Friday, April 17th, 2009
There’s a serious case of pot-kettle-black-itis in this article by the New York Times — the home of the obnoxious, pointless, “free registration required” landing page — decrying “private beta” sites that aren’t open to everyone, everywhere, right now.
Friday, April 10th, 2009
In retaliation for Digg’s naughty framing and link and Google-juice hijacking in their new DiggBar, John Gruber outlines how to block all users who come to his site via Digg by checking referrers. But what if, instead of being a high-traffic, high-respect, badass like him, you’re some sorry chump with a total of eleven points on Digg? Throwing up a giant middle finger isn’t going to hurt Digg (they aren’t even going to notice) and even has the possibility of hurting your own traffic. So you throw in a framekiller. Works like a charm.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Check out Kalin Varbanov’s Glagolitic Alphabet Anatomy, a geometric, sans-serif re-imagining of Glagolitic, one of the oldest Slavic alphabets.
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Evolving a better keyboard layout:
…the evolutionary algorithm couldn’t produce a layout that could beat the Dvorak layout that gets seeded into the final all-star round.
The Dvorak keyboard layout must be an example of intelligent design.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
I wonder how long before something like staple/unstaple gets integrated into a file-sharing protocol:
If [the copyright holder] wants to prove that Bob is violating the DMCA, she must violate the DMCA herself…
Friday, March 6th, 2009
Another genetic map of Europe. It won’t be long before we can pinpoint a person’s ancestry down to an individual village using science like this.