Archive for the ‘web’ Category
Drawing Blog
February 5th, 2010
I’m not very good at drawing, so I started a draw-something-every-day-until-I-get-better blog. It’s pretty new, but it’s got a few doodles and wallpapers.
Habermas is on Twitter
January 29th, 2010
Social theorist Jürgen Habermas is on Twitter. I think he’s still getting used to the format.
Edit: Nope, fake. Lame. Real Jürgen Habermas should get an account.
New Year’s Resolution Generator
December 30th, 2009
Lack the drive to even come up with resolutions, let alone complete them? Try this beautifully-designed resolution generator!
TeuxDeux
December 11th, 2009
Designer/blogger Tina Roth Eisenberg (alias swissmiss) recently posted about her recently-completed web-based to-do list manager, TeuxDeux. Perfectly minimal – it’s my new home page.
Meta Tags: Basically Useless
December 3rd, 2009
Apparently Google has more or less abandoned the analysis of keyword meta tags. Which isn’t really surprising, since it’s incredibly easy to abuse them. Anyway, if you’ve still been using them, congratulations! Your life just got a little easier.
Envisioning Development
December 2nd, 2009
The Envisioning Development project has an interactive map detailing the cost of living in various neighborhoods of New York City. It’s nice to know that if I ever get a web design/development gig in NYC I can afford to live in Williamsburg and be the biggest hipster ever.
I wish there were similar maps to detail the CoL for other cities.
Google Wave Invites!
November 13th, 2009
Way back in June when I first mentioned Google Wave, I signed up for the waiting list. It’s now five months later, but I’ve just gotten an invitation to the preview! Google’s given me a few invites to pass out – let me know if you’d like one!
Wikirank
July 2nd, 2009
Wikirank lists the most popular articles on Wikipedia over the past 30 days. At the time of this writing, Igor Stravinsky occupies the top spot. His birthday was June 17, which I imagine accounts for his almost 1.4 million views that day. Is Stravinsky’s birthday a big deal on the internet? That would be incongruous and wonderful.
Speaking of internet holidays, did Randall Munroe ever decide on the date of Linksys Day? I need to know when to bake my router-shaped cake.
MIT GEB Lectures
June 4th, 2009
For the last few years, MIT has been putting the course materials for many (about 1,900) of its classes online for free as part of its OpenCourseWare project. Most of them are really fantastic, and the site is worth browsing through. Of particular interest to me is the series of lectures for a course devoted to Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach. Which, if you haven’t read, you should; these lectures might help you along if you’ve found it a bit difficult.
Incidentally, the course is taught by an undergrad math major! The guy’s teaching style is a little rough, but he’s actually laudably competent.
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Twistori
April 23rd, 2009
If you ever wanted to know what the Internet’s collective consciousness is thinking, look no further than Twistori. It takes a stream of Twitter posts, filters them for phrases like “I believe” or “I love,” and delivers them to you.
Interestingness: A surprising number of the “I hate” tweets* are complaints about feeling obligated to update the poster’s status.
* This word bothers me. I have an odd attitude toward the evolution of language. Linguistic changes that occurred in the past are fascinating, but current changes are annoying and vaguely threatening. I am an old man. Hey you kids, get off my web log.