October 2009
15 posts
United States Senate Armed Services Committee's... →
But, here is the thing, the most powerful government in the world paid someone to make this site.
Thanks to Katherine Mangu-Ward at Reason’s Hit & Run Blog
Update: The HTML is also bizarrely screwed up. There are two doc-types and two header sections. But at least it didn’t cost 18 million…
Apple is paying $4 mil to put an Apple store by... →
Sweet. It’d be nice to have a park over there. Even better to not have to pay for it. But, what will happen to Baccis pizza?!
Mark J drops album #1
Mark Johnson, of Lawrence, Chicago, Bone-Crushers, Tough-But-Fair, and all around good man fame has just put up released an album of sweet songs of Facebook. Don’t be a joyless goon! Check it out now!
Top picks : Love Scripts (orig version), In The Game, Adventures
Helsinki
I just landed in Helsinki for a connecting flight to Tallinn, Estonia where I’ll be for the next two nights. I found a kind and sweet woman named Hedi who will be putting me up in her farm-ish-house 30Km outside of the capital. Tomorrow she’ll show me around. I’m really hoping I don’t get “Hostel”-ed.
But, Helsinki! Its silly, of course, but I’ve...
Under the Covers
popfop:
Art fags, design dorks and bibliophiles can all agree that despite the cliché, judging a book by it’s cover is a completely acceptable thing to do. Book cover design is gaining more prominence as the fine arts become more irrelevant and the pop appreciation of the ordinary and mass produced comes back into style. The creme de la creme of book design comes from Penguin as Phil Baines’...
Coders at Work
Hey what a surprise! I open up Google reader this morning to learn that Mr Codding Horror and i are reading the same book currently, “Coders at Work.” It was a birthday gift) and I’m also enjoying it. My eyes glaze over a bit during the biographical sections, but highly recommended. It’s also motivated me to learn about functional programming which, I’ve learned...
The Road
The movie The Road is coming out soon! ...
OpenRegs.app live on iTunes Store →
Another of my iPhone projects is now live on the iTunes store. Its an iPhone client for the OpenRegs.org site. Its free. Check it out and see some of the crazy regulations that are enacted every day!
Austria Observation #4 (or, not Austria at all,...
This birthday was awesome. Kristóf, a friend I met from my German language school, invited me to visit his parent’s home in Budapest. I arrived on Friday, we did some fun sightseeing stuff that night, but then the next day, wo-boy.
Kristóf’s Grandparents live out in the Hungarian countryside. The story, as I understand it, is that they lived and worked on a communist run farm,...
BBC: Gay penguins book is most banned →
No joke: can you imagine the kind of chaos that’d run rampant in America if kids read books about gay animals?
