September 2007
34 posts
Man, 72, refused alcohol over age →
stevenf.com: Macs Really Do Run Windows Better →
Usability test: Does iPhone match the hype? →
This is where dispassionate study confirms what iPhone users just ‘feel’ - the iPhone is just plain nicer to use.
That huge spider web
Remember the huge spider web I blogged a little while ago, avid reader? In a way I hadn’t expected, it’s bigger than I thought.
If I said there were 12 different familites of spider working together building it, you may be thinking of families as in Mum (or Mom), Dad and the kids, or some such. In this case, however, it means a lot more variety than that.
It’s 12 families as in...
Cognitive Daily: What's the best way to praise a... →
Eat (Less) to Live (Longer): Scientific American →
:-(
“If you cannot tell a good story about your data and theory […] then your...”
– The Really Hard Science: Scientific American
The accent transplant: Brain surgery leaves... →
A married couple who didn't realise they were... →
Man, 90, pulled from mountain of clutter - The... →
An I thought things were cluttered in my garage…
Designer pigs with hearts for humans →
“A good bug, I mean a really good, pound-your-head-on-the-desk-for-a-week bug, is...”
– stevenf.com: Bugs Are Magic Tricks (via Daring Fireball)
Do you have to be a heartless genius to be a good... →
same story in five newspapers with very different... →
Even when you can believe what you read, you still can’t believe what you read.
Aspect Ratio Lunacy →
I’m with the author of that piece - I also hate the wierd distortion where a narrow-screen picture is displayed in a wide-screen format.
“We’ve never done it before, so we can’t”
– Some bureaucrat in Montreal. Story: Bureaucrats have no sense of style
“Software development is a cycle with three distinct phases: design, development,...”
– Joel Spolsky in Joel On Software
Police bugs put up for sale →
I would have loved to have seen that ad :-)
Polish author jailed over killing he used as plot →
“Most old media companies are hell-bent on the quixotic goal of keeping the world...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: September 2007
Panel Rejects Microsoft’s Open Format - New York... →
Sanity reigns.
“Sometimes I think God put video content guys on the planet to make the music...”
– Michael Gartenberg, quoted by The Macalope
August 2007
54 posts
Patient loses top of his head to faulty fridge →