Scott Grannis’ Calafia Beach Pundit has become daily reading for me [1] – primarily because I’m a sucker for the charts he shares. Take a minute to look at this one. (no worries, I’ll still be here when you get back). Good stuff. It’s rare to see a single chart summarize our own confidence over …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Fermenting: “Out Like a Lion” Ginger Maibock
20-some inches of snow fell on Saturday. I don’t know exactly how much – because the temperature promptly dropped below 10°F and – I decided to stay indoors. And brew up some beer for spring. “Out Like a Lion” Ginger Maibock Recipe 10 lbs Pilsen Light Liquid Malt Extra 2 lbs CaraMunich II 2 oz …
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Peerless
“Why can’t you be as trustworthy on the Web as you are walking into any store off the street? The reason is that you have no status on the Web itself beyond the minima implied by the term ‘user.’ Whatever status you experience is what’s granted by site owners. You are the client. Your position …
What if your email client was as useful at a glance as Facebook?
The New York Times’ New URL Structure
The Hyperlink Grows Up: The Times Releases New Linking Features Here’s how it works. In the story above, the base URL is: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/world/americas/01colombia.html If you wanted to link to a specific paragraph, you’d simply add a “#” and the number of the paragraph, e.g.: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/world/americas/01colombia.html#p2 You can even go a step deeper and skip to …
Full of Sound and Fury
“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” – Wallace Stanley Sayre “This is a metaphor indicating that you need not argue about every little feature just because you know enough to do so. Some people have commented that the amount of noise generated by a …
Underscore
“…publishing is the art of determining what is worth paying attention to, by whom.” – John Battelle
#sad
“I guess it’s about respect. It’s about a relationship I had, and I think many of us had, with Twitter, that doesn’t seem to be there anymore. And that’s frustrating, and disappointing. But mostly I guess it’s just sad.” – Ed Finkler
Worse than It Appears
“It’s like spammers took over technology, like the pet food guys did in 1999. Everyone has a scam. This year the scam is to grab all the user’s data and resell it.” – Dave Winer “My point is that your privacy has an economic value. Or it could, if such a market was created. Today …
Introducing: The Daily Reality Planner
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nov 14, 1957 If you’re like me, you’ve continually struggled with answering 1 question: “Where did today go?” To Do lists are helpful in identifying what should be done. Assigning those To Do items a date and time on the calendar declares when …