My Twitter reactions to the Steve Jobs news
Steve Jobs is the main reason I wanted to go into software, to be a product manager, and to build something great. No more “one more thing.”
Grab bag: Hallelujah and taxation
The criminal overuse of “Hallelujah” – Music News: Artists. Songs. Videos – Salon.com Laziness is the best interpretation of this song’s overuse. (tags: jeffbuckley music) The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do « blog maverick Get rich and pay your taxes. (tags: economy) BOV discusses repairs to Lawn | The Cavalier Daily They’d damn well [...]
Go ahead, make teens wait to drive
Teen driving restrictions don’t have as big an impact as expected Delaying when a driver starts to learn how to drive has no effect on the accident rate. Imagine!! (tags: nokidding)
XSS around the edges
Protecting against XSS If you think you understand XSS, think again. Lots of gnarly interesting little edge cases in this writeup. (tags: xss security)
Grab bag: UX data vs. aesthetic experience
Improvements in Windows Explorer – Building Windows 8 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs It’s no surprise that former MS Office guy Steven Sinofsky would bring a data driven approach to improving the next version of Windows. I think that level of rigorous UX design will be refreshing. It’s also no surprising, unfortunately, that the [...]
Because there are never too many CLIs.
Running winexe on the Mac – Mac OS X Hints Open source command line tool for executing shell commands on a Windows box from a *nix (or Mac OS X) host. (tags: macosx)
North winds blow! south winds blow!
Obama: The catastrophe president – How the World Works – Salon.com The intersection between policy, economics, the deficit fight, and global warming just got real. (tags: politics obama)
Grab bag: business round up
H-P’s One-Year Plan – WSJ.com How to commit corporate suicide. Hopefully they can turn it around. (tags: hp business) Steve: Who’s Going to Protect Us From Cheap and Mediocre Now? | Monday Note Nice salute to Steve Jobs from Jean-Louis Gassée. (tags: stevejobs) What Not to Do in a Debt Crisis : The New Yorker [...]
Grab bag: Hurricane Steve
Hurricane Tracker – NYTimes.com Killer interactive visualization of the path of Irene. (tags: nytimes hurricane) You’re the ones – Marc Hedlund’s blog Important lesson in leadership from Steve Jobs. (tags: stevejobs apple) Daring Fireball: Resigned John Gruber points out that last night’s announcement is inevitable and has been heavily foreshadowed. That doesn’t make it less [...]
Grab bag: experiments
Strategy, Innovation and the Need for Experiments — On Product Management I’d argue that the willingness to experiment is not only at risk in large corporations. (tags: business strategy) Scripting News: Huntsman is becoming a blogger, etc Interesting discussion of how a blogging perspective, or at least a willingness to call bullshit, would really help [...]
Grab bag: Rimbaud, currency psychology, symbolic violence
Symbolic Violence Beats Lava Lamps All To Pieces Yet another reason to work at Veracode. Here, if a web developer breaks the build, thy just get a rubber chicken in their cube. (tags: humor development) Arthur Rimbaud’s Brief Career : The New Yorker Interesting overview of Rimbaud; would be interesting to check out the Ashbery [...]
Liberal business
What they’re “protecting” us from – Anil Dash “So, who is this man? He’s the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock. He’s a non-Christian, arugula-eating, drug-using follower of unabashedly old-fashioned liberal teachings from the hippies and folk music [...]
T-shirts from the past of the future
Memetic tees – Sprawl I dig the Tessier-Ashpool IT Department tshirt; I just wish the fonts weren’t so cheesy. (tags: williamgibson)
Grab bag: Steering to oblivion
David Byrne’s fake iPhone apps – Boing Boing I want the Invisible Me app. (tags: humor davidbyrne iphone) Origins of the debt showdown – The Washington Post Laying bare the deliberate calculations that led the GOP to force the US to the brink of default and an unprecedented downgrade in its creditworthiness. (tags: economy politics)
Zero equipment sous-vide salmon
Cook Salmon Sous-Vide in Your Kitchen Sink for No-Fuss, Healthy Eats Much more sensible than cooking the fish in the dishwasher. (tags: cucina)
