1.) I have a tendency to latch onto what should be a very small part of a larger project, and turn it into a project unto itself. Hence, cleaning out the living room (which contained some books) turned into a chance to organize the entire collection. 2.) I may not have a huge personal library, …
Five things I (re)learned during my most recent attempt to organize my library. Read More »
Just got the Harmony 880 today, so I won’t post a full review yet, but aside from the fact that the new Intel-based Mac beta version of the software doesn’t actually work (thank the gods I have more than one Mac), the setup was relatively painless. I’ve probably got an odder assortment of devices in …
Wow, now this is wicked cool. Thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, you can see what Station in the Metro looked like back in 1999, 2000, 2004 and 2005 (although that last one seems to be missing its stylesheet). There were two websites which preceded SitM back in 1996-97, but they were even more …
This weekend, as I continue my process of cleaning out my bins of decade-old papers and such, I came across Strida, which is an amazing little fold-up bike. Reminds me of some other cool bikes that break the usual street/mountain bike mold, such as this lovely recumbent from Bigha, and this electric bike from eGo.
So, if you have a “feedback” text field in a web form that you’d like to limit to a certain number of characters, but you neither provide any warning whatsoever nor implement some sort of tech solution to automatically limit things, don’t you think just maybe that will piss off someone who’s just written a …
From the somewhat defunct AAlgar Electronics website (I designed the iTari images): Almost twenty years ago, the Atari 2600 was born. Since then, tens of millions of people have discovered it’s the cheapest, easiest way to your favorite video games without the hassle of going to the arcade. What could follow the world’s most popular …
A 1972 documentary on ARPAnet, the precursor of today’s internet.
