December 2004
19 posts
links for 2004-12-30
Hacker, Scott - The Birdhouse He wrote the book on MP3. No, really… (tags: Blogs) Byrd, Kevin - The Byrdhouse Smart talk about architecture, design, and photography. (tags: Architecture Blogs Design Photography)
Dec 30th
Architects May Come and Architects May Go
Erin and I took a driving tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright homes in Oak Park while we were at my folks’ place for Christmas. The photos are here.
Dec 29th
Repet
So a Texas lady paid $50,000 to have her pet cat cloned. This is the result: I’m a little conflicted about this. Part of me wants to condemn her for lunacy while another part of me is hoping the price falls (dramatically) before my cats kick it.
Dec 23rd
links for 2004-12-22
Slipstream for Mac OS X Finally a way to stream audio from any application to an AirPort Express. (tags: Audiophile Mac Software)
Dec 23rd
links for 2004-12-21
The C & T Calendar Join the Calendar Reform Movement! (Yes, I’m Kidding) (tags: Cool Funny)
Dec 22nd
The Holiday Strike
National Lampoon presents “The Ten Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time.” My personal favorite is Ayn Rand’s A Selfish Christmas from 1951: In this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands of providing gifts for millions of spoiled, ungrateful brats across the world, until a single elf, in the engineering department of his workshop,...
Dec 21st
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links for 2004-12-17
The Cubes Screw GI Joe. Kids should have toys that prepare them for their real future. (tags: Shopping)
Dec 17th
links for 2004-12-16
Sonicbids A cool service connecting bands with venues and promoters. (tags: Music) 5 Rules of Data Normalization How to properly normalize data. (tags: Database)
Dec 16th
We Drank the Kool-Aid, and So Should You!
I like open-source alternatives as much as the guy, but there’s something a little creepy about 10,000 random people donating real money to run a two-page NY Times ad urging people to ditch Internet Explorer in favor of Firefox.
Dec 16th
links for 2004-12-15
Organize PDF Files in iTunes Anyone want to start an online liner-note archive? (tags: Music Software) Word Frequency Counter How many times did he say that? (tags: Cool Useful)
Dec 16th
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Word Frequency Counter
Some people thought this post was cool, so I wrote this quick and dirty web app. Special thanks to Tim Lee for testing and writing the documentation.
Dec 15th
links for 2004-12-14
Paper Enigma Machine Why use PGP when you can rely on paper loops? (tags: Cool Crypto)
Dec 15th
Shepherd in Wolf's Clothing
I can just imagine the meeting where the marketing folks over at Transit Books were hunched over a mirror snorting coke thinking up new product lines: Hmmm? Our focus groups and online polling show the number one reason teens don’t read the Bible is that it is “too big and freaky looking.” Why don’t we publish hip magazine-format editions of The New Testament. We can jazz...
Dec 14th
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links for 2004-12-10
Hacking Google Suggest Why not use PHP and curl to grab those suggested matches? (tags: Cool PHP Programming Useful) Thinking with Type A great website pitching a great book on type. (tags: Design) Do-It-Yourself GTD Planner v0.8 Fantastic PDF planner page templates for GTD. ...
Dec 11th
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What Are Your Crutch Words?
I figured it would be a good idea to consciously identify and excise some of the non-descriptive words I tend to lean on in my writing. To accomplish this, I wrote a quick script to cycle through all my blog posts and rank the words I use by their respective frequency of occurrence. In case you’re interested, here are my top 100 words followed by the number of times they occur: the...
Dec 11th
Walked the Sands with the Crustaceans
I saw The Pixies on Tuesday night. The show was at D.A.R. Constitution Hall. Is there any single institution inherently less Rock ‘n’ Roll than the Daughters of the American Revolution?
Dec 9th
links for 2004-12-07
Sparkline PHP Graphing Library Create Tufte style sparklines with this PHP library. (tags: PHP Programming) Fun with Physics Cheating at roulette with a pimped out cell phone. (tags: Cool)
Dec 8th
links for 2004-12-06
Skeletal Systems A character study of 22 present and past cartoon characters. (tags: Cool)
Dec 6th
links for 2004-12-03
Film vs. Digital Summary Why I’ve been waiting for a cheap 8 megapixel SLR. (tags: Photography) Heart of Glass A City Paper profile on the architect who designed my house. (tags: Architecture) Annual Credit Report Get your free annual credit report online. (tags: Finances) ...
Dec 3rd