January 2011
13 posts
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Portishead (10)
Doctor Octoroc (9)
Helmut Winschermann: German Bach Soloists (4)
Passion Pit (3)
Vampire Weekend (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Cow Clicker distilled social games to their essence, offering players incentive...”
– Ian Bogost - Cowclickfication
“The truth is that as remarkable as Steve Jobs has been in many ways—as a...”
– Andy Crouch, in A World Without Jobs | Culture Making (via ayjay)
Hm. Tumblr’s “schedule a post” script must have gotten wonky, as it posted a whole mess of that one post on here. Sorry about that! Glad it wasn’t auto-feeding to Twitter.
(Oops! I think one of you either reblogged it or liked one of the ones I deleted, and I accidentally left one of the ones that hadn’t been liked / deleted. If so, that wasn’t a commentary on...
Me: Pete says that money's one of the top three things married couples fight about. I guess the others are ... sex ... and ... I don't know.
Sarah: Kids, probably.
Me: Whether to have them? Or whether to kill them?
Sarah: *How* to kill them.
A Thing I Made - HTML Entity Shortcuts for...
This is a small one. Not even sure I should include it in my “Things I Made” series. But whatever. Here you go.
When I’m using TextMate, I’m a stickler about including smart quotes. You know, like &-r-s-q-u-o-; to make the ’ in “it’s”? Only problem is that it’s a bit of a pain to write that each time. This paragraph has used smart quotes...
A Thing I Made (Updated!) — Eric Meyer's CSS Reset...
Back in August, I made a TextMate snippet bundle thing that allowed for a super-easy pasting-in of Eric Meyer’s CSS Reset. Eric Meyer just updated his Reset file today, so I took his changes and incorporated them into the snippet.
If you have TextMate, you can download a .zip file with the various snippets. Then, just double-click on each one, and it should save to your list of snippets...
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A Thing I Made - FAQ Patrol
If I don’t share this, I’ll keep fiddling with it. So here you go: FAQ Patrol
FAQ Patrol is a real-time filter for comprehensive FAQ pages, using jQuery.
FAQ pages can be useful when they have a lot of content.
They’re usable when they aren’t overwhelming.
The ideal scenario has a thorough, comprehensive FAQ page, that’s easily filterable, so you get just the...