June 2012
86 posts
Good critique of arguments against Code of Conduct at conferences →
freethoughtblogs.com
This is a problem at conferences for all groups. If you attend events in different groups, bring good ideas between them
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - "We created a universe to explore the behavior of life."
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smbc-comics.com
Some times these aren’t funny. Some times those are the best ones.
Flawed study is flawed. "Not as SPDY as You Thought" →
guypo.com
This study is very flawed. Talking to a proxy by SPDY doesn’t magically make the connection between that proxy and the original site use the SPDY protocol, everything was still going through HTTP at some point for the majority of these sites. Further, the exclusion of 3rd party content fails to consider how much of this would be 1st party in a think-SPDY-first architecture, where you know you’ll reduce round trips, so putting this content on your own domain all together would be better, anyway.
In short, while we might not see huge speed increases on day one from SPDY, it has a lot more promise and value than this flawed study suggests.
Thundercats, OLD!
Few months ago I was at the movies wearing a Thundercats shirt. Kid came up and said “Hey Thundercats, I love that show, but how did you get a tshirt when it just came on two weeks ago?”
Thundercats came out in 1985. 27 years ago. Its entirely possible this kid’s dad wasn’t even old enough to have seen it when it first aired!
Amazing Mini Golf →
spritestitch.com
I love that, today, every single damn thing has its own form of High Art. No exception here. Amazing.
A Grain Of Truth →
indiegames.com
This is making me fall in love with adventure games again, and all with HTML5.
Sorting - We're Doing It Wrong | Rodney Rehm →
blog.rodneyrehm.de
A great primer on Javascript sorting and a full example of how to efficiently sort DOM elements.
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Dresden Codak's X-MEN REBOOT - I would love, love, love to read this
The Premise - I wanted to make an X-Men reboot that plays to the strength of the concepts, namely growing up as a teenager, dealing with those who are different and how to deal with those who hate you. The primary change in my setting is that the mutations have a clear sci-fi foundation rather than just being random superpowers. Mutants being “the next stage in human evolution” was biologically dubious in the 60s, and now it’s just corny. Additionally, I think the X-Men premise only really makes sense in a setting without other superheroes. With that in mind, here’s my pitch…
What a Plant Knows →
brainpickings.org
sounds absolutely fascinating. Can’t wait to pick this up for a read.
“The problem with [Richard Stallman] is the same problem with messianic religions in general…”
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Why I think RMS is a fanatic, and why that matters.
I am not a fan of RMS and I have long agreed with the likes of ESR that his fanaticism do far more harm than they do good. I think our own course of action is to continue drowning them out by simply being louder. They aren’t going away any time soon.
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“It’s about engineering your habits”
—How I’ve Begun Changing My Life, One Habit at a Time | No Meat Athlete
All Presentation Software is Broken →
igvita.com
this sparked thoughts about writing, in general. does the medium matter to me? Do i care about writing or coding or anything else, or only the ideas i enable and carry to the audience?
How Hip Cities Hurt The Democrats →
tnr.com
Fuckin’ hipsters…
