February 2012
22 posts
Los Angeles
The bar is sticky, the waitresses are rude and there is no WIFI…I have been here 10 minutes and I hate it.
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Everything is a grid →
When you design or build a website, app, icon or UI element, you’re designing to a grid. It doesn’t matter if that grid is pixels, points, percentages, inches, centimetres or some other kind of measurement. It can be as abstract or specific as you like. It’s still a grid.
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Bookbuilders West 41st Annual Book and Media Show →
Last night The Worst Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure: Everest won an Excellence and Innovation Award at the Bookbuilders West 41st Annual Book and Media Show
Follow the Editor: a recommendation engine for... →
Whenever any industry goes through a paradigm shift of disintermediation, one has to ask what is the function of the intermediary and can it really be eliminated or replaced by someone else in the value chain, or is the function of the intermediary so critical to the entire experience that to disintermediate it would do the end consumer a disservice?
Working on second hibiscus beverage of the day, luckily #2 is at shotwells and a beer…delicious
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Tired after
A great softball practice with the Specs, a cricket ringer and a future pro in golden gate park this afternoon.
WatchBarry Schwartz makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.
Flatting on 4th in route to a 5:30 swim practice…good thing it’s strong beer month
WatchThis has been in my head for the last few days.
Strong Beer Month
Of course I would choose the 13ABV Red Giant for my first beer…it’s all down hill from here.
It's Strong Beer Month →
Per tradition, if you sample all of the Magnolia and 21A beers over the course of the month, you can keep the commemorative tasting glass. Just throw it on the shelf with the rest of your bodybuilding trophies.
January 2012
48 posts
WatchCheck out this video produced by UCLA Medical Center for Jack Witherspoon, the 11-year-old author of Twist It Up published Chronicle.
WatchWhat aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a “religion for atheists” — call it Atheism 2.0 — that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.
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If SOPA passes here are ways to access sites....
Here is how to access sites in the event of a DNS takedown.
Tumblr: 174.121.194.34/dashboard
Facebook: 69.171.224.11
Twitter: 174.121.194.34
LiveJournal: 209.200.154.225
Wikipedia: 208.80.152.201
Reddit: 72.247.244.88
Google: 74.125.157.99
Youtube: 74.125.65.91
Hotmail: 65.55.72.135
ThePirateBay: 194.71.107.15
[via darksilenceinsuburbia, cunt-a-saurus-rex]
WatchSheena Iyengar: How to make choosing easier
WatchDefend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
M.I.T. Free Online Education For All →
For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curve ball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will...
