XKCD: User-Interface Excellence Achieved

XKCD has done it yet again. The inter­net has come full cir­cle. Visit the site lo! and behold the glory of the most awe­some web inter­face yet. ever, in the world.

UPDATE:  It appears the the unixkcd CLI inter­face was a one-day stunt

SELECT * FROM joel.friends WHERE interests = 'SQL' AND geek_factor >= 10;

I get real juiced up going to con­fer­ences and hackathons and such.  The energy of work­ing side-by-side with gifted indi­vid­u­als, and the accel­er­ated learn­ing that goes on swells up my brains and fuels my ambi­tion engine.  Plus camp is awesome!

In Novem­ber I’ll be get­ting my fill for […]

XKCD “music video” pays homage to one of the greats

This makes incred­i­bly nerdy blog post no. 2 for today.  But i am a big fan of XKCD, and this lit­tle musi­cal video does a nice job ani­mat­ing some of the themes of the strip.

The music is by Olga Nunes, the film is based on this par­tic­u­lar strip.

Enjoy.

More than just colors: My bash settings

bash_promptIf the title sug­gests to you either a party, or vio­lence, then per­haps this post isn’t for you. If instead you are imag­in­ing a blank win­dow filled with text, read on. If you are con­fused right now, but also strangely curi­ous, you may feel […]

What I’m into: today

It’s not as if you asked, but here are my lat­est deli­cious links, from today.

How to Craft Your Per­sonal Busi­ness Model — Free­lanceSwitch — The Free­lance Blog –This is get­ting me think­ing about the free­lance biz plan. What’s my pro­fes­sional mis­sion? What are my pro­fes­sional values?

once you can say with cer­tainty how you want […]

Don’t panic: It’s towel day!

towelday_42Towel 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.

So grab a towel today because, accord­ing to Mr. Adams, there is […]

Critical flaw in the internet that you don’t need to worry about.

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Some­times peo­ple won­der what it is that i do here all day (and some­times night) long.  Some­times nobody cares but i feel like shar­ing any­how.  Lately i’ve been patch­ing servers and shoring up our inter and intranet secu­rity.  You see…

A while back, inter­net secu­rity researchers dis­cov­ered a prob­lem with the interwebs.  […]

Wanting to share the awesome: Periodic printmaking

periodic printsNoth­ing work or tech­nol­ogy related here today.  But i did stum­ble upon this absolutely stun­ning lit­tle art project employ­ing 96 artists and all man­ner of print-making.  Can you intaglio awe­some?  Check out the whole thing here.  And click on each one for big ver­sions of each.

A Joel’s-eye-view

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I spent about 5 min­utes in pho­to­shop stitch­ing together these snaps i took from my phone dur­ing the Jan. CM meet­ing. The fin­ished prod­uct made me gig­gle so i thought i’d share.

The real one is BIG. You can see it on flickr. Here.  Don’t for­get to scroll to the right!

xkcd is my lover.

exploits of a mom

If this isn’t hilar­i­ous to you, well, we can still be friends. But it’s going to be a rocky road.