June 2015
June 30, 2015
- The New Yorker: Headspace is enlightenment on your iPhone. Interesting article on the rise of meditation and mindfulness. I chuckled at the notion of Headspace creating a fake meditation app as means to placebo-test it’s effects. There’s also a cursory nod to corporations being excited about treating the symptoms of stress — rather than root causes such as corporate dysfunction and job insecurity. “It’s saying, ‘It’s your problem, get with the program, fix your stress, and get back to work!’” #
June 29, 2015
- The Iceman List. Classic movie antagonists who were actually pretty much right all along. #
June 25, 2015
- Why Circa failed. Tl;dr: Too factual (boring), generalist and wasn’t shareable. #
June 23, 2015
- Interoperable CSS. Sass, BEM and Gulp are the best choice for most real-world projects these days; where do we go from here? #
- Stuff I didn’t know about the Confederate flag. #
June 22, 2015
June 12, 2015
June 9, 2015
- Sad Animal Facts. Short but funny nature facts. #
- The making of “In Pieces”. An amazing “making-of” piece on the amazing project. #
- Sass-IE: IE-friendly mobile-first CSS with Sass 3.2. Thank you, Jake Archibald. #
- Ben Kamens: “Shipping beats perfection” explained. Khan Academy is willing to be embarrassed about what they haven’t done over what they have. Damn straight. #
- Surge. A CLI tool for publishing native web apps to the Surge CDN. Very interesting. #
- How my doppelgänger used the Internet to find and befriend me. I’ve encountered (first and second-hand) several of my doppelgängers. #
June 8, 2015
- The California Sunday Magazine: The Lost Man. The intriguing mystery of the “Somerton Man.” #
- This amateur-created route map of London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and Crossrail is awesome. CityMetric examines all the details that makes it great. #
June 5, 2015
June 4, 2015
- Opah, the world’s first warm-blooded fish species, flaps fins to generate heat. #
- I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me. #
- Crawling, breathing, invasive fish a “major disaster” if it reaches Australia. The climbing perch can also swell up suffocating its predators. #
- Plants can hear themselves being eaten — and become defensive when attacked. #
