November 2007
66 posts
Adam is comfortably using his ivory tower as a... →
Who'd live in a house like this? →
“It takes five hundred small details to make one favorable impression”
– Cary Grant | via A List Apart on typography
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs | via John Gruber’s excelent commentary regarding the Kindle e-book reader
CJ: Josh (...) there's an article in The New Yorker I want you to read.
Josh: What's it about?
CJ: Smallpox.
Josh: The disease?
CJ: No, the desert topping Josh!
Josh: Hey!
CJ: Yes, the disease.
“Now, you might argue that anybody who wanted to ride a mechanical pig deserved...”
– Jon Snow on the TV phone-in scandle
Adam is full of Krispy Kreme, chocolate, wine, and... →
Adam is fighting lies, damned lies, and... →
ies4osx: Internet Explorer for OS X →
James: Am I drunk?
Toby: Does the Pope molest children?
“If you would know how a man treats his wife and his children, see how he treats...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson | via DF
Adam is is explaining the relationship between the... →
Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos →
Astute design criticism of U.S. presidential campaign logos by Ward Sutton. | via DF
Adam is is having a duvet day. →
“Next year, you’re going to see a lot of new novels.”
– Joss Whedon on the writer’s strike
Google Trends Reveals People's Predictability →
Drives atttached to our ‘modest’ home network
Internal:
Macintosh HD 80GB
USB:
Corinth 80GB
Delphi 270GB
Thebes 40GB
Network:
Stuff 40GB
Films 250GB
Episodes 250GB
Music 250GB
Install 40GB
To Download 40GB
Temp 40GB
New Films 250GB
Total 1.59TB
On leppings?
Me: I'm going to buy Leopard tomorrow.
Alex: Lepping?
Me: What? No. Leopard. The OS.
Alex: You said Lepping.
Me: No I didn't.
Alex: Yes. You did!
Me: What is a Lepping anyway? Is it what you get when you cross a leopard and a lemming?
Together: OMG! That would be so cool!
Proper Gmail IMAP for [...] Apple Mail →
via DF
Cracked!: How Shiboleth was made. →
A not unsurprisingly interesting post on the not un- construction
The use of the not un- construction from the BBC posted earlier led me to the following comments from Wood on Words
“Not unsurprisingly, the earliest definitions
emphasized the roles of press agent
and publicity….”
Excuse me, but why the double negative, the not un| construction? Although we can find...
“Perhaps not unsurprisingly”
– Double negative? See in BBC News Magazine
WatchBalloon landing from my office | via Vimeo)
Adam is is back in the black. →
Santas Warned 'Ho Ho Ho' Offensive to Women →
Is this kind of overzealous political correctness really something we need to be exporting? Get a life, people. — cubicle17
Adam is a lean, mean, tablet-making machine. →
“The Fifteenth Amendment Came Before the Twentieth — I Get to Go First!...”
– Rejected Campaign Slogans, Fourth in a Series | via An Entirely Other Day
Adam is mourning the death of his iPod at the... →
Readers Answer Some of Pogue’s Imponderables
Why is there a Maximum Weight notice in an elevator, and what are we supposed to do about it? How are we supposed to know how much we collectively weigh?
Why is the numeric keypad on a computer (7-8-9 at the top) upside-down from the numeric keypad on phones (1-2-3 on top)?
David Pogue | via Squandrous
Excellent Free Fonts for Professional Design →
“I’ll enjoy it whist I’m riding my unicorn”
– Unknown voice on this week’s Macbreak Weekly regarding the rumored Apple tablet computer
Adam is overjoyed with his 'not bad' comment from... →
If taglines were honest...
Apple: You think you need it, we know you just want it. Ikea: One day you’ll be able to afford real furniture. Starbucks: Long lines, high prices and the best legal high available.
More honest taglines at Guardedly Optimistic | via Swissmiss
Barwick Green →