Month: January 2011
Kickstarter – Standing Up To The Experts by Orlando Wood
They’ve already reached their goal and then some but this looks like an awesome project.
Speckyboy Design Magazine – Beginner’s Study Guide to HTML5 Microformats
Microformats are one of those cool ideas that never seem to really take off, no matter how useful they would be.
Alexander Limi – Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3
Interesting stuff, though admittedly this is inside baseball stuff even for me.
NYTimes.com – Bush White House Broke Elections Law, Report Says
Wonder if Karl Rove is going to get asked on Fox News how this happened and what happens if charges are actually filed against him or the person who made the decisions to do this?
The Invisible – How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
Do you even need to know that this was done by Apple to know only Apple cares that much to work on this?
Seth’s Blog – A culture of testing
I really enjoy that last sentence and Netflix is probably one of the great business built up around testing everything possible.
Cosmic Variance – Scientists Aren’t Always Complete Idiots
Something that I notice that non-scientists seem to make as an assumption about scientists is that it’s this static idea, ideas are rarely challenged and the big shots are always right and never assumed to be wrong.
Chris Jean – Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating
Git submodules is an incredibly cool feature, it’s a great solution to including code from other projects in your project.
Rands In Repose – Managing Nerds
How does one go about managing nerds.