Will continues his overtures toward Starbucks sponsorship with episode 6 of Calico Monkey.
Category Archives: asides
Like Winer
May 13, 2006 – 7:57 pm
Share Your OPML says that my reading habit most closely matches Dave Winer. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
ZeFrank
April 26, 2006 – 1:41 pm
theshow is a daily news roundup video that is best described as a webcam version of SNL’s Weekend Update. I got to catch up watching the archives before they were cut off to save on bandwidth… I smell an opportunity for Comedy Central. You should start watching now.
Serendipity on a cone
April 25, 2006 – 9:42 pm
Yesterday we went to the game and I learned at the Ben & Jerry’s stand that today was free cone day. Kristan and I lamented that we don’t have one Downtown yet, and has no reason to travel near one.
This morning my calendar reminded me I needed to take the train to the CWE […]
I believe in mocking
April 23, 2006 – 12:50 pm
For the last two weeks, Scott Adams has been blogging about mysticism and predictably stirring up the crazies. The highlight is when he questions the need to respect beliefs, and asserts “Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity.”
Programming is brain surgery
April 21, 2006 – 1:31 pm
Eric Lippert has posted some good thoughts on why writing code is more like brain surgery than rocket science, but by the looks of the comment thread (and those URLs) writing usable software is more difficult still. Maybe Microsoft should follow my example, put aside their prejudices, and configure WordPress with permalinks that end […]
Failing spectactularly
April 18, 2003 – 12:00 am
I just happened upon an excellent mini-rant from Elliotte Rusty Harold about not
letting your UI be the ultimate leaky abstraction.
Betrayal
March 17, 2003 – 12:00 am
TiVo betrayed me.
Invader Zim turned out to actually be “rocket kids” or somesuch.
