Pepsi Can Fu! Yay. Much like the ping pong Matrix-style video.
Category: links
Paul Graham on essays
Paul Graham wrote a new essay this month about the process of writing an essay. Some interesting observations about the essay form, and why he writes essays. I particularly liked this nugget: An essay is something you write to try to figure something out. Figure out what? You don’t know yet. And so you can’t […]
Joel on Software on social interface design
As many of you know, I’m a total fan of Joel on Software. I even went to a fan club dinner of his when he was in the Bay Area (he posted that he was going to be at a restaurant in Berkeley about a week in advance, and about 30 software geeks of all […]
Lego construction equipment
A friend forwarded me this link to this woman who builds working construction equipment models out of lego. She actually implements fully motorized cranes and all-wheel steering and things like that. It’s spectacular. And kind of scary.
Phil Agre on Conservatism
I’m on Phil Agre’s Red Rock Eater mailing list. Agre is a wonderful thinker about information systems and how they integrate into society. He hasn’t posted as much to RRE as he used to, but he posted a new article today, which discusses the conservative movement in detail, what it represents, and how we should […]
Transit villages
There was an interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle the other day about the rise of transit villages in the Bay Area, where transit villages are little groups of residences and shops that sprout up around public transit stops on BART and Caltrain. Since I am growing to detest driving and like the idea […]
We the Media, by Dan Gillmor
I used to like reading Dan Gillmor’s column in the San Jose Mercury News, but stopped reading it once I moved off the peninsula and stopped getting the paper. Which is lame, because it’s available online. But anyway. Some page I was reading recently pointed to Gillmor’s new book, We the Media. Even better, though, […]
Paul Graham
A friend of mine passed along the link to this article by Paul Graham, talking about what distinguishes great hackers from the rest of us, in light of my entry discussing the extreme gradient in the ability of programmers. I liked the article a lot, partially because it’s eloquent, but mostly because he has similar […]
Height Study Redux Redux
Several months ago, I ranted about a height study that I thought was kind of bogus. Then I ranted about it again. And I just read a New Yorker article that is the article I could only wish I’d written, if I had, y’know, a research budget and stuff, instead of just my rantings. In […]
Bloglines
I just heard of a service called Bloglines, which is a great way to manage subscriptions to various blogs. I previously recommended Bloglet, but that service has failed to work for me for months. I tried NewsGator for a while, but it wasn’t very convenient. Bloglines seems pretty good in the couple days I’ve used […]
