the tide is high.
brainysmurf is annoyed at the sweeping generalizations about chinese languages and the chinese in general. (from heckler & coch) in reference to articles like this.#
matz's talk from oscon about "the power and philosophy of ruby" as covered by ted leung is interesting. i like the principls of hidden messages and understanding your user. ted also writes about the chandler bof and talk.#
an article on kuro5hin about advertising and it's effect on the image of beauty and self-esteem. it's an interesting article, from the top: "When you talk to people about advertising, few people doubt that it is effective, and that business uses advertising because it works. However there are a great many people who refuse to believe that advertising works on them. It seems that there is a stigma associated with being influenced by advertising. It is seen as an admission of mental weakness, and any suggestion that advertising influences our thoughts and behaviour signficantly is patronising. This is especially true of people who think of themselves as intelligent and educated. For them the idea of a group of people being able to sit down in an office somewhere and influence they way they think,is disturbing, perhaps rightly so. But at this point, too many people find it easier to deny the effectiveness of advertising than to take time to consider its effects." (there is also mention that the author once thought that it was a big conspiracy but the author learned that couldn't be so, reminds of this thought about finding an explanation of conspiracies)#
another article on kuro5hin about a simple way of helping to solve america's weight problems: "A big red Dot on all foods, telling us exactly how many calories are inside. Mandated by law. Overseen by the FDA (or your own country's food authority). A big, simple, yellow-on-red amount, making it simple for anyone who wants to to know exactly how much they're eating, and control their intake accordingly."#
an article about theo de raadt: "When somebody mentions how hard it is to use OpenBSD, a typical response from Theo might be, "OpenBSD wasn't written for children." Theo doesn't send flames; he sends napalm." from the openbsd journal, kind of strange near the bottom though, about alan turing.#
"programming is an art" from pseudo design via simple geek. an interesting post although lots of people would fight over the terminology, for example to paul graham hackers are the painters, the ones who do it right - not the one shot mad men.#
if you think italians are the same as all other europeans then watch "this outrageously funny presentation" on the contrary. from lockergnome#
kalsey consulting on realistic job descriptions is a good read. i've never applied for a job so i don't really have experience with stupid stuff like this but i find it surprising that it's really done like that. some people... "They also list FTP as a tool that this expert web designer and programmer needs to know. That\u2019s like asking for a mechanic who is also skilled in using a wrench."#
kevin offers up his opinion of the harry potter series. pointing out how it's strange that it's taboo for adults to like the books and also hoping for something good to happen to harry soon. i've never read them, maybe i will some day.#
i don't think this girl is in it for the money. from the bikini diaries. also from bd, hah! and the real penis enlargement solution! [ thanks jake ]#
top ten dsl's at gorillamask from the ward - thats funny.#
ventureblog shows that watching reality tv shows and not voting the same other people teaches a valuable investing lesson: "you are not a good proxy for any mass market" - only bet on a sure thing.#
i think i will rent spirited away tonight because i trust don park's opinion. who also writes about and links discussion about gender's role in ui design, specifically filesystems. and finally about problems with newspaper ui - sure it looks good and sounds neat but it opens up a lot of questions about utility and sensibility.#
on laziness at monkeyblog, from russell - they agree that "The secret is to just get started. Doesn't matter where, it doesn't have to be right, just get started. Build up a head of steam. Build the smallest thing that is useable, then get people using the software. Then you have people demanding things be fixed and wanting features, it really pushes you forward." but watch out for the problem described here - "Don\u2019t release before it does something useful. ... If you release too soon, you spend a lot of your time answering emails instead of developing." - moving forward is good for progress and will help you get on track once you are moving at all but you can't let bad decisions get too ingrained from a poor start or let a bad image of your product flourish because you just jumped on the court without anything to offer.#
read this from moxie and read that moxie really loves the details and that true beauty has nothing to do with "class rank or river bank" but the "crinkling of eyes and things of small size".#
from tony to tracy - tony loves tracy and tracy is scared of zombie movies. i was also 8 when i saw my first zombie movie, night of the living dead, and i shit my pants because i was up at my lake house in the middle of nowhere with no civilization around on a cruddy tv and had to goto sleep with 3 inches of wood and screen between me and the monsters outside. when i was like 15 or 16 i watched one of those movies again and could enjoy it. i was a real wuss when i was a kid.#
neat evolution potential screenshots from scoble#