At last month’s BayCHI meeting, Alan Cooper of Cooper gave the best talk I’ve seen on software development, Ending the Death March. Unlike the rest of the BayCHI talks, this one wasn’t recorded or podcast. (Aside: please email BayCHI and Alan and ask them to make this available.) However, Allison at BayCHI did take good …
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On The Streets Of America
On The Streets Of America 3: Americans on the street decide who/where we should invade next.
telecom regulation
My friend Sonia, who works for a bunch of a libertarian think tank wrote an opinion piece for TechNewsWorld arguing for deregulation in telecom: Companies like SBC and Verizon were forced to share their lines with so-called competitors at below-cost, government-set rates. This type of policy is a disaster, not only because central planning was …
athiesm 101
On NPR’s This I believe: There Is No God: Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. Richard Dawkins on Good and Bad Reasons …
unsubscribing, part iii
Valpak Valpak unsubscribe form, 888-797-1896
chair and wall unit for sale
buy my wall unit or chair.
best letter ever
showing up Nicky Hilton: Nicky Hilton asked, “I’m 21 years old, I run two multi-million-dollar companies, I work my ass off. Like, what were you doing that was so fucking important at that age?” I would like to repond to that. When I was 21, I was busy working toward my Ph.D. in organic chemistry …
optimism tax
Tantek points to John’s post on Optimism Tax: I’ll consider the loss to be part of my optimism tax. I sporadically pay this fee (when people take advantage of my trust in goodness) in exchange for optimistic freedom. I would be less at-risk if I concentrated more on the negatives. “What if _____ happens?” But …
torch that SUV
apparnetly not only do some SUV drivers have bad taste in cars, they are also committing insurance fraud.
Apple Store bookmarklet
Remix: this movie + WordPress’ PressIt bookmarklet = Apple Store bookmarklet javascript:if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf(‘Safari’) >=0){ Q=getSelection(); }else{ Q=document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:document.getSelection();} void(window.open(‘http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore’ + ‘?productLearnMore=’+encodeURIComponent(Q))); (I’d make it draggable, but WordPress auto-curly-quoting is being too clever.) Update: the movie is from Jon Rentzsch.