Reading » Why do beautiful people have more daughters? : Alan S. Miller (Author), Satoshi Kanazawa. Some of the arguments in this one seem a little too convenient but as the proud father of three girls, I just couldn’t resist the title.
Listening » Wish You Were Here : Badfinger. Maybe the best album from the […]
A beautiful illustration by Fritz Kahn depicting the human respiratory and digestive system as an industrial palace.
Great quote from Foo Hack on what makes a great web developer:
Managing is about 10% more money for 100% more work that is 100% less fun.
And yet I still want to manage someday.
Evolution by natural selection is, by and large, accepted as fact by the large majority of scientists. That is, species change over time is due to external (largely environmental) pressures. If we accept this view, it follows that our brains, as well as our bodies, must also be products of evolution. Since the brain is […]
Check out this Zogby poll. According to them, conservatives who play videogames list Madden and Mario as their favorites. On the other hand, liberals are most likely to play Mario or The Sims, while moderates get their game on with Donkey Kong, Mario, and Madden.
If I were running for president, I’d be working hard to […]
…some cool plugins I used on the just finished eddie’s garage site.
1. Exec-PHP - allows you to execute php code from within your posts, pages, and text widgets. I needed this for the guestbook page.
2. DMSGuestbook - Easy to install and manage guestbook plugin by Daniel Schurter. Requires Exec-PHP shown above, but the setup is […]
This thing is addictive. How is it that the Beatles are still in almost every country’s top ten? Weird and random - Avril Lavigne and Linkin Park are top ten in China, while Kazakhstan’s diggin’ on Genesis, The Doors, and System of a Down. Elvis is big in Chile and Egypt loves them some Backstreet […]
Oh please, oh please, oh please, please, please.. let Santa leave me a Roger Wood Clock under the Christmas tree.
Great design inspiration from the Vintage ads from Singular Films, especially the celebrity booze ads. Also, Peter Lorre scares the crap out of me.
National Geographic has cool set of wallpapers for your desktop.
and last but not […]
A sample of a few open source tools I use pretty regularly.
1. PSPad - a full-featured free text editor with the best integrated ftp client I’ve ever used.
2. Web Developer extension for Firefox - I use it mainly for CSS debugging but the forms and outline sections are invaluable as well.
3. XRAY bookmarklet -An easy […]
I just added a new sortable table to the song list page on the eddie’s garage dev site. Completely done in javascript so everything happens on the client side. I can see where this could be a problem for extremely large tables but for this site it works fine. Kudos to Joost for his fine […]