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2013-05-16 02:02:12 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Mmmm morels.

2013-05-15 21:21:20 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

In the spirit of reviving everyone's Google+ streams for a few days, here's a deliciously cheap sushi meal from Vancouver. Oh, how I miss Vancouver sushi.

2013-05-15 21:16:05 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Oh hi there, new Google+.

I keep saying that Masonry layouts are bad for text, yet here we are.

Perhaps this will encourage more media sharing, though.

2013-04-03 17:17:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

It occurs to me that the recent +Bitcoin price curve is not unfamiliar.

(Borrowed from +Mt.Gox and +Fred Wilson's post: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/the-startup-curve.html)

2013-04-03 16:46:19 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Will Google+ ever overtake Facebook or Twitter? Was Instagram an overpriced acquisition? Would a flying shark beat a jetpacked grizzly?

Some things we just can't do anything but talk about them. With +Bitcoin, you can put your money where your mouth is. Convinced it's a bubble? Go short it. Think it'll dominate the world's economy? Go buy some. Unsure but love the idea? Sit back and watch.

But please, stop preaching to me about how it's a Ponzi scheme and I'm a gullible fool for thinking anything else.

2013-03-09 20:30:29 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Found someone who hasn't heard of Google Now.

After telling him about it: "That sounds a lot like the future."

2013-02-21 02:34:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

#ifihadaglass  I'd pose with regrettable hair.

2013-02-08 18:26:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-02-04 23:36:45 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Aaron Swartz's partner shares her last moments with Aaron and why she believes he died.

Excerpt: "I believe Aaron’s death was caused by exhaustion, by fear, and by uncertainty. I believe that Aaron’s death was caused by a persecution and a prosecution that had already wound on for 2 years (what happened to our right to a speedy trial?) and had already drained all of his financial resources. I believe that Aaron’s death was caused by a criminal justice system that prioritizes power over mercy, vengeance over justice; a system that punishes innocent people for trying to prove their innocence instead of accepting plea deals that mark them as criminals in perpetuity; a system where incentives and power structures align for prosecutors to destroy the life of an innovator like Aaron in the pursuit of their own ambitions."

2013-01-26 21:57:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Anonymous is a way to take collective action without being individually accountable.

It's corporate entity protection for hacktivism.

2013-01-25 16:58:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-01-14 22:16:13 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

People asking me "who is Aaron Swartz?"

This is Aaron.

2013-01-12 19:28:11 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

I never got to meet Aaron Swartz, but I've used his code, read his essays, and respect him for his accomplishments.

I've worked on many projects and ideated even more, and occasionally I'll discover an idea that is brilliant yet not-quite-legal. Seeing what happened to Aaron, along with other misfortuned hackers over the decades, has instilled a fear of being prosecuted for doing something we believe to be for the greater good. These people know the risks and, being some of the more rational people out there, rightfully fear them. But they're also brave enough to face the consequences and fight to better our global society.

On the 2nd anniversary of his arrest—after two years of prosecution by the DOJ, facing 35 years in prison, despite that the "victims" of Aaron's "hack" were long satisfied and backed off—Aaron chose to commit suicide. Iwish... more »

2013-01-09 18:55:11 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Baby goats are adorable, and assholes.

2013-01-06 00:14:25 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Idea: Mailing letters.

The latest Toady blog post is talking about how relationships are formed throughout the world:
> Children grow up throughout the world now, as you are playing, and new relationships are scheduled properly. There aren't always people available, especially in the smaller sites, so they can look down the trade network at times.

What if Dwarves could send letters along with the latest trading caravan, addressed to old friends and family. Occasionally a letter might get lost, and as adventurer you might find it, read the procedurally generated content, and go on a quest to deliver it to the rightful recipient.

Perhaps some younger dorfs would send letters to their version of Santa once per year, creating mini mandates in fortress mode ("more kangaroo leather socks!") which yield Happy Thoughts all around.

2013-01-04 20:34:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Mmm what a pleasant email. Thanks, +Steam!

(Game is here, if you're interested: http://store.steampowered.com/app/35720/)

2012-12-08 17:04:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Everyday is a good day to listen to +Simon Swerwer 

2012-12-08 17:00:58 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Me after getting laser eyes.

2012-11-29 20:34:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

EVE Online has been selected for the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. What an unbelievable honor for our players and anyone who has ever worked on EVE! Can't wait for the installation... more on that later...

2013-03-20 02:36:46 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

TomTom street view? Is that a thing now?

2012-11-09 16:17:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

If the northern and pacific coast US states joined Canada, and Alberta (and Stephen Harper) joined the rest of America, all of our problems would be solved. This "United States of Canada" and "Jesusland" map is fool-proof.

2012-11-09 15:50:05 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Toronto.

2012-11-08 01:26:03 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

I've always said that if you can't use your app or service drunk, it's too complicated. Turns out there's actually a group that does user testing in this state. Brilliant.

http://www.threesheetsresearch.com

/via +Philippe Beaudoin • +Joel Webber cc +Luke Wroblewski   #research   #usability  

2012-11-07 15:39:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This lovely title has been making its rounds: Valve Officially Passes On Windows 8, Confirms Half-Life 3 is Linux Exclusive

http://p4r.buzzleberry.com/?p=357

> At LinuxCon Europe, Newell officially announced the details during an on-stage question and answer session. 

...

As much as I'd love for Half-Life 3 to be a Linux exclusive, the source is a satire news blog. But in that brief moment of deception, I saw colours I've never seen before. Sometimes I find myself grateful for lies, for showing me a glimpse of an alternate universe.

