Today’s Fun Links: I want to… — Great list of online resources for doing useful stuff Arcade Game Sounds — Recordings from the 80s of arcade machines in their natural habitat. Audiophile products — A list of insanely expensive audio gear, and an amusing illustration of what happens when people ignore physics in favor of,…
Chitown Hijinkery
Ah, yes— Chicago. I went last weekend, and I have pictures and I have notes, but the story is not yet forthcoming because 1.) I’ve been wicked busy, and 2.) I still am. Sometime before the end of the weekend, I will make a valiant attempt at codifying my story and updating this post. Until…
Delicious Bastards
Well, looks like my idea for a Delicious Library-style comic book database app is all for naught. From the DrunkenBlog interview with Delicious Monster co-founder Wil Shipley: I knew it’d work from the beginning, actually. The actual credit for the real-world metaphor in Delicious Library is a bit lost in the mists of my brain,…
Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses
Cocoa 101: Object-Oriented Programming for the Masses, Part 1 and Part 2. Nice scratching the surface of the way Cocoa’s classes think, and clearer that some of the books I have in its explanations of same. Never mind— I’m still confused. See, this is why I figure it’ll take at least three books, all by…
Otters
I just came across a great reason for being proud of being made a member of the Happy Otter Clan™, in this quote by Neil Gaiman from an article in Time magazine: Except the trouble is, as a creator…I saw a lovely analogy recently. Somebody said that writers are like otters. And otters are really…
Ask MetaFilter
Turns out Ask MetaFilter is an excellent resource for a lot of questions. For my reference, my questions: Archiving family photos Best path to Mac OS X programming with Objective-C and Cocoa
PT-7, Evening Edition
Silly me— all this time, I thought the Casio PT-7 only came in a cream color, but this fellow has on on eBay, and it’s black. Very cool.