January 2012
112 posts
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Typographica's favorite typefaces of 2012 →
Man, there are some gorgeous letterforms in there.
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RT @Pres_Bartlet: There's a Ron Paul cookbook? I... →
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RT @sorkinese: I'm tired of it, year after year of... →
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Wow. This needs to happen. MT @acedtect:... →
“This is why science and mathematics are so much fun. You discover things that...”
– ViHart
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Sync a Wi-Fi iPhone Once a Day With launchd →
A launchd plist and AppleScript to schedule a once-a-day syncing of an iOS 5+ device over the network. This will be useful for my next iOS device.
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Ron Johnson takes over. This is the beginning of a... →
jcpenney Nails the American Look →
So the Brand New blog loves the new logo. This is the beginning of a trend for JCP now that Ron Johnson is at the helm. Mark this year. JCP will be a very potent brand in the years to come. This guy has a pretty good handle on what he’s doing.
“Never trust a catastrophe.”
– Stephen Tobolowsky
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RT @jessicaahlquist: Baby steps to secular... →
Just Another Isolated Incident: Arkansas Dem... →
“Isolated Incidents,” not “Domestic Terrorism.” Let’s keep the terms straight. </sarcasm>
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JumpToCSS →
A plugin for vim that moves the cursor to the CSS that modifies the HTML element currently under the cursor
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RT @sorkinese: It seems to me that more and more... →
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Feeds Evernote →
Import Evernote notes via feeds.module
“Hey, Atheists: If there is no Yggdrasil, what prevents Earth from falling down...”
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For the record, I do not have a cute neighbor... →
List network sockets with lsof
From Hak5, see what processes are talking to the network on your machine by:
lsof -i -n -P
See the lsof man page for more information.
“No one says that. When someone watches a four hour, four-and-a-half hour, five...”
– George Hrab
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Android automation with Tasker
Introduction
When our AT&T contracts were up for renewal last fall, I decided to eschew the iPhone and get an Android phone to use for the next two years. I chose what was (at the time) pretty much the top of the line for AT&T, the Samsung Galaxy S II (SGS2). Overall, I’m very pleased with the phone. There are times that I wish I still carried an iPhone (mostly for the great games...
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iBooks Author: Under the hood →
A bit from Erica Sadun on the iBooks 2 format. A modified EPUB.
Voices Of Sanity →
More on the Jessica Ahlquist and the Cranston (RI) High School West prayer banner.
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Your man of the day: Sandor Feher.... →
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RT @splorp: So where’s the Newton Book support in... →
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RT @AtheistQ: "God is an ever-receding pocket of... →
“At some point, the White House will have to decide, the Congress will have to...”
– Jeff Jarvis, This Week In Google #130
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RT @sorkinese: –You're an idiot! –Hey-hey, you're... →
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Mike Daisey's one man show, recently excerpted on... →
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My goodness. Season 3 of Friday Night Lights has... →
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[Updated] The rise and fall of personal computing →
When it comes to numbers, Horace is king. Here he holds court concerning the historical “PC” industry and what the addition of mobile computing (MC) could mean for the traditional desktop model. Amazing visualization.
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What are the best ways you've found to make... →
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Thanks to Tasker, I'm completely immune to the... →
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RT @McGarrysGhost: Will Google & Wikipedia ever... →
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Just so there's no misunderstanding, it's PIPA... →
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reddit is offline in protest of PROTECT IP and... →
from Reddit saved link
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My first organized concert band practice in over... →
Tebow went 9 for 26 last night. →
A lot of people made much from Tebow’s 316 yards passing last week. Counterpoint.
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RT @almightygod: Here's the the thing: I AM... →
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Tebow has ten pass attempts in the first half.... →
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Tebow sacked at exactly 3:16 left in the half.... →
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For Santa so loved the world, that once a year he... →