Tag Archives: Humor

Quasi-daily linkage

Just the facts about what health care reform means for you | TheLoop21.com – A nice list of the changes from the healthcare bill.
YouTube – Top Secret Drum Corps – They play each others’ drums. Go see.
Topless Robot – Fan Fiction Friday: Wolverine, Cyclops and Jean Grey in “Day of reckoning” – Um, wow. Not safe for work. Read it anyway.
Letter to Iraq – From two of the soldiers in the company depicted in Wikileaks’s “Collateral Murder” video.

Welcome! – Okay, nevermind on the link below. This intro provides some good insight into the Tiny Living thing, which is more than just 60 sq. ft houses. Not sure that I want to downsize my house in particular, but it's an interesting movement.
Tiny House In Asheville – I'm increasingly fascinated by this Tiny House movement (and need to do more research on it), although it initially strikes me as a fairly artificial constraint on living.
a series of rants – Auntie Pixelante gives good rants. On a non-game-related note (but relevant), I really should stop saying "fail". If I talk to you in person, help me stop saying that.
Google Goes Hard at Microsoft with Exchange Migration Tool – I wish I'd had this when I'd left Rose-Hulman. I still find myself wanting to hunt down select emails and contacts from Rose.
20 High Quality Photoshop Web Design Tutorials | Tutorials – This will be helpful as I continue to revise my layout and style on the blago-story-net.
xkcd: Single Ladies – It was particularly cute today.
I HOPE TO GOD THEIR MECHANICS ARE BETTER THAN THEIR DESIGN FIRM. | Brain – I had to link to this, especially in light of my recent travel annoyances and Greg's travel horror story.
Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – The Weekly Source Code 51 – Asynchronous Database Access and LINQ to SQL Fun – I don't know that I'll work on any projects calling for this level of coolness soon, but this is a slick trick to bump your DB calls off the main threads of execution.

10 Weird Miniature Versions of Normal Animals – Weird Worm – These are quite adorable.
Puppy! – Joel on Software – "Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in which the most complicated thought you can think is one sentence long." Don't know if I'd be as grumpy about it, but Twitter strikes me as yet another source of digital noise in an already noisy world. I may be done with it soon.
"5 Browsers and the Modes of Transportation They Resemble" by Caldwell Tanner on CollegeHumor – Cute.
Buttersafe – Updated Tuesdays and Thursdays » Archive » Biology 101 – I'm just stumbling upon this comic, but I think it's pretty cute.
Is WebKit too fast for its own good? | Web Builder Zone – I'm pretty sure I ran into this issue a few weeks ago with some .NET work I was doing. Chrome and Saf both were breaking on the first loads of pages (portions of the viewstate were sticking out, displaying on the page), but were inexplicably fine on reloads.

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit – Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder.
Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday… – “[very angry] I am reading your email in disbelief. You are the webmaster – how can there be an aspect of our website that you have no control over?”
Why You Can’t Work at Work | Jason Fried | Big Think – This is a great video on office workspaces. As an aside, Jason Fried's voice and style of talking remind me a whole lot of Dane Cook.
Cupid’s Hunt, 2010: Love Me On The One – EJ Flavors – So what if I'm three weeks late to the Valentine's Day party? It's a very nice mix of music. I really liked Jose James's "Love Conversation".
Slaying relational dragons – Great piece on an appropriate use of document DBs. I really could have used this about a year ago for a ground-up project I did at work that had ridunkulous queries. The comments have great discussion of OLTP vs OLAP vs. Doc DB and whether Ayende's approach is an anti-pattern.

This guy’s website seems to be down, but this Apollo video of him is great:

Note that he’s not a singer, he’s an entertainer.