posts
This Place is Not a Place of Honor →
WIPP is located in the desert outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, and its storage areas are located 2,150 feet underground. Yucca Mountain’s facilities in the Nevada desert are intended to house waste at…
Davos Interviews: Ning CEO Gina Bianchini Insists... →
How Corrupted Language Moved from Campus to the... →
LukeW | "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion... →
The Chemist's War →
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
The $5 Guerrilla User Test « Bumblebee Labs Blog →
Skin of a Living Thought: Dropped IE support for... →
Lack of standards compliance is causing more and more developers to come to the same conclusion as Marco. Sometimes when you’re the 800lb gorilla, you can call the shots. But sometimes when you throw your weight around for too long, people run away from you at the first opportunity.
marco:
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The Blog of Steve Schwartz: No One Knows What the... →
Feeling Like a Fraud
Have you ever received praise, or even an award, for being great at something despite having no clue what you’re doing? Do you feel like a fraud, wondering what sort of voodoo you’ve unwittingly conjured up to make people think you know what you’re doing, when the…
rentzsch.tumblr.com: How can the iPhone SDK be... →
I was talking to a friend, who made an interesting point.
For $99, anyone can sign up to be an iPhone Developer. Then, Apple provides you with supposedly confidential information.
I’m no lawyer, but it doesn’t seem right to claim information is confidential while advertising it for sale to…
venomous porridge: A conversation I have every... →
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring…
WatchThe author of ‘Born to Run’ on his personal history with running barefoot
WatchPadding the inside passage in a handmade kayak - what an awesome expedition. Definitely will have to see this when it comes out.