December 2009
16 posts
Remount.app - bgulanowski / various / downloads —... →
(Could this be _harder_ to find?) Download the “tip” file for some damn reason to get Remount.app, tucked away in the executables folder, which will allow you to mount and remount drives without…
Fitbit →
Personal fitness-and-sleep informatic tracking device. Want want want.
RealClimate: An open letter to Steve Levitt →
Cowboys and Batman →
Some hackers are Batman. Others are Cowboys. This is truth.
“Batman’s a toolsmith; not only does he rely on his tools (as will as prowess) to solve problems, but he manufactures new ones to fit the…
Gaming the System →
“geeks are system thinkers. We see the world as a very complex but knowable flowchart where there are a finite number of inputs, which cause a similarly finite set of outputs. This impossible…
Squid Specimen Jar Necklace Handmade Jewelry by... →
This is adorable and awesome.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief... →
“what the fuck has gone wrong with our country? Used to be, we were innovators. We were leaders. We were builders. We were engineers. We were the best and brightest. We were the kind of guys who, if…
Shimo →
Advanced VPN application for Mac OS X, evaluating this for work…
Touch Blog - iPhone RFID and NFC peripherals →
Finally, NFC/RFID peripherals are being released for the iPhone. Hooray! (Need to figure out how this would work with touchatag…)
The Meaning of Information Technology « Magic... →
“The modern world is profoundly inhumane. Mankind is incapable of reasoning about the heaping constructs of mass culture using the technes of intimacy that are an hundred thousand years old… Human…
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design →
Useful reference for doing a ‘heuristic evaluation’ of an existing site or software’s interface
iCarte™ - The Ultimate NFC/RFID Reader for iPhone →
Dock-connector-based NFC reader for iPhone. No purchase information as yet beyond a contact page…
Slammer - Grid Design software for Mac OS X 10.6 →
Specialized software for grid-based web design. I especially like how you can use it to create a markup guide. Snow-Leopard only.
ps3mediaserver - Project Hosting on Google Code →
Probably the best option for streaming media from any given platform to a PS3, with a UI that’s about as useful and good as a poke in the eyeball.
Rosenfeld Media - Mental Models: Make Your Mental... →
If you use OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle (as I do), and if you create Mental Model diagrams (as, again, I do), then this is a godsend: templates and instructions for using omnioutliner and omnigraffle…
All That : The New Yorker →
A new short story by David Foster Wallace. OMG.