September 2009
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The difference between freaking out and working... →
Accessibility is a harsh mistress →
Mark Pilgrim (he of Dive Into Python fame) on the sometimes futile nature of creating websites and software that conform to accessibility standards. Note that this is not necessarily the same as being “accessible”.
(via Instapaper)
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10 reasons to switch from coffee to tea →
Tea is to art as coffee is to software? ;-)
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“For anyone who has ever heard Yorke’s solo material and thought,...”
– Thom Yorke and Flea form supergroup (via misanthropolis)
Could’ve been worse…at least Anthony Keidis isn’t writing the lyrics.
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Man's Facebook Status Given Book Deal →
The Onion, of course.
“Everything ok? You haven’t blogged since Fri????”
– Text from my Mom. (via meaghano)
Hello to my Mum, who I know also operates a similar “Jonathan’s blogged, he’s not dead” scheme.
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The Duct Tape Programmer →
Joel Spolsky hits the nail on the head with some good advice and gives me a book to add to my reading list in the process. This is what all blogging should be like.
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OH: "There's an API call for that".
B(r)ands →
“Little things you can do to help reinforce your sound, image and general perception to your fans and potential fans of the future”.
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Had great fun talking at the Art of Digital...
…with my friends from Hurricane Films, about how we’re crowd-funding the marketing of indie film Under The Mud using Kickstarter.
There were some fairly heavy-duty academics there (who I very much enjoyed listening to), so I felt privileged to be in such illustrious company ;-)
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Programmer quits his job, trains as a pastry chef,... →
Interesting comment on a Reddit thread.
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Buying pizza for work's Testing Tuesday event
“How many people are coming? Who eats lots? Who’s a vegetarian? Who likes spicy stuff? Do vegetarians like spicy stuff? Man, I need to draw a Venn diagram”.
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Facebook Groups
nostrich:
1,000,000 United Against the BNP: 643,594 members
I will name my Son Batman If this page gets to 500,000: 707,009 members
Hate Apathy: 3 members.
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Local news
squashed:
[…] I would love to support my local newspaper—particularly if it helped me actually pay attention to local news. But I can’t justify wasting a mound of paper when I’m only likely to read a few articles a month. Getting my news from the Internet is more convenient, more expedient, and less wasteful. With the an online edition readily available, the print edition actually has...
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“I’m not talking about a 7 point mission statement that hangs in the office...”
– Bijan Sabet: Some thoughts about company culture
That’s what happens when bosses who “don’t get” company culture or spend too much time on spreadsheets, not enough on people, try to manage their staff’s morale.
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WatchIndependent film takes over Liverpool bus (with your name on!) - jump on board! from Under The Mud on Vimeo.
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I'm running a Kickstarter project →
Raising money to help a local independent film (made and set in the Liverpool suburb of Garston) promote itself by PAINTING A LIVERPOOL BUS. I’m kinda excited.
There are loads of cool rewards for backers too :-)
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“One current App Store trend is that games will take a tired genre and add an...”
– Slide To Play
Isn’t that a trend in games (and, indeed, film) since time immemorial?
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monopo.ly →
“Tactics and Strategies for Monopoly City Streets”, set up by a colleague.
Cool domain hack :-)
“We are tired of waving nice documents like the constitution and the human rights...”
– South African police minister Nathi Mthethwa (via an egg-basket in a centrifuge)
Sounds like District 9’s not too far from the the truth..?
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WatchSo, I signed up to Google Latitude. Now what?
There should be a cartoon character called Colonel... →
He could teach kids about Linux.
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Making Versus Planning
continuations:
Fred had a good post yesterday about why he considers Y-Combinator the “Best Deal in Startup Land.“ I believe that also and want to add a key reason for it: An intense focus on making versus planning. By entering Y-Combinator, teams commit themselves to a mad sprint to get something built. Ideally something that works well enough or is far enough along to actually launch before...
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Tumblr's tag channels need to filter out posts...
Too many posts with non-Latin character sets :-(
ONML: http://kindofbloop.com/
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ONML: the obligatory (or optional!) non-meta link →
Tumblr posts about Tumblr should include an ONML ;-)
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Sometimes I think I should rename this tumblelog... →