I shoulda posted this the moment i found it… Great deals on some great software. Transmit is the ultimate FTP client and one of my fave mac apps (although, truth be told, Expandrive does a lot of what i used to do in Transmit, but [...]
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So grab a towel today because, according to Mr. Adams, [...]
Who didn’t / doesn’t still think that machines work because of the tiny gnomes inside them? I love the creativity and papercraft involved here. http://www.vimeo.com/4697849 [via Aza Raskin] A friendly public service announcement to the droves of Mac-toting netizens out there who browse the webs with an inflated sense of security: Your system is weak. Whether or not you decided to ignore the warning signs and upgrade to the latest OS X 10.5.7 recently, you are all equally susceptible to an exploit [...]
Here’s the post from CLFu: $ killall -STOP -m firefox Read on for the results and some handy aliases that make this command even better!
Cory Doctorow has a thought-provoking piece out there about intellectual property rights and the clusterf*ck that is digital licensing today. If you’re running an enlightened company, you might have a Creative Commons license hanging out there for non-commercial, “fannish” uses…. But somewhere between Creative Commons and full-blown, lawyerly license negotiation is a rich, untapped [...]
Why i like this thing: well, it holds 8GBs! And it’s not much bigger than a key. Also it’s metal enclosure is durable and the [...] |
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Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.
The irony of a 7-page article on our collective attention-span going down the tubes with our meds and artificial sweeteners is not lost on me. Nevertheless. I honestly and truly read this whole article, straight through, without ever checking twitter, FB, email, or randomly glancing [...]
I super-enjoyed perusing the online portfolio of A2/SW/HK just now! Despite their name being a bit hard to say/type, their work is phenomenal. Their treatment of type is very much in the style of the best Swiss poster designers of the 1960′s. Both engineered and [...]
If you browse the web like i browse the web then that means you probably have at least a dozen tabs open at any given time, and twice as many add-ons. Now i <3 the Firefox web browser. Hard! But my main complaint about it is how sluggish it gets over time and with so much STUFF happening in the browser-space. It’s borderline bloatware except that i’m the one who added a lot of the bloat to it… Well here’s a tasty gem from 
I can’t help but remain optimistic and joyful when i read stories like this one. Already released in it’s entirety online (NPR)—boasting such collaborators as Sparklehorse, Iggy Pop, members of The Pixies and The Stroke, with appropriately [...]
Here is a thing that i like. It’s a USB drive not much bigger than a key. It holds 8GBs!