January 2012
3 posts
Online Color Challenge—How well do you see color? →
FACT: 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency. Take the online color challenge, based on the official FM100 Hue Test by X-Rite.
http://backofawebpage.tumblr.com/ →
December 2011
11 posts
People […] may get word of the quake via twitter […] before the...
– xkcd: Seismic Waves
Read the accompanying blawg post for a story about how LBNL physicist Gerson Goldhaber became a legend for “forecasting” a quake.
Actually, it looks like the only reason pirates wore eye patches was to keep one...
– (via nsw/d)
Actually, I watched MythBusters trying to prove that very thing few months ago. Posted this just to spread the word.
1. People who have a drink or two each day live longer.
2. People who own pets...
– via the new shelton wet/dry
October 2011
4 posts
September 2011
7 posts
Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
– xkcd: Connoisseur
Duck Tales
Video: Ducks blown off their feet by the wind
Comic: Ducklings
Zawinski, Jamie: message threading. →
A nice to read article by an angry (ex?) Netscape Communicator developer who was right, got overruled and now wants to share his wisdom.
As an added bonus, you will then know why your mail program probably won’t do threading right and/or inefficient.
apple.com circa 1997 →
August 2011
9 posts
Celebrated architect/Renaissance man Carlo Mollino took over a thousand...
– ANIMAL
NSFW
7 tags
They [Google - Ed.] want a lot of chaos that they can have an ability to undo.
– via the new shelton wet/dry
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
3 posts
Movember Worldwide - Home →
Moustaches Make a Difference - Join the Ranks of... →
October 2010
3 posts
September 2010
3 posts
Have a fucking focal point.
– Good Fucking Design Advice
July 2010
6 posts
voice communication remains filled with pitfalls and misunderstandings
– Slightly off topic: while the rest of Attwood’s article is delightful to read (as usual, BTW) I have to disagree with him on that point. Ever tried to clearly communicate feelings or anything else but facts in written language?
Recalling the article I assume he limits his findings to the...