Archive for December, 2005

What I didn’t know this time last year.

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I had been struggling with something to make my last post of the year. I wanted to avoid putting together a “best of” list, and there are already too many prediction list on the web for my taste. Luckily I came across this article just a few hours before midnight (Eastern Standard Time). It’s a […]

Simplification, one layer at a time.

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Recently there has been a discussion on the topic of “stuff not making you happy” which is a subject I’ve come to whole hardily agree with. I’ve recently been faced with the amount of stuff I currently own when I moved from a 1400 sq house in Minneapolis to a 725 sq apartment in Toronto. […]

Beta is the new Black!

Monday, December 26th, 2005

I’m certainly not the first person to remark on the abuse of the “beta” tag on “web 2.0″ applications, and for the most part I’m not bothered by then. I see most beta tags as the equivalent of the “pardon our dust” signs you’ll see in a brick and mortar store during remodeling. For […]

Merry Christmas.

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

[ via Cute Overload! ] - the guilty pleasure of my RSS reader.

links for 2005-12-23

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Handwriting Tips
If your scrawl is as bad as mine, this just might come in handy.
(tags: lifehacks howto)

Our Eyes Photography
An art photography magazine online.
(tags: art photography)

Cooking For Engineers
The culinary arts for the curious contriver.
(tags: cooking howto)

Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774–2004 - Mises Institute
Debunking the dogma of the dealing of dollars.
(tags: economics politics)

CookingByNumbers.com
Cooking with what you have, […]

Standard RSS Feed Icon

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Over at his site Matt Brett has posted Illustrator and Photoshop versions of the Firefox RSS feed icon that has now been standardized by it’s inclusion in the next version of Internet Explorer. This give site developers a chance to customize a version to fit into the design of their site, while still keeping with […]

Free up 0.001% of your day!

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

I thought I was the only one who spent my time on the subway platform positioning myself for maximum efficiency at the next stop. Little did I know there is even a portable map of each TTC station . So now even when […]

But where would you get enough glue?

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

There is just something really desirable about having an 6 foot model car kit hanging on your wall.

Pictures of Walls

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

A site dedicated to pictures of walls, and the stuff people put on them.
…it’s better than it sounds actually.

Debunking, debunked.

Monday, December 19th, 2005

As someone who has been known to have an extrodinary lack of patience for stupid people people who argue the reality of the moon landing, I found this quite satisfying.
NASA Fakes Moon Landing. Complete with annotated pictures.
Ok, so hardly a through debunking, but I figure that that crowd doesn’t really need anymore quantifying, just teasing.