John Hargrove runs a comedy site where he does silly things and writes about them. I was home sick today, so I don’t know if these were really so funny, or if it was just me.
The Turnpike Prank, The All-Natural Prank, The Credit Card Prank.
December 2005
December 14, 2005
- Henri Sivonen outlines the ultimate “blogging server”. #
- Presentation Zen is a weblog about making presentations better. While I don’t really care for the mining of Zen wisdom, I very much appreciate the author’s vision; bullet-pointing captive audiences to death has got to stop. #
- Shakespeare & Co. Wow, didn’t know this still existed. #
December 13, 2005
- Great story by Michael Lewis on the unusual tactics of Texas Tech football coach Leach. Freakonomics author Steven D. Levitt questions the veracity of all the facts. Via Kottke. #
December 12, 2005
- Pascal Costanza’s Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp. #
- Random Hacks: McCarthy’s Ambiguous Operator. #
- Om Malik gives the Nokia N70 a great review. I had to slap myself when I started thinking about getting a new phone… #
- About A4 and the ISO 216 papersize system. Via Kuutio. #
- Yahoo acquires del.icio.us. #
December 4, 2005
Peculiarly Auxiliary Wisdom
Never being
a big reader
of Jorn’s Robot Wisdom
(yet knowing who he is
and respecting his work)
I find myself
peculiarly fascinated by
his Auxiliary Wisdom.
So away
you
and visit
his excessories
- How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup. This CSS hack really saved my ass today. #
December 2, 2005
- A pictorial representation on how IT projects work. Via Reddit. #
December 1, 2005
PowerPoint battle of the century
Click To Add Title — Leslie Harpold and Micheal Sippey go at it with PowerPoint. Who knew there was so much to slideshows?
- hCard is a “simple, open, distributed contact information format for people, companies, and organizations, which is suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hCard is a 1:1 representation of the vCard standard in XHTML.” #
- Textbook Revolution is an online resource for free educational material. #
- Tietoviikon blogi. #
