What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from July 18th through July 26th:

wnybac1Hyperion Books -Free download of Free. Chris Anderson’s new book about the emergence of free content and how the world can (needs to) adapt to our [...]

What I’m Into: lately

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from July 10th through July 17th:

Ana Benaroya _Illustration_Design_Typography –

a delicious menagerie of beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and type. Look at all the personality in these. An artist with a voice, i like that.

beautiful fonts with @font-face at hacks.mozilla.org – [...]

Snippets make TextExpander amazing

TE_logoIf you re not familiar with TextExpander, it’s a utility which runs in the background on your computer all the time and does nothing, until you type out a predefined string of characters.  It then leaps into action, replacing those characters with a preset block [...]

How to peel a banana

O yeah, like this is worthy of a blog post?  Well, if you, like the fellow in the video, have spent your entire life peeling bananas by yanking on the stem (“top”) you should watch this video.  The stem method, while mostly effective, usually results in a bit of banana-mush.  Align yourself with your [...]

Why not do something useful with caps lock?

typewriterI mean really.  We already suffer through the agony of QWERTY on a daily basis, and everyone knows that QWERTY was developed specifically for typewriters, so that the hammers wouldn’t jam so often.  Right?  Hammer-jam is not longer a menace, thanks to modern computers and their 3 remaining moving parts.  Caps lock as well is a dated holdover.  Remember SHIFT lock?  This used to be much more handy when headings and titles were typed in all caps.  Language and communication have evolved a bit since however, and now typing in all caps is tantamount to shouting.  The use of caps lock is so vile to some that now we have the “Caps Lock Theory” which developed over internet discussion forums and bulletin boards which states “that there is an inverse relationship between a person’s use of the caps lock and their knowledge of a particular subject.” [wikipedia] There is even an international effort to bribe keyboard and computer manufacturers to remove the key from their products!

Well why wait around for the big companies to catch up to your already superior evolutionary state?  You can do something useful with that dead key which just gets accidentally pressed and really only helps to totally confuse you when you try to log in somewhere and don’t realize that caps lock is on.

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What I’m Into: lately

symbolsIt’s not as if you asked, but here are my latest delicious links, from June 29th through July 6th:

Report: Meat Now America’s No. 2 Condiment | The Onion -What if? Sixty Symbols – Physics and Astronomy videos -Nurture your inner science nerd (you know [...]