Mental Floss: The men behind you favorite liquors. “One morning in 1911 [Jack] Daniel showed up for work early and couldn’t get his safe open. He flew off the handle and kicked the offending strongbox. The kick was so ferocious that Daniel injured his toe, which then became infected. The infection soon became the blood poisoning that killed the whiskey mogul.”
November 2008
November 27, 2008
November 25, 2008
- Boing Boing has the story behind Royal Quiet Deluxe. It could also be called: “lessons learned from starting a band with chickens.” #
- 70 amazing business cards. #
- Ratproxy. A semi-automated web application security audit tool. Detects broad classes of security problems, such as dynamic cross-site trust model considerations, script inclusion issues, content serving problems, insufficient XSRF and XSS defenses, and more. #
- Lester Chan has a great set of Wordpress plugins. #
- WP Super Cache plugin. #
November 18, 2008
- Ad Week: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. "Hire at least two new people every day." Jeff Goodby may have been exaggerating, at least at first, when he gave that directive ... in the spring of 2007. But the reality was, it was a necessity. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners was in a hiring frenzy following an unprecedented new-business windfall, which itself followed a major account loss early in the year that threatened to trim rather than swell the agency's ranks. Suddenly, the San Francisco agency needed to find a lot of talent, and fast. #
November 14, 2008
November 6, 2008
- Papercraft heart of rotating gears. Very nice! Via Boing boing. #
- Newcomb’s paradox. A strange look at a hypothetical situation of whether or not to trust a “fortune teller”. Via Mikolas. #