2012-11-07 05:26:50 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

#election2012  

2012-11-06 20:48:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"In adventure mode, once I have my target wounded and weaponless, I start biting off their fingers and toes and throwing them back at them. I start with both thumbs, move on to the big toes, and then back to the fingers. Usually they've bled to death by 3 or 4 appendages."

~A Dwarf Fortress Player

2012-10-31 05:17:51 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

*MIT Gangnam Style"

This is pretty fun... Lots of cheeky MIT inside references and settings, including a cameo from Noam Chomsky at 3:20...  and a scene in La Verde's at 2:15...

2012-10-31 03:35:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"I tried installing urllib2 package and it told me that the real name of requirement urllib2 is urllib3" :)

2012-10-29 04:41:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Well, here it is folks. #Steam for #Linux Beta

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410

2012-10-21 20:30:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Heeeeeey sexy piiiiiglet!

2012-10-21 05:19:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Using Sass source maps in the Chrome DevTools

In case you missed +Lennart Schoors' talk at Fronteers, he recently did a write-up about our recent experimental support for Sass source maps in the Chrome Developer Tools. Check out his post below for how to enable and get started with it :)

http://bricss.net/post/33788072565/using-sass-source-maps-in-webkit-inspector

Relevant commit: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/123768

+Paul Irish might also be doing a screencast about this topic soon, so keep an eye out for it!

2012-10-20 18:37:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Startup School, yay.

2012-10-10 00:08:40 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Needless to say, I love +Humble Bundle.

Btw, their latest bundle is the Humble eBook Bundle. https://www.humblebundle.com/

2012-10-08 05:19:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-09-29 21:41:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Our newest family member and companion, Molly. Twelve year-old border collie mixed with something or other.

Hanging out at a coffeeshop with me while I code. Love the way she spreads the back paws.

2012-09-26 04:08:36 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Week later, I'm still thoroughly enjoying an hour or two of FTL every day. Very impressive replay value and depth for such a simple game. One of those "wish I thought of this" games.

http://www.ftlgame.com/

Did I mention it's available for Linux + OSX + Windows? Buy it.

2012-09-23 19:56:23 (20 comments, 4 reshares, 26 +1s)

Bureaucracy applied to code.

$ unzip bootstrap.zip
You're going to need lessc to compile your CSS.
$ brew install lesscss
No formula, try using npm.
$ npm install less
Node too old, try upgrading.
$ brew upgrade node
Failed, try upgrading your build tools.
$ brew upgrade
51 outdated packages, come back in a few hours.
$ gem install less
Cool.
$ lessc
Install therubyracer gem, dependency resolution is for losers.
$ gem install therubyracer
You're such a boss.
$ lessc -w
Watch-mode not implemented in the Ruby version of lessc.
$ inotifywait
Command not found.
$ brew install inotify-tools
This isn't Linux.
$ open http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1515730/is-there-a-command-like-watch-or-inotifywait-on-the-mac
More platform-specific tools built around XML just toa... more »

2012-09-23 18:07:00 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Is there a web service that handles image uploading/editing/serving for my service? Perhaps notifies me via webhook?

Maybe something like white labeled imgur with some editing features.

Ideally:
- I make an account, specify webhook, I get a special URL to send my users to.
- When my user wants to upload a photo or a bunch, they get redirected to the service which has all fancy drag n' drop image uploading, and auto-resizing based on what I define, and minor editing/cropping features.
- Once they're done, they get redirected back to my site and I src the stuff they uploaded.

2012-09-23 02:13:38 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

New laptop decal. A little sad to remove my old #twitterlockdown  decal, but this one suits me better.

#batmanbookpro  

2012-09-22 19:54:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

A350H Airliner Concept design is inspired by the shape of a dolphin
Via ► http://goo.gl/F0RQt

2012-09-22 00:00:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Had the pleasure of enjoying a Q&A by the folks behind Indie Game: The Movie. Some great Canadian talent. Apparently a special edition is in the works with more footage.

2012-09-21 18:05:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Shuttle fly-by.

2012-09-21 17:53:50 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Googlers climb up, shuttle flies by, Googlers climb down.

2012-09-21 17:02:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

There must be thousands of people up there. Wonder how many of them thought it's the iPhone 5 line.

2012-09-21 16:35:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

People lining up on the peak of the hills to watch the shuttle flyby over Shoreline.

(View from my desk at work.)

Watch live here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

2012-09-18 15:31:56 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Ideas are vectors traversing an N-dimensional product space

Every once in a while I'll be reading Hacker News or TechCrunch when sudden weight sinks in my stomach: "that's exactly the idea I wanted to build, it's even in my ideas.txt and everything!" Internal conflict ignites as I try to reconcile the defeat of being beat to it, but I'm still curious and optimistic. Maybe they got it wrong? Maybe I can do better? Maybe I should get back to the drawing board and get a head start on my next idea.

This is a dangerous fallacy.

As two products grow into existence, they may align and appear to be equally-matched competitors, but an idea rarely stays still unless it's already hitting huge traction and changing it is just too risky.

Every idea comes from a different frame of mind and gets distilled through subjective steps of evolution. After... more »

2012-09-18 06:00:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Really enjoying FTL. It's like the iOS GameDevStory game meets StarTrek. Hard to describe but definitely innovative, worth every penny of the $9.

http://www.ftlgame.com/

2012-09-15 17:46:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

New Ti2 pen fits perfectly in my notebook with my pencil.

/cc +Kenneth Reitz +Andrew Louis

2012-09-15 17:14:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"

Maybe I'm getting old but I think it's time to take out that ~.

#gentoo

2012-09-08 03:36:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Judge me not by my employer or the set of my skills, but by the content of my prose.