February 2010
10 posts
“At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic...”
– Derek Lowe, chemist, in an article on Dioxygen Diflouride, from a series of articles on “Things I Won’t Work With.” (NB: flouride’s nature is, apparently, neither gentle nor forgiving.)
My knowledge of chemistry peaked in 10th grade, and yet I found this article quite...
“We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think...”
– Art Buchwald (found here).
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as...”
– Charles Austin Beard, historian, 1874 - 1948
“No one is drunk or under any narcotic influence, and yet all three men are...”
– Margaret Robinson, Werewolf: How a parlour game became a tech phenomenon.
This article captures the essence of games, of why I love games so much. Under the right circumstances, they can be such transcendental little rituals.
Super file name
clientsfromhell:
Client: [Changed the source in a CMS] “I changed the file name to ‘logo-blue.png’ and it didn’t change to blue. It turned into a small box with a red X in it. Have you broken it?”
Me: “…”
I think I work with these people, in the capacity of collaborative web project managers. *Communicating is hard, let’s just let people browse our root folders to see if they can find...
“We didn’t know if he was real—if there was a real person named Timothy—but...”
– Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Real Timothy McSweeney.. This one post redeems all of McSweeney’s for me.
“Can’t we at least get a senator who’s on top of the latest...”
– Josh Marshall, on Talking Points Memo talking about Susan Collins’ inability to bark flim-flam criticisms of Abdulmutallab’s interrogation with any coherence or elegance whatsoever. It’s sad that the GOP noise machine has fallen so low. They make mud-flinging look like high art.