February 2010
16 posts
Watchthedailywhat:
This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: Casey Neistat uses charts and graphs and a hot female friend to explain the unexplainable phenomenon that is Chatroulette.
Related: Landline’s profile of Chatroulette’s own Shirtless Bird-face Donkey Man.
[theawl.]
“So projects stall as they thrash. Nine women can’t have a baby in one...”
– Seth Godin on ‘thrashing’, the stuff we do throughout a project (particularly towards the end) in order to get it to ship.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead
As someone who’s always struggled with sleeping, I’m currently enjoying a rich vein of form when it comes to sleeping well (as opposed to sleeping lots) and waking easily. This can be ascribed to three factors that I’m delighted to have adopted and terrified it took me so long to learn (what other simple life skills do I unknowingly lack?):
Reading myself to sleep. I’ve...
Little-Known Secret to Typing Contractions on...
seoulbrother:
freitag:
When you’re typing on your iPhone or iPod Touch and you were to type W E R E and hit space it’ll think you typed “were” but if you type W E R E E and hit space, that’s not a word and it’ll default to “we’re.” There are other contracted words where that works but you kind of have to discover them, such as I L L L = I’ll.
I’ve used this tip extensively in the last week...
“Stop looking for a recipe for success. You want it? So far as I can tell, it is...”
– Frank Chimero has a blog. (How-To)
Frank Chimero neatly sums up the frustrations I’ve been having with the how-to community of late.
Everyone seems to want absolute guidance. An ‘Instructables’ for your work and personal life. Well, sorry - but you can’t have that.
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“If his game-plan was the right one against a sub-system of 11 men, he seems to...”
– The Question: Are teams getting better at playing with 10 men? | Jonathan Wilson | Sport | guardian.co.uk
The wonderful thing about Jonathan Wilson is that when he’s writing about football, he’s writing about strategy, and by extension, life.
What’s the best strategy to...
James Patterson Inc. - NYTimes.com →
I’ve never read anything by James Patterson. I should say that right upfront, because after reading this article it’s unlikely that I ever will.
I’ve heard the name. I knew he was another Grisham or Dan Brown but not quite as big. But I’ve seen piles of his books in WH Smith at the airport (where else?); books where the author’s name is 3 times the size of the...
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“It’s like taking away his Pipe Smoker of the Year award but saying he can...”
– Danny Baker, on the removal of John Terry as England captain and the resulting tedious press coverage.
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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years →
Peter Norvig on our how-to culture:
Here’s my recipe for programming success:
Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in ten years.
Talk to other programmers; read other programs. This is more important than any book or training course.
Program. The best kind of learning is learning by...
Adaptation →
Not to belabor the point, but this fits in with the “adapting slowly” tenet. When the first iPhone was released, it wasn’t nearly as fast or as slick as the iPhone 3GS of today. When I first used my iPhone 3GS, my very first thought was “this is finally the iPhone as the iPhone was intended to be”. On iPhone v1, I couldn’t copy and paste, I couldn’t...
WatchFacts About Projection on Vimeo
Anything with Wes Anderson-style use of sharp edits and Futura captions is ok with me.
Things I love about staying up late while my...
Late night films (not that kind)
Poker adverts
Chatline adverts
My shit music
Wine
These may not be in the correct order.
WatchOrigami In the Pursuit of Perfection on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
You don’t need the sound on, unless you’re really into corporate self-congratulation.