Category: Quick Posts
Cocktail Party Physics – i think that i shall never see / a carbon offset as lovely as a tree
I loved every little in nook and cranny she explored from just a couple of simple marketing statements.
NYTimes.com – Climate of Hate
This is perhaps the larger point, there is a problem when violent rhetoric is used as a substitute for reasoned and rational debate.
The New Yorker – The battle over the Constitution
Covers the history of the ratification, the document itself and how it’s been used to argue all sides in a debate including gun control.
Neteye – Activity Indicator
New favorite jQuery plugin, looks pretty smooth in Firefox too.
git ready – temporarily ignoring files
Nice tip.
FactCheck.org – A ‘Job-Killing’ Law?
Let’s see misrepresents the CBO report, ignores the CBO report in other parts, yep totally valid criticisms Republicans.
BBC News – Giffords shooting: Suspect Jared Loughner charged
What a tragedy.
UX Movement – Why Your Form Buttons Should Never Say Submit
While submit describes a generic case of what the user is doing (ie. submitting a form) it doesn’t really help the user know what the button is for.
SmartlyEdu Blog – Ugly Software Gives Education a Bad Name
Education software has to be the software that I hear most widely and routinely criticized, especially by people who otherwise have little to no opinion on the design of software in general.
Uh Oh, Internet: Basic Mobile Video Will be YouTube-Only With MetroPCS Plans
Remember those Net Neutrality rules the FCC voted on a few weeks ago, this is exactly the loophole that everyone feared.