December 2010
Bootie - Best of Bootie 2010 →
Mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, mashups, YAY!
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Amazing mashup + awesome big cat video = YAY!
“whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or...”
– The definition of Treason (in case you were curious) from US Code - 18 U.S.C. § 2381 (found at Treason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
South Carolinians Celebrate 150th Anniversary of... →
I love living in Savannah, but the “Old South” bothers me. The Civil War was not great and secession wasn’t awesome. Secession is treason, plain and simple. Celebrating it, and threatening to do it again (hi, Governor Perry of Texas!) is sedition. These idiots put on the big American flag buttons, hats and belt buckles and call themselves patriots when it comes time to bomb...
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why the lucky stuff - Reminded of it by: I think I really enjoy Tumblr / Hackety Hack
How the South rationalizes secession - War Room -... →
Absolutely fascinating comparison of the growth of secession in the South prior to the Civil War, its consequences and the Constitutional issues involved, with the current round of secession “flirting” by Republicans like Rick Perry (governor of Texas).
notes on "learn to program in 24 hours" →
A great checklist for all those silly little “I’ll knock this out in a weekend” project. I think a lot of the account stuff you could take care of by only using OpenID / Twitter / Facebook, but yes… nothing is ever as easy as you think it’s going to be.
OK Go's Damian Kulash on the Future of the Music... →
A great piece on the current state of the music industry and how OK Go are doing it without a record label. Great read.
Archive Fever: a love letter to the post real-time... →
This is an amazing piece on how we need to move past the “real-time web” to the archive and make reconstructing the past easier / faster / more available. Great great piece. Read it now!
The Great Electronic Arts Worldwide 99¢ Sale of... →
Tons of EA games for 99 cents, all in one big friendly list. I didn’t buy any, because I’m a jerk, but the list is definitely tempting.
ControlJS part 1: async loading →
All three parts are worth reading even if you don’t end up using ControlJS. If you build web stuff, especially stuff with a lot of javascript in it, you need to read all three parts. RIGHT NOW.
You Ain't No Picasso - Top Songs of 2010 →
A pretty great list, and you can listen to them all in order.
Beanstalkd in the wild (and a Scout plugin) →
My beanstalkd Scout plugin is live and in the directory! I use it every day! I love it a whole bunch!
3D Plane for jQuery 3D Engine →
I took this and then beat the snot out of it, adding z-index support and some other tweaks to make it work with images. Once I reach out to the author, I’ll see if I can post my updates.
The Wake-Up Call →
If you’ve got kids, this is worth reading. If you totally unplug when you’re home and never do the “in a minute” thing, then kudos to you. If not, read it. I never want to be “Daddy Who Is Boring”…
“Let me speak for everyone you have ever met, from a recent acquaintance to your...”
– Tweetage Wasteland : Pull Over Before You Read This
Amen… AUGH!! TREE!!
Welcome Back, Tumblr
In the sea of woe posted to Twitter and other places about Tumblr being down, I just wanted to say welcome back! Having been around major outages before, I feel your pain. I’ve been there, caused it, survived and been back for more.
The screams of agony from users is horrible while you’re in the middle of it, but the louder the screams, the more you realize that they actually...
Maybe you should just stop being a fucking pussy →
Maybe I should… but my favorite show is on!
Weird life found on Earth—kind of, maybe - Boing... →
This is the best explanation I’ve read so far on what NASA’s actually discovered and what it means for the search for extraterrestrial life going forward. It’s exciting! Hooray for science!
