stop giving every cow in Europe two euros a day. (via jesse).
readability bookmarklet
here’s a quick readability bookmarklet. it makes the background white and the text black. tested in Safari 2.0.
looks like this:
<a href=”javascript:document.body.style.color=’#000′;
document.body.style.background=’#fff’;”>bw</a>
wil shipley talks
Delicious Monster’s Wil Shipley gave a talk to students at WWDC 2005. His slides are now online.
Well worth a read. And damn funny.
mac os x on intel
Developers Speak Universal Binary:
As long as Apple picks the fastest chips, they could be tortilla chips for all we care.
—Wil Shipley
one way to handle pensioners
Salon reports on the NBA pension fight:
For years, about 85 elderly ex-players have been fighting to get NBA pensions. The response from the league and the union: Drop dead. Half of them have.
finally, real broadband
the eff, explained
i tell everyone the EFF is “like the ACLU for the Internet.”
mike had a great quip. he called it “amnesty international for nerds.”
the seattle freeze
matt pointed me at a really interesting article in The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine.
I don’t think the behaviour they describe is unique to Seattle.
But the dichotomy most fundamental to our collective civic character is this: Polite but distant. Have a nice day. Somewhere else.
“People here don’t ever just hang out — there’s no time for that — but those are the times you really get to know people.”
Any attempt to socialize begins to feel like too much effort, he says. “You have to try to get together 10 times before someone doesn’t cancel.”
People here . . . they totally blow you off. And these are good friends, right? They just don’t call you. It’s unbelievable.â€
California has its share of flakes, too.
microformats
new site explaining microformats. rah.